For my sweet MOM...

I am so bad...I only made my Mom her card Mother's Day morning...I had no idea what to make! then I came up with this...I used my new deckled rectangle nesties for the window, clear microbeads, blue chunky glitter & white beads...natural flowers...SU 1 3/4 circle punch, the blue jumbo punch and pink mega scallop circle punch from marvy uchida. added the sentiment and there was the front of my card!here's the gorjuss girl in the shaker from a different angle. I colored her with my copics. Blue is my mom's favorite color...so everything is in soft sky CS from SU. The DP is from SU too.
this is the first time I decided to decorate the inside of a card. I used some blue bling and I just bought a new border punch from MS at Ben Franklin.
I wanted to share a picture with you of my daughter hard at work...she wanted to color and cut out her own fairy for her card to grandma...isn't she so cute! I am a proud mom!
hope you all have a great Monday...

I have a couple more projects to share that I completed for mother's day.

thanks for stopping by!

Happy Mother's Day...

Happy Mother's Day to all of you!
I wanted to create some special bags for my co-workers and family. I used the large deckled rectangle nesties to make the outside of the bag. I made the inside with a 7 x 3 CS for the pouch. I used the Papertrey Ink ribbon...I used the oval nesties too for the sentiment.
I put some lindor truffles for their goodies. Such a simple and easy bag to make! I am having so much fun making all different sizes and shapes!

Women...enjoy the day...be pampered and loved! For all the hard work you do at home and at work...this is your day for recognition! ENJOY IT!

Mahalo Nui Loa...

I am so spoiled! I am so blessed! I love receiving such awesome RAKS from such wonderful and dear friends and sisters in this blogging world! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! here's a sweet, pretty, cute card from Joy...Tamikos! I love it...she made it in my favorite color...purple! She has a online store...go and check her out and buy some stuff!!
look all the goodies that came with this card!
I got stickles, ribbon, dew drops and my very own ballerina anya!

here's my awesome folder from Kyoko...Cards and Tags Mania...she was so sweet to make me a folder filled with wonderful stamped images! thank you for making me smile =)

here is what the inside looks like...I don't have any bellas...now I do!

a while back we made some Easter baskets and entered in a giveaway from Cheryl...Life is Sweet. look what I won...these cute chinese girl stamps! I love the Hello Kitty tag too! I really appreciate this Cheryl...thanks!

what a wonderful surprise when I got home from work and I had this waiting for me! I got a super sweet card and chocolates from Denise...Denise loves stamps! I am so blessed that you always think of me!

inside the box...yummy...chocolates!

Denise also came and gave me these Himawari images and lovely card.

Everyday I count my blessings...
for my family, friends and life!
I am truly honored to have such wonderful crafting sisters!
as this post says: Mahalo Nui Loa!

Inspired Daily...

I am so INSPIRED daily by so many of my blogging sisters and I just wanted to recognize them and tell them thank you for all that you do! You make me want to create even when I'm tired or sad or think that I can't do this anymore...simply said...thank you! Your encouraging, thoughtful and cheerful comments left on my blog to let me know you stopped by, makes me smile =) I am blessed to have all of you touch my life and become my friend...(even those of you who don't have a blog but come to visit and leave me a note)

here are the rules...

1) link back to the person who gave it to you

2) put the picture/award on your blog

3) you can nominate anyone and as many as you choose

4) leave a fact that no one knows about you

5) leave a comment on the blog that gave you this award

***fact: I have all my dvds in alphabetical order

so here's to you...

Eunice, Teri, Nikki, Cami, Kyoko, Lynn, Marisa, Joni, Dawne, Denise, Lorie, Tammy, Lacey, Jodi, Claudette, Jenny, Cheryl, Michelle, Nicky, Chalsie, Jen, Linda, Maria, Enjoli, Joy, Joni and Tammi

big Hugs and mahalo to all of you!

Teddy Bear Award...

Thank you to Jamee...Pink Beach Ball , Cami...Capture a Heart and Joy...Tamikos for this cute, cuddly, sweet and adorable award! You gals are fabulous...thanks for thinking of me! here I go to pass this on...

