Showcase Thursday~Clouds with Liquid Applique!

Happy Thursday everyone! It's Rosie here to share my latest fun technique/tip of how I've been making my clouds lately on my colored images.

Here's my step-by-step. :)

First, I color up the main part of my image, except the the grass area. Today I'm using Yumi with Birdie from the Peek-a-Boo Spring Collection.

Then I grab B000 (a light blue) and color the entire background in a circular pattern all the way down to where the grass starts. It doesn't have to be full, complete coverage. Lighter areas help give it a more sky appearance.

 

Next, I use this awesome stuff called Liquid Applique and I draw some clouds. You want to be careful to not add a thick layer of Liquid Applique, otherwise you will have some really puffy clouds.

The last step is to grab your heat gun, or in my case, a toaster because I can't find my heat gun, LOL! Heat from underneath the paper until it puffs up. Be careful not to over-heat the Liquid Applique or it will start burning and turning brown.

I hope you enjoy this fun way of making some cute, adorable clouds! It's very addicting!

Have a great day!

Rosie :)

Some news!

Morning everyone!

Hope you're all getting your projects together for our current color challenge.  Now most of you might think that the colors in our challenge are for Halloween and you might not want to play, but guess what?  You can use those colors to make non-Halloween cards.  If you scroll down to Sunday's post you'll see a few from Team Yumi doing just that.  Of course you'll also see some Halloween themed projects as well.  Wanted to give you an option other than Halloween for those colors.  Here's my example featuring Yeti Fumi...

Holiday Cheer with Yeti Fumi

I couldn't help adding in the blue, it was part of the papers I found that had a combination of black, purple and green.  I left the orange very minimal, but it still gives a nice bright touch to my holiday card. I hope I was able to give you an alternative idea for our challenge in case you don't want to create a Halloween themed card.  When you're done with it upload it here, remember to follow the rules else your project might not make the cut.

Before I sign off I'm excited to announce that Yumi & Fumi Handmade now has a company gallery at Splitcoast Stampers!!  Woo Hoo!!  We're really excited about that and have already started to upload our projects.  We hope you'll join us by doing the same.  When you upload to SCS please make sure to use keyword: yumifumi (no spaces). Click HERE for the link to the gallery.

Have a great day!!

xoxo,
Leanne

Challenge #27~COLOR COMBO: Orange, Green, Purple, & Black!

Happy Sunday everyone!! How are all of you? Today we welcome another new challenge at Yumi and Fumi Handmade! Before we get to that, you may want to scroll down to see if you were a winner and Top 3 from our previous Challenge #26.

Before linking your card please read our new challenge guidelines by clicking HERE. Don't forget that we now allow ANY stamped image!!! You HAVE to use a hand-colored image on your project...no "sentiment only" cards allowed. However, if you use a Y&FH image your name will be added a maximum of 1 extra time after the last name in Inlinkz. Remember also....only 1 entry per person.

What's up for grabs? The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade online store and our Top 3 will receive a 10% discount!!

Now on to Challenge #27! The challenge for the next two weeks is a color challenge and perfect for Halloween for those of us who live in the U.S. 

ORANGE, GREEN, PURPLE, and BLACK!

  Here are some amazing samples from Team Yumi to get you inspired!!

Cebelica

...using Fumi with Gift

Corinne

...using AJ Lion 

 

Lisa

...using Yumi

Olivia

...using Yumi

 

Rosie

...using Chasezilla

 

We hope you will join in our "Color" challenge using ANY image you like! We can't wait to see what you make!! Remember, only 1 entry per person. You have until Friday, November 8th to join in our challenge. We'll announce the winner and top 3 picks on Saturday, November 9th!

Good Luck everyone!!

Hugs!

Team Yumi

CHALLENGE #26 WINNER & TOP 3

**Have you gone through our combined blog hop with Perfect Paper Crafting yet?  If not, you have until Monday, Oct 28th to do so.  Click HERE to get started and don't forget to leave a comment on each of the participants blogs for a chance to win some awesome prizes... Happy hopping!! ^.^  

Good morning everyone!!

