12 Days of Christmas - Day 12!

Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop!!!!  This is the final day! Day 12!

This hop will take place November 24th through December 5th and the new postings each day will be posted by 8am eastern standard time. This hop will be full of wonderful ideas and inspiration to get you well on your way of creating all of those beautiful Christmas projects. This is an awesome way to get a lot of your Christmas cards, and scrapbook layouts finished, home decorations completed and maybe even be inspired to create something using a new technique that you have never tried. There will be a new project posted each and every day by all the wonderful amazing ladies in this hop. Also each day we will have a guest designer or two for you to visit.

There is also BLOG CANDY to give away! Make sure you stop at Lisa's (first stop) to find out how to win!

Here's my projects today. My die cut rudolph cards:

I used Create a criter for both reindeer.  Paper is from scrap from last year! Ribbon from Stampin Up. 

I turned this fawn into rudolph by adding some red stickles.  Paper and twine is from Stampin Up. 

Hope you liked my 12th hop project! Here's the line-up, in case you get lost!

1. Lisa ~ http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

GUEST DESIGNER FOR TODAY - Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/

2. Scrappin Madge ~ www.thescrappinlounge.com

3. Beth McGee ~ http://thecraftyscrapyard.blogspot.com

4. Amy E. ~ http://www.scrapthissavethat.com/

5. Denise ~ www.craftconfectionery.com

7. Cely ~ http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com

8. Pam - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/

9. Alicia ~ http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/

10. Anna- http://www.stampanna.com

11. An'Jenic- http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

12. Angela- http://www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com/

13. Heather- www.paper-junkie.blogspot.com

14. Jessica -http://craftinandstampin.blogspot.com/

15. Miranda - www.nanasscrapspot.com

16. La-Vie Borde-Perry ~ http://www.cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/

17. Sandy- http://www.scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com

18. Carla ~ http://racincrafts.blogspot.com

19. Lori ~ http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com

20. Ashley W ~ http://marinewifesscrappinlife.blogspot.com

21. Robin L. ~ http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com/

Happy Thanksgiving Leaves

Here's another Fall project!

I cut out some leaves using various Cricut cartridges.  I also crimped them with my crimper.  Cardstock, paper, twine, stamp, and label punch are all Stampin Up. I also distressed everything with Crumb Cake ink.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers - Distress It

4 Crafty Chicks - Die Cuts

Peachy Keen Pumpkins

So I know I said a couple of weeks ago that I was determined to post my Fall/Thanksgiving/Autumn projects. LOL that SO did not happen! I don't even think I got through half of them!

There are a couple of challenges going on with Fall themes, so figured I had the time today to do a quick post and enter! :)

These pumpkins were cut using the Simply Charmed cricut cartridge.  I used some Peachy Keen faces to them! The paper is some retired Stampin Up paper. Also used some SU cardstock, twine, chalk (for cheeks) and gel pen.  

Entering this in the following challenges:

MelonHeadz: Add a Pumpkin

Pink Elephant: Anything Goes

Gobble 'Til You Wobble

I'm determined to post my Thanksgiving/Fall cards before Thanksgiving rolls around.  Its not going to be like last year! I know I wasn't on track last year... because I made this card last year and never posted it! LOL Here it is now:

I used the Teddy Bear on Parade cartridge.  Used SU cardstock and retired SU paper.  Also tied on some linen thread.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Inky Chicks - Down on the Farm (a bear pretending to be a farm animal counts, right? LOL)

Digi Stamps For Joy - Prep for Holidays/Fall

Chocolate, Coffee, Cards - Favorite Holiday

Custom Card Monday - On Wednesday!

So I know its Wednesday.  Better late than never with my custom card monday post! I'm actually really behind in everything.  Orders, design team projects, laundry... Just been a crazy few weeks (I had 4 craft fairs in 2 weeks, eeps!) and I really need to get my buns into gear!

