Friday, May 8, 2009

Hau 'oli la hanau!




...means Happy Birthday in Hawaiian. A friend of mine wanted me to make a tropical themed card for her sisters birthday. I have absolutely nothing tropical in my craft mess so I started hand drawing some palm trees. Then.... I was stumped. I was over at my friend Jacilynn blog reading away and hopped on over to the Digishack where she is a DT for. They have these super cool digi images that I thought would be simply perfect for this card. I now have bought my very first thing online! I had quite a bit of frustration trying to get the image the proper size for my card. One big deep breath and I finally figured it out. I used the stair step fold to try and have a 3D-ish type effect, did a lil trimming around Surf-Lani, added some torn paper and distressed ink... and Wah-La... HAU 'OLI LA HANAU!

8 comments:

  1. So Cute. I love the folds. Did you enter this into the Digi contest? Fingers crossed for you to win the images. This is sooo cute!

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  2. BTW, I can't believe this is your first online purchase? Stay away! warning Stay Away from Internet.

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  3. This is DARLING! I love the folds and the palm trees are perfect! LOVE IT!! :)

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  4. Absolutely awesome, love it, I love all of your hand drawn stuff, such a cute card.

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  5. I love what you did with this image! :D The palm trees that you drew are just perfect, the step card is a great technique for this. Thanks for hanging out with us at the Digi Shack!

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  6. this is VERY cute and congrats winning the cd of all the images at the digi shack...way to shake it hehe!

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