I hope you're all having a wonderful day and eager to start the weekend.  On behalf of our team, I'd like to say WOW & Mahalo for all the beautiful entries to our Anything Goes, Challenge #26.  We had a total of 46 entries, however 9 had to be disqualified for various reasons, as beautiful as they were it had to be done. :(  Please be sure to read our challenge info before linking up.  We did have 3 entries that used a Yumi & Fumi Handmade image (YAY!) so they will each receive 1 extra entry in to the drawing which brings our total of entries to 40!!  THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!!  We hope you'll keep coming back. :)

One more announcement before I share the winner and Top 3.  Regarding claiming winner prize & Top 3 coupon:

Winners: You must claim your prize within 2 weeks otherwise it will be forfeit, you will still receive your winner blog badge.  There will be a "claim before" date posted. 

Top 3: You must claim your coupon within 48 hours or before the following challenge starts as our coupons have an expiration date.  There will be a "claim before" date posted.  If you contact us after the expiration date it will no longer be valid, however you will still receive your blog badge. 

Now on to the results.  Because there is NO WAY I could choose I had Random.org help me:

CHALLENGE #26 WINNER - KALYSTO

Congratulations Kalysto, you are the winner of a $10 coupon to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade online store!!  Woo Hoo!!  To claim your prize please email Renate' (yumi@yumifumihandmade.com)

** In the subject line please make sure to copy & paste the following: I’m a winner - CH#26! 

  **A reminder you must claim your prize before 11/9/13.

You also get to choose one of the awesome badges below to be personalized with your name. Please include the badge number in your email to Renate' and she'll personalize it and email it back to you so that you can display it on your blog!  Congratulations!!

 

 

Next up are the Top 3.  Again, because there were too many to choose from I had Random.org help:  Here they are in no particular order:

 

Karen I

Lis-M 

 CAROLE

Congratulations everyone! You will all receive a 10% discount code to the Y&FH online store!  To claim your code please email Renate' (yumi@yumifumihandmade.com).  

**A reminder you must claim the coupon before 11/9/13.

    ** In the subject line please make sure to copy and paste the following: I’m TOP 3, CH#26! 

 

You also get to choose one of the awesome badges below to be personalized with your name.  Please include the badge number in your email to Renate' and she'll personalize it and email it back to you so that you can display it on your blog!  Congratulations!!

 

 

 

We hope you'll come back for another fun challenge that starts tomorrow.  

Have a fabulous Saturday!!!

Aloha!!

Leanne

Thursday Share

 

 

I love dabbling with different products....mixing this and stamping that...and am always looking for fun and creative ways to use all of the products I've accumulated over time.  With my daughter recently having gone away to college I like to send her a note every once in a while and as easy as it is to make her a card, it's too much fun to sit and make her some interesting "stationary."

 

I started with a plain piece of college ruled notebook paper and stamped Yumi and Fumi.

 

Chinese symbols for child, mother, and love were added.  A foam heart was inked, then stamped.

 

Washi tape was added, along with a few hearts from a Heidi Swap stencil.

 The sentiments are from a TGF set.



Hello was stamped, then Gelato's and distress stains were applied.

 

Watercolor pencils and doodling finish the note paper.


I'm sure my daughter is happy to receive her gussied up notebook paper, but I'm thinking she's probably looking for a little more "green" to go along with it...if you know what I mean.

I hope you had fun seeing another way to use these adorable Y&FH stamps and you've been inspired to create a project of your own, if so....we'd love for you to share it with us on our Y&FH FB page.

Lastly, don't forget that the winner of every Yumi & Fumi Handmade bi-weekly challenge wins a $10 g/c to the Y&FH on-line store. It's a win/win for everyone...but you must enter for your chance to win.

Happy Thursday,

have fun creating!

We're Hoppin' with Perfect Paper Crafting!!!

Aloha Everyone, 

Today Rosemary, Denice, Renate' & I are representing Yumi & Fumi Handmade and teaming up with the amazing Design Team from Perfect Paper Crafting (the makers of the Perfect Layers rulers) for a fun-filled and creative blog hop.  If you just hopped over from Kim O'Connell's Paper Perfect Designs blog then you are hoppin' in the right direction.  If you just happened to stop by here and you'd like to start from the beginning...head on over to where it all begins...at Laura's/Perfect Paper Crafting blog and git yer hop on!

