Gift Card Box

 Created this for a coworker. 

Used an old template for the box. Will try to find the original post and share the link. But it’s about 15 years old so it’ll take some digging.

Used Mainly Stamps from: Ranunculus Romance and Bottled Happiness. Hand drew the bottle shine with a chalk writer. I’m not a heat embosser yet lol. 

Colors: Poppy Parade and Memento Black.

Also used and old Tim Holtz embossing folder. Not sure of the name but almost any floral embossing folder would be stunning. 

Cardstock was some old Halloween ones I had. Some were Stampin Up but I couldn’t find the label. 

YouTube Channel

 I do have a YouTube channel but it’s just starting out. Not much to it but I’m trying to help out where I can.

Lani’s YouTube

Vintage Christmas , trial 1

 Hello!! Lani back again with my first attempt at the Bottled with Happiness and Vintage Christmas Stampin Up! sets. 

I’m currently on a “build my own background/DSP” kick at the moment. I just purchased this adorable bottle bundle and just played around today. 

Colors used are: Merry Merlot, Soft Suede, and Old Olive.

I did use the one stamp from Ranunculus Romance as well. I hope you enjoy!

https://www.stampinup.com/products/vintage-christmas-photopolymer-stamp-set-english

Well,

It has been another 3 years since I've been on the blogger website. I just recently joined Stampin' Up! So I would like to share my projects on here.

I do not have a very good set up, at the moment, to accurately take photos of the projects I do. I may even start some YouTube how-to's for some of those that may be interested.

Just wanted to say hello!

All the best,

Lani

Been Awhile...

Hi in the blogosphere!!
Since giving birth to my 2 boys, oldest is 5YO and my youngest is 3YO, I haven't been able to craft much at all. Part of problem was the water retention got really bad while I was pregnant, and sitting on any chair other than a couch with my feet propped up, was not a comfortatble way to craft. Then, little toddlers around ink and glue and embellishments and sharp objects..hahaha yeah!

But now, 5 years later, I'm trying to get back into crafting. Here are some photos of current projects I've finished.

Enjoy!

Lani

Subtle Christmas SOG- Hol ODD Day Hop!

SO AWEOME!! Some Odd Girl Stamps is hosing their 3rd Annual Hol-ODD-day hop! It goes from December 3rd-6th. runs December 3-6 and link it up! 

Click here for the Hop Blog!

So make sure you hop over to Some Odd Girl to check out the hoppers and awesome projects people are posting!

For me, I just loved how this card turned out! I wanted to make it more of of subtle Christmas Card and those two 20's Digi Stamps from Some Odd Girl are so cute together! 1920's Gwen and 1920's Kody!!  Before I printed them I stuck Gwen behind Kody. I used some older Stampin Up Christmas paper that was mellow, the light blues and greens were great. The card base is the Stampin Up In Color which is one of my fav blues but I can't remember the name! WOW bad case of CRS I guess. :) Enjoy! And thank you to Some Odd Girl for such great stamps and inspirational activities!

DeNami Halloween Blog Hop!

Wow! Another awesome Blog Hop opportunity brought to you by DeNami Designs! :) If you are hopping on over here from Jennifer Harris' blog, you are on the right track!! If not, please hop on over to the DeNami blog to start from the top! YAY for Blog Hops!

 

 I wanted to use my chickies this time for the Halloween theme. Didn't even know where I was to start so I just got out some Halloween paper and started on it! I used the Pumpkin Pie cardstock from Stampin Up for the back, rolled it through my Cuttlebug with the argyle type embossing folder. Aged it with some Chocolate Chip SU ink. Then I ran the nestabilities rectangle die for the frame with some black cardstock, cut out the middle and attached it to the card with some green patterned paper scraps. Next, I used the Martha Stewart spiderweb punch for the corner then drew a spider to the bottom of the frame. 

