Tuesday Trigger: Simple Elegance

 Can a CAS card be busy?

Take a look and tell me what you think...

 I was inspired by this picture from the

Moxie Fab World

Tuesday Trigger: Simple Elegance

Be ready to ooo & aaah

Don't you wish you could live like this?

Here is where I drew my inspiration...

1. The fabric chair

2. How the damask grounds the picture

3. The color scheme...brown & cream with pops of white and pink

MLYB Baby gift set

 Happy Aloha Friday!

This past month I've been crafting up a storm and I got the mess to prove it!  My desk filled with "going to finish" projects and paper cuttings under my chair. 

Anyhoo...

here's one of those projects all finished...YEAH!

It's a new baby gift set brought to you by "My Little Yellow Bicycle"

I was going for that gender bias / unisex look since waiting to find out your babies gender is so popular now. Mixing the "Baby Saurus" & "Tiny Princess" lines from My Little Yellow Bicycle added just the right amount of pinks and blues to achieve that look, don't you think...

 Here's a look at the 

Layout

(Since it's a gift I put it in a 12x12 frame...just didn't think how the glass would reflect in the photo...note to self "take glass out when photographing" oops)

 The card

The Baby book

 I thought it would be a great keepsake to document the day baby was born.

"5 things about the day you were born"

On each page There is a prompt and a little envelop with a place to write.  Also places for photos and pockets with closers for keepsakes

1. "In Labor"

2. "Going to the hospital"

3. "Finally in our arms"

 4. "These are the things we already love about you"

5. "First family photo"

 Notes

How to make your own mini paper lantern

 As promise, here is a mini tutorial on how to make those cute pint-size lanterns.

(see how I used them HERE)

They’re super easy and fast to make.  Believe me there is no special skills involved. 

Here we go…

 First gather your supplies.

•  Glue
• Paper piercer
• Mini wooden spool
• BBQ skewer
• 4 strips of pattern paper = any length depending on how big you want your lantern.  For this example I’m using 3x ¼ inch strips. (Remember math? Nether do I so here’s a link on how to find the circumference of a circle.)

• Extra paper for wooden spool

Paint if you wish to paint your skewer and spool

Take you strips of paper and glue them together in the middle.  Like so...

 It should end up looking like this...

Now take your paper piercer and poke a hole in the middle of all the strips.  Make sure your skewer will fit by going through the same hole with the skewer...

Now start gluing your strips in a circle.  I like to make the cross sections first...

 You should end up with a ball like this...

Now add your skewer  into the hole.  The tip of the skewer should touch the top of the ball BUT don't poke to hard.  We don't want a hole in the top...

Now is the time to embellish your lantern.  I like to add paper to the base, just for looks.  You can paint your skewer and spool at this time.

 

Decorate your spool.  Pattern paper does the trick for me...

Now with scraps your going to tightly wrap your base.  Then shove it in the hole in the spool.  I like a tight fit...the paper piercer will help with this...

 Here's a look at the skewer and paper "shoved" in to the spool.

 And there you have it...a cute mini paper lantern.

If you make some please share a link in the comments.  I would love to see!

Girl's day doll display

 Hay all you night owls out there!

It’s a late night post from me seeing as its almost midnight here in Hawaii.  I know I should be in bed but I had to get this post in.

So do you all remember my girl’s day favors? (you can see um HERE if you missed it).  Well I had some extra “My LittleShoebox” Aiko line papers, because any paper crafter knows when you buy pattern paper you have to buy in doubles right!  Anyhoo I had to make this with the rest of it…

 Hina Matsuri (doll’s festival)

or “Girl’s Day”

 Find out more about "Girl's day" HERE

 3D Roll up Flowers Die Cuts with added bling

What is it you ask?  Well it’s a homemade “girl’s day” doll display.

As of today I can’t afford to get my little princess a full Japanese court so I decided to make her a super cute place to display her “girl’s day” doll collection.

So take a look inside…

 And here’s what it looks like filled with some dolls

(NOTE: Hawaii is a melting pot so along with the emperor and empress are her and mines animal zodiac signs.  Me being the bore and her being the roster.)

 

See the mini paper lanterns?  Wana make one? Well stay tune…tutorial to fallow

random ramblings

So I've been taking a look at my blog and notice two thing...

1. Have you ever checked your stats (funny inappropriate warning to follow)?

If your a long time follower of mines you'll notice that I changed my blog name at the beginning of the year.  Why you may ask?  Well it turns out that "MissBliss" was attracting the wrong kind of blog attention, if you know what I'm saying.  So one day when I was checking my traffic feeds I was in SHOCK at the sites referring people to my "craft" blog.   All I can say is I bet those people were very disappointed when they clicked on the link and found a bunch of cards...LOL...it's kinda funny but totally gross!!!

2. WOW I blog about challenges a lot and make a lot of cards.

I make a bunch of stuff that isn't connected to a challenge but find myself not posting it.  And it seams like lately all my post are cards.  So this year my little blog is going to be filled with a lot more crafty inspiration and I hope your all along for the ride.  Not only cards and challenges. 

And just one more thought...

a BIG thank you to all my followers and commenter.  You don't know how much your nice comments put a BIG smile on my face :)  You keep me blogging and creating.  You gals ROCK!!!

CFC #44

 HI BLOGGERS (waving excitingly)!!!
I've been having some family QT as my kiddos were on spring break.  But back to school they will be tomorrow and I have a totally boyish card inspired by the many days we spent at the skate park this week.

check it...

 It's another CAS card inspired by this weeks...

The challenge is to use a pattern, an image, and a sentiment

(wanan play? click on the CFC pic above for a link to their blog)

Okay with my babies back in school I promise this week will be filled with a lot more inspiration!

Squiggle Saturday

It's Squiggle Saturday and we're celebrating!

This time it's a "birthday bash" challenge... boys, girls, young, old, we want to see them all!!!

Head on over to the 

Squiggles and Giggles challenge blog

to play in this challenge

"Birthday Bash"

 I went folk artsy with this gift set and thought that it was the perfect time to get out my color pencils.  Using the Orange Bird Studio line.

The card using "Birdie tag"

Gift box using "Bird House"

I hope you all can play along.  And remember you don't have to use a "Squiggle Stamp" to play along but if you do you get double the chance to win.  AND because they're awesome, Squiggle Stamp is offering a free digi stamp so now you have no excuses...Check out "TOOT TOOT" here.

A TGF 3d card

 Okay this is my first pop card (I don't know what it's called, but I'm such a dits HELP!!!)  Anyhoo I had some time to craft this morning and had to ply with

TGF farm fresh challenge blog

Monday fun day #23

"Fairy Tales"

Here it is

 Don't even know if I built the card right???  But I think it came out pretty cute... something for my daughter to take to here next party!

Hina Matsuri 2012

It's girls day and I've got a lot of quality gal time with my baby girl today but before I run off I've got little favors to share with all you gals out there...

 Walked into the local craft store and found the new "Aiko" line by My Little Shoebox.  It was a perfect fit for little Geisha Anya!!!

Made these little treats for my daughter to past out to all her friends.  And what's inside?  Almond Rocas...yum yum!!!

"Huge thanks" Sparks challenge

 It's another fabulous Friday!

 and I'm sharing a very felty card...

 Of course this card is inspired by the

I just adore all the cute little critters in the "Surf & Turf" set and this is my first card with it...and what do you know...I adore this card too!!!

(I should be ashamed, I know)

This card is dedicated to all my fabulous blog friends for all your fabulous comments!!!  You gals keep this gal blogging...THANKS :)