Challenge #16 - Anything But a Card

Good morning and a Happy Mother's Day to all!  We at Yumi and Fumi Handmade wish you all the best and hope you have a lovely day.

Today starts a new challenge for the next two weeks.  For this challenge we'd like you to create Anything But a Card!  That's right, you can submit anything except a card.  3-D projects, tags, altered crafts and bookmarks count, just remember if it's a card save it for the next challenge.  Today Rosie and I will share our creations with you to activate your creative juices.  For some of you it might not be necessary, but there are some of us who need a little inspiration.  :) 

A reminder about our rules...
The rules can be found in our Challenge info tab.  Click here or click on the tab up top.  They are pretty straight forward and easy to follow, we'd really dislike to remove your link because you didn't follow the rules, so please before you link make sure it qualifies.  The winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to our online store.  That's right, you get to choose what you want!  Yay!  And we can't leave out our top 3, they will receive a 10% discount to our online store. 

One of the fun parts is choosing an image.  We require an image for our challenges.  We are a stamp company afterall. :)  Use a Yumi & Fumi Handmade stamp in your project and you will be entered twice into the drawing.  We realize some of you might not own one of our stamps so we've got a list of some fantastic stamp companies that you can use.  If you have a Sister Stamp, La-La Land Crafts, The Greeting Farm or our newest addition, Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps, feel free to use them.  They won't count twice, but you'll qualify to be entered in the drawing.  Cool yea?!  We hope you'll consider playing along.  :)

Okie dokes is sharing time.  First up is Rosie with the cutest 4x4 pizza box I've seen in quite some time.  Peeking out  from the top of the box is AJ w/ Dragonfly.

Rosie using AJ with Dragonfly:



Isn't it cute?!  To see how she put this one together hop on over to her blog post.  Oh I see some yummy Simple Stories papers and look at that bow!  How adorable is AJ?  And look how cool that dragonfly sparkles!  Way awesome!  Great job Rosie!!   Next up is me with a 2-drawer box with an easel flap.  Just in time for Mother's Day...

Leanne with Fumi with Gift:



I know you're probably saying Hey! That's a card!  Actually it's not, it's part of the design.  Without anything on top it would just be a plain ole' set of drawers.  :) 

Now it's your turn!  We're looking forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations coming in for the next two weeks.  Challenge #16 - Anything But a Card ends next Friday, 5/24 at noon, pst. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  For all the mother's, mother figures, aunts, grandmothers, mother-in-laws, friends we wish you a day full of joy spent being treated like a queen!  Enjoy!!

Hugs,

Rosie & Leanne

Winner and Top 3 for Challenge #15

Happy Saturday everyone! All I can say is WOW...there were some fabulous entries for Challenge #15 which was to make a SHAPED CARD FOR MOM. It's always fun to see how everyone interprets a challenge and I have to say I was very IMPRESSED! Thank you to everyone who participated with such creative and awesome cards.

There can only be one winner of the $15 gift certificate to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade store, and using random.org, the winner of Challenge #15 is ...

BLANKINA

The Top 3 used some spectacular shapes on their cards!  Each of you will receive your own badge to put on your blogs as well as a 10% coupon code to use in the Yumi & Fumi Handmade store. In no particular order:

Henriette

Karen I.

Linda T.

Please send an email to fumi@yumifumihandmade.com to claim your prize/code, and in the subject line please type: WINNER CH#15 or TOP3 CH#15. Hope these personalized  badges created by Renate' make you smile, I know I did when I saw them. 

Tomorrow starts the beginning of a new challenge here at Yumi & Fumi Handmade, which I can't spill the beans about, you'll just have to stop back to see what it is and to see a bit of eye candy from the DT....win/win, right?!! We all know there's only one way to win and that is to enter! Hope everyone will join us.
Denice

Friday's Where's Yumi & Fumi Featured

Hey everyone!

Happy Aloha Friday!!

Today I'd like to share this beautiful card just in time for Mother's Day created by Karen Inouye  featuring Yumi Peace Sign.  I think it's perfect for today's featured card.

Love the domed shape and the gorgeous accents, including the paper pieced kimono and her coloring is fabulous!!   Congratulations Karen!  Please grab our badge below and we hope you display it on your blog. 

