Nutty Nutshells Challenge #9- Valentine's Card

Hi Everyone!

You guessed it! Time for another Nutty Nutshell's Challenge. I was happy to be asked to stay on for another month as a Guest Designer for Nutshell's Challenge Blog. Did you get a chance to enter into the last challenge? Hope so!

This week, the challenge is to make a Valentine's Day card using any stamp or image available at Nutcrafters. They have a great selection of stamps to choose from and you can also purchase a digi so you can play right away! I know everyone's been busy making Valentine's Day cards, so this one should be of no extra effort at all to you!

Here's what I came up with... I really like this image. It was supposed to be for New Years as the girl was in a champagne glass. I just cut her out and put her on a heart instead. To create a pretty border, I used my new Martha Stewart heart punches. I just love her punch around the page corner and border punches. Its so nice to have punches that coordinate.

Here's a close up of the image...

For more information on the Challenge, click here. All you have to do is make a Valentine's Day card using a Nutcrafter's stamp or image and post a comment on the Challenge blog. Good Luck!

Supplies:

Girl- Nutshells digi

Heart punches- Martha Stewart

Ribbon

Cardstock- Bazzil

Stickles

Mom's Top Choice

OK- So you saw the calendar I originally made for my mom, with the Hello Kitties on almost every month... In addition to that one, she had asked me to make one that she could give to her friend at work, who also likes Hello Kitty. So I made her this calendar to give to her friend. My mother in law delivered the calendars for me, so I didn't get to see which one my mom liked.. you guessed it! She liked this one better! So much for all that extra work making all those kitties! She told me that she was going to give her friend first choice... I still don't know which one my mom ended up with.

Here's the months up close...

Supplies:

HK Dies- Spellbinders

Months- Quickutz

Washi- Hanko

Sakura punch- Carl Crafts

Crystals- Kaisercrafts

Happy Birthday Enjoli!

I finally got to meet Enjoli from Stampin Under The Sun yesterday at the Waimea Cherry Blossom Festival. After a rough trip from Hilo, I was happy to go shopping at the craft fair. I knew Enjoli would have a booth there, so it was the perfect opportunity for me to finally meet her and drop off her birthday present. Hope she likes it! Here's the card and goodies I gave her...

Decided to use my new CC's Sugarplums stamp from the Spring set. I've been playing around with using more muted/pastel colors, which is very challenging for me. Normally I use a lot of bright colors, so I had to consciously remember to only use pastels.

Here's the gift bag I made using 12x12 paper. I found the tutorial for this on Elena's blog.. Thanks Elena! I had the instructions for awhile now, but haven't made one till now.

Inside the gift bag, I made this mailbox using the new Happy Mail template from Lauren Meader at My Time Made Easy LLC. Its a really cute size for holding small goodies...

Enjoli's husband was kind enough to take a photo of us at the fair.... She had so much cute stuff, I had to restrain myself! Thanks Enjoli for the goodies! It was so nice meeting you!

I also went to visit my friend's daughter's booth called Sugarberry Soaps. I got some cute star shaped handsoaps from them and wish I took photos of their other stuff. They make these cute popsicle shaped soaps in different scents- looks good enough to eat!

We ended up staying to see the Taishoji Taiko performance too. The girls couldn't see since there was a big crowd, so my DH carried them... I just had to get a photo!

Yesterday sure pooped me out! We got home at around 5pm and I slept until this morning!!!

Calendar for Mom

Hi Everyone! My mom made it pretty clear that she expected to get another calendar this year for Christmas... well being that I was so behind this year, I promised to make her one and give it to her in January. My mom loves Hello Kitty as much as I do, so I decided to make her a Hello Kitty calendar again. Last year I added photos of her granddaughters, but this year I didn't have any photos of my nieces, so I just used Hello Kitty. The Hello Kitty Sizzlits are the perfect size for these calendars! I'm so glad I got them before they are all gone. This is an example of the type of calendars I'm giving away for my Blogaversary Candy. If you win, you'll be able to pick what colors and theme (as long as I have the theme you want). As you can see, I used the new Stampin Up paper. I couldn't resist since the designs were so pretty! I ended up buying 2 sets (just in case) and may buy more since I'm a hoarder and need to know that even after the occasions mini is over, I'll still have some stashed away! What better way to appreciate all that beautiful paper than to make a calendar with it- right? Here's the first 6 months... Turn it over and you get the 2nd half of 2010.... OK- here's each month!

Supplies:

HK dies- Sizzix

Calendar months- Quickutz

DP- Stampin up & Bo Bunny

Cardstock- Bazzil

Calendar

Ribbon

Flowers- Prima and All Natural Accents

Circle & Scallop Circle punches- Marvy

December OCS

First of all, I have to apologize to Teresa... She was my OCS partner for December and I'm only posting her card now! So sorry Teresa! I guess the holidays were too hectic for me and then I must've forgot about it. I found it recently and remembered that I didn't post it! Anyway, here's the card she sent me for the swap. Isn't it cute? She used one of the fairies from the Holiday Two Scoops Rice set. I can't even remember what card I sent her! Hopefully I'll do better this month!!

Softpencil Card by Debi

Just wanted to share this card from my friend Debi. Isn't it cute? She told me the image is by Softpencil. I gotta go check them out. Debi also gave me one of the new Hero Arts sets I had my eye on.. Thank you Debi! She is so thoughtful and I'm sooooo happy to have a crafty friend here in Hilo that I can play with! Check out Debi's blog here...

Blogaversary Candy!

Hello Everyone! My Blogaversary is coming up at the end of this month! I can't believe its almost one year since my first post! To think, I was so scared to start my own blog! I think the main reason I started my blog was purley for selfish reasons... I wanted to be able to enter to win blog candy! Hee hee hee.... Now I just love everything about craft blogging... I love seeing everyone's creations, reading posts and posting my own creations. OK so now that I've won my share of candy, I want to give back to the community that has been so kind and generous to me! Since times are tough now days, I've decided to make some candy for you! I'll throw in a few other surprises in there, since that's always fun, but the main piece of candy I'm offering is one of my custom made 2010 wall calendars. I want this to be special, so the winner of this candy will be able to choose a color scheme and select from one of these themes: Hello Kitty, Greeting Farm stamps, Pink Cat Studio (Lilly/Billy stamps), Fhiona (Your Next Stamp), Gorguss Girls, or other agreed upon theme (this will be limited to what I have on hand). Because I'm going to create this calendar especially for you, there is no photo to post at this time. I just love receiving handmade creations, so I thought this would be a fun thing for me to offer and hopefully for the winner to receive. If you want to see some of my calendar samples, go to my sidebar and find the calendar category. There are some of my other calendar creations (desk calendars, advent, easel cards, etc.) but the one I'm giving away is the wall calendar. OK- here's how you can enter to win...

• Leave me a comment on THIS POST if you would like to enter. Deadline to post a comment will be February 22nd. Winner will be posted on February 23rd.
• No need to post on your blog- this is a secret giveaway just for my followers!

That's it! Easy huh? After a winner is selected, the winner should contact me with their calendar preferences and contact info. Good Luck!