Make-it take-it

Hi peeps! I will at Scrapbook Heaven tomorrow, Saturday at 11-12 pm doing a cute little make-it take-it. Plus, I'll have the brand new black and pink Sizzix machine with me so you can all try it out. Hope to see you there!

New Do...

Since we came back from our trip, all I could think about was my upcoming hair color appointment. Well, when I walked in the door for my appointment, my hair stylist took one look at me and next thing I knew it, Edward Scissorhand was at work. Here's a self photo of me from the bathroom mirror. My hubs said I looked very young again. I guess it was a good compliment.
I wasn't able to post my little mini Valentine's book that I made for him since we were still on the mainland. Here's a photo of the cover.
I stamped a piece of white cardstock using Hero Arts Manuscript background stamp. Then I cut the heart out with the Spellbinders classic heart die and the red heart is the scalloped heart die. The stamped word is a $1 stamp that I got from Ben Franklin Crafts. I also used red stickles
on the tiny heart over the letter i.
I'll start posting the projects that I made at the show in another email. I'm running out the door in a few minutes for an appointment. Happy Thursday!!!

Where is it???

I don't know what happened to my blog header. Help! Anyone out there who can help me???

Well, we are back from CHA. I worked all 4 days of the show so I hardly made any projects at the booths. There are so many new products coming out and I can hardly wait to see all of it as it starts popping up in the stores. We stayed a couple extra days to do some sightseeing and had a real great time. It feels good to be back and soak up the sunshine here. It was sooo cold in Anaheim that we had the heater going everynight.

Here's a card that I made couple weeks before we left for CHA. I used the Minnie Cuttlebug embossing folder and Spellbinders scalloped circle and classic circle dies and a stamp that I just bought online.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and if you know about blog headers, please let me know.

Sneaky

My hubs can be such a sneak at times. I bought him an iPhone for Christmas and this is the first time since we've been married that I actually catch him playing with something all the time. Like yesterday, we were out shopping and he went to the men's dept while I went straight to the women's floor. So, he caught me playing dress up. Although, I did end up buying that cute sweater.
I haven't been posting much being that this is the time of the year when all the new products are shipping to the stores and I'm busy on the road. Life of a rep...
Here's a photo of a project that I did for The Joy of Crafting show. It will air the month of March for Easter. This was made using the new bunny die from Sizzix.

Don't forget to watch the shows on Sundays on OC16.

I won't be posting once again as we head out to Anaheim for the CHA show this weekend.

Hope you're all having a great Monday evening!

Go check it out

Today, the heart card that I made below is being featured on Angie's site. You have to go through her site. It's full of blogs sites to visit and she has lots of eye candy!

Yesterday was her birthday

My daughter's birthday was yesterday and she asked me if I could bake her some cupcakes to take to work. I thought she was kidding cause if you know me, you know that I never bake or cook. So I did end up making her pink cupcakes at 7:30 in the evening. The recipe on the box called for 3 eggs and being that I rarely make anything, I only had 1 egg. I wasn't about to go to the market to buy a box of eggs so I made the cupcakes with 1 egg. And, it did come out really good. I was impressed with myself. I even frosted it and put sprinkles on the top. Sorry but I forgot to take a photo of it.

Here's a photo of her gifts from me. I got her a Juicy wallet to match her Juicy bag that she bought during Christmas. I also wrapped some DS Lite games and a gift card in this chinese take-out box. Here's a close up of the tag that I made.

I used the Spellbinders nestabilities scalloped oval die and classic oval die. Stamp is Hero Arts cupcake w/ a cherry on top and of course bling. I also used stickles glitter on the sprinkles but it's kind of hard to see the glitter. I know the coloring is shakey but I was rushing to make this tag in couple minutes and drinking Starbucks coffee at the same time. Can you tell???

I'm heading out the door to my appointment. Happy humpday!

Another one...

I've been playing around with my stamps and ended up with another version of a Valentine's card similar to the one from yesterdays post. Sorry for the dark photo but the weather has been pretty bad lately and not enough sunlight to take the photo in my house.
But, if you look closely, the words are all glittered.
Recipe... Cuttlebug embossing folder, Spellbinders nestabilities scalloped heart die, SU stamp in background, $1 stamp - i love u, pink tulle, stickles, Hero Arts card and Bazzill cardstock.
I actually stamped the i love u and cut it out.
Happy Thursday cause tomorrow is TGIF!

Happy New Year!!!

