Happy Hallowen gift card holder

Sizzix just released this new gift card holder die and let me tell you, it is the easiest way to die cut a bunch of gift card holders. I've been doing so many Halloween projects using the usual orange, green, purple and black colors that I decided to change colors and use pink and lots of glitter. I punched out a pink MS haunted house punch and glittered it with stickles stardust. The bats are stamps from Hero Arts and the oval scallop frame are nesties glittered with Doodlebug glitter.

Here's the inside of the gift card holder. All you need is 2 way tape to tape the edges down. I know I will be making a lot of these for Christmas gifts.

It has been so warm in my house that the black ants have been invading my keyboard. So every now and then, I get a stinging bite. It's making me look down and around my desk as I type. Ugh!

Thanks for stopping by today and looking forward to seeing everyone at Jean's make & take this weekend at the store. Have a great humpday!!!

The winner(s)

We have a winner(s) for the Winter set TI. I went to random.org and the number came up as #6 who is Fay!
Fay said...
ooh, that's such a nice folder! Hope I'll be able to make it to at least one of the M&Ts! :D
And, I actually found another extra set so I did another number and it turned out to be #24 who is my gf Teri!
Teri said...
this is neat, I like the trees on the silver, so elegant!
I know how to get a hold of the both of you but congrats on winning this new Sizzix TI folder!!!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay tuned because I am planning to do another TI rak.

Ben Franklin Crafts make & takes

Today was "world cardmaking day" and to help celebrate, Cheri and I did some Sizzix make & takes at the all Ben Franklin Crafts stores on Oahu.
Actually, we did this first make & take at the Market City store yesterday. We made a Hello Kitty Christmas ornament. So cute! This morning I was at the Paa St. store and we made a trick or treat take out box with Hello Kitty. The embossed words is a brand new Sizzix Halloween folder set.

While I was at the Paa St. store, Cheri was at the Enchanted Lake store and they made this Christmas card with last year's TI set. I hope you can see the snowman on the card. This card only used embossing folders. Another fast card to make for Christmas.Then we met up at the Pearl City store in the afternoon. Joy from The Joy of Crafting tv show surprised me with this cute french fry box filled with chocolate goodies. It was packaged so neatly that I didn't want to open it. She made this owl using Marvy punches. So clever!I also got a bag of avocados and some Ritz cracker snacks from Carole. Thanks so much Carole! I ate the snacks during the make & take. We didn't get to eat until after 3 pm.

We made this Christmas treat bag at the Pearl City store. It's not a good picture of the bag but it holds quite a bit of treats. It was cut from one of the Ellison dies.

So glad to see all of you who came to the make & takes! Hope everyone enjoyed themselves. Cheri brought many samples with her and I can hardly wait to get a bunch of the new dies for myself!
Don't forget you still have time to post a comment on the post below for a chance to win the new winter set TI.
Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!!! I need to clean up my mess!

Super easy Christmas card, a giveaway, and Sizzix make & take schedule

I just got my hands on a new Sizzix textured impression folder set called "winter set" and made this card in less than 5 minutes. It should be in the stores sometime next week.I embossed the background with the polka dot folder and embossed a piece of silver foil paper with the trees folder in the set.
I have an extra set that I would like to give away to someone. Leave a comment on this post and I will pick a winner Sunday night.

Here is our schedule for the make & takes this weekend. Sorry I'm late on this but I haven't been able to post it. Busy cutting kits. Today we are at Ben Franklin Market City from 11:30 - 1:30 pm. Tomorrow, it is Ben Franklin Paa St. from 10 - 12 pm, Ben Franklin Kailua from 10 - 12 pm and Ben Franklin Pearl City from 1 - 3 pm. And tomorrow is world card making day. Also, every store has a different project and we will be giving away dies to some lucky winners!!!

Don't forget to leave a comment here to win this new Sizzix TI set.

Hope to see you in the stores!!!

Boo to you!

I should be getting myself ready to leave the house but I wanted to post some things that I haven't had a chance to post. This MS haunted house punch has been on my mind for awhile and so I had to go and get one from the store.

