Himawari Challenge & Secret Crafter Challenge

HI All! I told you I'd be back and BOY do I have a post for you! Grab a cuppa and be prepared for some pictures! I have participated in the Himawari Baby Challenge hosted by Denise of Denise Loves Stamps and there are some AWESOME prizes to be won. I combined this challenge with the weekly Secret Crafter Saturday sketch challenge. Well, I don't own any Himawari images (yet) so I emailed Jen from Pieces of Me and Denise and they BOTH sent me some to play with! Woohoo! I decided I needed to give back from all this fabulousness that I've been receiving, so I made a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) for my Aloha RAK partner with some of the images. The rest of the images will be used for a project requested by a friend that I'll be donating to a cause... more on that later! First, I was inspired by this weeks SCS sketch and flew with it for ALL of these items (although the sketch is used mainly on the notecards below). Here is the notbook I made: And the inside:

This is a little box I made and filled with 5 teabags:

This is the same box, only smaller to be filled with some chocolate squares (maybe Ghiradelli, maybe Ritter, gotta see what I can find):

Next is the FIRST things I made and here you can really see the sketch on the notecards. It's five notecards and a box to fit them all in! I came up with the box template myself (pats on back-thank you! lol!) and even made a lid for it! The box is in the center:

And here are all the pieces of the project together!

I have to say that I love the way this turned out. As a matter of fact, as soon as I'm done on this machine I'll be making another similar project for that cause I mentioned... But I'll post about that later. What do you all think? The Himawari images are just that; images already colored on a sheet of cardstock that you cut out and use however you like. If I had more of a single image, I would probably cut out pieces and make it more layered. I used some copics on some of the images just to give more shading. And the images are just the right size for ALL kinds of projects. I am really hoping to win the challenge because I want more images for myself! Ok, so I'm done with this post and I have a whole lotta stuff to do so I better get moving. Any questions on the project, please ask and I'll answer best I can.

Thanks for stopping by and until next post, be blessed!