#SpreadJoyNotGerms Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome to my stop on the #Spreadjoynotgerms Blog Hop!   A bunch of us are hopping today to spread some happy and to thank everyone who is doing their part by staying home and not spreading germs!

You should have arrived here from the Carisa's place!  If you've just discovered the hop here or you get lost along the way, you can find the complete hop list at the Catherine Pooler and Hedge Hog Hollow Blogs!

If fun and inspiration isn't enough reason to hop... check out all of the sponsors we have!

There are more than 30 Sponsors for this hop and you have chances to win some awesome prizes all along the way!  The more you comment, the more chances you have!  Winners will be chosen from across all of the blogs participating in the hop!  You have until April 24th to hop and comment and winners will be announced on April 27th on the Catherine Pooler and Hedge Hog Hollow blogs!

Thank you so much to Catherine Pooler and Hedge Hog Hollow for bringing us all together today to share some smiles and love!

I have a few cards to share with you today made with lots of products from a few of our sponsors:

I'm starting today off with one using products from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!  You can find SO many awesome coffee themed stamps and dies over in the CAS-ual Fridays shop as well as bunches of other pretty, fun, and sassy sets!  For this one I used the Modern Petals Stencil and blended some inks through it and then added some translucent embossing paste over the top for dimension.  While it was drying, I die cut the Coffee Cup and Heart Board Fri-dies from Copic Friendly Paper.  Next I stamped the beautiful flower from Pretty Posies and colored it, the cup, and the hearts with Copics.  I arranged everything and added that cool sentiment from Stay Strong.

Should you decide you need something from the CAS-ual Fridays shop, I have this for you:

Next I did this:

I just love the adorable images on the Unstoppable Stamp Set from Miss Ink Stamps!  The dinosaurs along with all of the other secondary images are fantastic.. and the little details... like the reacher grabber thingies (because of course big dinosaurs with tiny arms need those!) and TOILET PAPER!!...lol!  I hadn't even noticed the TP on the set and was looking at it recently and just started giggling.  You may have a friend who helped you out when you were in a rough spot... maybe you didn't get to the stores in time before the shelves were empty of paper products and your bestie helped you out.  I imagine this guy is sneaking off to the little dino's room.  Thank goodness his pal came to his Rex-cue!  I have another card using this cute set up on the Miss Ink Stamps Blog today too so hope to see you there as well!  And there's a sale going on today in the shop and you can get Unstoppable at a discount if you love it as much as I do!

  I also used that frame from a really cool Trinity Stamps set, the Slimline Frame and Fold.  I use that little photo frame ALL the time!  And my very favorite sequins from the Trinity shop as well!

Next up is this one:

If you love digital stamps, you need to check out the shop over at Polka Dot Orchard!  And if you've never used them before now is the perfect time to try them.  There are so many cool benefits from digital, like being able to layer images without having to mask (I hate masking!!); you can flip them, print them larger or smaller, and if you print them on a laser printer you can apply foil with heat if you want!  Or you can just print them out and use them as you would any tangible stamp!  I did that here.  Printed, cut out and colored that awesome tall stacked cake image from the Celebrate Today set and the Slimline Dies from Trinity Stamps were perfect for creating my shaker background.  I fussy cut one of the sentiments from the digital set to finish it off!

And last but definitely not least:

If you know me, you know I love florals, adorable critters and coffee, and these sets from Trinity check all of those boxes!  I actually bought the Love You Bunches floral #1 because it's SO beautiful and #2 to play along with the 1st monthly challenge over at Trinity Stamps which was... florals!  I never did get to play along with that one, but the challenge for April Craft Troop Challenge is Critters so I used it along with the adorable brand new Dir-Tea Bunny.   I also used the Hello Senti-Mini dies along with one of the sentiments from Love You Bunches.

That's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed your stop here and that you'll come again soon!  If it's your first time here and you'd like to come again, you can sign up in the sidebar to subscribe to get notifications of new posts!

