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!

Little pink purse...

So I tried to make a purse with a template, but when it was printed out, it came out short...so I had to alter it a little and make it my own. That was pretty fun to do! It turned out to be so cute and I wouldn't mind making it again =)
I decided to use the Papertrey Ink CS and DP. I added paper flowers and bling in the middle. I made the handle out of CS and the purse closes with a velcro dot.

I decided to line the inside of the purse to give it a finished look. It actually has a lot of space on the inside so that you can fill it with lots of goodies if you like.

so there you have it...a cute pink purse!

thanks for stopping by today =)
have a wonderful week!

Music on my blog...

I have been asked where I got my music from and the name of the artist/song...I have no idea, but, I went to my slide show and there you can pick music...so I decided instead of having a song with words, I would choose music that was relaxing, soothing and easy to listen to. It stated that it's music from a piano (instrumental) from You Tube and the comments made were that the music is from: Utada Hikaru-First Love (japanese). I hope that helps the ones who asked. I hope you all can enjoy the music. Have a great Monday!

(ps...Thanks to Maria from Stampin' Inspirations...she knew this song right away!)

Invitation pop-up card...

I'm so behind...my daughter' party is coming up in April and I only made the invitations now! Thank you Teri for getting me going! This is going to be a glamour party! The girls will be pampered...painted nails, getting their hair done and maybe some face painting and lip gloss! I finally got my invitations done! I used the Nancy Kubo's digital designs called Aloha Cuties.

here's what the front looks like...I decided to make a pop-up card that I CASEd from Michelle...my BFF! She gave me a pop-up card so I followed her card. I used the "fairest of them all" DP and I used the oval nesties. I also found a border punch I had from a long time ago.

here's a picture up close so you can see all the bling I used. I also used dazzling diamonds and stickles. I also found a small butterfly punch, so I made the girl holding it.

here's what the inside looks like. I typed it out on the computer, used wild wasabi CS and then I ticket cornered it and used some more bling! I used the mega scallop punch, and the SU large oval for the sentiment from sincere salutations.

here's what the pop-up looks like inside the card. that's why you see the wild wasabi CS covering on the top of the card to cover the cut on the outside of the card. I added some ribbon and there you have it. now all I have to do is mail it!

happy Sunday everyone...
hope you are enjoying what's left of your weekend.
take care and thanks for stopping by today!

Mini composition books...

So I have been a little busy...I'm trying to get ready for my daughter's 9th birthday party...I'm making a few things for this and here is one of them...my daughter wanted her theme to be Littlest Pet Shop...so I found some stickers and some mini composition books and here's what I came up with! She's decided to inivite 7 of her little friends and her. So I made 8!
here's the 2 different books I made with the Imaginisce line. I love this paper! I also used the labels one nesties, heart punches from creative memories and the stamp is from hero arts.
here's the "summer cool" Imaginisce DP.

here's the "fairest of them all" Imaginisce DP.

I hope the little girls will like this =)
I'll be posting more for this event.

hope everyone is having a great weekend!
don't get too wet...it's just raining here in Kaneohe, Hawaii!

Jen's b-day RAK...

I finally finished my birthday RAK for Jen...Little C's and Pieces of me...It took me a while but I did it! Thank you Michelle for dropping it off to her! I really appreciate it! I hope that Jen likes what she gets! Hope you had a great birthday Jen!
Here I made a post-it note pad for her.
I love those stamped images from Whipper Snapper that I had to use it!

I had bought some plastic containers from J's and so I decided to use one of them and fill them with goodies...what do you get a girl that has everything! I thought I'll give her some cute stuff and hopefully she can use it...stickles and ribbon! I also got the Hello Kitty sizzix face die and decided to use it for the topper of the case...of course with a big purple bling!

so what's a gift without a card? so I made her one with a cupcake on it! I don't know if Jen's favorite color is purple, but that is my favorite color and I ended up making stuff with purple! I used some dazzling diamonds...and the DP is printed out from designer digitals. I put a Starbucks card in there for her! yup...it's a gift card holder!

thanks everyone for stopping by today!
hope you are having a great week...it's almost over!
can't wait till the weekend!
take care!

Twist box...

