Short Window Treat Box: August's Cricut Project of the Month:

Happy Aloha Friday Crafters! Hope that wherever you are, you are having a grand ol' time. As mentioned on Wednesday, I said I'd have a sample of the Short Window Treat Box - My August Cricut Project of the Month. This is now available for purchase as well, together with tutorial in pdf format. I have 2 cuts available for this version, a .cut file for the DS, and a .gypsy cut file for the Gypsy. For today's project, I have Episode 3 for you to enjoy. The images I used are from Two Scoops Rice Designs. I haven't created with these babies in a while, and thought that they'd go great with a treat box. They are donuts, so it gives this box an even yummier feeling to it.

This project of the month cut file is available for purchase and ready to be emailed and downloaded to your computer. You must have the Design Studio program, along with the George cartridge, and a Cricut X to cut this on your end. This makes a great gift, simple and easy to create, and big enough to hold a bunch of goodies!!

Click Here to purchase the cut file and tutorial for this Project of the Month (w/Tutorial).

Episode 3 is available for viewing below. I am having such a fun time using my Mac to make these tutorial videos. Within the video, I share with you several ways for you to grab color with your copic pens. Like my 1st 2 vids, I have music on the video, so be careful with your stereo sound level.

Well, I hope you enjoy watching this one, it's short n' sweet! Have a blessed Aloha Friday, and a great weekend!! Looks like the Lord is going to allow me to sing this weekend.... been feeling much better! Thank you all for your continued prayers. God Bless!!! {{Scroll down for my picture of the day}}.

Question: Favorite Dish?
Answer: Fried Chicken....


Picture of the day:

Here's Ehu n' Ceasar, so cute when they lay next to each other like that. Look how big my Ehu is next to Ceasar! Oh gosh... Ceasar's sooo cute!!

Stuffs About Today:

• Meeting up with an old friend...
  

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Two Scoops Rice Designs Tuesday....

Good Morning Friends! I am soooo tired! Went to bed at 10:30 pm, and then woke up at 3:30 am (both are reasons because of the pups). I've been up ever since, and I'm heading out the door to do a 9:30 presentation on the Cricut X for my Cy's school. They purchased 1 machine, and we decided on donating 1 to them as well, so that they could have 2 for the school. Anyways, going down to do a presentation, and I think I need to get me a Mocha!!! I usually drink a Caramel Machiatto, but I'm going to try out the Mocah this morning.

Anyways, today is Tuesday, and I'm totally trying to stay on top of my scheduled dates... so today, I've got some Two Scoops creations to share with you. I decorated 3 of these jumbo paper clips, and then added magnets to the backs of each, so that they could stick to the fridge, or maybe even the file cabinet of someone's workplace. All images are from Two Scoops Rice Designs - the Halloween Digis. These are soooo adorable!!! I loved creating with these images, and they were so fun to color and play with. =0) I added a tiny bling to each of these, because I thought it added a little sparkle to it, and made it even cuter. LOL... This bat here is soooo darling. Now if there were only real bats that were darling, huh?! The white highlights, I received from my friend, Irene. She was so sweet to purchase the whole stock from Hawaiian Graphics, and give them to her friends. LOL... it sounds like a lot was in stock, but really there were only about 5 or 6. I'm just so blessed that she picked me to be one of the recipients of this pen. I've been using my acrylic paint to make these highlights. But now that I have this pen, I'm going to try and use it on my projects more often.

The jumbo paper clips are from Bazzill Basic, the ribbons are all from my stash of ribbons. In fact I pulled them from my scraps. Gotta hit those first. I used the scallop & circle punches from EK Success and the dots on the scallop edges are also from that pen Irene gave me.

Here are a few more pics of these clips.... showing the backs with the magnets attached to them...

Here they are on my fridge.....

Well, looks like I better start heading out the door, it is almost time to leave, so I hope you have a fabulous day today, and that you are blessed by someone that will give you a big smile!!!

Aloha,

Two Scoops Rice Designs - Mini Memo Pad Holders

Aloha and Good Morning!!! I hope you're having a pleasant day today!!! I created these Mini Memo Pad Holders using an idea that derived from my fellow glama girl, Myra of 808 Kreations. The teddy is from Two Scoops Rice Designs, and I've used shrink plastic to make the smaller sized teddies on each pen.







I used Sticklez on the hearts of each flower pot, and I used Dew Drops to enhance, which you can purchase at Little C's!

My blurbs....

• Happy to finally have a working camera again, that is to my standards!! LOL... I couldn't help myself, I went back to purchasing a Sony. The quality of their picture taking... just loving it!!!
• It poured yesterday - like crazy, and then cleared up so quick. (See pic taken yesterday right before lunch time, near KFC Aiea)
• Yesterday was the very 1st time I've ever eaten by my lonesome at a restaurant. I went to Champa Thai to eat some Chicken Pad Thai Noodles (See pic below). I usually would've taken it home to eat, but my car was being serviced at Jiffy Lube. Plus with the rain, it brought thunder n' lightning (which I love), but didn't want to take the chance of being sizzled....
  
• The weather today is nice n' sunny, the sky is bright blue, and just beautiful!!
• Yesterday, Cy said, "Today was a good day in school!" - It's so awesome to hear those words... he is loving his school and just sponging in all kines of information. Praise God!!!

Ok, it's time for me to start my day! Have a good one yourself!!

Have a beautiful day today and Thank You for stopping by!!!

Aloha,

SSH Challenge #4: Buttons, Buttons, and MORE Buttons...

Good Morning and Happy Aloha Friday!!! It is challenge week over at Stamp n' Scrap Hawaii. We have a challenge to use your buttons!!! All you gotta do is create and use buttons as the main embellishment on your creation. You have until Wednesday, September 3rd, at 6 pm HST to play n' have a chance at winning a bunch of goodies.

Here was my take on the challenge.....

The image & sentiment that I used are both from Two Scoops Rice Designs. I love buttons. Whatever color it is, it always adds a nice additional touch to the project being created. So easily to use, and pretty cheap too. You can even find it at a thrift store, for a good price. My cousin sent me a bag of buttons once, that she picked up at a thrift store - it was like 2 pounds for only $1!!! WOW!!!! I love how they come in all sorts of colors, and you can always mix n' match.

I colored the image a while ago, using my Copic Sketch markers, and the sentiment I used Regal Red from SU! to ink it up. I also added some dew drops because I seen how Jodie used the dew drops n' buttons together once, and they looked so awesome together.

I have been in a slump lately. Just sometimes, I get into these moods where I just don't want to create anything. Do you get this way sometimes? I notice that it always comes after a big function (Teri's Social was 2 weeks ago). I get all "pooped" out, and then I re-focus on organizing my home again, and then don't have time to create. LOL... it's a cycle that goes on n' on. But challenges always gets me on my toes again, and hopefully the next gathering gets me out of the rut too (which is this Sunday, so I better snap out of it!!!).

Thank God for awesome friends that nudge me, and motivate me to create and Thank God for all of you that continually post your creations inspire my art world.

Have an awesome weekend. I'm looking forward in seeing the Glama Gurlz this weekend. We're having a party to welcome the newbies....

Aloha,