Need Coffee!

Aloha friends!  Super excited for this year's Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!!  Amy and friends make this an amazing hop, so if you're new, come join the fun by posting a coffee, tea or cocoa themed project!

This is always an exciting time of year for me with the upcoming holiday season which kickstarts with Halloween in this household!

I used the super fun Hero Arts Kelly's Monster Stamp and Cut and colored with copics.  I used the speech bubble and filled with coffee beans from Hero Arts Kelly's Coffee and Donuts (one of my favorite coffee themed stamps). I thought it would be fun to have the bats flying around with coffee cups.  I'm thinkin' I might like bats more if they brought me coffee...lol.  All the stamps were purchased at a2z Scrapbooking and you can use this code NICKI15 for 15% off your purchase of $25 or more! 

Everything was layered on some Doodlebug Designs pattern paper.  I've joined the gals over at a2z Scrapbooking so check them out as well!

Hope you all have a fabulous time with the hop!  Mahalo for stopping by!!

No ifs, ands or bolts...

I've been having waaaaaay too much fun with the Hero Arts Kelly's Monster Stamp and Cut!

The sentiments are just soooo fun and this time I decided to paper piece Frankenstein with some left over pattern paper laying around.

I used some Lawn Fawn paper to create a Halloween themed frame.  For some added fun I decided to distress the paper with Hickory Smoke Distress ink.  I thought it gave it a little more Halloween-ish look.

Anyone else looking forward to Halloween like I am?  I'm definitely wanting cooler weather!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Witch Feet Tags for A2Z Scrapbooking Challenge!

Aloha friends!  I'm over at a2z Scrapbooking playing with a fun Hero Arts Halloween set called Witch Feet Stamp and Cut.

Here's a little sneaky peek...

Would love it if you hopped on over and checked it out!  Have a tag you created with Hero Arts products?  Join our challenge for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the store!

Have a fabulous day!

Good Witch with Hero Arts

Aloha friends! Halloween is my absolute favorite time of year as it kick starts the rest of the holidays in this household.  When it comes to Halloween, I love the cute costumes and festive decorations. The scary stuff can I can do without...haha!!

Today I'm playing with Hero Arts Witch Feet Stamp and Cut which has the cutest sentiments!

The background was created using my new favorite Hero Arts Candy Stripe Bold Prints inked with Hero Arts Intense Black ink on orange card stock for a festive look.  I lined the edge with some Doodlebug Design Candy Corn washi tape for even more fun.

To create the image I used a pot (inked in Hero Arts Lime to Forever Green) from last year's holiday stamps by Hero Arts Merry Cactus to You, then masked it to stamp the witch feet inked in Hero Arts Lilac to Grape Purple ombre ink.

I added some spider webs from the set and the sentiment at the bottom and mounted on my card front with foam tape.  Lawn Fawn licorice twine finished the card!

Are you ready for the fall season?  I certainly am!!  Have a fabulous day and mahalo for stopping by!!!

Please Send Coffee and GIVEAWAY

TGIF friends!!!

ok and just to clarify my first favorite F-word is FREE...hahaha!

Okey dokey, down to the wire to get my second card in for 

I was totally having a blast with hopping around and was so happy to see

 Halloween cards (my fave holiday!) so I decided to make one myself!

The background was stamped with the latest Hero Arts Kelly's Coffee and Donuts

For us coffee lovers this set is a must have with such fun sentiments and cute images!

I thought the little Lawn Fawn Franken-boo (colored in copics) 

from the set Booyah, would be perfect for the sentiment

"please send coffee."

The oval was embossed with an embossing folder and

then I used a new-to-me item StazOn Studio Glaze!

It's a pretty cool medium in that it highlights the embossed areas

and gives it a cool glazed/glossy look for a bit of shine.

I just used a palette knife to spread over the entire surface and it dries pretty quickly!

For a bit more color I added on the orange polka dot panel from 

Lawn Fawn's Let's Polka in the Dark and added some 

Lawn Trimmings in Spooky which is a hemp twine with 3 different colors...so fun!!

Here's a closeup...

I totally giggled at this card adding all the little details.

Do you like the little spider on the mug?!

All right folks...that's it for me!  

I would love it if you would follow me here, on Instagram, and/or Flickr

and in return I have a $20 gift code

GIVEAWAY to A2Z Scrapbooking

(one of the sponsors for the Fall Coffee Lover's Blog Hop)

I fully support this store as proceeds go towards 

auto immune disease communities such as

Behcets and Celiac Disease.  

Don't want to wait for the giveaway? 

Go to the store by clicking on the link above

and use code Nicki15 for 15% off your entire order!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

and 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Halloween is almost here!

Can you believe it?

I'm back so quickly with my most favorite themed card

HALLOWEEN!!!

