To The Moon And Back With CAS-ual Fridays!

Welcome back!  I'm up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays and sharing another cloudy background I created using some distress oxides and the Bubble Box die cut that I used on my card from my last post which you can see here if you'd like!  I'm using the adorable Somebunny stamp set again and this is the night time version....

I used some blues and purple distress oxides this time for my night time sky.  I realized after I finished my background that I forgot to leave some space for my moon glow so I decided to try the oxide lift technique.

I figured out about where my moon would be and used a paintbrush to apply water where I wanted to add a yellow glow and then "lifted" color off of the paper using a paper towel.  I repeated this process a couple times and then dried the area with a heat gun.  Then I added in some yellow.

I also added some tiny gold "stars" using a Uniball Gold Gel Pen.  I used the Stars Fri-Dies (still attached to each other) to create these glitter paper star frames.  I'm thinking I may not cut them apart because I love these frames!  I popped them up onto my background and then popped the rabbit hanging from the moon with a slightly thicker foam tape.

And finally a couple of the adorable sentiments from the Somebunny stamp set and a few sequins!

So there we are!  I can't tell you enough how I love these bunnies!

There is a sale going on over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!  It's a Valentines Special and there are 7 sets marked at $3 or less right now!  You can check out the specials here and the sale is While Supplies Last through February 14th!

Thanks so much for stopping and I hope you enjoyed your visit!  If you have seen something that you must have from the shop I have this for you:

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Congrats on the New Kid! - Miss Ink Stamps

Welcome back!  I'm playing with glitter again!  This time around I've made a glitter paste with some Glossy Accents and the Mermaid Lagoon Dazzle Dust.  I applied it through the Diamond Fade Stencil for my background.

I set that aside to dry while I stamped, cut (with my Scan N Cut), and colored my images.  The balloons are from Punny Farm Pigs and the goat from Punny Farm Goats.  I added some clear wink of Stella to my balloons... I love that you can see it in this pic!

When I was done with that and my background was dry, I created my shaker using a frame from my stash.  I attached acetate to the back of the frame and then added pop up tape around the edges.  I layered my background onto a white cardstock panel and that onto a purple base.  Then I poured some of those so fun and pretty Dazzle stars over my background along with some clear and turquoise sequins.  I love that they go perfectly with the Mermaid Lagoon Dazzle Dust which shifts from purple to turquoise as you move it!

And the Dazzle Stars color shift too!  They go together perfectly!

And there you have it!  Just a touch of sparkle...lol!

I'm playing along over at Double Trouble's Again and Again Challenge!  Use three of something on your project!  I have three balloons!  And the twist is to use something from your stash and a critter... that frame die has been hanging around for a long time in my stash and it's been quite some time since I used it and a goat (obvi!)   And since I've used a critter and something from my stash, I'm playing along with DT's partner for this challenge, Use Your Stuff!  You should check both of these out!  Play along with both and you get extra chances to win at Double Trouble!

Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

Never Regret - Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop Reminder!

I'm back with a quick reminder that you have until tomorrow, February 7th to hop and comment for your chances to win one of many awesome prizes!  We're hopping to raise awareness of Turner Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects females.  Get some beautiful inspiration and learn about Turner Syndrome and maybe win some stuff!  You can find the main hop post here if you'd like to check it out!

I'm sharing with you some Rubbernecker inspiration today:

I had started this card with a different plan, and when that went in a new direction, I needed to use this framed background with that beautiful design paper!  I pulled out one of the many inspirational sentiment stamps from Rubbernecker and a few dies and it was done!

There is so much awesome over in the Rubbernecker shop and the sentiments are no exception!  Just a quick and encouraging reminder for a friend... 

And the flower die and butterfly are two of my favorite from the shop... not to mention the scalloped frame!!  I love that the die cuts so many frames that you can use together or apart.  I save my extras for mixing and matching on future projects.

And that's me for today!  Now get out there and Break Some Rules!

Come back tomorrow for some glitter fun!

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play The Challenge-Lil' Inker Designs!

Welcome to a new Caffeine Fueled Paper Play Challenge!  I'm up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog today along with a few of my teamies and we're featuring some projects using products from long time hop Super Sponsor, Lil' Inker Designs!  I've used an adorable stamp set called Good Cheer!

Laura from Lil' Inker has decided to close up shop and we thought the best way to say thank you and best wishes would be to celebrate some of the caffeinated offerings from her shop!

I never visited the LID shop without seeing bunches of stuff I needed!  Adorable and beautiful stamp sets and fun dies... those scallop clouds are from Lil' Inker also!  They were good here for clouds and for snow mounds on the bottom!

I made all of the colors coordinate with that beautiful plaid... it makes me think of when I'd dress my kids in similar colors for the best looking scrapbook pages that I knew would eventually be made from the pictures...lol!

Hope you'll head on over to the CLC blog here and check out what everyone has created!  There is a link there to Laura's farewell post and it would be awesome if you haven't already if you would leave her some love to let her know she will be missed!  There is also a link to the shop where you can still find some great deals on some LID products (all that's left is 70% off!) and help clear out the shop... you know... if there's anything you need... (there is).

Here are a couple other LID projects I've made over the years:

This Super Coffee set is one of the prizes over at the CLC this month!

Plaid... cacti... coffee... 

I think this beautiful bird is still available in the shop!

Thanks for stopping and come again soon!

A Tweet Cup of Cheer - A Jillian Vance Design!