 In case you get lost here's the line up:

Laura & Perfect Paper Crafting - http://blog.perfectpapercrafting.com/

Yumi & Fumi Handmade- http://yumifumihandmadecrafts.blogspot.com/

Eva - http://craftingthisandthat.blogspot.com/

Rosemary - http://rosemaryscreations.blogspot.com/

Pam - http://expressionswithheart.wordpress.com/

Denice - http://being-craft-de.blogspot.com/

Patti - http://www.cherisheachpreciousday.blogspot.com/

Leanne - http://liloshaggymoto.blogspot.com

Kim - http://www.kimoconnell.com/

Renate' -   http://hapagirlren.blogspot.com/

Roxie - http://paperscaper.blogspot.com/ 

Did I mention there will be prizes?  You bet!  Perfect Paper Crafting is giving away a very generous $50 gift certificate to one lucky hopper and we're giving away a single stamp from our Kigurumi series (a value of $40) to 4 lucky hoppers:

Prize 1 - Yumicorn (It could be you)

Prize 2 - Fumi Panda (It could be you)

Prize 3 - AJ Lion (It could be you)

Prize 4 - Chasezilla (It could be you)

All you have to do to be in the contest is to leave a comment on everyone's blog.   That easy!  ^.^  You have until Oct 28th, 12am PST.

This just in:
**You can use the code, YFH5%, for a discount on your order at PerfectPaperCrafting.com**

We decided to highlight each of the Kigurumi Kids images & a Perfect Layers tool on their blogs and the Perfect Paper Crafting team is spotlighting a random Yumi & Fumi Handmade image plus a Perfect Layers tool.  Here are some snippets of what you'll find as you hop through the line-up and end up at one of the Y&FH teams blogs:

Rosemary:

Denice:

Leanne:

Renate':

Are you intrigued?!  hahaha!!  Well in order to see what we made you'll have to go through the hop.  Now it's time to head on over to a Eva's blog.  She's very familiar to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade ohana and we're so happy to have her back as an ambassador for Perfect Paper Crafting.  Before you hop to Eva's blog make sure you leave us a comment.   Happy hopping!!

Hugs,

Rosie, Denice, Renate' & Leanne

#26 Anything Goes Reminder Post

Happy Sunday!  Last week you saw some wonderful inspiration from Team Yumi for our ANYTHING GOES challenge and from the looks of it, quite a few of you were inspired and decided to join us...WOOT! The more the merrier!!

It's Team Fumi's turn to hop on the ANYTHING GOES bandwagon with our mid-challenge reminder post showing that Y&FH stamps are seriously cute, any way you color and use them!

Blankina has used the adorable Yumicorn
on her card with birthday wishes.
 Yumicorn in blue?!! Awesome!

Kathy has us thinking of warmer weather by using

 both Hang Loose and Tiki from the Tiki Surf Set.

Melissa is sharing a Halloween inspired card
 using the not-so-scary Fumi Panda.

Sheena has altered a gift card tin using Fumi with Gift 

which is perfect for the upcoming holidays.

  

 Denice has used Chase on this Great Gatsby inspired tag
with his "white suit, silver shirt and gold tie..."

Leanne is sharing her shabby chic acrylic frame 

featuring a vintage looking Fumi with Bear Backpack

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For more details on each of these projects, please visit the DT's individual blogs by clicking on their names.

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Challenge 26 Details:

• You can now use ANY stamped image in our bi-weekly challenges.
• As a bonus for using a Y&FH image, your name will be added a maximum of one (1) extra time after the last linked entry.
• All projects/cards must have a hand-colored image, "sentiment only" cards are NOT allowed.
• One (1) entry per person.
• All of the challenge rules can be found HERE.
• The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade online store. Our Top 3 will receive a 10% discount code to be used in the Yumi & Fumi Handmade online store.

We would love to have you join our Anything Goes challenge which runs 10/13/13 through 10/25/13. Feel free to scroll down or click HERE to find the original challenge post and link your entry.  The winner and Top 3 picks will be announced on Saturday, October 26th.

Good Luck to all of the entries,

A Happy Anniversary Wish and Some News

Good afternoon everyone!

I'm popping in to wish Island Scrapbooking in Hilo, Hawaii a Happy 10th Anniversary and to happily announce that they are now carrying our Yumi & Fumi Handmade stamp line!  We are very excited and blessed about that!!