Want to be featured on our blog and receive this adorable badge?  Join our challenges, post your cards and projects on your blogs, share on our Facebook page, and upload to Pinterest.  You can also leave a link in our comments section.  If you weren't featured today, no worries, there is plenty of time to be.  We'll be searching the web and maybe you'll be the next one on Friday's Where's Yumi & Fumi Featured.

Have a fabulous Friday and stop by tomorrow for some news regarding our winner and top 3 from Challenge #15!!

Hugs,
Leanne

Shaping up for Mother's Day - Challenge #15

Morning everyone!

A reminder that you have until tomorrow to enter our current challenge, Shaped card for Mother's Day.  Link up your cards HERE for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to our online store.  We've seen some pretty great ideas for shaped cards so far and boy did our team really take this challenge to heart and create some beautiful cards too.  If you didn't get a chance to see what Rosie, Eva and Denice shared just click on their names to hop on over to their blogs and find out.  They did a FABULOUS job!

Today Sandie and I will be sharing our shaped cards just in time for Mother's Day.  We all know Mother's Day can represent any Mother figure in your life.  It could be your mom, grandmothers, aunts, friends, girlfriends, even your in-laws or that special lady who you couldn't have become the person you are today without their love and support...  First up is Sandie...

Sandie Dunne featuring Fumi :

Isn't it beautiful?!!  I always hate following Sandie, always makes me want to fiddle more with my card.  LOL.. But for today I decided I'm happy with it.  I don't think I could add anything more with that patterned paper!  LOL!!

 

Leanne Poe with Fumi with Messenger Bag:

We hope we've inspired you to get crafty and break out of that shell and go for something different. You have until tomorrow at noon (pst) to enter.  If you don't have a Yumi & Fumi Handmade stamp yet feel free to use any image from our friends at Sister Stamps, La-La Land Crafts, The Greeting Farm and newly added Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps.
The winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to our online store.

Follow us on Pinterest and Facebook.  Click on the icons on our side bar for easy access.  Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a terrific day!

xx
Sandie & Leanne

Spread the Love Winners

Goooood Morning!!

We hope you all had a great weekend.  We were working hard on our next new release and look forward to sharing them with you soon! :)

Whew!!  Today we are excited to announce the Grand Prize winners from our Spread the Love with Yumi & Fumi Handmade event.  Before we share the news we'd first like to thank everyone that participated, shared and posted on their blogs, Facebook pages or by word.  We are so appreciative of all the feedback, love and support you all have shown us and we are excited to welcome our new fans to our ohana.  We learned a lot for our first time and look forward to future events like this one.  Thanks to you our event could not have been a success.  We really wished we could have given all the participants a prize but there can only be one winner per event/prize. 

Now on to the winners...

The first event was our Facebook weekly Giveaways, here are the 4 winners:

Week #1 - Anita A.

Week #2 - Ruby T.

Week #3 - Heidi M.

Week #4 - Amy J.

Congratulations to all 4 winners!  They were already notified via email and if they have not received their prize yet they will shortly.

The 2nd event was the Scavenger Hunt.  We had a total of 5 contestants who participated in the first round so they became the only ones eligible for the contest.  They had to correctly answer all the questions messaged to them each week.  Each question was awarded 1 point if answered correctly, 0 points if not and we threw in a bonus question worth 5 points.  The maximum total points to be earned was 25.  After tabulating all the points we had a three-way tie who all scored 25!  We used random.org to pick the winner. 

Congratulations to Nicole Mullen you are the winner of the Scavenger Hunt grand prize!!! 

**Please email Leanne at Fumi(at)yumifumihandmade(dot)com with your mailing address so we can get your prize out to you.

The last event was our Anything Goes with Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog challenge.  We had 5 contestants submit some really cool, cute and pretty projects.  We had 3 cards, a bookmark and a shabby chic tag.  It was a really hard decision to pick one, but we did narrow it down to one. 

Congratulations to Sheena B you are the winner of the Anything Goes with Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog challenge.  

