K-lusive Kreations presents....

{Please be aware that this post is extremely long, but worth reading... =D Thank you!}

1st Annual... Project Make a Child Smile 2011....

A very SPECIAL THANK YOU to all of you who have kindly embraced the Holiday Season with the GIFT of GIVING!! i will honestly say, so many thoughts went through my mind when first initiating this card drive... for instance, would i collect enough cards, what if no one participates, oh my can i produce my goal? yep, all of that went through my mind... and guess what?!? with many hearts of GOLD, i surpassed my collection goal!! i will admit now that with every package of cards i received, my heart melted and my eyes teared because the feeling of the wonderful generosity from those that helped put an extra smile on a child's face this season is just so REMARKABLE and the sensation of YOU sending your LOVE to a child whom you never met, i embraced with my heart greatly!! THANK YOU and BLESS you all today, tomorrow, throughout the season and every day forward!!

i've put together a little slide show for you, sharing the beautiful cards made by some FANTABULOUS crafting sisters around the world... (please excuses my skills, i'm no genius when it comes to this stuff, but i tried my best =D) grab a tissue or 2 and sit back and take a look... background song is "Give Love on Christmas Day" sung by Lorie Salvatera (Local Hawaii Girl) and it was the perfect fit to this project...

Did you enjoy the slide? Didn't the kindness just embrace your hearts? i really hope it did because it is people like these wonderful ladies that truly make the world a better place! Please give these fabulous givers a round of applause!!!!!

Aunty J emailed me after receiving the cards, and here is a little of what she has to say...
"Thank you so much to you and all your friends that participated in the Aktion Club project of the hospital dolls and the awesome Christmas cards that were made. The Kiwanis Club of Santa Clarita along with the members of the Aktion Club will be visiting Holy Cross Providence Hospital in Mission Hills, CA. in December to make our annual donation of the hospital dolls. The Christmas cards will accompany the dolls and I know that they will absolutely delight the young patients in the hospital emergency room. Thank you so very much to all that gave their time, materials and especially the love that was put into making the cards."

The cards created comes from all ages... young and those young at heart... no matter what the age, no matter what the skill level, the thing that matters is we all came together as one and made this event SPECTACULAR!

A very huge THANK YOU goes out to Jenny of Sister Stamps LLC for donating a generous amount of prizes to award some of those who have participated... Jenny kindly contacted us and wanted to participate in a very generous way... So she has donated several prizes... Yes, the prize info was kept a secret and the amount of cards received has shown why... BECAUSE WHEN YOU GIVE FROM YOUR HEART, THERE ARE NO INCENTIVES ATTACHED, YOU JUST GIVE. and that is what makes your giving more meaningful... THANK YOU SO SO MUCH Jenny!! Aunty J and i appreciate your sweetness and LOVE!!

As a THANK YOU to all that have participated we do have some prizes to give away... everyone that has sent in cards, names were put into a bowl and have been pulled... so here goes...

Prizes donated by Sister Stamps LLC
SS Shimo-San ~ Brenda and Patti
SS Yuki ~ Sidney and Lianne I.
SS Setsuna ~ Mimi and Danni

Prizes donated by Kris and Aunty J
Punch Gift ~ Kyoko and Bobbi
Paper Pack Gift ~ Jacque and Jill

We had a tremendous amount of participants (more than we anticipated) and even if your name was not pulled for the above prizes, there is a little THANK YOU gift that will be sent to you as a token of our appreciation. Thank you Aunty J for donating the extra gifts!

(All will be mailed out next week, apologies for the delay)

I've also received many emails asking if this will be an annual event, and with much heart, i've decided to continue this as long as Aunty J continues her part... Be on a look out for next year's details... =D

Thank you, thank you, time and time again for EVERYTHING!!!

