Season's Giving Blog Hop

Welcome to this years 

Season's Giving Blog Hop!
(A list of all the blogs to hop on through are at the bottom of my post)

I'm super thrilled to be joining this talented group and be able to share

some of my unloved stash!
(unfortunately mailing only to the US)
I hope you'll be able to make it through my pictorial
and leave some comment love for your chance to
WIN a box full of goodies!!!
Let's get started shall we?

Today's card is a SHAKER...

		Supplies needed: Die cut shape, stamp set of your choice, Hero Arts Shadow Inks (not shown), Tombow markers, vellum, microbeads or sequins (basically anything you want to put in for a shaker)
Lay out pieces to create design of your choice.  I chose to go with a circle shaker with the Hawaiian Islands in my shaker and sentiment to be on the top and bottom of my shaker.  Once happy with your layout start die cutting circle!
		I used some painter's tape to make sure my circle die cut stayed where I wanted it to, then ran through my Big Shot Pro.
I LOVE the latest Simon Says Stamp Stitched dies!  They leave a stitched mark on either side of the cut line!!  Super cool!!!
		On card front, stamp out sentiment and background stamp.  The sentiment was stamped slightly curved to follow the circle.  I decided to do a rainbow of ink colors using Hero Arts Shadow inks  in Pale Tomato, Butter Bar, Green Hills, Pool and Grape Juice.
Place card panel on front of card to be able to center the inside stamped design of the shaker.
		Tombow markers have been my latest coloring obsession
On back side of card front adhere vellum.  I decided to go with vellum because my card front was so full of color I wanted to mute the coloring of the Hawaiian islands a bit.
		Then add foam tape to create a frame around the die cut image.  This will hold all of the shaker goodies!
I used some Martha Stewart microbeads in clear and blue with some leftover flower punches and placed in center of image on card front.
		Remove foam tape backing and adhere to card front.  Make sure you have a good seal to keep all your shaker goodies in!

And there you have it! Ta da....

MAHALO for making it through!

I hope you enjoyed that pictorial and if you aren't already following me

I hope you will!!

You can also find me on Instagram (StampnHI), Bloglovin', and Flikr'

so just click on over to those teal colored circles on the top right of my blog.

You'll have til January 5th (my dad's b-day) to comment to win
the loot below...

If you're going in order of the blog hop

Kristi Schurr

http://kristispapercreations.blogspot.com/

is up next.

Happy New Year!!!