If you're in the area, be sure to stop by between 10am - 2pm, sounds like they are going to have a big, fun party as only a 10th anniversary should be celebrated!!  Wish I could be there!! :'( 

Michele, owner of Island Scrapbooking LLC & me

Michele, owner of IS, and I chatted on the many occasions I "just happened to be in the neighborhood" visits to her cute store and on one such visit she mentioned the 10th anniversary approaching in October.  She also found out that I was part owner of Yumi & Fumi Handmade and was interested in possibly introducing our line to her customers at her anniversary party.  Boy I was beyond ecstatic as I had not told her anything about our line.  Thank you to the little birdy that mentioned it to her.  I was super excited to pack all of the stamps she ordered and added some of our samples.  I also wanted to send her a little thank you card using a combination of a Y&FH image and some of her products...

Happy Anniversary - Summer Fumi

Here is the card I sent her featuring Summer Fumi and on her t-shirt the smallest honu from our Tiki-Surf set.  I combined that beautiful background paper, the Happy Anniversary laser cut phrase and laser cut flower in her hair, all products from Island Scrapbooking to create this super CAS card. Don't our stamps go wonderfully with the products in her store?  :)   I almost kept this card, but knew that it was going to a good home. :)  If you happen to be in the area please stop by, say hi and take some pictures.  Post them on our FB page so we can see!!  ^.^

Sending happy wishes and congratulations to Michele on a really amazing milestone.  Hau`oli la Ho'omana'o!  Cheers to many more!!

Mahalo for stopping by today, have a lovely crafty day and don't forget you have until Friday to link up to our Anything Goes challenge.

Hugs,
Leanne

Challenge #26~ANYTHING GOES!

Happy Sunday everyone!! Today is the start of another fabulous challenge! But before we get to that, you may want to scroll down to see if you were a winner and Top 3 from our previous Challenge #25.

Before linking your card please read our new challenge guidelines by clicking HERE. Don't forget that we now allow ANY stamped image!!! You HAVE to use a hand-colored image on your project...no "sentiment only" cards allowed. However, if you use a Y&FH image your name will be added a maximum of 1 extra time after the last name in Inlinkz. Remember also....only 1 entry per person.

What's up for grabs? The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade online store and our Top 3 will receive a 10% discount!!

Now on to Challenge #26! The challenge for the next two weeks is a pretty easy one:

ANYTHING GOES!

  Here are some amazing samples from Team Yumi to get you inspired!!

Cebelica with a Gift Bag

...using Fumi with Gift

  Front of Gift Bag

Back of Gift Bag:

Corinne with a Card

...using Summer Chuckles

Lisa with a Mini Composition Notebook

...using Fumi with Messenger Bag
 

Olivia with a Tag

...using Winter Yumi

Rosie with a Bookmark

...using Fumi with Gift

 

We hope you will join in our "Anything Goes" challenge using ANY image you like! We can't wait to see what you make!! Remember, only 1 entry per person. You have until Friday, October 25th to join in our challenge. We'll announce the winner and top 3 picks on Saturday, October 26th!

Good Luck everyone!!

Hugs!

Team Yumi

Add your direct link below.  Mahalo for joining our challenge!!

Challenge #25 - Winner and Top 2

Aloha everyone!

I want to thank the awemazing crafter's who participated in our Photo Inspiration challenge.  It wasn't the turnout we had anticipated, but we're so happy with the awesome projects that were shared.  

Before I go on, we'd love to hear some feedback on what we could do to boost participation to our challenges.  Leave a message in the comments section.  Thanks!

Now on to the more important stuff.  There were four entries however one was disqualified.  As amazing as it was we could not make an exception else it would contradict our rules.  We also had new participants and one of our very first under 10 years old crafter!!   

So for Challenge #25 results we have a winner and a Top 2.

CHALLENGE #25 WINNER - INDY

 

Congratulations Indy, you are the winner of a $10 coupon to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade online store!!

  Woo Hoo!!  To claim your prize please email Renate' (yumi@yumifumihandmade.com) by Monday.

  

** In the subject line please make sure to copy & paste the following: I’m a winner - CH#25! 

 

You also get to choose one of the awesome badges below to be personalized with your name. Please include the badge number in your email to Renate' and she'll personalize it and email it back to you so that you can display it on your blog!  Congratulations!!