From here you can make your way over to Candi's place.  (Pretty sure you're gonna love what you see there!).  And be sure to leave some love at her stop and all along the hop for lots of chances to win!

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!

Trinity Stamps Winter Release Blog Hop

I am honored to be guesting with Trinity Stamps for the Winter Release!  It's an awesome release and so excited I got to play with these great products!  You should have come here from the uber talented Courtney Kreeber's place!   Hop and comment all along the way for your chance to win a $25 gift code to the Trinity Shop!  You have until Friday, November 7th at 11:59pm to comment and the winner will be announced on the Trinity Blog on the 8th!

Here's how I was inspired:

Included in the release are some fantastic Slimline dies... I've used one of them on a couple of my projects today, including this one along with the adorable images from the Gingerbread House Stamps and Dies and the Merry Christmas Dies.  You can find all of these new products here!

O M Garsh!!  Adorable images in the Gingerbread House set... it was so fun to put this card together!  I absolutely love those lights... I think they may be my favorite.  This sweet bird has baked some cookies and is expecting some company!

And here is her friend!  They're going to celebrate the holidays together and she brought a gift and of course she showed up with a couple lattes!  (Those are from the Frappy Camper stamp set...lol!  You knew I'd have some coffee here didn't you?)

Love, love the Merry Christmas Senti-Mini Dies!  It's a three die set, with the words, the outline and a little banner that I didn't use here, but is fantastic for the little sentiments in the Merry Christmas Senti-Mini stamp set!

And the Slimline Series: Stitched Dies... can't say enough!  The 8 1/2" x 3 1/2" size is so fun to have a little extra room.  I created a shaker from mine using a beautiful glitter mix from Trinity.

I'm linking this one up to Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes Wednesday Challenge!  You should check it out!

I loved playing with the Slimline dies so much I used them again for this one!  I used it along with the Snowman Border Builder.  SUCH a fun set!!

I used the hill die in the set with white glitter paper to create my snowy ground.  Then I just cut all my pieces out of a few different colors and some from glitter paper and started mixing and matching pieces.  My fine tweezers made this so much more fun and easy!

So cute, right?!  The dies to cut those tiny snowflakes were also in the set and the larger snowflakes are embellishments available in the Trinity shop in the I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas mix.

And I used the Merry dies as my sentiment for this one... sweet and simple!

I cut lots of extras from the Snowman Border Builder because I knew I'd want to use them again and again.  I'll store them in little clear envelopes... but I didn't put them away quite yet... 'cause I needed some for this:

Have you seen the new Layered Pine stencils???  I used them for the background here and I LOVE them!  I varied my colors a bit and added a few of just the bottom layer in the background... of my background...lol!

And wasn't it just the perfect backdrop for my Frappy Camper?  I decided to dress it up for Christmas this time around.  I paper pieced the red and colored its belt black.  I used the Coffee Cup from Seasonal Sweetheart for a vent pipe again and added one of the little hats from the new Gingerbread House set.  I decided to make it a shaker with those adorable little Frappe sequins!  Perfect, right?  And those lights from the Gingerbread House set were perfect to decorate the camper!

And some of those adorable snowmen joined the party and they've got little frappes themselves!  Those sequins were the perfect size... although I think I'd need a larger cup than that.

I used the Christmas without the outline for this one cut in glitter paper and stacked and the Frappy is from the Frappy Camper Perking Spot set.  I just added some white Nuvo drops all around for a light snowfall and a trio of sequins from the Soapy Bubbles mix of sequins.  (my new favorite!)

I'm playing along with this one over at the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop that started today and continues through next Friday!  Trinity Stamps is a sponsor for the hop and you can check out the hop rules and link up at the main post here!

Now you should make your way over to the wonderfully creative Emelie Hessler's place and see what she's created for you today!

Here is the entire hop list should you need it:

Trinity Stamps

Brenda Noelke

Christine Burillo-Kirch

Davina Cantrell

Courtney Kreeber

Lisa Bzibziak (You Are Here!)

