It's Release Day!

We made it!  It's our 7th Release and I'm so excited to hear back from all of you on how you like our stamps!  Can't wait to see all the samples in blogland too.

First of all, I have to give a BIG mahalo to Kris, our Guest Designer for this release!  Thanks Kris!  And to my girl Debi for always helping me out!  You rock!

Ok on to my last project.  Decided to go all out and make a Waterfall Mini album!  Found many tutorials online and on YouTube, so you can just do a google search for them or on YouTube for the instructions.  For some reason I love this WAAAAAY more than the original Waterfall card.

Here's the cover- honors goes to Katsura.  Do you like my red snapper?  I got it at a local store in downtown Hilo.  They import things from Japan- need to remember to check them out more regularly.  Unfortunately its too soon to get any of the small boy's day koi that comes with candy filled sticks that you can find around boy's day. I know we had a couple from past boy's days but can't seem to find them in my messy house. Thought about buying a regular one that you hang above your house, but those are waaaaay too big to fit in this photo!  So red snapper fish will have to do.

Picked this washi paper as the constant in the album.  Love the masculinity of it (is that a word?)  Next up is Yoshi- posed him in a somersault position so he looks like he's really tumbling!

Page 2 features an old favorite- Nobu! Yes, he snuck into this mini just to say hi!

The next page features Kenichi and his doggie...

And this last page features Keitaro!  He wanted to join in the fun too!

 

There's actually one more page behind Keitaro, but I didn't have any more small boy stamps that would fit!   Anyway, I'm thinking I can add on the photos on the back side of the pages and add journaling to the pages with the boys.  What do you think?

Ok so if you've been reading all of my posts, I didn't really answer the question of how I cheated in cutting out the images right?  You are probably thinking- are you ever going to answer that question?  Well, on the Katsura tag, I didn't cut out the string part of the fish.  It would've been too thin, and since I had placed him on a colored background, it looked funny with the white showing through... So I played around with my copic markers until I found the right color that was the same as the background and colored that space up to match.  I did the same for the area in between Kenichi and the doggie.  There!  Now you know my secret!

So hope you had fun with this release!  Can't wait to see what you all come up with!  Enjoy!  Be back soon with the Release 7 candy winners.

Here's Kenichi!

 Hi Everyone!  Back again for our last Introductory post for this release..  stop in tomorrow to find out who our Guest Designer is for this release!

As you already know, I try to give our images a name- mainly so that it's easier for me to identify and remember. It also gives me a chance to name them after friends and family or just names that I like.  Kenichi is the name of one of our friend's sons who is still a toddler.  Kenichi looks like a young boy, so I thought it matched him.

When I tried to find out the meaning of the name or backstory on why they gave their son that name, I found out that Kenichi means "Healthy and Strong".  All they wanted was for their child to be healthy and strong, which is the reason for that name.  Kenichi is healthy and strong- what more could parents want?  We haven't seen Kenichi since he was just a baby, so I'm sure he's much bigger now!

On to my project... I am having a blast distressing left and right.  Pretty soon my whole house will be distressed!  More on distressing tomorrow.  For now, let me just tell you about my project. After distressing the tag with my distress inks, I decided on using a stamp I haven't inked up before.  I got this stamp last year but never used it till now.  It's a wood stamp I got from Poppy Stamps- which I think is affiliated with Memory Box.  On the wood, it says "friendship", so I assumed it would also say that on the rubber.  After I stamped it, I wondered what happened to the "friendship"... I guess it was just the kanji cause "friendship" never showed up!  It's ok, I like it still, but thought that now I needed to explain it to you! I like that you can see the distress inks underneath the kanji letters too.  Embossed it with black Zing embossing powder so that it stood out.

I then stamped the bamboo shoots (Stampendous) using Versamark again and this time added bronze mica powder.  I thought it just needed something on the right side of the tag.  Had to stamp it 2xs before adding the mica.  It seemed to fill the space nicely. I tried to position the tag so that you can see the mica powder on the bamboo.

 And the star of the tag.. Kenichi. 

Kenichi is part of our kids and pets series along with Akemi.  I colored him in orange to balance out the tag. Can you see where I cheated coloring him?

So.. want to win Kenichi?  Just leave a comment on this post and make sure to follow all the candy rules.  This time, tell me if you had (have) a pet and what kind of animal it is.

Look Who's Coming Soon!

Boy oh boy!  We have a special all boy release coming your way!  You've showed us how much you loved our first boy- Nobu, so we have three more boys to share with you soon!  Introductory posts start tomorrow, so check back for more fun.