Michelle...Mushi Creative Inspirations

Enjoli...Stamping Under the Sun

Maria...Stampin' Inspirations

Chalsie...Paper Kisses

Jodi...Inked Inspirations

Claudette...Islander Girl Stampin'

Nikki...Bunny-Zoe's Blog

thanks everyone for such lovely awards and awesome comments! I look forward every day to sharing with you all my creative ideas and I love to visit your blogs to get inspired too!

Mushi's Creative Inspirations...

Look at what I got from...who else...my BFF! She made me this cute, adorable, darling, sweet Hello Kitty accordion folder...love that Imaginisce DP! It's so pretty =) It also has a magnetic snap to close it, but you can't see it.here's what the inside looks like! Michelle made this with her stamp group, so she made one for me! isn't she so thoughtful! She just came back from her trip and she's right back into the swing of things...making crafts and playing soccer! I'm so glad she's back!
I also got all these goodies from her too...when she goes to the mainland, she always tries to go to Joanns or Michaels (since we don't have one here) and she looks for great bargins and wonderful stuff! She shared with me ribbon, border punch, brads, flowers, clips and coconut soap!
we both love the smell of coconut...I even like to eat coconut...ice cream, candy, etc! It's so yummy! Thanks Michelle for always thinking of me =) I am truly blessed to have such an awesome BFF like you!

With Deepest Sympathy...

So sad to make these cards...but when God tells you its time for you to go home...it's your time. So I had to make two cards...One for my friend Glenn...his father passed away and he's still on FMLA...I used the colors wild wasabi and chocolate chip for this sympathy card.my mom's classmate just passed away too...so I decided to use the same stamp set...5th avenue for the background but I used bashful blue w/ close to cocoa for this one.
hope everyone is having a good Tuesday.

tell your loved ones how much you love them...it's never too late to do it, so don't wait do it now!

Gorjuss Folder...

Of course I had to make one for my BFF...who finally returned from CA...yay! I asked if she would like some images of the Gorjuss Girls set 2 and she said yes, so I made her some and of course used Jodi...Inked Inspirations idea for the folder! This folder is so easy to make! I love it! so because its a Gorjuss Girl folder, I used the Gorjuss Girl on the front and made it into...of course...a shaker! I added some natural flowers...got the leaves from Linda...thanks again! used thickers and there you have it!
here is the folder from a different angle, the glare from the flash is gone. I used the CS, DP and ribbon from Papertrey Ink. colored her with my copics...used some stickles for her flower band and one bling for the middle of the flower on her dress (that's kind of hard to see)

it's Monday gang...hope everyone had a fun filled weekend! Live life to the fullest every day because life is too short not to! thanks for stopping by!

Label One Bags...

Enjoli used her nesties to make her bag...so I took her idea and used the Label One nesties to make my bags...I am sending out some RAKS that are long over due...sorry! I used the sizzlit Hello Kitty face, the giga scallop circle punch and ribbon from Papertrey Ink.here is one bag up close...I love that DP! I bought it from J's...
here's what it looks like on the inside...

the measurements are: 9 x 3...

score 3/4" the long way and 3" on each side to make the bottom of the box.
I gave some stickles, glitter, bling and a small memento ink pad.

I started sending out the goodies...the rest will be sent out on Monday! hope everyone is having a great weekend! I will be enjoying my Sunday at the soccer field! we are getting together with some of the co-ed guys to bbq and hang out!

Gorjuss...

this will be a short post...I wanted to make a card for Enjoli with her folder that I just sent to her, so I used one of the new Gorjuss Girl set 2! I tried to color her hair black, but I think I need a few pointers on how...so girls...if you got any suggestions...please let me know! Enjoli's favorite color is green...so I tried to stick to the color. I don't know what copics I used...sorry. I used the natural flowers and thank you to LINDA for the leaves! I love using them!!! stamped the sentiment from hero arts, added some bling and there you go! aren't these girls just so cute!hope everyone is having a great Friday!

thanks for stopping by =)