My 1st Double Shaker Box...

Thank you to my dear friend Teri...Big Ideas from a Little Girl...who taught me one night (that we stayed up till midnight) how to make this double shaker box. Once you learn how to make it, it is pretty easy to make...it takes a lot of acetate paper though! I made this one for a dear friend...who I will be sending it out to her soon! I put a border around this window, but I don't know if that took away from being able to see that it's a double shaker box.I used the mimmy w/ purse, the sizzlit die for my design...I used a butterfly punch I had, stamped it and added some green bling for the body. I used the new stamps from SU for the sentiment...used the new oval scallop punch from SU too...I had some paper flowers and used a heart brad in the middle...and what is a project without ribbon? so I added some of that too =)
here is my shaker box up close...I don't know if you can see the second shaker but I filled that with punched out flowers and beads. the front shaker has microbeads and regular beads inside. I made it all green...can anyone guess who this is for? I hope she will like it when she receives it. this is my first and only double shaker box so far...will definitely have to try this again...it was so much fun to make!
have a great Saturday everyone!

I am getting ready for my daughter's birthday party next week as well as getting my Easter stuff ready...hopefully I will have time to post...if not I will make sure to post all the fun after we are done! thanks for stopping by!

Friends are always in fashion...

My dear, sweet and kind BFF gave me this awesome card! She made it with the greeting farm "pretty hat" anya stamp set. Of course she made it in my favorite color...PURPLE!!! Thank you Michelle for always thinking of me and for making me such wonderful creations! Your friendship is all I need and I am ever so grateful to you for being YOU! here is the pretty hat anya upclose...you can see that she popped up the hat, flower and the dog! she used pearl bling for her necklace and added some to her hat. Wow! that's a lot of work =)
TGIF!

hope everyone will have a great weekend!

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Hello Kitty in Bunny Outfit....

I decided to try another one of Cheryl's...Life is Sweet...tutorial boxes. It came out really cute and it was easy to make with the scallop envelope die from SU. I added the Hello Kitty in the Bunny Outfit to the front. I made her outfit in different colors...these are my co-workers and boss's favorite colors. here is the box up close. it's really cute in size. I added some ribbon to give it a finished look. I put some hershey candies inside and gave it to them this morning.
hope everyone is having a great Thursday...

one more day gang...here we go!

Sweet Enjoli...

Thank you so much Enjoli...Stamping under the sun...I can't say thank you enough for all the goodies you have spoiled me with, since meeting you! I am truly blessed to have you as my blogging sister and friend!~
look at this awesome Hello Kitty card...it's made in my favorite color!!! isn't this just the cutest thing! She made this card with a pocket and filled it with bling and a Hello Kitty luggage tag! I love my gift! Thank you for always thinking of me =) You are the best ENJOLI!!!

hope everyone is having a good week...
hang in there gang...we can almost see the end...
of the week that is =)

Happy Easter Baskets...

I was practically begging Cheryl...Life is Sweet to do a tutorial for her box/basket because I wanted to make some for the gals at work for Easter...she was so sweet to do that and so I went to work. I had to go to Teri's house to cut out the boxes...and after all of that...you know me...I had to have it, so the next chance I got I went to J's and bought the dang thing! lol!
So I had already cut out those Hello Kitty bunnies...I received this die from Teri! I decided to make all the outfits the same...I made 15 of them! I used the curly label punch and stamped it with my sentiment... I used the scallop border from SU too.

here's the back of the box/basket...I used the stamp set "Yummy"

this is what the box looks like when it's empty...

and here it looks like when I'm done! I added some bliss candy and some kisses filled with coconut creme! I love coconut! candy, fragrance, soap, etc!

so, Cheryl is having a little giveaway for making these things...so besides making this for co-workers and friends...I made it for the challenge/giveaway on Cheryl's blog...as I say "I'm in it to win it!" wish me luck =)

hope everyone is having a great "short" week!
for those of us who have the day off tomorrow...enjoy it! I took off the rest of the week after today! my daughter is on spring break too...so we can spend some quality time together.
thanks for stopping by and leaving such wonderful comments! I totally appreciate you!