I'm up on the blog over at a Jillian Vance Design today with this little tweetie!  Links and details are there!  Hope you'll hop on over there and give us a visit!

XOXO My Crafty Friends - Trinity Stamps

Hello and welcome back!  Some of you may know I was lucky to be able to attend Creativation for the first time this January!  It's a terrible time for me to be having fun... tax season... 1099s... payroll taxes... all that nonsense... but I DID NOT care!  I had this opportunity and I wasn't going to miss it.  And I'm so glad I didn't.  Sure... it was awesome to meet some of the celebrities of craftiness and see all of the new products but my very favorite part was the people.  The people I got to meet and talk to while helping my friend Kim from Paper Smooches demo in the Photocentric booth and the bloggy friends I've only known online until that weekend.  I got to meet and have lunch and/or dinner with many of them and THAT to me is what this whole thing is all about.

Above is the gang that met for a long lunch of more talking than eating (Left to right Me, Kim, Lisa Golzbein (her daughter Taylor is taking the pic), Katie Brooks, Shanna Slater, Amanda Wilcox and Taniesa Vlasak from Trinity Stamps.  I also got to have dinner with Michele from CAS-ual Fridays and Larissa Heskett and Kim, but believe it or not none of us thought to get a pic before we left (really???... really!)

The wonderful and beautiful ladies from Trinity Stamps gifted me a couple of the new release items that are in the shop over at Trinity!  The A Crafter's Heart stamp set, the Bold Love die set and some adorable Crafty Heart Sprinkles were included in a beautiful little gift pack and I was so honored to get to take one home!!  I've used these items here today for this Valentine for one of my sweet Crafty Friends!

They all do inspire me on a daily basis... every single one of them.  I decided it was the perfect opportunity to make an eclipse card which I haven't done in a while.  I stamped the Crafter's Heart image onto a die cut cardstock panel.  Then I laid the XOXO dies (and of course I did not cut these apart!!!) over the heart and ran it through my Gemini.  Then I used the XOXO dies to cut another set from some hot pink paper.

I layered my stamped background piece with the cut out XOXO onto some more pink cardstock and then those onto a black base.  Then I layered the pink outline from the pink XOXO into the cut out space and then popped up the stamped XOXO into the appropriate spaces... careful to line up the images on the letters to the images on the background.  Be sure to save your inside circle pieces as well... once I had the XOXO down I added the inner circle pieces back inside and flat.  I colored the letters only after I added them to the card so it would be easier to figure out what the images were that I was coloring!

I stamped an extra envelope with the heart coming out of it separately so I could color it and pop it up also.  It was the perfect accent for my sentiment.  I stamped the You Inspire Me onto black card stock with Versamark and heat embossed it with white, and stamped the Crafty Friend directly onto the card using my Misti of course.  I popped up the black piece just above where I stamped the rest of the sentiment and added a few of my very favorite sequins... like.. the most used sequins I have... from Trinity... you can find them right here!

So I just wanted to send a huge shout out and thank you to every single person I met and talked to during Creativation weekend and thank you Katie and Amanda and Taniesa for this gift!  I have many more ideas for it... good thing because I need to send a few Galentines this year!  The question is... will they get out in time? HAHAHAHAHA... of course they probably won't... but they will get out.

And don't forget about the Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop!  You have until February 7th to hop and comment to win prizes and learn more about this genetic disorder.  You can find my project for the hop here and a link to all of the info you need!

Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop 2020

Hello Blogging Friends!!

Welcome to my project for the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness 2nd Annual Blog Hop!  

Turner Syndrome is a genetic disorder where a female is born with only one X chromosome, instead of two, leaving her with life-long medical issues and learning disabilities. This condition occurs one in 2,500 female births worldwide, but is more common among pregnancies that do not survive to full term. That is why Turner Syndrome Females are considered MIRACLES!

Prize Winners will be announced on February 15, 2020.

Thirty-six caring Sponsors and nine DT Members are offering prizes to commenters and they are helping bring Turner Syndrome Awareness to the Public. For details on how you might win any of these fabulous prizes, please see Lori's TS home page. Thanks for learning About Turner Syndrome. 

Nine designers are offering prizes on their personal blogs as well:

My TS related project is inspired by the TSA official color board:

Here's how I was inspired:

I did some watercoloring using my Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils and a water brush.  I stamped that beautiful image from a Hero Arts/Gina K Designs collaboration set in Versamark onto watercolor paper and heat embossed it using some Wow embossing powder.

I am far from being an expert at watercoloring so if you are... don't look too hard...lol!  But I love the way it turned out and I'm glad I stuck to it.  I almost threw in the towel and opted for coloring the image with my Copics a few times, but I didn't give up and I'm so happy that I didn't!

I knew I wanted to add a butterfly, and after searching through my pretty well stocked craft room, I came across that beautiful Butterfly Flourish die from Elizabeth Crafts and it turned out to be exactly what I wanted.  And finally a simple sentiment from the collab set.

I just scattered around a few of those beautiful sequins from Trinity and called it done!

This one is one its way to a special young lady right now!

I'm playing along over at A Blog Named Hero's January Anything Goes Challenge!

Thank you so much for stopping and hope you'll head on over to the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop 2020  page to become eligible for prizes and find out more about this genetic disorder.  I was amazed that just living with this Syndrome is a miracle in itself since only 2% of babies born with it survive past birth!

Happy hopping and good luck!