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Lawn Fawn

Spellbinders Paper Arts

Reverse Confetti

Clearsnap

Ice Resin

My Favorite Things

Technique Tuesday

Paper Smooches

Sweet & Sassy Stamps

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Avocado Arts

A Jillian Vance Design

Latina Crafter

Die-Versions

Unity Stamp Company

Splitcoaststampers

Verve Stamps

Latisha Yoast

AJ Otto

Vera Yates

Julia Stainton

Judy Hayes

Kim Watson

Yana Smakula

Chari Moss

Taheerah Atchia

Shemaine Smith

Emily Spahn

Kimberly Crawford

Lee Murphy

Lovely Linda

Laura Williams

Lori Tecler

Chaitali Narla

Darsie Bruno

Lydia Fiedler

Giovana Smith

Teri Anderson

Beth Pingry

Dina Kowal

Daniela Dobson

Lisa Adametz

Piali Biswas

Kelli Green

Keri Lee Sereika

Jocelyn Olson

Julee Tilman

Michelle Woerner

Lori McAree

Theresa Momber

Anita Autore

Melody Rupple

Sean Fetterman

Bunny Vance

Tricia Traxler

Lisa Arana

Lorena Cantó

Amy Tsuruta

Jodi Collins

Tenia Nelson

Kelly Klapstein

Jill Cornell

Emily Leiphart

Becky Williams

Margie Higuchi

Lee Ann Barrett

Lisa Hoel

Heather Campbell

Lisa Henke

Sheri Holt

Michele Kovack

Ashley Harris

Sharon Harnist

Lori Craig

Nicole Nowosad

Laurel Beard

Michele Boyer

Christiana Reuling

Laurie Schmidlin

Jennifer Priest

Stacey Schafer

Heidi Blankenship

Heather Pulvirenti

Anita Madden

Gloria Stengel

Sarah Gough

Rachel Kleinman

Natalie Dever

Lorine Mason

Loretta Lock

Meihsia Liu

Sarah Martina Parker

Angeline Choo

Christine Emberson

Karen Hightower

Sabrina Alery

Debbie Seyer

Dana Joy

Cat Tidwell

Deborah Saaranen

Ceal Pritchett

Lisa Lara

Colleen Schaan

Anabelle O'Malley

Megan Hoeppner

Monika Davis

Marisa Ritzen

Wanda Guess

Jenny Peterson

Annette Allen

Gracie Chavez

Christina Griffiths

Niki G.

Kristi Schurr

Jennifer Ingle

Karolyn Loncon

Camille Robinson

Lindsey M-P

Kathy Clement

Maria Levine

Savitri Wilder

Savannah O'Gwynn

Teresa Horner

Laurel Seabrook

Libby Hickson

Yvonne Van de Grijp

Leigh Penner

Lisa Lee

Tina McDonald

Nina Yang

Angel Johns

Sharing the Holiday Spirit!

I hope everyone had a blessed and wonderful

CHRISTMAS!

Again thank you to everyone that takes the time to stop by

and leave comments on my blog,

it truly means so much!

The winners of my Holiday GIVEAWAY is....

Julie Tucker-Wolek

and 

Amy Tsuruta!

 (an e-mail should have been sent regarding the

Butterfly Reflections Ink gift certificates)

You guys totally rock for always leaving such sweet comments!!

My card for today to continue celebrating the holiday season...

Paper Smooches Free Spirits and dies, Lawn Fawn Sally's ABCs

I'm not really into alcoholic beverages

(they put me to sleep!),

but I do enjoy a cold glass of 

Martinelli's Sparkling Apple Cider...LOL!

This set was fun to play with and

I tried to create some background shadows with the solid stamps 

and then die cut and colored the foreground ones.

I'll be entering this into the

 Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge!

I'll be back again on New Year's Eve with the

Season's Giving Blog Hop!

I hope you'll join me and leave comments for more prizes.

I LOVE a good GIVEAWAY!!

Mahalo for stopping by!!!

 

 

Mele Kalikimaka!

Mele Kalikimaka!

 

I want to wish you all a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and many blessings to you

and your loved ones.

 

 

I feel so blessed to be a part of this 

AMAZING 

papercrafting community and want to 

thank each and every one of you

that takes the time to stop by.

Your comments mean the world to me

(as I started offbeing really shy about sharing my work)!

It's been about 2 years blogging and I cannot

thank you all for your support.

Today I'd like to focus on celebrating Christmas

with our family and friends and

hope you don't mind me waiting on the giveaway.

(I'll be back with that)

Until then 

Dandelion Designs, Stamps of Life, Lawn Fawn Harold's ABCs

 

 

and because I have good news coming in the New Year

one more card...

 

 Hero Arts, Embossing Folder, Doodlebug Sequins, Lawn Fawn paper

 

Have a fabulous day!

#11 Christmas Lights and GIVEAWAY!

My favorite thing to do around 

Christmas is to drive around the neighborhood

with the family to look at Christmas lights and decorations.

There's something magical about it!

My parents did that with my brother and I when we were younger,

and now I'm passing on the tradition to my kiddos.

An ode to Christmas lights...

Stamps of Life Lights4Christmas, Lawn Fawn Let It Snow, Simon Says Stamp inks,

Wink of Stella, embossing folder, Lil Inkers rectangle stitched die

Fun right?!

I made a bunch of these since they were quick and easy.

The stamp set had a solid bulb to quickly fill in color!

Quick tip:

Embossing card fronts make for a quick yet fun backdrop

and doing a smaller card panel provides a smaller canvas to work with.

(read: fast and easy!)

We're almost to my big 

GIVEAWAY!

Keep your comments coming for your chance to be

a winner!!

