summer showers

Hawaii + summer = rain?!

Such yucky weather going on here.  The muggy-ness, (is that a real word?), is making it so hard to concentrate on anything.  I feel so bad for all those vacationers trying to have a good time here.  So I think today I'll just sit in and gather some much needed inspiration from some of my favorite blogs.  

Hopefully I'll be inspired enough to make something :)

free time/ making...

Today was my big girl Jazzi's first full day of preschool.  what to do, what to do...

so I dusted off the 'ol xacto and made some cards. 

(you can see some of my older cut-out makings here and here.)

I really like how these came out, even though they are nothing compared to the gorgeous work of A Little Hut, who, I think, is the cut-out paper queen.

I think i'll try & make this into a 2-piece box. We'll see how that works out.

  

blossom print

This is the print that I made earlier in the week that I promised to post. I call these my 'Blossoms'. 

Inspired by my grandmother and her Japanese garden.

making... BBN

Yesterday I started printing one of my new stationary lines that I like to call 'Birthday By Numbers'. 

 

After printing the first layer (which came out great) I was so excited to print the second, but it turned out to give me a little bit of a hard time.  You can see a little more of the process here.

I plan to also get them digitally printed in the future, but for now I'm just having some fun with my gocco which I think  gives it a nice handmade touch.

The first layer.

The second layer... I am not so pleased with.

(Hopefully my next attempt will have better results.)

making...

                                                                   a little gocco goodness.

                                                                                   flash.

 

                                                                                 Print.

                                                                                      dry.
       

I tried to snap some shots of the dried prints, 

but the sun set on bad timing so I willl post some better shots of them another time.