Love Bug

Hey there you all know what day this is?

It's the day The Cutting Cafe Design Team

comes together over on the Cafe Blog

with all our fabulous designs...

all in ONE place.

This time we have some fun Valentines to show you!

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For my card I used the Word LOVE cut file.

After cutting with my Cricut,

I added a cute little 'love bug' and a ribbon/button bow....EASY!!

If you don't have a cutting machine

all of The Cafe files come with a PDF.

So what are you doing here?

Head on over to The Cutting Cafe blog!!!

Get going now!!

(because of time differences, it might not be available until late afternoon)

Happiness

Today at

Back To Basics and Beyond

the challenge is 'paper piecing'...pretty easy!

My card is a mixture of old and new!

New heart die, new stamp (sentiment).

Old (er) paper and stamp/die little Emma.

I stamped and die cut 'Emma' from Paper Sweeties.

Once I had her colored in, I stamped, hand cut, 

and paper pieced her cute little dress on her body.

Make sure to visit the challenge at BBB to see all the 

pretty creations the DT has to inspire!!

Hearts

Happy first Wednesday of February!!

Being the first Wednesday of the month

brings us to a new challenge at 

Double D challenges. 

I created this pretty 'mood board' for inspiration.

However, you can create any color as long as you have hearts on it!

Here is my card.

As you can see I went totally with the mood board colors

and some of the elements seen.

This was a very easy card to make using an embossing folder (hearts)

and some pretty dies.

I also distressed the embossed piece,

taking direction from one of the hearts on the board

(bottom left heart).

I used my Zutter Distress It All for that.

The next layer was a Cherry Lynn Designs die cut doily,

then a Heart die from Spellbinders,

speaking of, the wings are also SB which I bought a 

grab bag of dies from them in the  last year or so 

and the wings were one of them.

They came in pretty handy for this card!

The little heart is one of Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting Heart dies.

I don't normally post the prizes on MY blog

but because this die is a favorite of mine

I decided to show what you could win just by

entering our challenge.

Make sure to go to Double D and see all the beautiful work

by the design teams...they are amazing as always!!

Be A Unicorn

This is my post on the

Tutti Designs blog today.

Hi, Diane with you today featuring a newly 

released die 'UNICORN'.

I had a lot of fun with this card and it came together super easy!

Of course having a die as cute as this one made it easy!!

As you can see below,

I die cut the UNICORN once from white card stock and once from pink card stock.

I layered the white over the pink, slightly off to give

a pink shadow effect,

except for the mane and the tail, 

I just popped those 2 pieces in like a puzzle piece

Using a Tutti Nesting Stitched Star,

I cut a negative from a designer paper

(I can use the star later)

and another star from a gold glitter paper,

I just popped the gold star back in.

I embossed a cute sentiment with gold EB powder

and hand cut a banner.

A few gold star 'candi's' were added.

I was thinking this unicorn could be cut many different ways

by paper piecing many different papers in the main/tail

(think glitter paper and/or colorful designer paper)

 Come back tomorrow for more fabulous inspiration!

UNICORN

Nesting Stitched Stars

Make sure to visit the Tutti Designs Store (link below)

for LOTS more fabulous dies!!

Come back tomorrow for more Tutti Designs inspiration!

and here are some Tutti Designs quick links:

Tutti Designs Store

Tutti Designs Pinterest

Tutti Designs Facebook

Tutti Designs Blog

Thank you for visiting with me today!

From The Heart

A funny thing how this card came about.

I saw the theme challenge at The Paper Players

and thought that the image looked so familiar to me.

well, it was as my Valentine napkins have

almost the same image of the heart balloons.

With that being said, I have wanted 'forever' to try

the glitter napkin technique.

There is an awesome video on youtube HERE

if you want to give it a try.

I am not going to even go into explaining it

as her video is so GOOD!

So, here is MY card using my napkin.

I think it turned out rather well.

I stamped the Flourishes sentiment on pink vellum.

It was fun, so much so that I can see myself collecting more napkins...

just what I need, more 'stuff'  lol!

Also entering in the following challenges:

Time Out .... home sweet home

supplies:  Stamp Flourishes Have A Heart; Die Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting Hearts,

Cheery Lynn Designs Fishtail Banners;

Elizabeth Crafts Clear Double Sided Adhesive Sheets;

SU Products Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Heat & Stick Powder;

Embossin folder WeR Memory Keepers Hearts

Turner Syndrome 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 a few colors from the TS official color board:

Here is my card

I honestly have to admit I never knew of  Turner Syndrome until I 'met' Lori

and her beautiful daughter 'Julie'.

Now I know it affects 1 in 2500 female babies born....

I encourage you to read Lori's journey HERE. 

I applaud  Lori for all she has done to bring awareness

to this and for all the fund raising she has worked hard at...

it cannot be easy and takes a lot out of her I am sure...

she is truly a special person with a heart of gold!!

I used a sweet image from My Favorite Things 

(which they happen to be one of our sponsors)

she is holding a button jar,

but this time she is filling it with stars!

There are lots of prizes to be had...

not only from the fabulous sponsors but also

some of the designers in the hop.

I am one of them and I have this fun sampling of

Nuvo products!

Aqua pens (watercolor)~coloring markers~ and two bottles of

Crystal Drops.

To win my prize 

You MUST leave a comment here on MY blog...

I would also love for you to become a follower and STAY a follower

after the hop is complete...just sayin'!

Please read below as it has very important instructions for you to

win from the main blog and the sponsors....

I hope you have enjoyed the hop and all the  beautiful designers  cards!!

HOW TO WIN On The 'It's A Girl Thing Blog Hop':

Visit the Turner Syndrome blog hop HERE

and read all the instructions below

(also posted on the main page...this is just for your convenience.)

• Leave a comment on the TS Awareness Home Blog Post stating at least one thing you learned about Turner Syndrome. Our Tab titled About Turner Syndrome has a pictorial explanation of many of the symptoms or limitations faced by TS females.
• Leave a comment on one or more DT blog hop posts. 
• Prizes will be awarded randomly from the comments left on 19 of the DT blog hop posts + by 11 of the designers who are awarding prizes of their own. So the more posts you visit and comment on, the more likely you are to win a prize. Don't forget! You must also leave one comment on the Home Blog, too.
• We hope this will bring an awareness not only about Turner Syndrome in females, but that if any human being seems a bit out of the ordinary, there could be a health-related or genetic reason for it, and it would be nice to give everyone the benefit of the doubt in our daily lives.

 The design team thanks you for supporting and learning About Turner Syndrome.  

Valentine Angel

Happy first day of February!
Speaking of the 1st,
it means it is the day a new challenge starts at
Dies R Us Challenges!



We are seeing RED for our theme...
meaning we want to see RED on your projects!

I love my Tutti dies and I used a very favorite of mine for the background....
Tutti Designs Rose Frame
Isn't it beautiful?
It leaves an open space in the middle
which I have covered with the 
Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting Hearts
the little metallic heart is also part of the nesting set.

The angel is a very very reasonably priced die
Cheapo Dies Angel
she actually has her hands together in a praying form
(see image below)
but I changed her up a bit just by adding the heart.
She is so lacy and pretty!!

Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting Hearts

Tutti Designs Rose Frame

Cheapo Dies Angel


I finished by adding a few clear sequins.

So make sure to go to the Dies R Us challenge blog
and enter YOUR RED project
for a chance to win a gift certificate to the Dies R Us store!