Aloha with My Favorite Things

I finally caved and decided to join the My Favorite Things

"You Could Be A Card Design Superstar"

I've seen a bunch of FABULOUS cards which was my biggest hesitation for not joining. 

Then decided to have some fun anyway with my favorite MFT set

Polynesian Paradise.

I wanted to create my own Hawaiian background and give it an "Aloha Shirt" print or 

Hawaiian print look.  Of course with watercoloring being all the rage I got out my 

Tombow markers and got to work!

Everything was stamped with Versamark then white heat embossed.

I watercolored the plumerias in shades of yellows and pinks.  Finally to create

more depth and shadowing, I added shades of blue having more color around the bottom

edges of the images and using my waterbrush to pull the blue away. 

Lastly the sentiment was white heat embossed on some pink cardstock and foam taped to the panel.

Here's another look...

So that's it for me.

There's still time to enter and I'm hoping to get one more card in

 before midnight tomorrow (September 18).

Mahalo for stopping by!

Rainbow Aloha

Thanks to the hubby I've been able to get some time in for me to play!

So happy to finally have a day off from work and oncall and

 just be able to spend time in my crafty space. 

It truly is so therapeutic...haha.

I wanted to jump in to the latest Avery Elle Challenge

This was totally my kind of challenge as I realized I don't usually use too much white for 

my card bases.  I do love COLOR and went with this idea that popped in my head...

The Stay Fresh stamp and die set is one of my favorites from Avery Elle!

Super easy to do with die cutting a rainbow of cardstock from some scrap pieces and adhering 

to a black cardbase with multi medium matte glue.  Then I heat embossed the pineapple on 

vellum using Ranger Liquid Platinum powder and adhered with the same glue 

(tip: to keep the glue from showing through, I placed tiny dots 

in places where the stamp lines would cover).
I'm gonna enter this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge as well:  Make it colorful!

Hope you liked this fun way to use your dies and a non white card base!

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Picking Up the Pieces Monday Vol. 2

Happy Monday...I hope!  Welcome back to another edition of paper piecing.  One of the reasons I love to paper piece is because I'm not the best at coloring.  I love Copic markers and LOVE how you can create so much depth and shading, but unfortunately there are no classes here in Hawaii to learn the awesome art of Copic coloring. Everything is paper pieced except for her skin...I attempted the Copic coloring.

On to my paper pieced card with another fun technique...using double stick tape to create glitter strips! Chari made some beautiful Christmas cards with this technique and I had to try it out.

Dandelion Designs CL-17 Aloha Set, Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Die, Memetno Luxe Love Letter Ink, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics, Lawn Trimmings twine, Distress Glitter in Festive Berries, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserves

I hope you enjoyed today's paper pieced card and fun glitter technique...until next time...MAHALO for stopping by!