Berry Christmas cards

I tried to do a post yesterday morning, but ran out of time. I guess I did a little too much lounging with Mochiko when I woke up that I couldn't get to all of the things that I had planned on doing done before leaving for work! Lazy Monday, trying to recoup from the extremely busy Sunday!!
Anyhoo, here are a couple of cards that I whipped up to donate to my son's schools' silent auction happening this Sunday, November 8 at his high school.
I saw this layout using the Berry Christmas (#116509) on the SU demonstrator website and just had to make one. Simple, yet so pretty. I didn't even need to use a ribbon! I packed a set of 5 cards and 5 envelopes in a cute acetate box sized just right for these cards and tied them up with some beautiful satin ribbon. Of course, I don't have a photo of it as I rushed to leave the house to attend a meeting for the parents for this steak dinner/silent auction...Here are what the cards look like.
I used the stamp set called Christmas Greetings (#115448), it's a two stamp set. I just love the Merry Christmas sentiment that I stamped on the bottom of the card front and the greeting for the inside of the card.

What do you think of the cards? I plan on making a big bunch more for a craft fair that's coming up, so after they are all wrapped up pretty, I'll take a photo of it so you can see. Thanks for stopping by!

Your voices were heard! OCS is on!

Wow! Thanks everyone who left me a comment regarding the monthly one card swap (OCS). I will continue this OCS for November and December...and because the sign ups are really late (scream!!!!) if you want to play for both November and December, please sign up on this post. You will be committing for BOTH months. I will, however, rotate your partners so you will be getting a different partner for each month. If you are a returning player, do the same, just leave me a comment on this post to sign up for November AND December. If you are a NEW player, please send me your information (email address, mailing address, blog address, if any) via email...DO NOT LEAVE ANY PERSONAL INFO ON MY COMMENT SECTION. My email address is on my sidebar (to the right). Here is a card I received from one of my partners this month. This card is from Amy P. I love this tri-shutter card and the image is adorable! Thanks Amy...sorry I'm running late with your card... This second card is from another partner of mine for October. Joy N. from South Korea...I love this card Joy! Very creative and I love those skulls! Your card will be sent soon, promise!

Here is the pocket opened...

Thanks everyone for your response. I promise I will get busy and get my cards out to you all and will work on the partner pairing up as soon as the sign ups close. Being that time is short, please sign up for the OCS for November AND December (all in one comment here) no later than Thursday, November 5...hope that is enough time for you all to sign up. I'll have the weekend to partner and send emails out.

Happy Halloween!

Can't believe that today is Halloween! Today's post will be a little longer than usual because I want to share some cute Halloween raks and show you what has been keeping me busy!
Got this cute Hello Kitty take out box from my GF Cheryl. It was filled with yummy candies, which of course, is already gone (yummy!) I love the Halloween colors! Thanks Cheryl! What a treat! Got a call from my GF Joni last weekend telling me that she was dropping off something small for me...thank you so much Joni! I love it all!

Here are just some of the 30 treat bags I made for my mom and dad to give to the nice people at the Kaiser Koolau Clinic. Mom and Dad go quite a bit there and the peeps there are always so nice to them. They were really surprised when mom and I dropped them off yesterday. BTW, Dad cut all of the fancy favor boxes out for me using my Big Shot!

What a surprise I got from my GF Joy last night...she got the idea for this cute box from Maria Bell's blog...Maria always does awesome projects and soooooo much detail, she even shares awesome tutorials! I love my treat box, thanks so much Joy!! Had so much fun creating and that digi page of Taelyn's BOO performance really turned out good, if I could say so myself! LOL!! I hope you post it.

Of course it's too late for me to dust off my cricut and my HK cartridge to make this cute Hallo-kitty...got this cute card from my GF Enjoli. Love it! Thank you so much!

Such a sweet card from my sweet GF and DL, Tia. What a surprise to receive this in the mail yesterday, I love it!!

Thanks for sitting through this long post! I was trying to make up for the missed days of posting this week. I only went to work one day this week can you believe it? I'm sure I'll be paying for it next week. It will be a full week without a Furlough Friday, which will be good for me to catch up on my work! I've been feeling a bit better, but am moving slower than usual, but I'm good. Thanks for your visit! See you soon!

Invasion of Spider (Boxes!)

Sorry I was MIA yesterday. I went to work because I was worrying that there would be so much to do and I was right! I also wanted to deliver these special Halloween Spider boxes to my friends at the Hawaii State FCU Alii Branch tellers and staff because they are sooooo nice to me! Here's the boxes that I made. Sorry the photo is a little blurry, but I took it with my cell phone... I hate myself for being such a procrastinator because I ended up sleeping way too late just to make these boxes. Actually, the truth is that I had to put the spiders on the box before I started work! I hope they liked their treat boxes! Well, we will be off today as we take our second furlough Friday...I will use it as a catch up day, I think. Please come back soon because I have a bunch of RAKs to share and I gotta show off my OCS cards! To the ladies who were partnered up with me, so sorry...I am tardy this month! This back pain really does something to me. Anyway, thanks for looking today! and Happy Aloha Friday!

Anyone for a OCS for November???

Aloha friends! Just curious to find out if anyone is interested at all in a OCS for November and December...if everyone wants put this on hold because of the busy holidays, we can start up again in January...
I'd love some feedback...if I get at least 10 yes to the OCS for November and December, we will go for it...your input is important!!

Goblin Greetings

Thank you to all of you who left me such sweet comments and advice on getting better...It means alot to me to know that you all read what I write and to know that I have so many friends.
Here's a card that I worked on the other week but didn't get a chance to share. All products are SU except for the stickles on the bat and the scallop oval die for the sentiment. A peek at the glittery bat...

I can't believe that Halloween is this week already! Hope all of you finished your treat making unlike me...but it will be done! Thanks for stopping by today!

A card for extreme Surfers

This image did not jump out at me when I was turning the pages of my SU catalog, in fact, I never even noticed it. While blurfing one day, I saw a card that attracted my attention with this image only to find out that it was a SU image! There are other extreme sports stamps featured on Page 80 of the catalog but I purchased Extreme Surfing #115173 which was a perfect image for Hawaii! Great guy card too since we all know how hard it is to create good guy cards (at least for me anyway). Here's my card... I used the sentiment from the One of a Kind set and a few silver brads to dress up the card. Gotta keep it simple for the guys, right? I sponged three different blues on my whisper white CS (taken with teal, bermuda bay and ballet blue). I really liked the way it turned out.
Over the weekend, I met up with my friend Donna who lives in New York. She and her hubby spent a week on the Big Island and then the weekend on Oahu before flying back to NY. We went out to dinner at a local chinese restaurant...they are no strangers to the island and we had a great time catching up!
I've been out of commission (again!) and this time it's my back. Went to the doctor today and he told me that I have osteo arthritis - eeks! what the heck?? I took an x-ray of my lower back just in case there was something else...OMG, I am just aging over night! It's kind of depressing getting old. I am on Aleve daily and was told not to aggrivate my back with too much standing - I usually craft standing. I suppose too much sitting will aggrivate it too, so I guess I have to really watch and be careful. I'm sure I'll be okay once the Aleve kicks in and I'm on it regularly and the swelling goes down. This is the reason why I missed Monday's posting! I had to ice my back and lie down...**sigh** I can't believe that I still have a bunch of Halloween things to finish up and Halloween is this weekend!! Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble and I'll see you again tomorrow!