If you haven't checkout out my other 10 holiday inspiration

projects be sure to check them out.

(please be sure to leave your email address so I can get a hold of you!)

Each winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to

Butterfly Reflections Ink 

MAHALO for stopping by!!!

#10 Gift Card Holders

Oh Monday,

why do you come so quickly!?

We are 3 days away from my 

GIVEAWAY!

Click HERE for details

Do you know what's the best last minute gift?

GIFT CARDS!

What's the best way to give a gift card?

In a handmade gift card holder of course!

I actually give these away as gifts too.

I loved the simplicity and functionality of this

Silhouette GC holder cut

I used heavy card stock for it to really hold its shape

and a strong adhesive...

Please excuse the poor photos, but I quickly took them

before giving them away!

I love that you can put anything on the front and even emboss the flap

for a fun, but subtle background.

(Left: Uses Dandelion Designs and Lawn Fawn Hats Off to You

Middle: Uses Sizzlit Poinsettia die with washi tape and sequins

Right: Uses Lawn Fawn Love You a Latte)

And purple ones for my coworker...

using Lawn Fawn's Stitched Snowflakes die and a rhinestone embellishment.

The polar bear is from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Snow

I'm going to quickly add these to 

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Winter!

Much MAHALO for following me daily for a dose of 

Holiday inspiration!!

#9 Mixing those sentiment stamps!

Happy Sunday!

Today I'm mixing up sentiments.

I use to be nervous about cutting my clear stamps apart,

but once I realized it was so much easier than masking 

(or cleaning the parts I didn't need)

I've done quite a bit of dissecting!

Today's card uses Lawn Fawn's 

Joy to the Woods with Milk and Cookies.

The fonts are similar with perfect variation in sizing.

Check it out...

Lawn Fawn Milk and Cookies, Lawn Fawn Joy to the Woods, Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles,

Tombow Markers, Sierra Crafts Pacific Merry Little Christmas pattern paper

 

Tombow markers have been so fun to color with!

Tip: Color images with similar colors from your pattern paper

to bring everything together!

I kinda feel like I did a CAS look from the latest

Retro Sketches Challenge

Mahalo for stopping by!

Don't forget about the GIVEAWAY!

Day #7 and 8 More Holiday Card Inspiration

5 Days til Christmas and...

my Christmas GIVEAWAY!

Mahalo for your comments and joining me daily, 

winners will be announced the day after Christmas

for gift certificates (yes that's plural)

 to 

Butterfly Refections Ink!!

My apologies about missing yesterday, 

so today I'm catching up!

I wanted to enter the latest 

Curtain Call: Candy Cane

 

Lawn Fawn Peace, Joy Love paper, Lawn Fawn Critters in the Arctic, Tombow Markers

 I was trying to go for a non-stamped card 

to use up some left over pattern paper, but couldn't help 

adding that sweet little bunny...in candy cane colors of course!

The inside has a place to add a gift card holder.

For my second card (day #8)

I decided to continue using that fun 

Lawn Fawn Critters in the Artic set

to create a cute little scene...

I embossed my card base, added some stitched hillside borders die cuts,

lightly distressed the edge to bring out the stitching with

broken china and colored images with Tombow markers.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's Let it Snow.

Some Avery Elle sequins were added for fun!

As you can tell I can't get enough of my Lawn Fawn stamp sets!!!

I'll be back tomorrow for more inspiration.

Mahalo for stopping by!

#6 Purple Holiday

Today marks one week til

CHRISTMAS!!!

...and my half way mark til the

Butterfly Reflections Ink gift certificate

GIVEAWAY!

(read: please keep your comments coming)

I have a coworker who loves purple, so a purple

Christmas card is what we have today...

 Lawn Fawn Winter Penguin, Embossing folder, silver embossing powder,

 Wink of Stella, Tombow markers, Sierra Pacific Crafts pattern paper Merry Little Christmas

And there ya have it.  I'm not a big fan of purple,

but I think my coworker will enjoy it.

Tip:  By just partial embossing a shape 

it leaves room to easily stamp out a sentiment!

