Diana's 1 year blogaversary hop!

Welcome to DIANA's (of DL.ART)  1st blogaversary blog hop!  There are 12 stops in this hop, which means 12 awesome projects and lots of BLOG CANDY!  Along the way, you will find four people with a word; these words will give you the clues for the ingredients you will need to complete your project.  Each designer will have a project that will inspire you and also have some clues as to what the ingredients are. 

Diana will also have a link up on her blog!  You will have until 11:59 on Jan 6, 2012  to link your project. Once you have linked your project, you will have a chance to win the grand prize giveaway: a Sweet Tooth Boxes Cricut cartridge!  In order to win the cartridge, you need to leave a message on all posts along the way AND link up to Mr. Blue frogger on her site.  So hop, hop, hop and don't forget to check back in with Diana!


For our projects we had to use 3 colors of Diana's choosing (hmm... I wonder what they are?), and a specific number.  We also had to use a Cricut cut somewhere.  Here's my card that I sent through the mail for my awesome friend, Diana:

The digi is a Tiddlyinks image. :)  I used Tinkerbell and Friends for the butterfly and Sugar and Spice for the background tag for the digi.

Here's the inside!  Love this stamp set by Stampin' Up called Perfect Words!

How about some BLOG CANDY?  

My blog candy will get you prepared for Valentine's day!  It includes a Simply Sent card kit (makes 8 cards, just add a stamp!), some Valentine rub ons, 6 Robot girl sweet treat boxes, and 24 heart and butterfly punch outs.

To win, you must be or become a follower of my blog and leave a comment with a way to contact you.  That's it!

You'll have until January 6 to enter.  The winner will be chosen via random number generator.

Now that you've read through my post, became a follower, and left a comment, start HOPPING with these talented ladies!

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/

http://courtscrafts.blogspot.com/

http://amyscraftingspace.blogspot.com/

 http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com/ <<<You are here!

http://littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/

http://www.scpapercrafts.com/

http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/

http://girliascards.blogspot.com/

http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/

http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com/

http://creativediva98.blogspot.com/

http://www.believedreamcreatewithmaria.com/

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/ <<< Don't forget to stop back here after you've got your clues and link up to Mr. Blue frogger!

Handmade Christmas cards I received!

Here are some of the awesome handmade Christmas cards I received!

This one came all the way from Turkey!

My MIL's first Christmas cards!

And here's the rest of the cards.  I tape them on the door so I can post it to Facebook and tag everyone. :) Plus its really Christmassy when I close my door!

See you guys next time!

Baby Shower onesie cards

How was everyone's after Christmas sales?  I did a few returns today (shhh... don't tell!) and in the process tried to hit up some stores to see if I could score some stuff for next year.  I got 10 rolls of wrapping paper, 10 sets of boxes, and 35 gift bags at $1 a piece.  I was so proud of my thrifty-ness!

I'm throwing a shower for one of my (old!) co-workers so I made some invites.  I welded some onesie shapes I found on the B is for Boy cartridge on my Gypsy (welded at 5.5").  I was feeling uber lazy and time constricted, so I just slapped a sticker on the front of each one and called it a day.

Made them in all different colors and designs.

Love this stamp set!  I just got it and I already used it for 2 parties (this one and the Tinkerbell one I posted about a month ago).  It's called Inviting by Stampin Up!

More projects coming soon! It's late in Hawaii nei and I need to catch me some ZzZZZzzzz.  Tackling the tornado that is my craft room tomorrow! Eep!

Starbucks cup gift card holder

How was everyone's Christmas?  Hopefully Santa brought everything you wished for.  I know Santa was very generous to me this year.  I got a brand new HP color laser printer for printing out my digis, Copic markers, so much designer paper that I don't know where to put it all, and a new camera!  I'm having a hard time figuring out the bells and whistles of my camera, so I'm using my old one for now (until I can watch some pointers on YouTube!)

Anywho, there was a birthday in all this Christmas hoopla, and I totally forgot about a gift.  Eep!  I went to Starbucks to pick up a gift card and remembered someone posting on their blog that they simply put it in an empty Starbucks cup as a gift card holder.  So I asked for an empty one!  Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.  I wish I remembered where I saw the idea from... I feel really weird posting projects without giving credit.  So if this is your idea, please let me know and I'll edit my post.

Didn't have much time, so I just made a quickie tag and slapped a die cut from the Love you a Latte Cricut cart. 

Can't wait to read about all of your crafty Christmas presents that Santa left! 

Happy Holidays to my Blogger buddies!

I wanted to have one last final post to wish all my buddies on Blogger MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!  :)  I hope everyone has a great day today.  Here's my very last Christmas project using "Big Christmas" by Lia Stampz.  You can get it at Whimsy Stamps.  There are 63 awesome images to choose from!

This huge Christmas tree took a couple of days to color! :) It was "snow" much fun!

It's about 8am in Hawaii nei and I woke up early to make a quiche for Christmas brunch.  I heard some rustling by the stockings and spotted Santa himself!

Ho, ho, ho, Meowmy Christmas!  

Merry Christmas, my dear blogger friends!

One more project before all the hoopla

So got my last bit of Christmas crafting done before all the hoopla tonight and tomorrow morning.  Every year I do Christmas eve with my husband, Christmas morning with my God kids, and Christmas dinner with my parents.  :)  I'm so blessed I have all of them in my life.  

Here are more gift card holders!  I wanted to make something different than the other ornament ones I made a week ago so I found Rubber Redneck's 2010 video to make these FABBY santa suit gift card holders.  You can watch her YouTube video to make it here. 

So stinkin' cute! Love her design! Everything is SU except the buttons.

Hope everyone has fun this weekend!  I'll check in tomorrow with my final Christmas post!  Mele Kalikimaka to you all!

Mini candy cane snowmen

  I had a big box of mini candy canes that I bought about a month ago and I totally forgot about.  I hate it when that happens!  I decided to search the web to see what I could do with them.  I came across Chris Kolly of Rubber Room Ramblings.  She made these cute (and EASY!) snowman toppers for them using Stampin Up's curly label punch, word window punch, and baby blossoms punch.  A hand-drawn face and I was ready to go!

I'm passing them out to everyone... the gate guards on base, the store clerks, bank tellers, everyone I run into!

In other news, I went to the salon yesterday to get my hair permed.  My hair cannot hold a curl at all and I figured that I would just get it over with and get a perm!  Well whaddya know, I spent 5 hours there and I still walked out with straight hair!  LOL!  My hair can't hold a perm either!  I thought it was the funniest thing.  :)

Hope everyone's Christmas week is going well!