I used one of my leftover boxes from a previous make & take for the box. It is box #2 from Sizzix. And it's green. More green scraps in my scrap box. My gf Cheri from Sizzix is here in Hawaii and she just gave me this ghost die. I filled this box with quite a lot of candies.Here is how it looks empty. I used the MS drippy goo punch to decorate around the box.
This past Saturday, I flew to the Hilo Ben Franklin store to do a make & take for their annual paper party. Sorry, I forgot to take a photo of my make & take. I'll post it later. Anyways, Lynn from Lynn's Craft Blog stopped by to say hello and she made me this real pretty beaded earrings. If you check out her blog, she loves to make jewelry. Thank you so much Lynn and I love dangly earrings.And Jenny from Hilo, she also stopped by to give me one of these really cute treat boxes that she made and put a lot of Big Island Candies (cookies) in the box. Please visit her blog because she has a lot of great ideas on her blog. She is so sweet and I met her from my husband's store. So nice to meet up with other fellow bloggers! Thanks Jenny and hope to see you soon!

Ok, this is turning out a lot longer than I expected.

Thanks for stopping by today and hope to see you at one of the make & takes we will be doing this weekend.

Tweets to you

Lately, I've been using a lot of green. Not sure why but there's a lot of green scraps in one of my piles. I made this card Saturday morning right before running out the door to go to my make & take at the store. The background is the new Sizzix spring set textured impressions embossing folder. And tweety is from the baby collection.

I like how just adding a textured background adds to the card. And for all you card makers out there, Sizzix has a new machine called the Texture Boutique. You can texturize all your background papers to make your cards. It's a very affordable machine and very portable to take with you anywhere if you just want to make cards.This is what we had for our make & take at the store this past Saturday. It was a real easy triangle box that you can put candy kisses or hersheys nuggets in. We used Dandelion stamps to decorate the box. Super cute to give treats for Halloween.

Well, once again Cheri from Sizzix will be in town and we will be doing make & takes at all the Ben Franklin Craft stores on Oahu. We will be in Hilo for their paper party this coming Saturday, September 26th. If you live in Hilo, hope to see you there!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great Monday!!!

Make & take at J's

I just noticed that it's been almost a week since I last posted something. Anyways, I'm going to be doing a make & take tomorrow, Saturday September 19th at the store from 10-12 pm. It will be a fast an easy Halloween treat bag.
I've been using my spare time to work on projects for the Joy of Crafting tv show taping which is actually today. This is for the Christmas show which airs in November.
Next week Saturday, I'll be in Hilo at Ben Franklin Crafts for their paper party doing a make & take. And the following weekend, my gf Cheri from Sizzix and I will be doing make & takes at all the Ben Franklin Craft stores on Oahu. I'll be posting the dates and times for each location.
Sorry I don't have a photo to share with you today but I did make something last night and need to take a photo of it later so I can post it.
Thanks for stopping by today and hope to see you at J's tomorrow!

Count Baxter

Over the Labor Day weekend, I made this card using another one of Jean's new stamps for Halloween. Baxter is all dressed up and ready for trick or treating and he vants some candy! I used the Cuttlebug woodgrain folder to emboss the background. On the purple piece of cardstock, I used Hero Arts dotted background stamp and clear embossing powder to make the image stand out and labels 3 nesties.

The MS spiderweb border punch is so cute and punches well through cardstock.The word stamp and candies are also part of the new release from Dandelion Designs. Hope you have a vonderful day and thanks for stopping by!!!

Swashbuckling Elliot

This is the first time ever that I went out of my comfort zone and used a gray color as the base of my card. Have you ever used gray? As I was layering all my pieces, it just seemed to go better with the colors than black. This cardstock is actually a doublemates so the other side is black. The stamp is a new one that was just released from Dandelion Designs. The pumpkin is another new stamp that I inked and cut out and put in Elliot's hand.And since I just had to use my MS punch, I punched a spiderweb for the background. It takes 2 punches to make this. One for the corners and one for the borders.
Hope you're having a wonderful humpday and thank you for stopping by!

Another scallop bag #2 revision

Oops! I forgot to post this on Sunday like I said I would. This is from the same die that I used on the post before this but I changed it up a little. So far, I used this die 3 different ways and I'm not sure which is my favorite. All stamps are from Hero Arts Halloween Ink 'n Stamp set. These stamps are smaller but they fit perfectly on the scallop circle punch from EK Success.

How was your Labor Day weekend? It was nice and relaxing for me since I actually got to spend some time with my hubby for a couple days.

Hope you're enjoying your Monday and thanks for stopping by today! I have another card to share with you and this time I won't forget to post it.

Only treats please

Awhile back in April of this year, I made this favor bag and used the Sizzix baby hippo die to decorate it. Well, the other day, I sat down and played with the same die and made this Halloween treat bag. I wanted it to look simple but of course making a shaker thingy isn't quite that simple if you're trying it for the first time. And because I didn't have any of those tiny beads, I substituted chunky glitter for the beads.

