On a Ship with Stowaway

Ummm, its been almost a year since I posted! Well, I am going to be a lot more active, cause theres a few exciting things happening around here! Can't announce it yet, but I will  :) 

I made a few pages earlier this summer, and kinda love them so I wanted to share. I first ran into the Stowaway from Quick Quotes over a year ago at the scrapbook convention in Puyallup. I was all ready to buy it! The blues and browns in this paper were perfect to use for my research cruise. Unfortunately the convention was all sold out,  BOO HOO

 

 

Its ok though, I just bought it for my Nani ke Ola store! There are all sorts of goodies included. Papers, vellum quotes, and cardstock quotes too. I think I need to buy more collections, it makes it easy to combine papers.

 

I am also in love with my Lindys Stamp Gang Sprays. The Industrial Chic colors are still my favorite. I am not usually a brown person, I prefer bright colors, but the Steampunk Sepia has turned into a favorite. I also used the embossing powders on the shipwheel chippie from UmWowStudio.  

 

 

The vellum and cardstock pieces are all themed around adventure and travel. I loved the 4 words - Discover, Explore, Wander, and Dream. I wanted to accent these with some frames I cut with my Cameo. I also love sunsets and sunrises, which always reminds me to Dream. This page, as simple as it might seem, is probably one of my favorites in this album.

 

 

I almost used up that brown twine, almost!!!! There's a feeling of achievement when you use up all of a certain embellishment. Like this twine, it came with three colors, black brown and silver. Even if one gets used up, you better believe I will be at the store buying more! Well, I hope you like these pages, and if you love the blues of this collection, head on over to the Nani ke Ola store and pick it up, totally affordable and theres only a couple left.

Phew! A quick hello!

Hi Everyone!

It has been so long! My store has launched nicely, and I cant wait for CHA in Jan! For numerous reasons - first is of course to see all the new products, but also to just be warm!!!!! Disney will still have their winter magic going on and I would love to catch the end of that.

Anyways, part of owning my store, and distributing international brands in the US is being on the look out for new brands. I saw this one and immediately fell in love.

Take a look - its great. One is summer, and another is Christmas. May be a little late for Christmas, unless you are seasons behind, or even seasons ahead!!! I guess it depends on how fast you scrap haha. The summer collection is super cute though.

Enough of me babbling, go check it out! Brand new company, with a fresh fresh look.

Studio Tekturek

Splash Mountain Layout

Yay its the weekend!!!

Got another layout to show off. I am loving scrapbooking my So Cal trip. Some of my pages are just fun, like the Winnie the Pooh and SeaWorld. Today I am going to show off my Splash Mountain layout. This one was based on some challenges of course. The Scrappy Friends did it again, and I had fun putting this one together.
So the first of the scrappy friends (in no particular order)

Kristi's Recipe - wood, mixed alphas, and stripes
Rochelle's Theme - travel
Brenda's Sketch -  

 

 

And what I came up with.

 

Got a little creative with that recipe

Mixed alphas- it took a long time to find those fonts and the "Get Wet" sign. Love it though and it makes the page that much more

Wood- Theres a wood piece that the Good Times sign is based on, I painted over it with some white and a touch of blue. Also for wood the thorns that are on most of the page are cut from my wood paper. There's a wood log, and of course there's the wooden Splash Mountain sign. Come to think of it, there's a lot of "wood" in this layout.

 

The stripes I will admit are hard to see, the background green paper is striped. 

Hope you enjoy. I love it. 

 

Round and Round

Ahhh, it's been such a great summer so far!
My beans are starting to sprout. Now I understand why gardeners garden. My flowers are blooming and dying, and that is just sad. And the weeds. Ugh. But my vegetable! I love it. I love tending to those little veggies and getting to pick out a few tomatoes to go with dinner for the night. This whole veggie garden thing needs to be a regular habit for sure.

So, back to my layout. I didn't get a chance to scrap too much in July due to setting up my online scrap store. Plug plug, go check it out! Nani ke Ola Scrapbooking.  I am even looking for a design team. So if you want free stuff every month to play with, go check out this link. There is still about a week left to enter.

Ok, layout for real this time!
This one was part of the Paper Secrets Challenge. As soon as I saw the layout challenge I knew I had to do it. This layout was super great and pretty easy to work with.

Great layout!

And my interpretation

I had lots of fun with Queen & Co Washi tape, twine, and some glitter. It's a Disney layout, it has to have some glitter right?
And because I can't stand just plain white paper, I misted it with red. Seems to becoming a trend with my Disney layouts. White paper, red mist. And I love it.

Ok, You have a week to enter the Paper secrets Challenge, a week to apply for my Design team, and of course everyday to buy scrap supplies from my store. Go. Do it. And enjoy the upcoming weekend!

Design Team call out

Hey everyone

Just wanted to post this for more publicity!
I am looking for a design team for my new scrapbook store
Looking for 4 lovely creative types right now - you get free product, I get some advertising. its a win win situation!

More info can be found here.
Yep, started a new blog. I debated on just making this my store blog also, I even linked to it and everything. but I feel like I need a place to ramble sometimes. Hubby only listens somewhat when I ramble, so that's what the internet is for YAY
So I keep this one, for my own personal use, layouts, whatever life decides to throw at me.
And for more professional types, that's the other blog, and to make it even more confusing is I am using wordpress. Oi, just trying to broaden my horizons haha.