 

Next, stamped some of the DeNami mini's pumpkins on watercolor paper. Colored them, cut them and popped up the one. I then used my 2 favorite Chickie stamp's, the Pirate and the Superhero and stamped them on watercolor paper as well. I wanted there to be a girl chickie somewhere so I made one of the pirates a "chick". :) Then I used a Stampin Up postage punch to use to pop them up on the side of the card. Finishing touches included stickles on anything shiny on the chickies then liquid pearls along the frame to add to it. There ya have it! Thanks for showing some love on my comment box and please come back later to check out future posts!

Next up on the hop is:


Emily Keaton  

Have a ghoulish Halloween!!



Here's the official info:

When: The blog hop starts on October 14th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until October 15, 2012, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).

Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!
 

Prizes: DeNami is giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to their website! They'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then they'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!

Couple Random Cards

Here are a couple recent cards. The sentiments used are from Stampin Up. The rest is mentioned on the photo itself. With the Some Odd Girl card I used the deconstructed sketch #46 from the deconstructing jen blog. Great place to get inspiration let me tell ya! :)

BTW...the background image for the dragon card was actually a cutout of the upcoming plays from the local theater of arts college. I just loved the colors and needed to use it for something! :)

Lunch Break Speed Card!

Here is a card I made using materials that were headed to the trash can (ripped manilla folders, used up cardstock folders not needed anymore); then I had some brads hanging around the office, permanent marker to color and highlighters and colored pencils for the rest. I had printed a sheet of one of my favorites, Giggle Fairy from Some Odd Girl. I had a lot of fun spending my lunch making a card. Sometimes I get the crafty feeling and need that output! LOL!

I used the sketch from The Deconstructed Sketch blog, sketch #71. (http://deconstructingjen.com) by Lori Boyd as my layout design and there ya have it! :)

Challenge!! SOG&MarkerPop Blog Hop

So when I finished hopping for the Some Odd Girl and Marker Pop Blog Hop - click here for that info (I also copied it to the bottom of this blog post), I couldn't resist! I sat down last night and made a holiday card using my Some Odd Girl stamp set, Kaylee's Closet! I used the party hat from the Party Time "expansion" and converted it to a witches hat. I am guessing that the challenge was talking about a Christmas themed card/project but I decided to do mine for Halloween as I am still excited for Halloween before Christmas and am getting in that spirit. But, I made a Christmas themed one with the same basic layout as well.  The web punch is from Martha Stewart and the flower is from Stampin Up. The papers are random clippings from my scrap papers. I am pretty sure the Christmas one is from Recollections, as well as the Christmas paper. The Trick or Treat stamp is from Stampin Up. :) And lastly, the flower in Kaylee's hair for Christmas is from Creative Memories. :)

From the Blog Hop:

THE CHALLENGE:
Make a holiday themed project using either Some Odd Girl Stamps or a product found in the MarkerPop Store. Even better, if you have something from both, use both   This must be a NEW creation created specifically for our hop challenge, no backlinking! Please make it clear that you are playing along with our challenge my mentioning/linking to our hop. Easy enough, right?  I can’t wait to see what you create!
THE PRIZE:
Up for grabs is a 4X3 Some Odd Girl stamp set of winner’s choice! One winner will be chosen at random from all the participants. This contest will end on Saturday September 15th at noon EST and a winner will be chosen the following Monday along with the grand prize hop winner.

 If you haven’t hopped yet, be sure to visit the designers participating in this blog hop, start at the top of the list.  Also don’t forget to leave a comment for another chance to be entered into our prize drawing.

Inspiration!

Just thought I'd share a little inpspiration technique. So after I was shopping at Target, I got my husband's body wash and noticed how nice the label was! So I got home and after dinner I sat down to make a card based off the Old Spice Label using Kaylee's Closet and Summer Treat accessories!. And here ya have it folks!

 

Next I wanted to show you the card I made for my friends "Martini Girl" themed Bridal shower. I used the Martini girl freebie from Sassy Designs for this card.  I used the sentiment from Stampin Up.

