YNS Blog Hop - Aloha Fhiona

****Welcome to the Your Next Stamps Blog Hop*****

Happy to see you here today and I am so excited to invite you to our YNS Blog Hop from today. Before I show you my creations today, I am going to give you some info on this blog hop so you too can join us to have some fun too!! If you are coming from Karen's blog, you are in the right path.

- Blog Hop will run from: Thursday 21st January (03:00 EST) to Monday 25th January (midnight EST)

Blog Hop in order:

Karen

Cabio - You are here

Kerri
Lori - Guest Designer

Maureen

Lana
Jenny - Guest Designer

Angela

Maylee

Amy

Simonne

Grand Prize: the entire new release (4 stamp sets - Surfer Fhinn, Aloha Fhiona, Rockstar Fhinn, Rockstar Fhiona) to one lucky winner.

How to enter the prize draw: To enter the grand prize draw, you need to add your name & blog link to Mr. Linky over at your last blog hop stop at Simonne's blog.
If you don't have a blog, you can still enter, but will have to leave your email address in a comment, so you can be contacted.

If you want an extra entry for your draw (see Blinkie Contest details here), then you are eligible for a 2nd entry into the grand prize! All you need to do is add your name a 2nd time to Mr Linky with the URL over at Simonne's blog at your last stop.

Also for the duration of the hop, Your Next Stamp is having a HUGE sale!! For 5 days only, there will be a whopping 25-55% off selected stamps!!!

I've prepared some creations using one of the new release set "Aloha Fhiona". Isn't the word "Aloha" given you some thoughts of a summer vacation? One of my memorable vacations was in 2007. When my family went to Japan, Taiwan & Hong Kong around March/April. I am showing you a picture we took in Japan when my husband and I brought our daughter to visit Puroland aka Hello Kitty Land in Japan. It was our first time there. Although we have no idea what they were talking about in the shows, but we had so much fun even just watching them.

Here are a couple pictures we took at Puroland in Japan. It was in March, but it wasn't that warm as we expected.

Here is my #1 project (card) for today - Aloha Fhiona. The flower, cocktail drink, Fhiona & the 'Hula Baby!' are part of this stamp set.

Show you a closer view on this cute little Aloha Fhiona. She is a doll!


This flower stamp also comes with the stamp set, I stamped 3 images and colored them in different colors.


Side view of this card.


View of the inside


This is #2 project (Candle with stamped images). Here is a little instructions, so very simple.
Step 1: Stamped the images on a piece of tissue paper.
Step 2: color the images
Step 3: cut out the image (just cut around the image, not necessarily to be exact on the line)
Step 4: lay the images on the candle, wrap a piece of wax paper around the candle to hold the images, use a heating tool to the wax paper where covers an image. The image will seal in with the candle. but please remember not to heat it too long or else, the candle be melted.
Step 5: slowly remove/unwrap the wax paper, and ta-da, your images (tissue paper) is now sealed in with the candle.
Step 6: stamped the sentiment on a plain color ribbon, adhered it around the candle.





I hope you like what I prepared for you and have fun playing with us for the blog hop. Your next hop will be the Talented Starlet "Kerri". Have fun visiting Kerri and good luck to you all :o)