Now that that is done, yes, it's taken me quite a while to complete, i'm sorry, curious minds (i can hear it, LOL) have been questioning "what happened to Kris?" or "is Kris ok?" Yes! i am ok... still trying to recover from the craft fair preparations (i've caught up on most of my sleep) and now trying to adhere to a few life changes... my biggest one, i've gone back to the real work world full time now and i'm trying to adjust time management between 3 full time jobs... it's been an up and down adjustment, low points and high, but taking the days slowly is a must... especially with the holidays here... please be patient with me, i'm still around and i do have lots of things to still share and will get to that as time permits... Thank you for sticking with me this far, i hope you continue to come and visit my crazy postings! Many blessings and LOTS OF LOVE to you all!!!

To the end of a SWEET summer!

last weekend before school begins!!! WOW!! can't believe it's almost over.... the summer flew on by soooooo fast! it has been such a wonderful summer and DD1 enjoyed going to her daily summer pals program for the last month and a half... last week friday was their very last day of pals, and all of her group leaders were amazing with the 2nd graders and she personally enjoyed having these girls and guys lead her this summer... we knew an end of summer gift/treat would be the sweetest way of giving thanks for a fabulous summer!

me being on hiatus awfully forgot that it was the last week and had to whip out some treats the night before... guess i was extremely trapped in between my commitments, not paying attention to the days that just passed on by and assuming i still had time... think again Kris!! but like many other things that suddenly happen, i'll do my best to pull it off and in this case, i did!
very easy and quick gift giving... filled a cellophane bag with some yummy tummy treats... used SU!'s top not die to cut out some bag toppers and the SU! square lattice embossing folder for some texture.... printed out some words on the comp, cut it out with circle nesties that is layered on the scallop nesties... punched some flowers using scraps and tadduh!! all done... =D
just a close up of the bag toppers.... every year the grades get to choose a name for their group... DD1's group called themselves the "STUNNAHZ"... i can't remember the other ones except the menehunes (i think it was the kindergarten group) that stood out as such a cute name...

wow, can you believe i've posted every day this week?! i amaze myself... LOL... anyway... hubby is going fishing tonight and i'm planning on hitting as much crafting as my hands and eyes can handle... oh i hope it's a productive night! there is so much to do....

gonna be MIA tomorrow as it is the official last day of summer break and i've still got lots to do before DD1 goes back to school on Monday and the Lollipop Craft girls return from break as well... so i won't be posting any sharing (saving for next week), but come back here on Monday for a very SWEET celebration you DON'T want to MISS!!!! Really! you don't want to miss it!

going to bed now... thanks for popping in and thanks for all the beautiful comments this week and always!! Have a fantastic weekend friends!! see yah laters!!

There is a WINNER!!!!

Thank you to all of my wonderful friends for joining me with my 2 year blogaversary!! i still can't believe 2 years has gone by.... i've grown a lot (personally and crafting wise) since the beginning of this adventure and i have all of you to THANK because it was your inspirations, encouragement and support that keep me going day to day.... where i am today i would have never thought to be 2 years ago or even a year ago.... SO THANK YOU!!!!! Hugs to all!

now i know you're anxious to see the winner but i want to share this with you first.....

i randomnly went through my pix on the desktop and chose this creation from 2009....
then i chose this card from 2011..... coloring has gotten a tad bit better, thanks to tutorials and tips and techniques from you all... i'm not sure what differences i notice.... LOL.... i still (or atleast looks) the same.... whatcha think???

ok, and the winnnnnnner is........ MIMI!! congrats Mimi!! please email me to claim your candy and i will get that in the mail to you!!

Thank you everyone for playing along!! Cheers to another year!!

i'll be back in a bit to share my finished creation from yesterday.....

Last chance!