So hard to believe that it is now 2008. I don't normally make resolutions for the New Year but this year I really have to make it a point to be more organized. I tend to let things go to the last minute and then I'm rushing to finish what needs to be done and getting myself all stressed out. This year is the year that I will be up to date on everything. Like balancing our checkbooks monthly and not letting it go for 5 months at a time. And filing my papers everyday instead of letting the pile go for months and looking for past orders in the pile. I even started a journal to log in all the daily calls and things that need to be taken care of with my accounts.

Here's a card that I made an hour ago while waiting for the laundry.
Recipe.... Cuttlebug embossing folder,
Spellbinder nestabilities scalloped heart and classic heart, clear $1 stamp, Hero Arts white card, Bazzill cardstock and red sheer ribbon.
Happy humpday!!!

Couple samples for the store

Last weekend I played around with some chipboard that I had sitting on my work table. I followed the idea sheet that I had (it's been awhile) to come up with this and a few changes.
I used the Retro frame die, Fleur de lis die, and Baby Says Yeah die. Although you can't see it, I texturized the frame using the checkerboard pattern and poured black glitter all over the frame. The Fleur de lis is also glittered with pink glitter and I put some bling in the corner.
I used the same Retro frame die for the second photo but this time I used the Christmas texture plate for the chipboard. I also poured red glitter on the fleur de lis to make it look real Christmasy.

If you want to see it up close, I left them at the
store.
Sorry for the lack of blogging. I get so lazy trying to post photos to the blog. Hope you're all having a great Thursday!!!

Where in the world am I?

Whew, it's been so hectic lately! Plus, I get lazy just thinking about hooking the camera up to the computer to download all the photos I've taken.

Here's a photo of the project I did for a local t.v. show taping.

Stamps used are Mindy's Zoo from Autumn Leaves, Hero Arts Manuscript background and one of Hero Art's saying sets. Can't remember the name of it. The paper flower on the Maya Road tin was made using one of the Sizzlet heart dies from Sizzix. You can't see it, but I actually sewed all the hearts together to make the flower.

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving by ordering Chinese food. As you all know, I have never made a turkey and I don't know how to cook. So everyone wanted Chinese for dinner which was perfect since we all love to eat Peking Duck.

Hope you're all having a happy Friday!!!

M.I.A.

I know, bad blogger again. I've been keeping myself busy working on projects for taping a local t.v. show that will air next year. I'll post some photos later this week. And, I have some photos that we took last weekend, after I fix em up.
Laters...

Snowflake project

Hi everyone, sorry for the little absence on my blog again. It can be rough at times when you are self employed.
Just wanted to show you a project for a make-it take-it that I will be doing at Ben Franklin Crafts in Pearl City this Saturday. If you have some time on Saturday, come to the store and make an ornament for your Christmas tree.
Hope you're all having a Happy Halloween!!!

Hello... anyone still visits here???

I've been so busy these past few weeks that my blog was very neglected.
I have some projects to post and hopefully will upload them on my blog sometime this week.
So, I'll be doing some make-it take-it projects at stores around the island next month.

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I told my hubs I wanted to go do our picnic thing that we used to do on Sundays. We went to Fukuya's to pick up our okazuya and headed to Kahala Beach Park. And of course I brought my camera with me to play with since I haven't done that since I got it for Christmas. How sad is that?

We found a nice cool breezy spot under one of the coconut trees. There was a little birthday party going on so I had to take a photo of that. The little kidos were in the Bob the Builder bounce house.
Heres the bridge that connects over the little river that goes into the ocean.

My hubs took this photo of me. He was having more fun playing with my camera. He likes to hear the sound when you can take several photos all in a row. Crazy huh?

Heres a photo of what used to be a pier and now is under the water.


And I had to get a couple shots of my hubs playing in the ocean. I wanted to see if I could get the water drops in the photo, and I did.

And the last photo cracked me up! You had to be there to see it. My hubs was trying to get a drink out of the water fountain but instead the water

was shooting out from the base of the fountain.
Can you see it? Haha!

Well, hope your Monday is great! I'm happy cause my call for jury duty got cancelled.

Okay, back to work.

More class stuff

I am actually keeping up with this online class which is hard to believe. Except I am now a day late since I haven't started on Sunday's prompt and I have Monday's one to work on too. I'll get to that later.

This weekend was a little different for me since I volunteered to work the store for my husband.

That's something I have never done since we got married. I have a hard time staying in one place too long. Which is why I'm a rep.

To keep myself busy between helping customers, I worked on 2 layouts so I could keep up with the class.

