Renate's Birthday Blog Hop.

Hello, and welcome to my last post for Yumi and Fumi Handmade. It's "Yumi's" birthday, and we planned on surprising her with a birthday blog hop. Of course, this was before the closing of the store, but we decided to go ahead with it... as sort of a farewell with a BANG!! If you hadn't noticed already, we are posting every hour pretty much today!

Try to guess our message for our dear Renate! We tried to all incorporate all of her favorite colors of rose, pink, teal, and yellow. I figured this beautiful paper from Allison Kreft's line was perfect! And that ribbon at the bottom fitted well too! As Ren is from So Cal!

The "P" is from Basic Grey, kinda vintage as it was from circa 2006-ish...



I hope she loves this! I'll miss you, Yumi and Fumi Handmade! Wishing you lots of cake and presents, Renate!

Luv,

Girly at Milk Coffee.

Good evening, everyone! Or if you are where Milk Coffee is based, good morning!! This week's challenge is Girly! I think this would be easy with Milk Coffee stamps - they are super cutesy. Even if you're not into that, they also have these super gorgeous and classic beauties.

I used A Flamenco Dancer, and she happens to be one of my most favorite MC stamped images! I think she is so beautiful and her dress is just PERFECT!!

Man, what I would give to have a dress and moves like those! I love images that tell a story, don't you? I can just imagine her being in the center of the dance floor, making all look at her!

I tried to make the fabric of her dress more satin/ silk - like and shimmery, but I didn't quite get there. I remember coloring her up last October, in a hotel in San Diego on vacation. It took a while but it was worth it! I paired her up with Print Shop papers by Shanna Noel (I just love her carefree and artistic style!). The script sentiment is from Heidi Swapp (I think). I adore the gold flower by Maggie Holmes' Flea Market line.



And for the girly theme, I figured you can't get any girlier than this hottt, Latin Dance performer in the beautiful ruffly dress! Add on a doily in one corner, a ruffle trim at the bottom, and a handwritten sentiment and voila!

Please visit the MC blog for more challenge details and DT inspiration. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blinging It Up at TGF.

TGIM!! What, you've never heard of that? Thank Goodness It's Monday?!! Haha! Well, you must not work during some weekends like I do. :)

Today, we are Blinging It Up at The Greeting Farm today! That is, use some bling along with the Berry Sweet Daily Life and Cut & Print kits.

Now when I was looking through my pics, I thought the detailed ones of this past Christmas were perfect for this challenge. There is already lots of gold and glitter and shiny bright things, including my pretty cousins, all dressed up!



Along with some epoxy stickers, there were some rhinestone embellies from Glitz Designs used.



Little Star blings were added too.



And a gold letterpressed card from Studio Calico made the scene!



And what better embellishments than my decked out sons and nieces! :)



I love taking pictures of decorations and details. I'm so glad I was able to scrap them, PL-style. I decided to take the simpler route and actually used less of the kits and more pics. But as you can see, the results were anything but basic! These kits are really versatile!

Don't forget to check out what Claudette and Jerodelle, my fellow Guest DT members did with the challenge! Hope you can join us!

Happy 1st Birthday to T4TD!!!

Good evening, blog peeps!

Sorry that I've been MIA lately. Our household got sick but luckily, we are on the mend (I hope). Tonight (or day depending on where you are), I wanted to post a card for Time for Tea Designs. It's Jo's first year anniversary, and I am so happy for her and her company!!

In the beginning of 2013, Jo had asked if there were anybody interested in being in her DT for her new digital stamps. I've seen a preview of them on her Instagram account ( @time4teadesignpix ), and have thought they were pretty. And I fell in love with them right away. Her designs are whimsical and pretty, the kind of woman anybody can relate to. I see her as beautiful yet she doesn't know how gorgeous she is. And she is a touch quirky, enough to have a hilarious sense of humor. Does that make sense?? LOL!!

And Jo, what a designer! Not only does she have a lot of talent, she is super easy and fun to work with. She also has some rubber stamps up at Whimsy Stamps, make sure you check them out. Her success is well deserved!

As for my anni card, I decided to use an unexpected digi -- Work-out Girl. You'd think I'd choose someone who's more dressed up, but I figure the other DT members would probably do that. :) Instead, I wanted to show a bit of "a day in the life." I am so very into Project Life lately, that I wanted to make a card about an ordinary day. Since I've already created a project on fitness featuring a T4TD digi recently (see here), I wanted to depict Work-Out Girl as running errands instead. I mean, really, how many of us live in jeans or yoga pants on a day-to-day basis after work (**raises hand here. Drops it for that crop top though, teee heee!!!**).

Doesn't she look like she's down for some weekend fun? A few phone calls here, some music blasting there, and running around in the city? Right??! The embellishments I used for this card (except for the CardStock, Patterned Paper, and washi tape) are all from Paper Issues' Swag Bags.



Happy 1st Anniversary, Time for Tea Designs!! Love ya, and here's to many more!!

Berry Sweet for Boys.

Good Monday morning to ya, folks!!

It's time to show you another fun project featuring TGF's new journey in the documentation world - Berry Sweet Daily Life, with its coordinating Berry Sweet Print & Cuts.

I challenged myself and the other Guest DT members to do a "masculine" project using this kit. Being a mom of two boys, I felt it was important that this kit also works for families like ours!



This is actually Week One of my Project Life. I depicted New Year's Eve and my son's recent testing using the Berry Sweet Daily Life. Even if it has hearts and butterflies, I was still able to incorporate some embellishments to my cards from the kit.



I stamped a couple of sentiments from the Oliver and Amelia set - Little Dreamers as well. Love how you could pretty much interchange different TGF products and they'd still coordinate with each other!

Next up is an anything goes challenge on a card. For my long time followers, you guys know that I pretty much make cards most of the time. So, again, I wanted to show the versatility of these print & cuts kits. And I also took it a step further and made this masculine as well! One, to challenge myself. And two, I needed more 'boy' cards in my stash :).



For the main image, I used Ian from Picture Perfect. This one goes out to my Godson!

Here's a closer look!



Well, I hope you get to visit The Greeting Farm's blog for the post. There's also a challenge on their for this new line so I hope you get to join! And please visit Claudette and Jerodelle, the other GDTs, for their take on this week's projects!!

Kisses,