 

Tim Holtz 12 Tag's of 2012- Sept

Hello!
I had a lot of fun using Tim's techniques for this tag. I didn't have any foil tape so what I found was the backing to the inside of my new SonicCare toothbrush. The cardboard was so nice and shiney that I just thought it could come in handy. Well it did! I got it out and used the same techniches for the rivets and for the lines I just drew them in with my bone folder.

I didn't have the typewriter or any gears on hand but I did have a Stampin Up punch that was gears so I used that on the scrap pieces of shiney paper to make the gears. I also used my Papertrey Ink Shutterbug Special stamp set instead of a typewriter.

And the final touch? I stuck this one up in my husband's tool board in the garage! LOL! :)

Tim Holtz Aug Tag 2012

Okay here is the final project for the 12 Tags of 2012 Tim Holtz Challenge. Details about the design is in the previous blog. Only extra I added was the words, ribbon, clip, and a bottle cap. The bottle cap I put a piece of vintage cardstock, added a sepia tone glaze, then topped it with the crackle medium which cracked the sepia glaze and it looks pretty neat in person. Silhouette was created with the Bliss Some Odd Girl Stamps. Oh I also used distress stickles on the nestebilities frame. Click the link to the right to see his original tag. :)

Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2012 "preview"

So I am working on the Tag for August and I am pretty low on supplies that match Tim's. :( But I made do. I used my Bliss set from Some Odd Girl and colored her in for the silhouette image. Here is a link to Tim's blog about this Month's Tag so you can see the differences.

Here is a little "tutorial" on my silhouette stamp technique:

The best way for me to color around the edges is to turn the paper so I could angle it better. Next I did some aging to the paper. I dry embossed it with one of my stampin up texture folders. I also have yet to get any 3D flower die cuts...one day maybe. In the meantime, useing the same concept as the die cuts, I just hand cut a scallop punch to make it by hand. It is more difficult as the cuts aren't symmetrical but the end results aren't too bad IMO.

So not too bad. I am still adding some finishing touches so I will post the completed tag in another post, but all in all I hope you learned some new techniques here..or at least inspired by Tim's design as I was. The silhouette was my favorite. I am hoping to get some more of the distress supplies soon but it is hard when I need $$. Here is a picture of  before and after where the Tag is almost completed.

Simple Nature Card

First of all, Thank you to all those that showed some love on the last DeNami blog hop! I appreciate all the comments and am happy you liked the card. Please stop by and comment on some of my others posts as well! :)

Next, this last week I was on a vacation in the mountains, up by Priest Lake, Id. I have very little internet connection so I was unable to visit anyone's blog this past week. I will get back to that here now that I am home.


Since we flew to Idaho, it is not easy to bring along all my fun crafting supplies but I had to bring something since a week with no crafting can drive me insane! SO I brought along my favorite Some Odd Girl clear stamps, a blender pen, water color pencils, some cardstock, acrylic block, and 2 SU stamps pads: basic black and chocolate chip.

So I set to making a few cards while I was up there. The first one I made was my favorite! I stamped the Royal SOG and then drew the trees around her, inspired by the view from the Cabin's deck.
I am not a very good artist but I thought the background came out pretty good for me.

As all I brought was my Some Odd Girl, girl stamps, it turned out to be my Uncle's birthday. As his room in the cabin is in the Moose theme, I hand drew a moose and gave him that card for his birthday. This card will REALLY demonstrate my lack of artistic talent, but hey I tried.

Lastly, I am one of the biggest Huckleberry fans out there, those berries are just amazingly delicious! And this was the first time after many years of being up in Idaho that I got to pick some! My Uncle made the most amazing sauce with them! So in honor of the berries I made a "Huckleberry Mermaid" card. :) I forgot to take a picture of that one but in the mean time here are some huckleberry pictures I took. :)