Word stamp is Dandelion Designs and that cute little spider is from Hero Arts Ink 'n Stamp Halloween set.

Come back tomorrow because I made this bag into another different treat bag. Thanks for stopping by today and hope you're enjoying your Labor Day holiday weekend!

Flower bag revision

I always seem to challenge myself to see how a die can be used in different ways. This die is actually one of the newer released XL dies that Sizzix came out with. It's almost the same as the scallop bag die except this one has a little flower on the edge of the closure. After I cut the pieces out, I made the bag look more like a box.

You can see how the opening is wider and would hold a lot more goodies or treats inside of it. I used Elliot from Dandelion Designs as my image. He's such a happy little guy. The little dots on the box is a stamp from Hero Arts. Can you believe I cannot seem to remember the name of that stamp. Anyways, I embossed it with clear embossing powder to bring the dots out on the cardstock. I love this cardstock from American Crafts.
Here's a shot from the top of the bag/box. As you can see, it is quite big to hold some sweet surprises.

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you're having a great humpday!!!

I thought it was Baxter

But his name is Buddy. LOL! I get myself all confused with the names of Jean's animal stamps. Well anyways, I had an extra pendant diecut which I had spritzed with some Ink Potion #9 and didn't want to waste it so I made another card similar to the one in the post below. This time, I scored the diecut as you can see in this first photo to give it a more 3-D effect.It makes the pendant pop-up on top of the card. The only thing about this card is it might be a little harder to mail. Supplies:
Spellbinders shapeabilities contemporary hearts, Dandelion Designs stamp, nestabilities in classic and scallop circles, swiss dots folder, Doodlebug glitter dots, Worldwin cs and Offray ribbon.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!

Woof!

I made a little doggie ornament the other day between cutting kits for today's make & take at Ben Franklin Crafts Pearl City store. Got a little distracted after finding this cute die in my stash. I used the Sizzix dog die with paw from the baby line and cut it out of chipboard.
This next card came about as I was playing with Tim Holtz distress embossing powder which I got from the store. It's kind of hard to see in the picture but I used 2 different colors of embossing powder for the stamped background. This embossing powder is different from regular embossing powder as it looks and feels like sand. But it gives your stamped image a more textured look. I used some scraps to finish the card. The background stamp is a Hero Arts stamp and the cute little girl and word are Dandelion Design stamps.I made another card before making this one but I used different colors on the first card. You can't really see it well but I spritzed the pink shapeability die with a new product from Tsukineko called Ink Potion #9. I added Memento Rosebud reinker and Vegas gold metallic ink to the Ink Potion #9 bottle to get the sparkly gold effect on the paper.

This photo is closer and you can see some of the sparkly on the paper.

Well, I have to get ready for the paper party and I hope to see you there today.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!!

Special friends

Last week I received a bunch of surprises from some special people. I mean, I look forward to getting new samples and catalogs in the mail everyday but when I got my invoices from Jean, I was thrilled to see this card in the envelope too. And with it was a See's GC, my favorite candy store! Yummy! Thank you so much Jean for being so thoughtful!!! You are so sweet!!! It definately sweetened my day. This next one is a Hello Kitty collage frame that Michelle gave me last Friday at the tv shoot. OMG people, it is just so beautiful and jaw dropping!!! Thank you so much Michelle!!! You are so sweet and kind and I totally love this Hello Kitty frame!!! This last one is from one of my dearest, closest girlfriend Cheri from Sizzix. My own Sizzix Build a Bear. He is so soft, cuddly and cute! Thank you so much Cheri and it was so sweet of you to send it to me!!!
I'm excited to see her next month and we're going to be doing our marathon make & takes once again. One of the new releases coming out is our Build a Bear dies.Thanks for stopping by today and I'll be posting some new projects that I've been working on.
And before I forget, I'll be at the Ben Franklin Crafts Pearl City store this Saturday for their annual paper party doing a make & take. It is a super cute Halloween project! Have a great Wednesday!!!

The Joy of Crafting

This past Friday was another taping of the "Joy of Crafting" tv show. This was a little different because Joy wanted to tape a show on some of the Hawaii crafty bloggers. And so I was able to get both Jen and Michelle to come on the tv show and talk about crafting and blogging.We had so much fun!!! And these 2 are not shy at all. LOL!

Here's a photo that Jen took of us and cute little Amara, Michelle's daughter.
Now here's Brad and Ikaika (he likes to eat), the 2 dudes that film the show.