Anywho, here's a custom card for ya:

So this request I got came in from Etsy.  She wanted a card for her doctor brother, who was born in the year of the monkey, and her doctor brother also owns a pet tortoise.  She wanted to encompass all of that into a card for his birthday.  So here we go! LOL. The monkey and tortoise was cut out from the CAC cartridge and I got his outfit from Teddy Bear parade.  I actually did some surgery and cut off teddy's head (ouch!) and stuck the monkey head on his body.  Also did some surgery with the tail.  Came out looking pretty good, I think, you know, considering that he's a FrankenMonkey! Cardstock, ribbon, rhinestones, and googlies are all SU, paper is from my stash.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments: Animals

Crazy 4 Challenges: Animals (no bears or bunnies)

IDIC: For Men

Soda Pop Father's Day Card

Still trying to get my Father's Day cards posted before Sunday!  This one was my best seller this year:

The soda can is cut from the Fast Food cartridge.  Added a cute Peachy Keen face.  Paper is from Deja Views Home Collection paper stack.  Added some jute twine I got on Etsy.  All cardstock is Stampin Up. Also added some white ink from my Sakura Gelly Roll pen and some pink chalk to the can's cheeks.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion: Father's Day

The Cutie Pie: For Dad + Cute

Oh La La Creations : Father's Day

Pink Elephant: Father's Day

Crafty Sentiments: Father's Day

Milk Coffee: For Dad

Fantabulous Cricut: Dad

Fantastic Tuesday: Anything Goes

Father's Day Fishing Card

I'm determined to not post my Father's Day cards late (like I did with my Mother's Day cards!) LOL, lets see how I do!  Here's one:

I used the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge to make the cute fishing bear.  Added some chalking and doodle dots to him.  The paper is The Green Stack by DCWV. Just decorated it simply with linen thread and Stampin Up candy dots.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas - For The Boys

Crafting For All Seasons - Boys Will Be Boys

The Paper Shelter - Manly

Charisma Cards - Father's Day

Creative Knockouts - Summer's Coming

Simply Create - Father's Day

Custom Card Monday - Coca Cola Drinking Panda Bear

Its Monday! Which means its time for another custom card!  I needed to create a card for a friend (from a bunch of us) that featured a Coca Cola drinking panda bear. LOL.  This is what I came up with:

Cut the cutie panda from CAC cartridge.  The Coca Cola is from the Fast Food cartridge.  Added a hand written logo on it so it looked more like Coca Cola. The background paper is some retired (Christmas!) paper from Stampin Up.  Added a small piece of baker's twine for the straw and a black dew drop.

Entering this in the following challenges:

OhLaLa Creations - Bear

Love to Create - Cute + Punches or Dies

Fantastic Tuesday - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks - No Stamp

Custom Card Monday - New Hunting Baby

Its Monday! Which means its time for another custom card!  This one came in from Etsy. Someone wanted a new baby card for parents that were hunters.  This is what I came up with:

Used a Bugaboo image and inked it up with Copics.  I also added a sponged sky background.  Used some DCWV paper, SU tag die with some stampin up ribbon and retired hemp cord. Added silver liquid pearls to the rifle.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Crafty Catz: Sports

My Time to Craft: Outdoor Sports

Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards: Use a tag

Craftitude: Use a die

Digi Stamps for Joy: Anything Goes

OhLaLa Creations: Quotations

Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes

Let Them Eat Cake!

Its May 15! Time for some new design team projects! We've got a new challenge over at Scribbles Designs!  This month, our theme is "Let Them Eat Cake."  We have a color theme (I'll post it here when this goes live!) and you need to depict something edible as well.  Here's my project:

My "edible" for this challenge is the digi from Scribbles called Chocolate!  Colored it simmply with Copics.  Popped it up on some spellbinders die cuts and layered that on top of some glittered card stock from DCWV Glitter Sweet stack.  Cardstock, ribbon, and punch is Stampin Up.  The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper.  And the sequins are from our very own Calypso's Etsy shop!  They're so amazing :)

You don't need a Scribbles image to play, but if you do use a Scribbles image, however, you can enter as many times as you wish.  Go here to play with us!

