Fairy Wish {Lavinia World Challenges #2}

I love working with the Lavinia stamps from Lavinia World and I'm so happy to share with you my project for the second Lavinia World Challenges.  

The stamp I'm showcasing today is the Fairy Wish stamp. To begin, I used a John Next Door die set (Oakham Lattice) and die cut the center circle from white cardstock.  I then stamped the Fairy Wish image onto the cardstock with VersaFine black ink and heat set with Clear embossing powder.  Then I added Nuvo glitter (Sparkle Dust) to the fairy wings.  I love how the glitter looks green since the wings were black.  (If they had been a light color, then the wings would have looked more iridescent.) A pink glitter was also added to each of the flower blossoms.

 Using the same Oakham die set, I die cut the rest of the mat surrounding the image from a pale pink cardstock..

For the background mat, I used a Sue Wilson die set (Spanish Collection-Cordoba) and die cut it in a medium shade of pink.  This die is actually a rectangle.  So, in order to convert it to a square, I used my paper cutter and cut down the center of the die cut.  Then I added a strip of bright pink cardstock in the center and adhered each half to the strip.

A few more dots of pink glitter in the corners finish up the card nicely.

Now we hope you can come play with us at the Lavinia World Challenges.  This bi-weekly challenge ends June 17.  If you use a Lavinia stamp in your project, your chances of winning a fabulous $15 gift certificate to Lavinia World are doubled😍.

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Until next time.....

Feel Better Soon {Scrapy Land #113}

It's the third Wednesday of April and time for a brand new Scrapy Land Challenge #113!  There are two winners chosen to receive gift certificates to Scrapy Land and the theme is always Anything Goes using any brand of die that Scrapy Land sells.

The following products were used to create this card:
Elizabeth Craft Designs: Dancing Butterflies (any of these would work as well)
Elizabeth Craft Designs: Lacy Poppies (most of these would work)
Paper Rose: Stitched Square Frame (most of these would also work)
Reverse Confetti: Word Up stamp set
Hero Arts: White embossing powder
Nuvo glitter: Chestnut Brown
Stampendous glass glitter: Champagne
Distress Oxides: Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch
Copic markers

I have to say, I really like the bright colors of this card.  It was also one of my most difficult cards because this card had three different iterations.  At first, it had a clear acetate cover with this image being placed on the inside of the card.  I was touching up a small spot on the front of the card with a Copic and my hand slipped.  No way to repair that.  So.... I cut off the front of the card to salvage the inside.  I decided to make this the front of the card and adhered it to a 6x6 piece of white cardstock for the base.  Well, I guess I scored and folded against the grain and when the card was opened and closed a couple times, it ripped.  So, on the third day of trying to salvage this card, I decided to go with a black card base and made sure I scored and folded it on the grain!

Other than my boo-boos, this is a relatively easy card to create.  Everything was die cut from white cardstock and colored with Copic markers.  Glass glitter was used to accent the large poppy center and Chestnut Brown glitter accents the butterfly body.

I also decorated the inside of the card as this is going to a friend about to have surgery.  I added the negative piece of green cardstock when the Stitched frame was die cut and I added a different butterfly from that die set.  His body also has glitter and sparkle.

Now it's your turn to head on over to the Scrapy Land Challenge and upload your project (or two).  You have until April 28th to be in the running for one of the prizes from Scrapy Land.

Turner Syndrom Awareness Blog Hop

Hello Blogging Friends!!

Welcome to my project for the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural 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.

Nineteen caring Sponsors and eleven DT Members have partnered with us to 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. 

My TS related project uses colors from the TS official color board:

My project was pretty easy to create using various digital images and digital paper.  The focal point is a new digital stamp set created by my friend Donna Ellis. (You can find it here.) To give it added dimension, I resized and printed the butterfly a couple different times and fussy cut these out.  I added Nuvo glitter (Turquoise) to the outlines of each of the butterflies and folded the wings of the smaller ones upward.   I also added a couple lines of double sided tape along the bottom of the second layer of blue matting and covered it with more Turquoise glitter.

The sentiment is also a digital image created by Donna for the participants of this blog hop as a "thank you for participating" gift.  I changed the color to coordinate with the colors from the official TS color board. The digital paper is one that I've had for a long time and unfortunately, I don't remember who the manufacturer was.

The card base was created from a piece of glossy photo paper.  I wanted to see if you could do some of the same types of techniques on the photo paper as you could on regular glossy paper. For this one, I spritzed several different colors of Nuvo Shimmer Powders onto the photo paper and spritzed it with water.  I allowed each layer of color to dry before adding more colors.  I kept doing this until I was happy with the results.  It was so much fun, that I created a whole batch of backgrounds for future use.

Now it's time to head back to the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural Blog Hop page. Check the "How to Win" section to see the requirements needed to be eligible for prizes.  You'll also find who the next person on the blog hop is. 

Thanks again for joining us and learning more about Turner Syndrome.