I didn't realize the walls were that green until I looked at these photos.Here's the 2 girlies getting their mikes. They both look so pretty!Here's Michelle and Jen with the show host, Joy. The show airs in October on OC 16. And thanks Joy!!! We all had a great time!!!

As Joy would say, Happy Crafting!!!

Chunky glitter

I finally got a chance to sit down and play with my little bottles of chunky glitter from Doodlebug.
This stuff is easier to work with than ultra fine glitter which gets all over the place. I picked up this new Dovecraft daisy punch from the store over the weekend and punched away. This card started off being a flower card but I ended up turning this into a thank you card.The orange frame is a new Sizzix die called scallop frame die. This card was actually quite easy to put together because the thank you part was a leftover from another project and the asian doll was a reject sitting in my reject pile. Do you keep your rejects or throw them out? Just wondering what everyone else does with their stuff.
Anyways, Janis I hope you are reading this because I haven't heard from you and I would like to send you your stamp set.
This morning as we were leaving the house to go to the park, I noticed my husband forgot the rubbish bag at the top of the stairs. And he's been doing this a lot lately. So I picked up the bag and threw it down the 25 stairs hoping it would land at the bottom and it did with a thud. Then I heard a sudden burst of laughter coming from the garage. Thank goodness he thought it was funny. Ha!
Well, thanks for stopping by today and hope you're having a great Tuesday and keeping cool!

Winner and a pink cat

The winner for the Hero clear Ocassions stamp set is "Janis". I don't have your email Janis so can you email me your address? I'll get this in the mail to you sometime this week. Thanks for playing everyone and leaving your sweet comments!!! I appreciate all of you stopping by my blog.I was at Stamps & Memories last week and they got in a shipment of Halloween dies from QK. I picked up this cat die which was actually a black cat for Halloween but I changed the color to pink. This one reminds me of a siamese cat. It looks like the one my step mom has although hers isn't siamese. The card is a Sizzix XL scallop card die and word stamp is from Hero Arts.
Yesterday was so hot and humid and we were out for most of the day trying to keep cool in the air conditioned stores. After we got home, I ended up having to cut 60 kits and I am halfway there. It was uncomfortable but hopefully can finish cutting them this week. Thank goodness for the BSE machine.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you're having a great Monday!!!

Feeling loopy and a RAK

I was so excited when I got my hands on this new border punch from Martha Stewart. You can use it in so many different ways too. The only thing about this punch, is you have to make sure the paper is cut to the correct measurements in order for all the loops to fit.

The kitty stamp is a wood stamp from last years Hero Arts catalog. But it is in a clear stamp set in this years catalog called "I love my cat". The words came off a clear stamp set called occasions.

There are lots of words on that set.

I have an extra "Occasions" clear stamp set that I'd like to give to someone. Leave me a comment and tell me what's your favorite holiday. I'll pick someone Friday evening to send this stamp set to.

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you're having a great Thursday!!!

Sweet birthday card

This past Saturday was my GF Teri's birthday and so on Monday, I took her to lunch. We went to On-On Chinese Restaurant and had a real nice time and went shopping at the store after lunch. Here's the card that I made her. She actually gave me this stamped image the week before but I wanted to use it on her card. The card is actually a lighter pink but the photo came out quite dark. This is a GF image and I don't know the name of the girl but it is such a cute one.

This was actually the first image that I colored but I kept going out of the lines so I ended up cutting the image out and didn't want to waste it. I made this luggage tag for my Sizzix bag.

I haven't been posting much lately. I am working on some make & takes that are coming up this month and next month and also new projects for another tv show taping.

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you're enjoying your Wednesday! I need to head out for some Starbucks to give me some energy so I can stamp.

Keeping it simple

I've been meaning to play with some of my new punches that I bought from Ben Franklin Crafts last month. These Ek Success punches are the best when it comes to storage since they fold up flat and are stackable.I had some leftover Dandelion stamped images from last Saturday's make & take. The girl and boy stamps are so cute and easy to use on just about anything.

I have a birthday card to post but you have to check back on Monday since I want to be sure that Teri sees it first before I post it. Today is her birthday and if you get a chance, stop by her blog and wish her a happy birthday and I think she has a birthday rak too.
Supplies:

Dandelion Designs stamps, Hero Arts word stamps, and Ek Success punches.

Hope you had a super Saturday! I sure did. Went shopping and bought a bunch of stuff from Ala Moana.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!!!