"Miss Anya" if it's your birthday...

Happy 21st Birthday Michelle!

you don't look a day older than your age =)

so I decided to use my "Miss Anya" images for this special occasion! I wanted to make a card that was different and special...and I had these cards with an opening in the front, so if you had a picture to put in you could just insert it and send a card. I decided to make it look like the anya ladies were popping out of the card.

My favorite color is purple and Michelle's is pink, so that's why I chose the colors I did. I also stamped some swirls and added some butterflies with my punch, added paper flowers and I used the friend stamp from SU.
here's a closer view of the girls...I gave them both some sparkly eye shadow too! I love those stickles which add so much to a image on a card.

so with that...

Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday BFF Michelle...

Happy Birthday to you!!!

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!!!

Polyshrink Kitty...

So I got to see my BFF's card she made for Cheryl and I thought I want to try that! So yesterday my daughter told me that her teacher had a birthday...so she loves Hello Kitty as much as we do...so I thought it would be great to make her a shaker box with the polyshrink. so I did what Michelle did and this is how mine turned out! here I used the Imaginisce "fairest of them all" DP, pink microbeads, the polyshrink HK face and I used my label one nesties for the window opening. I also used the 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punch and the scallop punch from SU. used a bling in the middle and used some stampin dimensionals and ribbon.

so what's a card without a present? I was so lucky to go shopping with Teri on Thursday at Price Busters and we found great deals...so we found some Hello Kitty stuff and I bought extra and that was perfect! I had a gift to give! I used the sizzix Hello Kitty face die, used a flower brad and put a bling in the middle. I used a glue dot to hold it down to the ribbon...and there's my decoration for the present.
hope you all are having a great weekend!

take care of yourself and be safe =)

Taelyn's first Cheer Anya...

Taelyn wanted to make a card for her friend Sarah for her birthday and she's leaving...today is her last day...so she wanted to use one of my stamps that I have...so I let her pick one. She chose the cheer anya. I told her she had to color it herself. And so she did...WOW! I am amazed at what a great job she did! A little fact...my daughter will be turning 9 in April. I am surprised at how she has watched me color and did her own version of highlights in the hair...I gave her my old set of pens to use and she loves them.I helped out with the other stuff, but she did the main picture!
here's her Cheer Anya upclose...I am so proud of her that she did such a great job with the coloring of her very first Anya.

hope everyone has a great Friday!

after work today I will be going to TJ's to celebrate my brother's birthday. His birthday is St. Patty's day, but this was a better time to get together to celebrate.

thanks for stopping by today!

One Card Swap...

I am so blessed to have been partnered up with Jodi...Inked Inspirations! but...I was a little worried about making a card that was worthy of giving to her. She always does such great work and I didn't want to disappoint her! So it took me this long to make one.
I know that her favorite colors are pink and brown...so I tried my best to stay in that color combo. I made the one sure thing I knew how to do and that was making a shaker box. I filled it with pink and brown microbeads w/ clear mixed beads. I used the curved rectangles nesties for the opening of the window, Imaginisce DP, Papertrey Ink raspberry fizz ribbon and a prima flower with doodlebug bling in the middle. The image is from Norway...hanglar stamps. I used my sentiment stamp from hero arts "always friends". I used d'vine swirls from cuttlebug for the background and colored the image with my copics.
I hope Jodi received it in the mail before she sees this. I hope she likes it too! I wanted to make something as sweet as her!

thanks for stopping by today!
the week is almost over...yay!
take care =)

My first "Miss Anya"...

this will be a very short post...
as Wednesdays are "short" days...well for those who go to elementary school.
So here's my first "Miss Anya". I wanted to make this for my March Aloha RAK partner. she should be receiving it soon. she lives in Florida and so I hope she gets it and enjoys the goodies too =)
I used my copics and used different shades of blue and green. I tried to give her eye shadow and some sparkle.

have a great hump day!