I really tried to keep these simple but I always end up putting more stuff on my pages to fill the empty spaces.

All the supplies used are from the Mod line. Buttons are Foofala, clear flowers MM, and of course all die cuts are Sizzix and ribbons are Mod.
I think the journaling might be a little hard to read but email me if you have questions.

This is a fun class to do and you meet a lot of ladies from all over the globe. I just hope I can keep up with the daily prompts.

I'll post more as I finish my layouts.

Have a great evening!

I'm on a roll...

So far I've been keeping up with my daily journal page. Here's the first layout for day 2.

I used Mod paper and ribbon and some red bling for the center of the flowers.

My daughter was leaving on a 2 week trip and I thought I wouldn't be able to handle her being gone from home. But I kept myself busy while she was gone.

And I'm also posting today's layout for day 3. The last time we went to

Chicago for CHA in July '05, it was so hot! So this time I didn't even think of checking the weather but packed clothes for hot summer days. And boy was I wrong! We ended up in a stormy week and the hottest day there was 73 degrees and the coldest was 62 degrees. I never got to wear my tank tops that I packed for the trip. On this layout I used Sizzix, Mod buttons and ribbon.

I'll post tomorrow's layout hopefully tomorrow.

It's that time again

I had an invitation to do Shimelle's online class again for the month of September. And since it was free for me (being an alumni), I decided, what the heck. I think I can handle 1 layout a day for a month. Although last year, I spent Saturday's playing catch up and making 7-8 layouts at a time. Talk about stress. So this time I told myself to "keep it simple". Here's what my cover page looks like. Hope you're all having a great Labor Day weekend. BTW, the layout is 6x6 which makes it easier to scrap. Stay tuned for today's layout.

Surprise, surprise

Remember that? I used to watch Gomer Pile all the time on t.v. and after getting my mail this week, that's what I got. My JT's RAK card from Deb! Such a beauty that she sent me. I love it! This card has so many layers on it. Even the back of the card has layers. If you're reading this Deb,

thanks so much!

Well, I'm up early this morning trying to finish packing up my things and hopefully not forgetting anything. I'll be at the Paper Party at Ben Franklin Crafts in Pearl City doing a make-it take-it. It will be fun and the ladies usually have such a great time. Hope you're having a great Saturday!

The 4 letter word...

B..U..S..Y.. Yep, that's me right now. Busy seeing accounts, writing orders, returning calls, problems, working on make-it take-its, etc... Always a good thing to be busy.

For you Hawaii gals, if you have some time this Saturday, stop by Ben Franklin Crafts in Pearl City. I'll be there from 10-11:30 doing a make-it take-it. We'll be making this cute little Halloween treat bag using Hero Arts stamps. Great for giving office workers some treats on Halloween or for the kiddies at school.

I also want to share with you some cool ornaments that my friend Jean made. She designs her own line of stamps and I've been selling them for her. The stamps are called Dandelion Designs. She will also be at the paper

party on Saturday.

Hope to see you there!

(Sorry for the bright orange photo-not quite sure why it turned out so bright)

Seriously...

Blog neglect. Yep, it's been awhile. Still trying to play catch up and deal with the everyday madness of being self employed. So, I still haven't posted pictures from our trip to CHA. I'm working on that too. But I did do some scrapping over the weekend. It was one of those pages that has taken me awhile to finish. I kept changing my mind on the layout. Here's the finished product.
And I'm trying to finish this Chicago trip album from way back in 2005. Few more pages to go and it will be finished. I used an Ellison die to cut out my leaves and Amy Butler paper.
Some Fontwerk stamps, Hero stamps, Doodlebug Frills, buttons, and good old zigzaggy scissors.
Have a good humpday everyone!

Back from CHA, but JT's Rak first.

Wow! We got back from CHA on Monday and I had a surprise in the mail. I got my Rak card in the mail from Tracy. Take a look at this card that she made for me. There is so much detail and layering. I tell you, this card is just fabulous!!! You have to see it IRL. Not only did I get this card but she also put some goodies in the envelope for me. Thank you Tracy!

Here's the Rak card that I made for Pat Sergeant. I'm not sure if she has a blog, but Pat if you do can you send me your blog addy?

I'm still trying to catch up on sleep from the time difference. Hopefully I'll be better by the weekend. I've been sleeping early and waking up really early. Also drinking Starbucks to keep myself awake in the evening and it is not working.

I'll post photos from the show and the sights that we visited in Chicago in my next post.

Well, off to bed and hopefully I'll sleep longer tonight.