Hey peeps!! how are you all doing this fine Monday?! hope you all had a blast of a weekend!

quick stop in today to remind you there is still time to enter my blog candy giveaway! get your comments in by midnight today! take the link above and it will bounce you over to the candy post... winner will be announced tomorrow morning....

i have a few creations i'm working on as i write this... nothing really complete to share just yet, but i did finish prepping for the make n' take i'll be doing this saturday at Kahului Ben Franklin Crafts Paper Party (10am-2pm)... here's a sneak peek....
we'll be making a set of 4 tags at my table.... easy tags that can be whipped up in minutes... hmmm, am i missing 2 from this set?? i am, but remember this is only a sneak peek! you have to come down and join BFC saturday for the revealing of the other 2 OR just hold your horses until i post it.... oh i love suspense sometimes.... hehe! but really, if you're around the area come and join the fun at the Paper Party!! (please revert to Friday's post for more details)

short, quick and i'm outtie... gottah finish working on my creations so i have something to share with you tomorrow!!! ta-ta for now until i post again! =D

Local flowers....

Yes! i let Monday slide right past me... i was actually on the lazy craft train trying to recover from the weekend... LOL... ok, ok, from posting... hehe... besides, hubby and i did some summer cleaning and took a load of trash to the landfill and a bunch of cans and plastics to recycling... wow what a work out... haha! before we get onto my sharing, just want to let you all know that i'm being CASE-d this week at TGF FFCB for Mystery Monday (YIPPPEE, what an HONOR) so go on over and play along... =D

anyway... i have the greatest privilege to be working with some AWESOME products from a local craft store here on Maui known as Island Paperie... got to meet the owner, who is just the sweetest ever and i love her images (and everything else she has in her store)... while browsing in her store one weekend, she asked what type of crafts i did and so forth and then she asked if i could do up some samples with some of her stamps and products... how could i say NO! i am thrilled to be working with her images/products... and yes, my cards with the Island Paperie images (and some without) can be purchased at her store.... (i just need to fill up her stock, hehe)...
this orchid is from IPs tropical flowers(b) set that i'm currently using... it's a set of 4 flowers (orchid, plumeria, bird of paradise and ohia blossoms).... i didn't have any tropical papers in my stash (can you believe that) so i had to make do with whatever... i was trying to be realistic so i didn't want to mix the image with just any patterned paper... with my first attempt, i went with texture... embossed some white CS, added some raffia, a mahalo sentiment and some bling... and a little bit of glitter in the centers too... i thought it came out a little plain, but it does capture my color scheme and the embossing gives it a nice touch... not bad for a first try (or so i think, hehe)... whatcha think???

i do have one more that i made using another flower from this set, but i'll save that for tomorrow or the next day... i don't want to overload you with reading... hehe... and i'll share a bit more about IP... it's gonna be a busy 2 weeks for me so i'll pop in and post when i can... thanks for stopping by today and i hope you like this creation... a hui ho, until we meet again! MUAH!

Valentine's?!?!

or something like that!! It's Friday and i'm so excited to be going off on my mini vacay!!! Thank you so much everyone for your comments on my lil' monkey!! It was a great celebration in honor of boys' day... my son is indeed the first boy in 2 generations so my fam was totally excited...

i'm here today with an even bigger celebration... HAPPY 10th (5th) ANNIVERSARY to my WONDERFUL HUSBAND!!! Yes, we are celebrating 10 years of being together 5 of which we made it official... lots of ups and downs and run arounds, but still strong and still in love... so here is the card i made for him in honor of our special day!!!
does look like a valentine's card... hehe!! red and black is his favorite colors and it was our wedding colors too.... he's not too fond of glitter and bling, so i left a lot of that out and kept it pretty simple... i thought Miss Dressy Anya from TGF was a great gal to use, don't you think?!? the sentiment if from Hero Arts... hope he likes it!

also entering this into this week's ANYTHING GOES challenge over at ATS.... check out the official deets on their blog and play along with the challenge...

alrighty.... time for me to say goodbye for now.... i'll be back before you know it... don't forget to join me on Monday for another FAB challenge at Lollipop Crafts!! Have a SUPER TERRIFIC weekend!!!

Happy Boys' Day!!!

Happy 1st Boys' Day to my lil' guy!!! Mommy LOVES you SO much!

and another extended Happy Boys' Day to everyone who has a boy (or boy at heart) in their lives... whether it be a dad, grandpa, hubby, son, grandson, etc.... Hugs to you all!!