I'm a HUGE Halloween fan as evidenced by my

obsession with everything pumpkin and by this

year's costume...

I'm looking forward to the next weekend already!

And now on to my Halloween card...

Lawn Fawn Hoppy Halloween, Lawn Fawn Critters in Costume, Lawn Fawn Teeny Tiny Backdrops

Lawn Fawn Starry Backdrop, Lawn Fawn Grassy Border die

The background was heat embossed in yellow and distressed in various

"evening" shades.  Even the die cut grass got a dip in distress inks.

All the images were watercolored to keep with the look.

I'll be entering this in 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Getting ready and more minions!

Aloha!  I wanted to share a few things I have been working on the past few weeks.  I've always wanted to do a craft fair and last year finally got the courage to try it out.  It was so much fun, and I had such positive feedback, that I decided to do it again this year.  So I've been working furiously trying to make inventory!  For anyone on Oahu (or anyone that wants to fly out here ;-) I will be at Aiea Elementary on November 9th from 9am-2pm.  Hope to see you there!

I've been loving the Minion trend and saw TONS of them during Halloween so it inspired me to do a little post-it note holder...

They're such cuties that I made a bunch...

in varying faces...

I finally had a project to use up all those yellow metallic papers I had in my stash and of course googly eyes!

A hot seller for me was the gift card holders...

They're simple mini envelopes (the size of a gift card), held together with a belly band.  Perfect to dress up any GC!  Of course I had to use my Kitty Bee Designs stamps!!

And lastly these fun magnets using glass tiles...

I have tons more including cards and notepads...just wanted to share some highlights.  I've been dying to enter all the fun challenges out there, but am focusing on this craft fair first.  It definitely helps support this very addicting hobby!  Mahalo for stopping by!!!

Halloween Treats

Quick post to share these super fun favors I made for my kids' class.  This is the first year I needed to make favors for my son...now in Preschool (*sigh, where does the time go?)!

These boxes were super easy to assemble and the grass die cut was used for teeth!  What do ya think of the minion pillow box?!  My kids are always going around the house, sounding like minions, they crack me up.

We went to our local pumpkin patch and the kids were super happy about finding their "perfect" pumpkin. 

Excuse the next photo as I took it quickly before my camera died...

All 39 favors made plus Pumpkin Butterscotch Muffins for the teachers that my hubby graciously made. 

Anyone want the recipe just message me...they are divine!  Have a great rest of the week!

Kitty Bee Design Aloha Friday Challenge Halloween: Mid Inspiration Post

Well friends we made it through the week!  Happy Aloha Friday and I have another fun card using Kitty Bee Designs.

This was definitely a fun image to play with and I HAD to use stickles!  I hope you'll hop on over to Kitty Bee Designs Blog to see the entire card and check out more inspiration for Halloween and the adorable Kitty Bee Design images.


Today is also the last day to get your comments in for a chance to be 1 of 4 winners to get a random 6x6 paper pad and Kitty Bee Design Stamp from below!

Mahalo for playing along!!!

Aloha Friday Kitty Bee Design Challenge #10: HALLOWEEN

*GIVEAWAY ALERT* keep reading til the end!!!!

I love, love, love Halloween.  Something about cute little costumes and treat giving and knowing that the holiday season is fast approaching!  I always say once Halloween hits, then the New Year is right around the corner. 

I've made a cute Kitty Bee Design treat ready to pass out for my kids' class.  Here's a little sneak peek!

I would love it if you hopped over to Kitty Bee Designs Blog and checked out the rest of my teammies projects. You can also upload any project with a Halloween theme for a chance to win a clear stamp or digi of your choice.  There's soooo much to choose from and if you don't want to wait, you can go shopping now at Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store


**All right you've made it til the end!  I've been super blessed with being on the Kitty Bee Design Team and have a few extras that I would love to pass on!  If you're a follower of my blog and leave a comment this week from October 11 through the 18th (on any of my posts) I will randomly pick 4 lucky winners to get a clear stamp and 6x6 paper pad!

 Happy Aloha Friday!

Today's Special

Whoa!  Where did my weekend go?  Besides getting over my cold and being oncall for work, my in-laws were in town.  It was a quick layover for a few days before my brother-in-law heads up to Pennsylvania for his dissertation.  We are so proud to soon have a doctor in the family!

I even missed WCMD!  What I did not miss though was everyone's posts and all their creations.  So fun!!!

The next Curtain Call theme is a spooky scene so I wanted to share this fun card!

Lawn Fawn Good Fortune, LF Claire's ABCs, Copic Markers, googly eyes

I went for the chalkboard look to display my special for the day...hehehe.

Just a quick post for me!  Mahalo for stopping by!

**Edited to add this card to General Craft Supply Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
 Mahalo Virginia for the heads up!