Wanna get this digi or any other of Scribble's designs? Check out the Scribbles Designs store! 

Can't wait to see what you guys create!

Entering this card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Pastel
4 Crafty Chicks - Desserts
MAWTT - Heard it on the Radio (Candy by Mandy Moore with the lyrics, "missing you like candy!")
Crafting When We Can - Die Cut Shapes

Mother's Day Card

I know its late, but I totally forgot to post my Mother's Day cards! LOL, I thought I was doing so well with my custom card monday posts but then I forgot about everything else. Oye!

Anywho, here's one!

I used the Stampin Up dress framelit dies to create the dress.  The polka dot paper is some old Stampin Up paper.  Used a doily I saved from a restauraant (hehe) for the apron.  Ribbon for the belt, flower, gold twine, pearls, cardstock, punches, corduroy button, and sentiment are all Stampin Up.  The papers are from K&Co.

Entering this in the following challenges:

Clear It Out - Mother's Day + Flowers

Tuesday Thowdown - Spring Blossoms

Charisma Cardz Challenges - Mother's Day

Milk Coffee - Mother's Day

Little Miss Muffets - Buttons

The Stamping Boutique - Mom

Kitty Bee - Scraps (scrap paper from my stash!)

My Mums Craft Shop - Lots of Layers

Bearly Mine - Flowers

Crazy 4 Challenges - Bingo (bottom row - flowers, sentiment, bling)

Stampin for the Weekend - Photo Inspiration

Custom Card Monday (a little early!) - Christmas in the Spring

I had someone ask me if I could start on their Christmas cards.  One of them had to be for a family that loved turtles (Dad, Mom, and Baby), and lived in San Diego.  Here's what I came up with:

The turtles were cut from the Create a Critter cartridge.  Made a Dad, Mom, and baby! All papers are from my scrap pile (score!), and added a very San Diego sentiment.

Entering this in the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant - Photo Inspiration (pink, green, ivories)

Crafty Catz - Animals

C.R.A.F.T.- Xmas

Simply Create - No digis or stamped images

Custom Card Monday...err...Wednesday!

Busy beginning of the week here at Hawaii Paper Party! A couple of design team posts and a blog hop! Whew! So my Custom Card Monday post has turned into a Custom Card Wednesday post this week! (I feel funny posting twice in the same day. Kind of like I'm not giving posts their full day of being-looked-at potential. LOL, does anyone else feel that way?)

Anywho, here's my card!

Someone asked me to make a card that looked exactly like a painting their Mom had in her living room.  Unfortunately I didn't have a photo of the painting, just the description! It was "a pagoda on an island that can be accessed by a bridge, and cherry blossoms all around." This represented Springtime in Vietnam. She also wanted that sentiment for Chinese New Year and some lanterns. Here's what I came up with!

All cuts are from Pagoda, but added more pink flowers with a SU punch for dimension.  Also sponged the sky and water with some SU inks. 

Entering this in the following challenges:

Crafting for all Seasons: Punches and Dies

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodle: Spring

Cute Card Thursday: Floral

Little Miss Muffet: Anything Goes

Stampin Boutique: Own Background

Hope you enjoyed my custom card this week!

Custom Card Monday! The Chicken Florist

So I'm going to start a new thing here on my blog... I feel like its been a little neglected ever since I opened my Etsy shop and YouTube channel! I have made TONS of cards without posting them to my blog. Shame on me! So, I devised a plan (insert evil laugh).  Every Monday I'm going to post a custom card that I've made for a customer, friend, or family member.  These always are a bit out of the ordinary and deserve a place in cyber space!

