Aloha, all! I am really starting to get my energy back and was so happy when a neighbor asked me to make a birthday card for her visiting Mother-in-Law - who's just turned 90! When I asked about colors, Marie said, "Oh something feminine like peach or something like that. She's really into girly stuff." Hmmm. Well, the first color that came … [Read more...] about A Bit Out of my Comfort Zone!
Pansy Punch
New Stamps 3: Birthday Blossoms
Aloha, all! Once again I have a project that resulted from a challenge. This particular challenge was to CASE (an acronym for Copy and Share with Everyone) a project in the new 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! Catalog. As I went through the catalog, I realized that I had, indeed, been very frugal about what I bought from this … [Read more...] about New Stamps 3: Birthday Blossoms
Birthday Bookmarks for a Friend!
Aloha, all! One of my friends here in Hawaii had a significant birthday this weekend, and of course I had to make her a special one-of-a-kind card. It didn't take me long to decide that, as she is a retired English Professor, I should give her a design that featured at least one bookmark. In looking around at various … [Read more...] about Birthday Bookmarks for a Friend!
It’s a Notebook – Not a Checkbook!
Aloha, all! Earlier in the week I mentioned that the original gifts I had made to give out at the Stampin' Up! Convention this year were notebooks. Now I know in the past you've seen some of the notebooks that I've done (probably in the way distant past!). But this time I wanted something that would be small and easily fit in a purse or tote … [Read more...] about It’s a Notebook – Not a Checkbook!