Stencil Embossing With The Big Shot and RAK's

Aloha Friends,

I found this on the web... Thought this would be helpful for those that have plastic stencils or metal stencils that would like to use with the big shot, here is a quick guide on how to run it through your machine. I have yet to try it... 



Some other things I wanted to share were these handmade cards I received this past Christmas from my sweet crafty friends. These ladies are a part of my crafting circle and comes and crafts with me. Praying that this year I will be able to commit to a session with these ladies once a month!!!

Created by Irene

Created by Wini

Another handmade item I received was from my sweet friend, Lala. She and I have recently re-connected. I know a bunch of my crafty friends from back in the day remembers her. I think we lost contact for about 10 years, and now the Lord has brought her back into my life, just by her replying to one of my emails, checking to see if I remembered her. No can forget a sweet personality like hers. :)  This item was created by Kuroko Mori, you can find her on InstaGram under @kurokomari. 

Isn't it just darling? I love it and love that it is jingling on my key ring. Thank you, Lala!!! 

Thanks for visiting!! Hope your weekend was a blessed one!!!


Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

Breast Cancer RAK's Received

It's been awhile... I am antsing to start creating again.  Thank you all of you who have been praying fervently on my behalf, and for those of you that have blessed me with a card, email, phone call, text and whatever it was you did to make me smile.  Slowly but surely, I will be back at full force and creating again.  :)

Today's post are of RAK I've receive recently due to my recent surgery which was phase 2 of my breast cancer treatment... so blessed!!

From Irene of Kaneohe, HI... so pretty!! Love all the bling on here...

From Shelly of Florida... this is just so pretty, and the words, so beautiful!!!

From Reyes Ohana of California.... Love U Guys... this was sweet!! 

So nice to receive these beautiful cards that have touched my heart!!!  I also receive some yummies in the mail!!

From Dan & Michelle of California... Chocolate Covered Strawberries... YUMM!!!

From my Sistah Gina of Michigan.... Yummy Brownies n' Cookies from David's Cookies.... scrumptious!!!

From Charmaine n' Joshtin, of which Charmaine went to Maui and brought back some of these for me, "just cause"... Love U guys!!!!

I have the sweetest and dearest friends!! Thank U for blessing me n' my family.

Aloha, Jen

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." ~1 Cor 13:13~  

 

RAK from Ms. Wini

Oh My Goodness...  I forgot to post this beautiful set of Thank You cards I received from my dear friend, Ms. Wini!!  I love this lady!!  She blessed me with this Thank You card set back after I got out of surgery. I was so happy to receive this, because that meant less "Thank You" cards for me to make.  Look at all the shimmering shimmers on these cards.  Aren't they gorgeous??  Thank you, Ms. Wini for always blessing me!!  

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." ~1 Cor 13:13~  

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PINKY HUGS from Jacque Beddingfield

Greetings on this beautiful Monday!!!  I wanted to share a beautiful BCRAK (Breast Cancer RAK) that I received from another PINK Sister.  I like to refer to these as PINKY HUGS.  :)  So Blessed.... The pack of Pinky Hugs came from Jacque of Jacque's Joie de Vivre, a fellow blogging, crafting and breast cancer survivor sister. Hence the "Pink Hugs".  She over saw a post that I had mentioned about dry skin results from my daily use of Tamoxifen, and offered to send me some Burt's Bees Oil to try, since that is the remedy that she uses.  She replied to my post suggesting that I should use this product. 2 posts later, she said she was SENDING me the product!!!  LOL!!!  God is GOOD!!!  What a blessing, right????  Anyways, within 4 days, I received her box.  I was surprised that the box was so big!! But to my delight, within the box... a bunch of goodies.... starting with her beautiful handmade card creation:

Inside of card:

The beautiful flowers that frame her image on the outside of her card.  I just love how she has great flower placement skills.  I have no clue when it comes to flower placements... I just add them wherevers, but she has them strategically placed in the right areas!!!

Here is her image... love all the sparkles n' crystal glaze on the ice cream... YUMM!!!

Her card in it's entirety.  I love all the bling and the butterfly punches, the pretty thick bow and lil' darling purple butterfly pin looking embellishment on the bow. So PRETTY!!!!  It is an absolute masterpiece!!!

Here are the goodies that she sent me.  So sweet n' thoughtful to send these to me.  Truly blessed.  :)  Thank You, Jacque!!  She gave me n' idea... I  am considering sending out PINKY HUGS in a box monthly... I'll be praying about it, and seeing where the Lord guides me.  Check out all the adorable tissue, those yummy lollipops and bath scrub... love all the PINK!!!!

Thank You for stopping by!! I'll be back tomorrow with a hand crafted project. I hope your week is BLESSED!!! ALOHA!!! OXOX

Blessings ~

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." ~1 Cor 13:13~  

 

Easter Basket RAKs from Wini

Hope you all had a blessed Easter!!!  My boys and I were blessed with these adorable Easter baskets handmade by my girlfriend, Wini.  Thank U, Sweet Mama!!!!