I'm gonna try my luck over at 

The Timeout Challenge

to create something Christmas-y.

Mahalo for stopping by!!! 

Day #5 Using non-Christmas stamps

In keeping with my island-ish theme

I decided I wanted to make some

Aloha/Hawaiian print ornaments.

Super quick and easy with circle die cuts and some 

 Lawn Fawn floral stamps...

Lawn Fawn Petite Florals, Lawn Fawn Circle stackables die, 

Lawn Fawn Winter Gifts, Lawn Trimmings, Lawn Fawn pattern paper, 

gold embossing, white embossing

With a little bit of heat embossing, the tone on tone pattern papers

made the perfect backdrop for some fun stamping.

Quick post today, but don't forget to keep your comments coming

and to check out the other holiday cards 

HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE

I'll be doing another giveaway (announcement on Christmas) 

with a gift certificate to 

Butterfly Reflections Ink  

my favorite online store!

  

 And the challenge junky in me is linking up to 

Christmas Card Challenge  

Creative Card Crew 

and

Lawnscaping Challenge  

 

Mahalo for stopping by!!!

Day #5 Naughty or Nice?

I've been playing around a lot lately with my Christmas

themed stamp collection, but wanted to continue

with the non-traditional idea.

I finally got into getting a set of Tombow markers
and really like the results!
Ta da...

Lawn Fawn Good Fortune, Lawn Fawn Tag You're It die, 
Recollections pattern paper, Lawn Trimmings

   Do those fortune cookies look yummy or what?!
I thought the handwritten sentiment on the fortunes

was a nice touch with the stitched tag.
(read: I didn't have a naughty or nice stamp)
And just like yesterday's post I decided to do a second card
because I liked the theme a lot!

I'm hoping the guys at the office will get a kick out of this one.

I'll be entering this into the next
Lawnscaping Challenge: Merry Christmas

That's it for today!
Keep your comments coming for a chance to win a prize by Christmas.
The more comments on each of the posts,
 the more chances to get your name in the random drawing!!

Day #4 Happy HONUdays

I've got a punny card for you today...

hopefully it'll give you a good chuckle to start your week off right.

 Don't forget I'm having a big giveaway by Christmas so be sure to comment 

on each of my Holiday Inspiration card posts found

HERE, HERE and HERE

The Hawaiian name for a sea turtle is Honu (ho-noo).

I recently purchased some sweet dies in the shape of a honu 

and couldn't believe Spellbinders had such a thing!

Again going for the less traditional Christmas card,

I turned the die cuts into a wreath and added some sequins for fun.

Spellbinders Turtles One, Avery Elle Berry Blend Sequins, Memory Box Tiny Bow die,

Lawn Fawn Cole's ABCs die, Lawn Fawn Winter Gifts, gold embossing powder

I'll be entering this in Simon Says Stamp 

Wednesday Challenge: Bling It On

 

Because I was so in love with the punny sentiment I decided to make

a second card...

 

This time using a Memory Box die Turtle Borders with pattern paper from

Sierra Pacific Crafts A Merry Christmas and white embossing powder.

I was thinking these were more gender neutral cards for the holidays.

Mahalo for stopping by 

and I hope you'll be back for tomorrow's card!

HINT: you'll be in for a real (zero calorie) treat.

Day #3 Warm Winter Wishes and a WINNER!

Woo hoo!

It's day #3 for more holiday inspired cards.

If you make it through and comment on

my 12 days of holiday inspired cards there just might be a giveaway on Christmas!

More details to come, but I promise it'll be worth it!!

 

For Day #1 click HERE

You can find day #2 HERE

I wanted to do more local/island-y themed cards,

what do ya think?

Lawn Fawn Float My Boat, Lawn Fawn Critters from the Past (palm tree), Lawn Fawn Winter Gifts (solid presents),

Lawn Fawn Stitched Scallop Border (ocean waves), Lawn Fawn Blue Skies (star), Lawn Fawn Into the Woods pattern paper,

Lawn Fawn Milo's ABCs, Distress Glitter in Pumice Stone

I was trying to get out of the traditional Christmas colors

and create a more warm feeling for the holidays.

