Happy Valentine's Day! #7

Aloha, it's me again! This is the last Valentine's day card I made this year.

I made this for my BFF. I used Lawn Fawn's hearts dies, both background papers and the twine. I used my newest addition of Vertical sentiment stamps from Pretty Pink Posh. I love this vertical sentiments and words set! I first bought Halloween one from the company, and loved it, so I decided to purchase this set, for something different. I also heat embossed in white EP. 

Inside, I had these cut outs from, I think, Doodlebugs but probably I got them in a kit from SSS, IF I'm not mistaken. I had these and hadn't used them, so time to use them!! You understand how I felt, finding things from our old stash!😄 I facetime with her often, so not much to write on the cards, not like in our 80s and 90s. Just wrote her name and my name 😊
 

Well, Mahalo for visiting my blog today, with 3 cards! 

I still hear about the severe weather some parts of US mainland (if you are in 48 states). Please stay safe and stay warm! Next card should be a birthday card which I almost finished! 

Love, Eve  

Happy Birthday!

The birthday of my former boss is coming up next week. When I started to think about what kind of cards to make, Simon Says stamp came up with this stamp set~ Football Season! She loves college football as much as I do. The last time I talked to her was in April when the NFL draft started. Without hesitation, I ordered it right away! This stamp set is amazing, esp. if you love to watch football, and have many friends who love to watch football, college and NFL. So, what do you think of my card, the front and inside? 

I used LF's paper, making "grass" (inking) on the bottom. I used these SSS stamps and colored with Copics. I adhered the front panel onto the Doodlebug design's football paper. 

Inside was a little more complicated. I colored the helmet with her alma mater's color first. I used Tim Holtz alphabet dies for her school logo. The real design of the helmet is "warrior's head" (Trojan) but it was hard for me to make one. lol Instead, I used another logo USC uses, like on uniforms etc. on this helmet. "Fight On!" is their saying so I hand wrote in Uniball's gold pen. I used SSS "printed" sentiment, attached to the card stock which I colored in their school color, with Copics. I placed the whole panel onto the back of the football paper again.  

I'm mailing this with this Oven mitt. I bet she will have a big smile when she opens the mail! We DO LOVE to watch football games, esp. NCAA. 

Hope you are having a good weekend. Here in Honolulu, POKEMON world championship is being held. Yesterday, I saw so many tourists at the mall which is a couple of blocks away from the convention center where it's being held. Some of them are dressed up with their hats, t-shirts and carrying Pokemon's tote bag, so it's easy to spot them. lol Love, Eve

Coffee card "EXTRA"

 Aloha~

This is an "extra" card to go with my "care" package. A Coffee card swap group member suffered a big damage to her new home from Hurricane which hit her "new" place directly. I'd been thinking about her ever since, and some months later, she posted a picture of her new kitchen. So I'm sending her some coffee from Honolulu! I made this card, to enclose inside of the package. At first, I didn't really think but then, when I was going through my "stash", I found this HM image, already stamped on watercolor card stock. When I buy a new stamp, esp. if it's a large design like this, I usually stamp a couple times for the future use, so that I don't have to clean the stamp each time. And it hit me, this is perfect! I'm sending 2 bags of coffee from Honolulu! And, it came to my mind, "ENJOY" as a sentiment to use, so I browsed my sentiment collection and found this "ENJOY!" from Honey Bee stamp set. Perfect! I want her to enjoy these coffee! 

Inside, I stamped the sentiment from old company, Lil'Inker Design. I thought this sentiment was also perfect for this "care" package! 

The box I used to ship is from Kauai Coffee company. In November, I ordered some coffee from them, online cuz I couldn't get the flavors I wanted, on Oahu, only on the island of Kauai, and perfect fit for my gift! 

I'm glad she is back with us. 😊

Hope you are having a nice week! It will be a short week 😉

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

 

Coffee card for November swap

Aloha~ 

I love Fall. Ok, we don't have REAL Fall where the leaves change colors but now we can feel "cold" in the air. Ok, our "cold" here doesn't even change the colors of leaves. .. lol. Anyways, my most fav. season in Virginia and the surrounding states. 

Simple layout & design but the card gives the "cozy" feeling, thanks to this leading lady stamp set from Ellen H. I made a little slit above her cuff to insert two take out coffee cups. "One for me, one for YOU!" 😊 

Here is the inside. 

I can't believe November is half way through... Thanksgiving is a week away, and Christmas is a month away, then, 2019 is right around corner... most busy season for us, cardmakers & crafters!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Have a nice weekend, getting crafty! 

Eve