Emelie Hessler

Shanna Slater

Andrea Shell

Jeannie Lieu

Jenn Bena

Katie Brooks

Amanda Wilcox

Mary Polanco

Emily Mydlowski

That's me!!  Thanks so much to Trinity and Team for having me along for the ride!  I've had so much fun and I'm not done sharing!  I mean.. it's Coffee Hop week!  See you again soon!

Graciellie Design and Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop

We have something fun for you today!  The Coffee Loving Cardmaking Design Team is hopping along with Graciellie Design to show off some of the awesome tea and coffee digital sets in the shop!  Hop and comment for your chances to win a $25 gift card to the Graciellie Design Digital Shop!  You have until Friday, July 26th at 11:59pm to comment and the winner will be announced the following week!  And there's a special sale going on .. 25% off of everything!  No Code Needed!  So hop, comment, get some inspiration, grab some beautiful digis at a discounted price and share with us!

You should have come here after enjoying the makes over at Robyn's place!  Should you get lost, just head on over to the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's Blog to find the complete list!

I got to play with the Bubbly Feels Digital Stamp Set and I paired it with a couple other things from the shop!  Here's how I was inspired:

I'm all about the rainbows again lately, so I couldn't help but get the Rainbow Vibes Digital Paper Pack!  I thought this cute dotted one from the pack was just right for some bubble tea!  And did you know that Graciellie also has some SVG Cutting file offerings??  I picked up the Coffee Lover's set (of course) and cut my rainbow bubble tea cup using one of the files in the set. 

I also cut that cute tag and the Love Ya sentiment using the set.  I had printed a few of the sentiments from the Bubbly Feels Stamp Set and cut this one out with a banner die to add to my card... You give me all the Bubbly Feels... love it!!  Gracie has some of the very best sentiments!

I also printed a few of the cups from the Bubbly Feels Stamp Set so I colored this one up in my favorite Bubble Tea Flavor!

I will admit I tried Bubble Tea a couple years ago and did not like it!!  The tapioca balls were gummy and the texture bothered me mostly.  But recently Amy made me try a Matcha tea with almond milk and I still had a hard time getting past the tapioca balls, but I did enjoy it more than the first time.  And THEN I was in Sedona and stopped at a wonderful Tea shop called Trailhead Tea (definitely worth a stop if you are in Sedona) and they introduced me to Popping Pearls instead of the tapioca pearls and I was won over!  They are not chewy at all and they are smaller bubbles that pop in your mouth and they have sweet juice in them for a little extra flavor explosion... they're pretty awesome!

So!  This is a Matcha milk tea with blueberry popping pearls and half sugar.. my current fave!  I don't get them too often though because I'm sure there is still a lot of sugar in it.  I used another one of the beautiful papers from the digital paper pack and because of that adorable sentiment....

I added a unicorn cut from another great SVG file from Graciellie's shop, Unicorn Wishes and a few sequins and stars from a cool Unicorn embellishment pack from Trinity.

And then I was thinking... wouldn't it be cool if you could get a Rainbow Bubble Tea??  So I did this!

I used my copics to create rainbow swirls in my bubble tea... some more of that cute dotted paper for the background....

After I added the swirls I splattered a little bit of blending solution over the top to soften it up and blur the lines a bit.  And I added the Happy and Hearts from the Coffee Lovers SVG set and a few more sequins to finish it off.

So that's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed your stop here!  Maybe I overdid the rainbow?... Nah!   I'm good!

Now be sure to head on over to my talented Teamie Erin's place! And should you get lost, you can head on back to the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's Blog for the Complete Hop list.

Happy Birthday Justice Ginsburg!

So excited to be hopping along with a few Bloggy Friends to wish Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a very Happy Birthday!  The most wonderful Joan has brought us all together to wish this wonderful lady the happiest of days!  

We have some prizes for you too!  There are two Wonderful Women stamp sets from Kelly Purkey and two Dare to Dream stamp sets from Hero Arts up for grabs!  Just hop and leave us all some love and you could have one of these awesome sets arriving in your mailbox soon!  And the key word here is love!  Today, for me, is not about politics... it's about celebrating an awesome woman, leader, fighter, mother, daughter, wife... you could go on and on!