Well, go check out the design team call out. Go check out the store, Any preorders on the NEW items get 20% off before Aug 5th. Use code CHA2013.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, I know I did. Got to check out Adam Craig band. he puts on such a great show! I loved every minute of it.

I think I am done plugging stuff now. Chat later!

Pink "Dreams" Layout

Hi everyone!!

I have been MIA the past week or so. I would like to say its cause I have been stuffing my face with those Cheesey Biscuits, but hubby took them to work the next day and they were gone gone gone.
I have been busy though, I am proud to announce that I opened up my scrapbooking supply online store. Go check it out, Nani ke Ola, I am looking for those smaller designers that you can't just find at the local scrapbook store. At lease not where I live. I am totally loving ChicTags , and hope to bring in 7 Dots Studio by the end of August. They are on vacation now... I want a three week vacation in August! Who am I kidding, I am on a permanent vacation now.

Anyways, back on track.
Today I have a layout that I am in love with.

        This layout was inspired by the Color me Scrappy Challenge.  They had a sketch and a color challenge to go together.

 

 

These colors were so fun to mix and match! I looked through my paper stash and found a fun pink with a little bit of blue mixed in. The upper corner of the layout behind the "Dreams" title I painted on a bit more blue to have some fun with it.

       

 

 

The tag and Dreams title were cut out with my silhouette of course. I love that dang Silhouette. And now they have released a new stamp set! Now are able to make our own stamps on the Silhouette. I am so excited. And its on sale. To buy or not to buy...... oh why am I even pretending.

 

This was a lot of fun to make. I had some sequins sitting around that fell into the blue motif, and strung them up from the button. I was kinda imagining the kids mobile and a dream catcher. Now all it needs is some pictures.

 

Enjoy! Hope everyone is having some fun in the sun! Please please go check out my online store. Any feedback on the store is welcome also, constructive criticism   :)

Nani ke Ola  

 

Cheddary biscuity goodness

Wahoo it's time for pintester challenge #2!!!

If you haven't checked Sonja's Pintester out yet, you really need to. Sonja is hilarious and tells it how it is. I think we need more people like that. She hates baking but does it anyways, loves to drink and does that quite well from what I can tell from her blog, and does crafts cause its expected of her. Most of all, she tests out those famous pins on pinterest that we love to pin, just don't love to actually do.

Her first challenge was such a great hit, Sonja challenged us again, but this time to try one that she already tested. Well, when it comes to baking and drinking, I am IN!!! This one was much more successful than my first pintest - Painted rocks for the garden. If you are wondering, my garden is coming along so nicely!

I love everything about summer. Truly. I love the heat (though Seattle rarely gets above 80), long days, tans, and everyone seems to be in a better mood in general. Guess what else comes in the summer?!?! Movies in the park! Love them, and as soon as schedules come out in May I immediately add to my calendar the movies I want to go see. If you've never been to one, go! Screaming kids in costume, ignorant people in their high back lawnchairs sitting front row, and greasy truck food. Seriously, its fun. I load up the blankets, gather some food together picnic style, and if its doggie friendly I'll pick one of my creatures to go with me on a field trip.

Tonight its Moonlight Kingdom. Super excited. I haven't seen it so I hope its good. And need to get food together for it, so why not combine it with the pintest from Sonja. After scanning her list, I found one that sounded sooo incredibly yummy.

Imitation Cheddar Bay Biscuits from Red lobster.

Yep, that's right. Cheddar Biscuits. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Heres Sonja's original post.  The original recipe came from reddit. And its perfect for those people who like lots of pictures in their recipe book.

Hope no one is sensitive reading this blog.......


So, try it. And if the recipe didn't convince you, look at my pictures.

But, probably, my pictures won't help. The lighting in my kitchen is awful. so my pictures have a tint to it. And I cant figure out how to fix it in photoshop. apologies.


Believe it or not, I didn't have Bisquick at my house, Had to make a quick run to the store to pick some up, which was ok cause I needed to get some other goodies for the movie tonight.

So, the picture recipe didn't have any kind of size that the dough balls should be. So I just used all of it. Made 12 HUGE biscuits. Figured it didn't matter, its just me and hubby eating them no matter how small or big they are.

 

I added more cheese..... I couldn't help it. I love cheese. I am trying to go dairy free and am mostly successful except for cheese. I love it too much. There's a cheese shop 2 hours away in a town called Leavenworth WA. I will NOT admit to going there only to buy some cheese......

 

I may have dropped some cheese on the floor...... And the little creatures may have been looking for more cheese. At least I am not the only one addicted to the goodness of cheese.

  Oh, hey, look, barefoot and cooking in the kitchen.... What a cliché lol.

 

 

Don't forget the important part. The buttery seasonings that top the biscuit. I kinda adjusted a bit. I love garlic and basil. Sadly My Thyme and basil jars are the empty ones. Had just enough to put in the buttery seasonings. And I never measure spices when baking savory foods. So I cant tell you how much of each.

 

This pin was a huge SUCCESS!!!! and the best part is it was completely easy to bake and will give me mouth watering pleasure tonight at the movies. If they make it to the movies. I hear my hubby munching away on them as I type. Rather I hear him telling the creatures that they can't have any...

 

ENJOY and go BAKE!