 

Next up are the Top 2.  Thank you ladies for your participation!!  Here they are in no particular order:

 

Suzie McFloozy 

Eleanora (9 years old)

Congratulations everyone! You will all receive a 10% discount code to the Y&FH online store!  To claim your code please email Renate' (yumi@yumifumihandmade.com) by Monday. 

 

  ** In the subject line please make sure to copy and paste the following: I’m TOP 2, CH#25! 

 

You also get to choose one of the awesome badges below to be personalized with your name.  Please include the badge number in your email to Renate' and she'll personalize it and email it back to you so that you can display it on your blog!  Congratulations!!

 

 

 

We hope you'll come back for another fun challenge that starts tomorrow.  

Have a fabulous Saturday!!!

Aloha!!

Hugs,

Leanne

A Thursday Throwback and Tutorial with Yumi and Fumi

Happy Thursday Everybody! It's Sheena of Team Fumi here today sharing a little project featuring our namesake Yumi & Fumi stamps from the first release.

Now, most of the time, I make cards. But every now and then I branch out and do a little altering. One of my favourite (and practical) objects to alter are notebooks. Despite being a techie, I DO like having written reminders of my to-do lists or, when travelling, a little journal to record those memorable moments.

Since I AM heading out on a little trip next week, I was inspired to create and share with you these altered miniature composition notebooks. They are perfect for writing down your packing list, important contact numbers and for quickly journalling all the fun anecdotes to go with your vacation photos for scrap-booking once you return home.

Supply List:

• miniature composition notebook (from your local dollar store or office supply store). These measure approximately 3.25 x 4.5 inches
• coordinating patterned papers, cut to fit the covers of the notebooks. You will need four pieces per notebook. Note that the pieces you will use for the inside covers should be cut just a fraction narrower than the cover (or you can trim after adhering with a craft knife). 
• extra paper from which to punch page tabs
• coordinating ribbon: two pieces. One for the cover (measure 1.25 inches longer than the cover to give room to adhere) and one for a placeholder (measure 2.5 inches longer than the cover to adhere and protrude from the notebook)
• double-sided tape, small glue dots
• coloured, stamped image of your choice
• any other embellishments you might wish to add
• corner rounder punch (or craft knife) if your notebook has rounded edges
• tab punch (or any other die cut/punch to make the tabs to divide your  notebook into sections)
• stamp and/or die cut to create a bookplate for the inner cover

Step 1: Gather your notebooks and rubber stamps.

Step 2: Cut your patterned papers down to size, rounding the edges if necessary. If the pattern on your paper clearly has a directional orientation (like my text paper), be sure you round the edges correctly!

Step 3: Be generous with the two-sided tape on the back of your papers to keep the edges from curling up.

Step 4: Line up the edges of the papers with the edges of your notebook and apply, pressing firmly to adhere.

Step 5: Cover the edges of the paper nearest the spine binding with the smaller pieces of ribbon. I like using just a couple of tiny glue dots to adhere the ribbon.

Step 6: Cut your coordinating papers for the inside covers. Again, remember to round the correct edges of the papers if they are directional. For these, I did not have to worry so much about that.

Step 7: I like the added touch of a little book-plate on the inside cover so you can write your name and contact info in case you lose your notebook OR so you can write the location and date of your trip!

Step 8: Before you adhere the papers to the inner cover, you will want to affix the ends of the ribbons from the cover AND one end of your place-holder ribbon (to the top edge of the back cover).

Step 9: Line your inner covers with the patterned papers.

Step 10: Punch out the tabs for dividing your notebook into sections from your left-over papers or additional coordinating papers. Score at the half-way point and apply double-sided tape to the insides of the tabs.

Step 11: Add your tabs to the pages of your notebook.

Step 12: Decorate the front of your notebook! I kept these notebooks nice and simple, with images coloured to match the papers and a little tab, but you could add assorted embellishments or ephemera to suit your taste.

So, there you have it! I'm glad you made it to the end of my detail heavy tutorial. If you are inspired to make your own altered notebook OR to create a project using my choice of throwback images (our very own Yumi & Fumi) be sure to share them on the Yumi & Fumi Handmade Facebook Fan page or to leave a comment on this post with a link to your own blog post or online gallery!

As always, thanks for taking the time to visit us here at Yumi & Fumi Handmade!