Our second show for May!

Lots of new and talented friends on our second May show! We start the show with a two-time winner of our We Love Crafts weekly contest!

Micah Torigoe is a young and talented card maker! A lot of you will envy his Copic coloring style,too.

On the show, he'll use Sister Stamps' Pua to make a sweet Congratulations card.

Next, we have the crew from the Hawaii State Library System tell us what is in store for this year's Summer reading program. The theme is everyday Heroes and Super Heroes!

 

This Super Heroe craft kit is one of the incentive prizes keiki can get for reading a book every week! HouseMart Ben Franklin Crafts and Ace Hardware stores across the state will be visiting the different libraries, sharing Hardware Science and crafts!

 

Another event we participate in during the summer is Relay for Life. On Oahu, we'll be at the Magic Island relay which will be on Saturday, July 18. This year, it's only six hours long from 6pm to Midnight. Hope to see you there!

 

We will be helping people with the Luminaria, which is what Erwin Saenz from the American Cancer Society made on the show.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you're able to catch this show! Have a great week!

14 Days of Valentines - Day 7

Happy Aloha Friday! It's time for our 7th project and it's a nice and easy one.

I've been doing a lot of Easter and Spring projects so I have a bunch of these colored up chicks. It's from the dandelion designs' Happy Spring set.

I love punches so I'm using the small heart punch from Marvy Uchida, the orange one. I punched out 6 hearts.

I laid some crochet thread across three of the hearts. I wrote "I" and "U" on two of the remaining hearts. Then, I used  mini glue dots to glue the second set of hearts onto the first, with the crochet threads sandwiched in between. This made a mini garland.

I used pop dots behind the chick to place on the card front.

I just took a 4.25" x 5.5" card and placed a smaller scrapbook paper on the front. This one is from Amy tangerine's line of scrapbook papers. Added the chick and used glue dots to attach the "I {heart} U" garland. I used the extra wing piece that the stamp set comes with. I colored up two so that I could really make it seem like the chick was holding the garland.

Here's the inside of the card "Happy Valentine's Day from your favorite Chick!"
It's always fun to use different designs for another occasion.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!

Happy Year of the Horse!

Today is Chinese New Year and it's the Year of the Horse! My brother, his wife, my other brother's wife and my nephew's wife are just a few of the Horsies that I know. We're also expecting another Horsie in a few weeks! So, exciting!

So, here's my Chinese New Year story:
Me: Bryan, do you celebrate Chinese New Year?
Bryan: No, do you?
Me: No, I'm not Chinese.
Bryan: Uh...Neither am I.
Me: What? ...Oh, you're Korean!?
Bryan: Yeah, my Dad is Korean (grinning at me)

So, my wonderful friend who does the camerawork and produces our show is Bryan Lee. We're a great team because we balance each other. He's more on the quiet side, always smiling. Me, well, let's just say Bryan's gotten used to my craziness! Wow, and all this time I thought he was at least part Chinese. So, funny! So, goes to show you, you may be good friends with someone but there's always something new to learn! Anyway, he's not a Horse.

But for all of you who are Horses, here's my dandelion design Horse to wish you a great and Happy Year of the Horse! I added it to a checkbook cover, hoping for a prosperous year! Kung Hee Fat Choy!

Thanks for stopping by today! Tomorrow is February and I'll be starting my 14 Days of Valentine's projects again! Have a great weekend!

We Love YOUR Crafts!

Happy Aloha Friday! We LOVE that you want to share your projects with us! Here's this week's winner of our We "Heart" Crafts photo contest!

Eva U. of Honolulu created a gorgeous calendar for next year using Sister Stamps! Don't you just love her Copic coloring!

Congratulations, Eva!

Want to win a $20 Ben Franklin Crafts gift card, too? Take a photo of a craft that you made, email it with a list of your supplies to joyofcrafting@gmail.com and check our website on Friday to see if you won for the week! Simple as that! (Official rules can be found here)

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!