These were hand pieced together very carefully and SLOWLY  by Wini.  She put in a lot of work to these baskets, and I appreciate her soooo much for making these for my children and I!  SOOO Cute!!!  Not only did she create these 3 for us, but she also made 20 more to give to friends and fulfill a customer's order!!  WOWZER!!!!  Good Job, Ms. Wini!!  Now you know why I calll her a "Sweet Mama!".



Thanks for peeking...

Blessings ~

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." ~1 Cor 13:13~  

 

Birthday and Valentine's Day RAKs from Colleen

Birthday and Valentine RAKs from Colleen...  Thank You, Sister!!! 

Look at all the yummies that came in the mail... it arrived awhile ago, but I only opened it today!!  :)  Colleen knows I love cupcakes... lol!!  She has made it her ultimate goal to send me every cupcake item in the world!!  Love her!!  :)  

Here are the items she handmade...  cute popcorn slider:

Mini Stampin' Up! envelope holding a yummy Ghirardelli Chocolate square.  YUMM!!

The card she sent me...  so cute!!!  

Hope you have a blessed week!!! 

ALOHA!!

Blessings ~

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." ~1 Cor 13:13~  

 

RAK's from Crafty Friends

The Lord has blessed me with the bestest crafty sisters!!!  I received these RAK's from some of them... Thank U to each of my crafty sisters, and Thank U, Jesus for bringing each of them into my life!!!

This is so pretty!!  Check out those cake pops!!!  Jenny is very creative with these cake pops and have been making them for a while now.  I love when she makes them for me... feel so spoiled!!!

This exclusive SU! bag was given to me by Irene,  in Love!!!  Much thanks to my gf Wini for letting Irene know that I was in *search* of this bag.  Because I just kinda grew to actually love it.  :))

 

 This is what I used it for... my clear and unmounted rubber stamps!!! I still have some pockets to fill. :O}

 

This adorable Treat Bag was given to me by my gf Wini!!  She's always so sweet to think of making a little something for me, even though we don't get to see each other as much as we did before.  I just love that about her.  Thanks for your love, sweet Mama Wini!!!  

Thanks for peeking in, and seeing what I have been recently blessed with.  I finished some very cool projects for the Clearly Digital Stamps October Release.  I miss coloring!!  I need to work on clearing my dining table, and then I will be back at creating again.  I did clear off my craft table, so I am able to use that.  I need to sew!!!  LOL... probably gonna designate days for creating different items.

Oh, and I need to start posting some of my stuffs on eBay again, and get them outtah here!!!  So, stay tuned, and I will post when I get some of the items on there.

Blessings to U!!

Decorated Notepad w/Pencil

I found a couple of notepads at Target in the clearance section.  Regularly priced at $5, and I got each for $1.50!!  These notepads are from a local designer.  I thought I could decorate and they'd make great gifts for anyone that would receive them.  I decorated one for a friend of mines.  Here's how it turned out.

Paper: Walmart - Colorbok, Butterfly: Local Craft Store (I used these butterflies on the graduation leis I posted a couple of weeks ago), had some extras so used 1 here.  I stuck a cute white rose in the middle. 

On another note... here are some RAK's I received....  

From Sarah:

From Colleen - this was my BDay RAK that she sent me.  Yes, that was months ago.  Sorry Co-Co!!  Trying to get back on track here.  Colleen's blog of her creations can be found here.

Thank you for sending me happy mail!!  It's always fun to receive fun, colorful things!! 




One last thing... a bag company send me these bags to play with.  :O))))  FUN FUN FUN!!!  I am looking forward in seeing how I can and what I can do with these.  I will post them as I create them.

 

Hope your Saturday was  a blessed one!  

Aloha,

Jen

Happy Birthday to Me and My Blog!!!

Aloha Friends!!! That's Right!!! It's that time of year again, where I turn another year older. My blog's birthday is actually sometime in March - but I can't remember when, and since it's so close to March, I figure to help me remember, I'll just claim it to be around the same time as my birthday! So Happy Birthday to Me n' My Blog!!! I celebrated my birthday on Sunday, the 26th. It was a Sunday, and what a joy it was for me to be able to sing for the Lord on my birthday!!! This was the best year ever!!! We then went out to lunch with friends, at a local restaurant, that served Hawaiian food. I was craving for some Kalua Pig, Poi, Chicken Long Rice, Lomi-Lomi Salmon, and Haupia!!! Oh SO ONO!!!! My hubby was so sweet to take me and our friends out to lunch to celebrate me!! It was such a blessing!!

Anyways, I received some goodies from a few of my crafty family and friends from around the world. Here's what I was blessed with:

Created by Stamping Sisters of SCS:


From my girlfriend, Rina... all the way from Japan!! Look at these yummy colored ribbons!!! I am soooo blessed!! Thank U, Sis!!! I can't wait to get to use these!!!


Here is the card that she made for me! It is as pretty as those ribbons above!!! Love, Love, Love it!!!!!

Last but not least... the card that my 7 year old made for me.... so sweet!!
There you have it... looks like I've gotta work on some Thank You cards, huh?? Thank U all for making my day special!! Stay tune..... I will be having a Blog Giveaway for my Blog Anniversary... gotta think up a project to giveaway, and some goodies as well!!!

Aloha and God Bless!!
Jen

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