Introducing... Sakura-chan

Hello there friends!  Our new release images are so sweet and perfect for any baby projects you may have!  Totally wish I had these when my daughter was born!  But I can still use these cuties for my scrapbooking projects and they are good sized for making your own pocket scrapbooking cards.

Let me just say that this image was not named after anyone I know.  I just thought that since she was being born out of a cherry blossom, I wanted to call her Sakura.

I have to say, that I'm a little partial to our first image from this release.  My family has a lot of girls.  I have one sister (and one brother), I have a daughter, my brother has two daughters and his wife has two sisters, my sister has a sister in law and two nieces!  So let's just say we don't have too many males in our family.  You get the picture right?  OK on to the project!

I decided to revisit the good old gatefold card. I keep forgetting about this style card and thought it was a good layout for my project.  Since I wanted the card to be super girly, I selected some very light pink washi paper by Hanko Designs.  I love this paper!  I guess pastels always remind me of babies.

After I colored and cut up Sakura-chan, I die cut a sakura from my Lifestyle Crafts nesting dies.  And that's prety much it!  Easy peasy!

Here's a closer look at Sakura-chan.

This image reminds me of my daughter's baby luau.  For our centerpieces, my Aunty Jan made these cute Japanese girls from glass vases, styrofoam balls, and washi paper!  Kinda reminds me of Sakura-chan now that I look at it.

Do you want a chance to win Sakura-chan?  If so, here's what you have to do:
1)  leave a comment on THIS POST by 11:59pm HST on 05/31/14; and
2)  tell me what kind of project you would use this image on!

Check back tomorrow for another intro..

A Very Special Delivery- Release #23 Coming Soon!

Can't wait to share with you our new release images!  Here's a peek at what's to come...

These images are perfect for baby cards, announcements, and backgrounds!  Stop by this week to catch our previews and enter to win our blog candy!

Happy Mother's Day!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Mother's Day to all the Mommy's out there and especially my mom!!  I decided to try not to be late again like I normally am in making cards this year.  I bought this Mom die by Simon Says Stamp especially so I could make Mother's Day cards!  I love the font used- my favorite Mom die by far.  It also cuts out very nicely and doesn't stuck in the die.

I decided to use Harumi  since she looks like she's lying down on top of the word.  She's one of my favorite images.. I think its cause she's pretty easy to color up and is in such a cute pose.

I decided to go with purples this year because we are starting to plan our trip to Japan next year (yay!). We are hoping to catch the wisteria season which are commonly purple.  I really hope we time it right!

Here's the inspiration for my card...  check out the other photos here...

Hope you have a great Mother's Day!  Treat your mommy's good today!

Happy Boy's Day!

Just about 2 years ago we released Katsura!  This is still my go to image for Boy's Day since he's carrying the traditional koi that is hung over your house if you have boys.  I haven't colored up this image in a very long time, so it was nice to see my old pal again!

Decided to do a gatefold card... Haven't done one of those in a long time either! Love the washi paper used on the card by Hanko Designs.  It's very masculine and nice to use as a background since its not that busy.

I had to pull reference on how to color up the koi since I haven't done it in awhile.  Do you ever do that?  I have to do that a lot for our images since my sister takes a lot of care and attention to traditional Japanese ways, so I try to do the same.

Hope you have a great Boy's Day! 

Special Delivery Coming Soon!

Can you guess what our next release will be?

Check back on 05/25/14 for the big reveal!

Winners!

Hi Everyone!  Thank you for sharing your wedding and graduation memories with me.  I had fun reading all of them!

Just to show my age.. Project Grad was a joke when I was graduating... I think they tried, but only 4 people showed up!  After that it became a big thing that every HS was doing.  But then again, our class was the trouble making class, so I don't think we would've gone to it anyway.  I remember going to about 3 grad parties that night and ended up at my buddy Les', who pretty much shut down the street with Ho'aikane playing out of her garage.  I think we missed the whole thing, but was there for the "after party".  Then it was a blur resulting in a lot of people getting "sharpie'd" that night.

Most memorable wedding memory?  Hmmm.. I won't bore you with details of my wedding, so I'll pull from my wedding videography experience (bet you didn't know that I was a videographer huh?).. it has to be the wedding that when asked if anyone had objections to the wedding, the mother of the groom stood up and gave a big speech about why the couple shouldn't get married.  Bride crying and everything.

Or maybe its the wedding when the maid of honor got drunk, made the bride mad and the bride punched her out and got arrested!

Yes, I've seen it all!!  LOL!

So now that you had a good laugh, time to announce the winners!

Wedding: Christine
Graduate: Pam K

Congrats ladies!  Please email me at sisterstampsllc@gmail.com with your mailing address. And thanks everyone for playing!  Don't forget to check Linda's You Tube Channel later to see if you won her candy giveaway!

It's Release Day!

Hi Everyone!  Just a little reminder that today is release day for our Wedding and Graduate images!  Hope you enjoyed our previews!  Will be back later with the blog candy winners!