Here's my first one:

I had someone who wanted a birthday card for her sister.  She is a tropical flower florist and also a chicken in the Chinese zodiac.  Behold, the chicken florist! :)

Got the chicken from the Country Life cartridge. The tropical flowers are from various Cricut cartridges.  I know I used luau and accent essentials.  I also hand punched some flowers and added pearls.  Love the colors together.  I used Stampin Up's Coastal Cabana, Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, and Tangerine Tango. LOVE this color combo!  I also sponged a sky background.

Hope you enjoyed my first installment of Custom Card Mondays!

Entering this in the following challenges:

Pink Elephant - Fave Color Combo

Fantabulous Cricut - Birdie

Crafting for all Seasons - No DSP

Cute Card Thursday - Wild Life

Milk Coffee - At least 2 flowers

Emergency Crafters - Flowers

One Stitch at a Time - For a Woman

Love to Create - Bingo (flowers, yellow, sparkle)

Gate Card Using The Robin's Nest

Aloha Robin's Nest fans!!! Just in case you didn't catch me at The Chattering Robin's blog last week, here is my full video and photo of the project I did!

Regency papers are 20% off in The Robin's Nest store!!! 

Watch the video below as I show you how to put together a quick and easy card using The Robin's Nest (amazing) paper!

We are also sponsored this month by Heartfelt Creations and I'll be using one of their dies!

 Hope you enjoyed my vintage/victorian inspired card! 

12 Days of Christmas - Cricut Card

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Well, not yet, but there are 1 MORE DAY 'till Christmas!!!  I've been a crazy holiday craft machine.  I've been stocking my Etsy shop since October with holiday cards, tags, and other paper products.  Now with 12 days left until Christmas, I thought that I would share the best sellers here on my blog. :) I'll be posting once per day until the 25th!

Happy 12 Days of Christmas!

On the 11th day of Christmas I created this Cricut card!

This cutie penguin was cut from Create a Critter.  Just popped him up on some Basic Grey 25th and Pine paper.  Baker's twine and a punched out sentiment finish it off.  

Hope you liked my 11th installment of The 12 Days of Christmas! See you tomorrow!

Entering this in the following challenges: 

Die Cuttin Divas: Holidays

12 Days of Christmas - A Copic Colored Card

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Well, not yet, but there are 3 MORE DAYS 'till Christmas!!!  I've been a crazy holiday craft machine.  I've been stocking my Etsy shop since October with holiday cards, tags, and other paper products.  Now with 12 days left until Christmas, I thought that I would share the best sellers here on my blog. :) I'll be posting once per day until the 25th!

Happy 12 Days of Christmas!

On the 9th day of Christmas I created this Copic colored card!

This was for another custom order.  A young man wanted to get a card for his motorcycle driving Dad! I used the motorcycle on MDS and colored it with Copics. The paper, card stock, punch, glitter, and twine are all Stampin Up.  I added silver liquid pearls to all the chrome parts of the bike.  Added a black diamond dew drop to finish it off.

Hope you liked my 9th installment of The 12 Days of Christmas! See you tomorrow!

Entering this in the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time: Anything Goes

Clear it Out: Warm Fuzzies Textured (2nd entry)

Bearly Mine: Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday: Anything Goes

DL.Art Thankful Thursday: Christmas

3D Christmas Card using The Robin's Nest

Aloha Robin's Nest fans!!! I'm here with my 2nd December project! We're working with the  Russian Winter paper collection from The Robin's Nest!

Russian Winter papers are 20% off in the store!!! 

Watch the video below as I show you how to put together a quick and easy Christmas card using this amazing paper. 

We are also sponsored this month by EcstasyCrafts.com and I'll be using their Reddy Creative Cards 3D Die Cuts!

         

Robin's Nest products used:

Petite Pearl Dew Drops

White Snow Glitter Paper

also used Reddy Creative Card 3D Die Cut Sheet from Ecstasy Crafts

 Hope you enjoyed my square Christmas card!