Last night...I ended up staying at Teri's house, after the class and we got to hang out and make a few things...I was asked to figure out how to make this box...if anyone knows what this box is called, please let me know and whoever created it...I would like to give proper credit. So after trial and error...I think I got it! so I left my sample with Teri and I went home and first thing this morning, I made one for my BFF of course...her fav. is pink and brown, so I tried to use those colors. I also was blessed to get some stamped images from Teri too...so I could use that little girl holding the bunny from whipper snapper as the picture in the shaker box.
I decided to use the CS and DP from Papertrey Ink. there was an acetate window on the box, but I decided to make it into a shaker box...as you already know I love shaker boxes! I used the 1 3/8" circle punch and I punched out the middle of the scallop punch to make the frame around the circle. the sheer brown ribbon is from Wal-mart.

here's a close up of my shaker box =) I used my pink and brown microbeads from Cute Stuff to use as the filler. the sentiment is a hero art stamp from J's.

so I decided to really decorate the sides of each of the box...
I had the butterfly punches and used the stamp set "only ovals from SU.

here's a new set from SU called: simple friendship.
I love this stamp set!

here's a mixture of sentiment stamps with the 2 different sizes of butterfly punches. I also used pearl bling to make the body of the butterfly stand out!

if you open up the box...this is what it supposed to look like. it's pretty amazing what it looks like when it opens up vs. when it is closed.

here's the top when the box is closed.

here's what the top looks like when the box is open.

once you make one...it's easy to make. It just looks hard because there are a lot of steps involved. you have lots of scoring and some cutting, but this is all made out of one sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" CS! I am proud of myself of what I actually accomplished!

hope everyone is having a good Sunday!
have a great week!
thanks for stopping by and leaving me such wonderful comments! I really do appreciate the kind, encouraging and supportive comments left for me.

Gable Box...

here's a short post today...
I wanted to try make something different and I found the directions to a gable box on split coast stampers, so I tried it out & it is so easy to make...

all it takes is one sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" CS.
I chose to use the plum pudding CS from Papertrey Ink...I stamped it with cherry blossoms w/ chocolate chip ink and I used DP and ribbon from Papertrey Ink also. I bought the HK sitting embosslit and I thought it finished off the box by using dimensionals. I had some silver paper from Creations Unlimited and so I used that.
I'm going to give this one as a gift...I hope she likes it. I am also going to make a few of these for my daughter's favors for her birthday party coming up. this should turn out wonderful! I'll share those with you when I'm done =)

thanks for stopping by today.
yay...it's Friday!
have a great weekend everyone!

Happy Girl's Day..."Hina-no-Sekku"

March 3rd is known as girl's day in Japan...but it started in China a long time ago. They display their hina dolls and peach blossoms for everyone to see. I have a beautiful girl and love to celebrate this day...so I thought about making something special for my friends and co-workers.
So I got this template from Corie...Creations by Corie.
I loved the box and wanted to try make some. I used different DP, ribbon from the Papertrey Ink and I cut out the Hello Kitty faces with the new sizzix embosslit with gold paper I bought a while ago from Creations Unlimited.

here I packed them with some goodies..

I used the giga scallop punch and the mega circle punch.
I printed out the sentiment and stamped it with my cherry blossoms.

here I bought the post-its from Fisher with Teri yesterday and I used the CS and DP from Papertrey Ink, stamped the clear japanese dolls, colored with my copics and used some bling for the flowers on the kimono.

here's the goodies I put in for my co-workers...
it's always better with chocolate!

hope everyone had a good day!
I bought my daughter her HSM 3 extended version and Madagascar 2 dvds for her special girl's day. I know the gifts have changed from before, but the meaning doesn't.
have a good week!

what a great weekend!

so this weekend I got to play my favorite sport...soccer...all day! I got a deep tissue/thai massage on Sunday for the first time...woo-hoo! and on top of all of that...I received some wonderful RAKs! how lucky can one girl get!
I got this adorable card from my BFF! Isn't this Tilda so cute with her pup! It's a pop up card! I think that's the coolest thing! I need to make one now!!

she also gave me this cute little card holder...
isn't this the sweetest thing!

this is what my cards inside looked like.
love those hello kitty embossed faces!
it's new from sizzix and you can get them at J's!

what a surprise this was when I opened my mail...
Thank you so much JackieLou!!!
she is such a sweet blogging sister! I got this cool changito monkey card, a monogrammed round note pad, candy and some pooh stickers!
I am so blessed to have so many friends who think of me!

hope everyone had a great weekend...
now it's back to the grind =)