**I wanted to take a pix of the actual ad we put in the newspaper but i can't seem to get a good pix of it... Nonetheless, this pix is in the paper.... =D

Have a FAB thursday everyone and i think i can sneak in a post for tomorrow... another day of CELEBRATION!!!

Some Bunny (bunnies) a winner!

told yah i'd be back! =D

i want to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone that played along with my bunny hunt game... it was so much fun to hide these bunnies and read about your findings... so without further adieu here are the winners....
Blue pulled SHANIKULANI...

Blossom pulled DENISE...

Fudge pulled CREATIONS BY SHIRL...

Pixie pulled KAREN....

Congrats ladies!!! Please email me at krisnal5868 at hotmail dot com with your full name and address and i will send off your surprise prize to you... Oh and i'm sorry ladies but bunnies are not included... LOL... i can't part with my extended family... hehe...

Again, THANK YOU to all who played and be sure to keep an eye out for more blog candy giveaways... come back tomorrow for a peek at the last notepads i made for the craft fair... until then... Smile cause it's contagious!!

Oops!! Am I Late?

Hey everyone!! hope you all are enjoying your Good Friday!! thank goodness it's the weekend, although it will be super busy for me, i'm looking forward to it!

i've been having fun playing with challenges this week... i should be working on craft fair stuff, but haven't really been in the mood... mkaing cards and playing challenges are so much more fun! hehe... i'll get moving on the fair stuff this weekend... if that's possible...
i had this sweetie TGF Creeper Crew Tuesday for a long while and haven't had the chance to ink her up... i LOVE her "oops!" or "did i do that?" look and decided to use her for a fun belated card... i followed the CASE-ing of Stampcatwg over at TGF FFCB for Mystery Monday, using her sketch/layout on her card... LOVE it! and again i pulled out the fun and colorful papers from Bo Bunny's Vicki B.... the sentiment was computer generated and i used the scrap DPs to make my own flower by using my layered flowers sizzix die and crumbling it to give it a weathered look... this creation is being submitted for the following challenges:

1. TG FFCB Mystery Monday - Case Stampcatwg

2. ATS - Make your own flower(s)

oh and i got happy mail from my hubby!! an early anniversary present!! i just LOVE it! look...
after this pix was taken i snapped it right onto my phone! Thanks babes!

don't forget i have my SSS sign-ups happening (take the link above) so join in if you can... Thanks for coming by and leaving your wonderful comments, they bring so much smiles my way! and i HOPE you're having fun with the Bunny Hunt game!! So enjoy your Friday and i might be back tomorrow with a creation... a hui ho....

In(k) Distress!

OMGoodness!! Wednesday already!! i can't keep up with the days... it's another busy week for me... but when isn't it?!

new challenge over at TGF FFCB for Farm Fresh Friday... this week's challenge is to DISTRESS!! now that's something i need to learn how to do... and i don't just mean crafting... LOL... can you believe i've NEVER done any distressing on my creations before?! i love the effects of it, both just torn edges and ink distressing, but never tried it for myself... this challenge was a great push to "try" it....

and well, this is how my creation turned out... it was fun to roughen up the edges using the heart attack tool, but wow, when i decided to ink the edges as well, it got a little messy... told you i've never done this technique before... maybe a bit more practice and advice will do me justice!

anyway... i needed to make a birthday card for a party we are attending this weekend and used Oliver from TGF's OA Happy Day set to send the birthday boy some wishes... i apologize for the bad picture... the DP i used is really shimmery and i tried adjusting the exposure, but it wasn't working for me... if you enlarge the pix, you'll be able to see my attempt at distressing a little better... don't laugh ok, it's only my first time... LOL
here's the latest that's been happening in the craft room besides the card above... i had to finish packing up these Easter baskets for my kiddies and their cousins... thankfully i've succeed and now they are ready for Easter.... need to put together a few more Easter goodies for DD1's teacher, A+ leader and Kumu and i'm done!! Yay!!! wonder who's going to help me do that?

i'll be back tomorrow with another creation so until then.... have a beautiful Wednesday and thank you for dropping in!!! Smiles!