**Please email Leanne at Fumi(at)yumifumihandmade(dot)com with your mailing address so we can get your prize out to you.

If you weren't a winner this time around don't worry.  We've still got our regularly scheduled bi-weekly blog challenge going on right now.  For all the details click HERE.  Up for grabs is a $15 gift certificate to our online store.  Good luck!!

On behalf of Renate', Zach, the team and myself,  "MAHALO!" or "THANK YOU!" for taking part in our Spread the Love with Yumi & Fumi Handmade event.  Again without your participation it would not have been as successful as it was.  Have a wonderful Monday and don't forget to share your Yumi & Fumi Handmade projects.

Hugs,

The Yumi & Fumi Team

Challenge #15 Reminder!

Hello everyone!!  Hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday!  I am just stopping by to remind you of our current Challenge #15 -- Shaped Card for Mother's Day.  We want to see a card that's shaped differently from what you would normally make and dedicate it to your mom or any mother figure in your life that you want to recognize.  Mother's Day is coming up fast so it's perfect timing!

Here is Denice's flower shaped card featuring Yumi with Birdie!  I love the colors here and the beautiful bow!  Check out her blog for more details!

Here is my card featuring Yeti Yumi.  Originally, Yeti Yumi is holding a string of Xmas lights but I added a whole bunch of flower shaped rhinestones to represent a lei or maybe a pretty necklace for mom. 

The prize is a $15 gift certificate to Yumi & Fumi Handmade's store so you can pick which stamps you'd like!  I think that is a wonderful incentive to get crafting!  Be sure to check out our challenge rules HERE to refresh your memory.  Link up your creation on the original Challenge #15 post by Friday, May 10th, Noon PST.  

We hope you'll all join us!  Good Luck!

eva

Welcome Denice!!

Hello!!

Today we're happy to announce a new member to our Design Team.  As you know, our lovely friend and teammate Kim Yu has decided to step down from the team, so we needed to find someone that would be another wonderful fit to our team.  I'm happy to say we've found that someone.  You've seen her here before and we're all pretty excited that she's agreed to become a part of our team.  Please help us say a big Allooohaaa and Welcome to Denice Bartucci!!!

Here is a little bit more about Denice in her own words: 
"I'm a midwestern gal who finds a lot of the inspiration for my projects come from my family, which consists of "Papa Bear" and our 4 fab kiddos....they are my never-ending source of support and my biggest/bestest critics. I've been stamping and scrapbooking for almost 15 years and am passionate about both crafts. I could talk endlessly about all the latest embellies and techniques, and find the internet to be an endless source of new projects to try. I'm looking forward to fun and creating with Y&FH!"

I asked Denice to take our survey and her answers were pretty unique. Needless to say, I think she fits right in with the rest of us. {hehe}
DT Survey:
1. Social butterfly or Timid Turtle? Timid until I get to know you
2. Sunrise or Sunset? Sunrise
3. Fruity or Minty? Fruity, fresh and floating in my sangria preferably
4. Ocean or Mountain? Ocean
5. City or Small town? Small town
6. Cadbury or Hershey? Hershey
7. Nuttyor Smooth? Smooth
8. Paper, plastic or reusable? All three
9. Flip flops or sneakers? Flip flops
10. Coke or Sprite? Rootbeer
11. Fairy or Vixen? Vixen, see #12
12. Vampire or Werewolf? Give me an Angel any day *wink*
13. CAS or Not enough embellishments? I (heart) embellies
14. Copics or Other? Copics
15. Rubber or Digital? Rubber
16. To glitter or not to glitter? Glitter
17. 3-D or the flatter the better? 3-D
18. Ribbons or Flowers? Flowers
19. Tim Holtz or Tim Gunn? Tim Holtz
20. I can’t live without this crafty item… ATG and scoreboard

Denice will be pairing up with Eva on Sundays so please make sure to stop by when she debuts this Sunday with her "Shape for Mother's Day" project.  I know both Eva and Denice will share something AWEmazing!

Before I sign off, I wanted to welcome Denice by case'ing her card featuring Chase.

Yumicorn & Fumi Panda

Make sure to stop by Denice's blog and welcome her.  Oh before I forget!!  You only have until tomorrow to play in our Spread the Love blog challenge and sign up for the Week #4 FB Giveaway.  You don't want to miss out!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a great day!
xx
Leanne