Without further ado... here's how I was inspired by Justice Ginsburg:

I was quick to want to participate and celebrate Justice Ginsburg, but then I even more quickly became worried about what kind of card I would make... what would she like... how could I honor her and create something fun for her!  Yes!  I mailed this out to her on Monday and I have no idea if she'll ever receive it...  I hope she does and I hope she loves it because I do!

As I was searching the internet for inspiration, thanks to my friend Amy, I stumbled on a few memes and pieces of artwork and learned a few things I didn't know before and this idea started to form!  You may or may not know but a while back someone came up with a meme comparing the tough Justice Ginsburg to Rapper Notorious B.I.G. and shortly after a book was written with the title... you can find lots of pics, tees, cups, you name it with various versions of this type of artwork.   I wondered how she feels about this...I think it's cool... does she.  Rumor has it she has a good sense of humor about it and even gives out some tees... true?  IDK... but I decided to go with the theme but on a more feminine note.. 'cause I imagine she'd like that...

And I def wanted to add the fun "Notorious" sentiment without having it be a punch in the face... so I let it kind of blend in.

That lacy border and pretty pearls were meant to represent the Jabots and necklaces that she wears along with her robes and some pretty flowers never hurt!

So ... The Happiest of Birthday Wishes are going out to the Honorable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.. floating along the interweb airways and hopefully at least somewhere in her heart she receives it!

I'm playing along with Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge which is Feminine/Girly!

Be sure to check back at Joan's Blog on March 21st to see if you won one of the four stamp sets being given away!  Commenting closes March 19th at 11:59pm.

Now be sure to see how these other wonderful ladies are celebrating:

Amy Tsuruta

Coni Longley

Jan Tinklenberg

Joan Bardee

Katie Brooks

Libby Hickson

Lisa Bzibziak (You Are Here!)

Michele Ferguson

Thank you so much for stopping by and hope you'll come back soon!

Paper: Prima Rose Quartz
Large Alpha Dies: Kat Scrappiness
Lacy Background Die: Waffleflower
Smaller Alpha Dies: Papertrey Ink
Glasses: Paper Smooches
Crown: Poppy Stamps
Lacy Border: LDRS

The Rabbit Hole Designs Blog Hop Day 1 - Love You More!

Welcome back for some more inspiration with the newly released Love You More Stamp Set from The Rabbit Hole Designs!

One winner will be chosen at random for a chance to win the complete release of Love You More and So-fishticated plus one Tim Holtz Stamping Platform. Leave a comment by 11:59 pm PST on January 25th on participating blogs, for the entirety of the hop, so make sure to visit each stop, each day and leave a comment.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog January 28th!

It's not too late to hop and comment on the Preview Day 1 and Preview Day 2 posts as well! So get on over there and see what you missed!

Now... check out this adorable stamp set:

Total sweetness, right??  Here's how I was inspired:

I just love these two!  I decided to go with a design paper background this time.

As soon as I saw this set I was excited to get a chance to ink it up!  I love all of the details... the houses... those cute little birds... a few different sized hearts and clouds...

And the sentiments!  Perfect!

I'm playing along over at The Outlaws Twisted Thursday where the twist is "Layers"... I've always got a few of those!  It's a Ning site where you have to join to play but there are lots of challenges and a great group of crafters!  You should check it out!

I hope you've enjoyed your stop here!  Now be sure to check out all of the places along the way and comment for your chances to win!  If you get lost along the way you can always start back at The Rabbit Hole Designs to get back on track!

The Rabbit Hole Designs

Lisa Bzibziak (You Are Here!)

Amy Tsuruta

Lisa Mensing

MaryAnn Samuelson

Be sure to check back at The Rabbit Hole Designs tomorrow for the So-Fishticated Blog Hop where you'll find even more wonderful inspiration from some very talented ladies!

Thanks so much for visiting!  I love having you here!