Lunch Box Notes for Kitty Bee Designs

Yay for Wednesday!

Today I'm over at Kitty Bee Designs showing off these fun

lunch box notes I made for the kiddos.

Can you believe they actually questioned how come they didn't have any yet for the school year?

Oops...didn't even know they cared...haha

These were super easy to make.  I took a die from Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die
and scored in half to create a card.
Stamped out that sweet Bun I Coloring in Hero Hues India Ink Black (perfect for watercoloring).
Then took out some Distress Markers and colored away.
My son loves red and my daughter blue so it was easy to come up with a color theme.
Added some baker's twine from my stash and voila!
Easy peasy lunch box notes!!

Stop by Kitty Bee Designs for more cute images
 including digis that you can play with right away!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Quick Goody Bag for Teachers

Happy Wednesday Friends!

It's back to school time in this household and

I wanted to send the kids off to school with a little goodie bag

for their teachers and teacher assistants.

We filled the bags with simple office/desk supplies...

just a little gesture to start the school year!

That sweet owl image is from Kitty Bee Design colored with copics.

I used the Tim Holtz In the Bag die with some 

fun and glittery pattern paper from my stash.

I really wanted to personalize the bags, but of course this was all last minute...haha!

Six of these bags in no time, just by adding a sweet little sentiment 

and Kitty Bee Design image!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Baby Congrats for Kitty Bee Design

Happy Hump Day!

I've got a card to share today that's over on the 

Kitty Bee Design blog.  

I love this sweet little giraffe!

Because she doesn't know what she's having I decided

to use a bunch of soft colors in polka dots die cut with the 

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Squares die to create a quilt look

for my background.  The giraffe was watercolored using

Gansai Tambi Watercolors, fussy cut and adhered with foam tape.

 The sentiment is fromLawn Fawn Scripty Congrats and Plus One.

Hope you all are having a blessed week.

Mahalo for stopping by!

Faux Stitchwork with Dilly Beans

Happy Aloha Friday!

Today the Kitty Bee Design Team

is playing with 

for our ongoing challenge

Sew Cute

to use real or faux stitching.

Here's my take...

The digi I used is Doodle Flower

and I had every intention to actually handstitch some accents...

of course it was not turning out the way I wanted.

I went with the faux stitching instead from my dies and added a few

hand drawn stitches on the leaves and outer flower petals.

This drawn flower is just so whimsical and fun that I ended up printing

a bunch on different colored cardstock and doing some paperpiecing.

I loved the boldness of the flower and went simple with just a tone

on tone background (Hero Arts Highline Chalkboard) and some 

gold foil paper with a vellum backing to 

make the sentiment (Simon Says Stamp Thanks Craft die) stand out.

Hope you all have some great weekend plans.

This gal is on call, but I hope to squeeze some crafty time in!

Mahalo for stopping by!

Aloha Friday Challenge: Girly Card

Happy Aloha Friday!

Have you made a girly card recently?

For this challenge we are sponsored by the lovely

Here's your chance to enter it over at 

The Kitty Bee Design

Aloha Friday Challenge

Need some inspiration check out my card

and my teammates!

This sweet girl called 

Lady Bug Fairy

was colored with copics and

die cut with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Squares.

Added some twine and sequins for even more girliness!

I hope you'll join us!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Design Team Spotlight for Kitty Bee Designs

Happy Aloha Saturday!

If you're stopping by from 

Kitty Bee Designs blog

WELCOME!

If you're a regular...MAHALO 

for coming back!!

On to today's card...

I was going for an Easter themed card,

but quickly realized I may not get it out in time, so 

I decided to change the sentiment to something a bit more general ;o)

The sentiment was die cut from

 Penny Black's Words of Gratitude.

If you've been following my blog you'll know I've been obsessed with 

Deco Foil and you can see my VIDEO HERE and HERE.

I used some American Crafts Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic pattern paper,

with a that fabulous rainbow washi tape up the side.

The Kitty Bee Design Bun was colored with Tombow markers

and a blender for a watercolor look. 

I think you can see the foil shine better in the above picture.

I think the muted background helps balance the colored image, rainbow washi

and that bit of color in the banner to tie everything together.

That's it for me!

MAHALO for stopping by!!

Aloha Friday Challenge with Kitty Bee Design

Happy Aloha Friday!

Today I'm playing with the

Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge

with the theme

EASTER

sponsored by the sweet images from 

I have a lot of great childhood memories 

of Easter with the family and hope to carry on the

tradition with my kids.  We still do Easter egg hunts

in the same backyard that I did when I was my kids' age!

For today's card I got to play with

Amalia's Daisy Crown

In the true spirit of Easter I went with a lot of color!

I printed Amalia out (2x) and die cut her a little off center using the

Avery Elle Finished Frames die.

I then stamped the sweet 

Kitty Bee Design Reach for the Stars Bun.

I masked both images and used distress inks 

to create to colorful background.

I removed the masks and used copic markers to

color the images and create a bit of shadowing on the ground.

I finished off the top corner with a banner die from Lawn Fawn

and stamped out the sentiment on top, then glued to the panel.

So that's it for me!  

I hope you'll join us for the challenge.

MAHALO for stopping by!!

Designer Spotlight for Kitty Bee Designs

Happy Saturday friends!

Today I'm sharing this sweet image by

Kitty Bee Designs

I can't get enough of that sweet froggy's face!

Just about the same face I make 

every time I forget someone's birthday!!

I kept the card simple for mass production

because I ALWAYS need a 

Belated Birthday card.

The bottom was stamped with Lawn Fawn's 

Gingham backgrounds using their ink in Cranberry (so pretty).

I took various fonts of questions marks to do

a tone on tone background and popped

up that sweet copic-colored froggy.

I hand drew the speech bubble and there you have it!

Hope you have a great weekend and

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! 

Fun Card Swap!

My sweet and fun Kitty Bee Designs teammate Shirl of Creations by Shirl had a fun idea of doing a Christmas card swap!  We were randomly paired up and I was paired with Shirl.  She totally spoiled me with more than a card, but lets take a look at her creation...

Cute right?!  That Kitty Bee Designs stamp can be found HERE.  I love all her die cut pieces for embellishments and of course the glitter!  MAHALO Shirl for this sweet card!  And this is how she spoiled me...

I can't wait to have time to play with them!

Curious on the card I sent?!  This is the card given to Shirl...

I had to use that sweet Kitty Bee Designs Christmas owl... added some Lawn Fawn paper with a Avery Elle die cut bell for fun!  It's hard to see but stickles was used for the hat trim and holly.

I'm quickly going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes since it has some Lawn Fawn paper!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Happy Aloha Friday

It's FRIDAY!!!

Today I'm joining 

The Kitty Bee Designs: Aloha Friday Challenge

with the theme: Sports/Encouragement

Check out my card...

I stamped, copic colored and fussy cut the Bun Clear Stamp Set III

and added some washi tape to create a fun

somewhat sporty look.  The background was created with a

Tim Holtz Arrows embossing folder and the

 sentiment is a Lawn Fawn one from Admit One.

I hope you'll join in on the fun and

MAHALO for stopping by!!