Kinda tropical right?

Bright and cheerful...just the way I like it...lol

I found another challenge to enter

(because I'm a challenge junky)

at Crafty Cardmakers and More

That's it for me today!

Don't forget to comment along the way for more chances to win!

Hope to see you tomorrow for more 

holiday card inspiration.

Mahalo for stopping by!!

P.S.-The random winner of the Holiday Coffee Lover's Blog Hop is 

Shelly!

Congrats Shelly!  An e-mail was sent with how to redeem your gift certificate.

Day #2 of Holiday Card Inspiration

I'm back for more holiday inspired cards!

I've been thrilled to see the turnout with the 

Holiday Coffee Lover's Blog Hop 

and can't thank you enough for leaving such sweet comments. 

 If you haven't had a chance

 stop by HERE

and by December 20th I'm randomly giving 

away a $20 gift certificate to one lucky commenter.

On to today's card...

Lawn Fawn Happy Trails, Lawn Fawn Sally's ABCs, Lawn Fawn FaLaLa paper,

Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling die

 I thought I'd pay tribute to all those traveling 

and blessed enough to spend the holidays with loved ones.

Everything is paper pieced and those presents are actually from 

birthday tags and winter gifts.

The challenge theme over 
at Simon Says Stamps is Transportation 
so I'll be linking this up there!

If you're traveling this season,

I wish you all safe travels!

I'll be back with more holiday inspired cards tomorrow.

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Happy Aloha Friday with Kitty Bee Designs

Happy ALOHA Friday!

I'm quickly popping in to share my 

Kitty Bee Designs 

midinspiration post for our latest challenge

Unusual Colored Christmas project.

That KBD Christmas Giraffe is just so adorable wrapped in Christmas lights!

I added some googly eyes to make him even cuter and colored with my latest

buy Tombow markers and water.

The sentiment was die cut from Holiday Words;Script from Sizzix/Tim Holtz.

Mahalo for stopping by!

Please stop by again as this year I'll be posting

 a holiday themed card everyday til Christmas!!

Also if you haven't seen my last post, I'm randomly giving away a $20 gift certificate 

to Butterfly Reflections Ink

Check out the details HERE.

See ya real soon!

Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Aloha and welcome to my part of blogland!

I love this idea of having a 
Holiday Coffee Blog Hop
 to honor
our FAVORITE drink of choice!

I love coffee hot or cold especially with a flavored creamer!

Here's my card to celebrate this fun theme...

 Kitty Bee Designs Expresso Buns, Lawn Fawn Snow Day paper, Lawn Fawn Love You a Latte,
embossing folder, white embossing powder, copics


Since it's the holiday season I'm giving away a
$20 gift certificate to my favorite online store
Butterfly Reflections Ink
 just for commenting and hopping along 
this super fun blog hop!

Be sure to leave a comment and I will choose 
randomly the lucky winner!
All I need is your e-mail address to send the certificate 
and you'll be on your way to an exciting 
shopping experience!!

A huge MAHALO to 
Amy Tsuruta
for putting this together.
If you get lost along the way just head back to her blog for a list of participating bloggers.
Also there's a lot of prizes to be won!
Check it out...

17Turtles	Veronica Zalis	Chris Franco
Add a Little Dazzle	Butterfly Reflections Ink	Color Cast Designs
Create a Smile	Hero Arts	Kraftin' Kimmie
Kreative Kymona	Latina Crafter	Neat & Tangled
Newton's Nook	Pickled Potpourri Designs	Poppystamps
Reverse Confetti	Stamp Academy	Stamp Simply Ribbon Store
STAMPlorations	SugarPea Designs	Sweet 'n Sassy
The Alley Way Stamps	Two Paper Divas	Verve Stamps
Whole Wild World	Your Next Stamp	Paper Smooches

Have fun and happy commenting!
Thanks for stopping by!!! 

**ETA on 12/14/14
this giveaway is now closed, but check out my
holiday card inspiration posts for another chance to win!