a squiggle spring

Today is beautiful
The sun is shinning and there’s a nice breeze
just another perfect Hawaiian day :)

I know it's a little strange but the weather was totally the inspiration for this project

This is going to look so good with all my Easter decorations I just put out yesterday.

Just jazzed-up a plastic wine cup (please don't use glass) with ribbon along the rim, paper flowers, and of course a cute little stamp.

And then I added a paper windmill because nothing says spring like a bright colored windmill :)

(for instructions on the windmill click HERE)

Then filled the cup with some plastic ice, fake flowers, and mini eggs to make it more stable & a little more cuter. Hay you could also add some Easter candy on top, YUMMY!!

This is also for Squiggle stamps March challenge:

{SPRING}
Cute lil’Daisy and her blinged out bunny are perfect for spring time, don’t cha’think

Layered daisy's clothes and glitterfied her bunny

playing with art

It's a Sketchy Thursdays sketch

One of are favorite places to visit in LA is
"La Brea Tar Pits"
What can I say we love tar :)
and also all the awesome animals they dig up out of it.

So this last time we took a walk around the park and on the other side are these big sculptures apart of the LA art museum.
Naturally too kids (and being big kids are selves) art appreciation comes in the form of being hands-on. So we had to check them out up close which of course means getting all over them.
They loved it and soo did we :)

with love

What a week it's been

I know, it's been a week since my last post

but my two oldest kiddies were out on spring break, and although there was no scrapping time for me, we had a lot of fun and exciting quality time together.

Love them :)

There were no posts from me but I couldn't help surfing the blogs when I had time

and look what I found

"The Shabby Tea Room" challenge blog

I entered their site and was soooo inspired

now run and check out their super awesome work

Here is this weeks challenge:

"Spring Inspired" AND to use some sort of stitching

here is my take enjoy :)

Pattern Paper: Three bugs in a rug

Flower die-cut: cricut "storybook"

Label (with love): memory keepers

Rub-ons (stitching): K&Company

White flower: Prima

For your new home

Oh Alice challenge blog

CHAPTER 3: Painting the Roses Red.....& blue.....& purple

It's an inspirational challenge this week from

O.P.I. Polish collection, "Wonderland"

=With door closed=

=One side open=

=All open too see message=

Cricut: "wild card" for all paper cuts. The card is actually made from the envelope cut for the house card. I just cut off the tabs and the windows and there you have it :)

Pattern Paper: Basic Gray

Martha Stewart paper punch

Heart brad: Memory Maker

Red pen and glitter pen: Sakura

Pixy stixs are awesome

It's a Sketchy Thursday happening on a Wednesday :)

Don't you love grandparents!

always providing a sugar rush so your kids can spaz-out :)

Here are mines sitting on my parents porch enjoying just that.

SUCH FUN

Had to channel my inner child for this page.

Colored in traced stars with crayons & added flourishes in orange for that extra touch.

SEW joy

Twisted Sketch #39

This week's twist is "fabric" - any how, any way!

When my little girl needed a sleep set for school I decided to make it for her and she decided to help me.

She's "Sew" cute (clever play on words hah)

anyways here we are putting down pins thought this was the perfect pictures for the "fabric" twist this week and of course I had to add sewing on this page :)

Pattern Paper: American Craft

Scrap fabric

Felt accent flowers: Queen Bee

Cricut: "Opposites attract"

Olympics of Stamping Challenge

Moxi Fab Alert
Yes you all know Paper Craft Magazine’s Moxi Fab World blog
(Love all the inspiration there )
In honor of the Winter Olympics this year they are having the
“Olympics of stamping challenge"
So here is my runs for the gold :)

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Birthday

All stamps are Hero Arts “The Sky’s The Limit”

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Thank-You

Background stamp: Hero Arts “clouds”
Thanks! Stamp: inkadinkado
Provo Craft: Circa 12pts stamp
Hot air balloon stamp: The greeting farm “fly away”

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Seasons Greetings

Bird and snowflakes: Inkadinkado
Word stamp: Justrite

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Hello/Thinking of you

Butterfly stamp: Hero Arts “Birds & Butterflies”
Words stamps: inkadinkado

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Love

Camera Stamp: imaginisce

Thanks for stopping by and watching my flex my stamping muscles
Hope you enjoyed the show

SMILE

My daughter had her 5th birthday yesterday and now she's a big girl

Made this LO of her beautiful SMILE

Went all "pink paislee" on this page. Everything here was made with Pink Paislee products: Paper, brads, ribbon, stickers, rub-ons, chip board die-cuts, and of course my cricut: storybook for the SMILE & black flourishes.

To check-out Pink Paislee products for your self click here.

Here's a close up of the ribbon flower. For info on how to make them click here.

Happy Girls Day

Happy Girls Day to all you Ladies out there :)

Girls day is a Japanese tradition and living in Hawaii we celebrate it every

March thirdd

In honor of girls day today I made these card/hanger thingies

for my Mom and Grandma

and two little mini ones for my baby girl

I love the way these turned out and to think I did it all with one cricut cart :)

Cricut: Pagoda

So I cut two shadow cuts of the Kimono and just glued the top, that way you can still open it from the bottom and write your message.

I added a ribbon on the top so it could be hung up. The tag feature added just the right touch.

Oh ah and because it opens on the bottom it stands up too :)

My golden boy

For some reason my youngest son has many nicknames

I sometimes refer to him as

"My golden boy"

This is because he's the only one with those cute golden locks in his hair

All of my kids turned out looking so different

It's funny that my littlest is my lightest

This is a Sketchy Thursday Challenge Design

Background Paper: sei
Yellow and Brown Pattern paper: Basic Gray
Background stamp: Fancy Pants Design
Saying: Hero Art Stamps
Martha Stewart boarder punch
Cricut: Storybook