Shop to benefit Japan!

{Please scroll down for some easy treat creations! Thank you!!} Hey friends in Hawaii!! don't forget this Kokua Sale-abration happening tomorrow (April 9th) at all Ben Franklin Crafts stores (and participating ACE Hardware stores)... Please come help support, it is for a fabulous cause and a great win-win sale... Here's how everyone benefits.... 1. you can get all those craft supplies you were debating on with 20% off your total purchase. 2. a percentage of your purchase (total store purchase for the day in general) will be donated to the Red Cross of Japan. 3. you are supporting a LOCAL business!! everyone wins!! so come out and show your ALOHA spirit!! the difference begins with us! **See flyer for all the details** Mahalo and may we join hands and help!!!

Paper! Paper! and MORE Paper!

Hey, hey!!! i'm on another adventure of cleaning and organizing the crafty space!! yes, again! it's a never ending thing...

trying to hit section by section, which is absolutely impossible since i have things every where and not necessarily within a specific grouping... embellies here, embellies there... paper here, there and everywhere.... punches in this drawer and that... yah, i'm a mess....

so anyway, i am currently going through my mountains of paper and it seems to be over flowing... i'm running out of space.... i know, you can never have too much paper, but in my case, i can! LOL... SO, if you are interested in purchasing some paper, email me... papers are from various companies like DCWV, American Crafts, S.E.I, Doodle Bug and Bo Bunny, just to name a few... papers will be cut down to 6x6 sheets and i have them in many different themes, colors, new and older designs... some papers have a double or triple quantity...

Also, i have some sizzix texture plates that have been barely or never used at all that need to find new homes, email me if you want to know what i have....

Thanks! and i hope to be back later with a crafty post!!

Soon!

Alright... i know i said i had a lot to share... i still do.... but i've been MIA once again in hopes that i can get rid of this cold/sickness... this time around, it's got me not wanting to craft at all... i sit at my desk and my head just stays stuffy... usually i could do little things, but nope, can't even do that... so for the time being, i'm going to lay low (in other words lay in bed) and try and get better... once i'm feeling better i'll share the rest of the things i've been holding on to... =/

Dear Mr. Cold....

Please go away! I've tried everything to get rid of you but you're just SO stubborn and annoying if i may add. You make the day drag, food tasteless, sleeping uncomfortable and my mood irritable. Medicines won't cure you, vicks and cough drops do nothing, what will it take to just send you away?

Dear Ms. Sick and Irritable...

Too bad! Just deal with it!

Love,
Mr. Cold

Haha!!! Gottah atleast have a sense of humor when sick!! LOL... Take care, try not to catch what's been going around and i'll be back soon! miss you all!! =D

Mystery Challenge and Random Kreations

Happy Monday!!! Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!! It's a new week and a new Mystery Challenge at Club Anya... This week is featuring Angie... OMGoodness! hop on her blog and check out her creations if you have time... absolutely stunning! anywho, her challenge for us this week is "I {heart} Punches"! fabby challenge right?! here's my take on her challenge...
got a new purple pack of CS this weekend... had to play with it... the challenge is to use atleast 2 punches (borders, nesties, dies, etc.) my chosen 2 or 3 were MS scallop punch, Hi emboss/punch and fishy punch... love them fishies... different shades of purple made this card complete... and of course, stickles gg on her tail...

Here's some random cards i made over the weekend... found a stash of flowery DPs for these cards... kept it simple with meaning... i love the softness of these cards... not very busy and to the point...

not quite sure i like my challenge card... may do it over again... so i won't post it in the galleria just yet... finishing up another card for the FFF Sketch 8 Challenge so be sure to come back and check that out... Have a great day friends!