Sweet Purple Bunnies for Spring

Waving Hello!
I hope you are doing well.

Today I have some bunny cards to share from an old, old, virginal Inkadinkadoo image, stamped with Monarch VersaFine Clair and colored with Tombow #133 marker. The leaves are very sparkly with glitter. I've used a different glue to adhere the glitter, so hope to hear back from recipients if it did not work well.

A great feat! They are A2 size.

Thanks to my friend Ana for helping 

to choose colors on these cards before our quarantine!

Clear glitter was applied to the greenery.

Shaded Lilac Distress ink highlights the background.

• Image: Inkadinkadoo Bunny Retreat (this is the stamp)
• Dies: Assorted Sue Wilson and Spellbinders dies
• MS border punch
• assorted embossing folders
• assorted Brilliance inks, VersaFine Clair, Distress

Challenges I would like to play in please:

1. Crafty Friends #133 AG 4/25
2. Crafty Cardmakers #254 Easter 4/19
3. Shopping our Stash #418 Happy Spring 4/28
4. Unicorn Challenge #53 Furry Friends 4/30
5. Use your Stuff #395 Easter 4/18
6. All Fun Challenges #6 AG Easter 4/25 (Mon aft)
7. Classic Design Challenge HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY! #4 AG 5/1
8. Sparkles Challenge #127 Spring is in the Air 5/15

Wishing you love and wellness,

Lavinia World - Moon Gazing

I have two posts this morning - the MAWTT post is here.

Hello, dear blogging friends! I hope you are doing well - A little insight into my life...

I enjoy stepping outdoors, especially in the wee hours of night, to gaze upon the sky, regardless of the weather, and allow the Beauty of the sky and the quietness of the pastures to fill my soul with the Wonders of Life and the Splendor of Love. These nighttime "excursions" fill me with a type of inexpressible Awe-filled Gratitude.

Lavinia's Moon Gazing Hare depicts my experiences.

YOU KNOW that brings us to a new Lavinia World Challenge!

We are an ANYTHING GOES theme challenge using ANY brand clear or rubber stamp - no digitals. Winner receives

a $15 gift certificate to the Lavinia World store.

While "our" Lavinia World store is located in the US, it ships worldwide. In the US, buy $25 and get free shipping! Lavinia World carries other crafting supplies for your convenience.

Store -- Facebook -- Challenge -- Instagram

I cheated with this beautiful pre-made background, and changed it up with inks and good old finger daubers to reflect an Autumn theme. I also tore a piece of copy paper as a mask, and created a larger spot for the Hare to stand on:

After inking the bottom portion with VersaFine Clair Nocturne, I dredged the area with a brown EP containing brown glitter for texture and dimension.



This angle shows off the autumnal color glitter atop the VersaFine Clair Nocturne inked dragonfly. With each movement of the card, the sparkle shows up in different places:



Here it is around the moon and edges:


I wish the heat embossed sentiment had been stamped lower, covering the moon - there is always next time! To better show the letters of the sentiment, a little white pen was added:



Dimensional Glue was added to the brown embossing powder, and coated with the autumn colors of glitter to provide more dimension and shimmer. A Quickie Glue Pen was used around the moon for more glitter. Specks of glitter surround the hare and a few are even in front of the hare for more depth:



Don't forget to play in our challenge! I honestly think these Lavinia stamps are the best quality clear stamps I've ever played with, and a heartily recommend them.

Products Used:

• Lavinia World Moon Gazing Hare LAV369
• Lavinia World Vine LAV165
• Lavinia World Believe in Magic LAV344
• Lavinia World Spanish Moss LAV505
• Lavinia World Stars Miniature LAV152
• Lavinia World Uni-Ball Pen Signo Gel White
• Lavinia World VersaFine Clair Inks: Nocturne, Acorn, Pinecone, Morning Mist
• Lavinia World Distress Oxide Barn Door
• Distress Ink Black Soot, Brown EP containing Brown Glitter (bottom of scene), Autumn Medley Glitter, Clear Detail embossing powder (sentiment and hare),

Challenges I'd like to Support:

1. Creative Knockouts #317 Anything Goes C10 10/3 (2nd entry)
2. Pammie's Inky Pinkies #1938 Anything Goes C10 09/30
3. Crafty Cardmakers #241 Autumn Colors 09/30
4. Creativ Fusion Arts and Crafts #14 Autumn Theme 10/1
5. World Wide Open DT Challenge #9 AG DT 10/15
6. Lil Red Wagon Challenges #516 Fall It 10/2 (sep post)
7. Simon Says Wednesday Challenge (Sept 25) Anything Goes 10/2 (sep post)
8. Penny Black and More Challenges (Sept) Animals - Critters on Parade 10/1

Fairy Hugs,

2 Crafty Critter Crazies with A Day for Daisies digital stamps

Hi, everyone! I hope you are enjoying the summer weather and that all is well. Today I have a freebie sentiment for you, and an idea for how to change your digital images.
I also have a special BOO BOO edition today!
(giggle)

It's time for a new Challenge at Two Crafty Critter Crazies 
where we love to celebrate any project with a critter on it! Critters include mythical creatures, animal toys and everything alive (except humans and flora)!


Our very generous sponsor this month is:
A Day For Daisies Digital Stamps.
She has such a unique style and wonderful characters.
My card features the delightful "Happy Love Day" Bunny

For my project, I cropped the balloons off the bunny, flipped her vertically, and made a bunny conversation with one bunny handing her friend sweet birthday balloons!

To make the frame, SB Lovin' Diamonds die set was cut 4 times, with only the top layer being embossed and colored:

At this point, I still had not noticed that all the hearts in the background were facing a single direction. It had also not occurred to me that the interior heart frame was not symmetrical.

I then die cut the bunny panel - notice that I did not have the hearts in the background facing the correct direction:

After the bunnies were cut, they were inked and adhered to the center of the card - still not noticing that the hearts are facing a different direction and that the interior hearts are not symmetrical:

It was time to adhere the frame to the card.
It was THEN that I noticed my BLUNDER!
BOO BOO TIME!
In order for the interior hearts to line up with the incorrectly cut bunny panel, the hearts would have had to be adhered SIDEWAYS (as shown below). Too bad the bunnies were already ruggedly adhered. A 45 degree angle shift would have fixed the problem. Sooooooo.....

I just let the interior panel be off center, and NOT lined up!
What's a girl to do?
(see the white spaces around the interior panel?)

Still, it was fun glittering die cuts, adding flowers, and even a little dragonfly, to make things sweet. And now you know, some blunders simply cannot be hidden!




For those of you who love digital images, and have frogs, bunnies, grasshoppers, and other "hoppity" type critters, here is a cute digital sentiment. Click on the sentiment to make it full size. Then right click to download as a SAVE PNG. (not for commercial use). I hope you enjoy it!

A Freebie Gift PNG to my Followers-
NOT for commercial use:

Thanks for stopping by, and please upload your critter theme projects to our challenge! We love each one!

Products Used:

• Stamps: A Day For Daisies "Happy Love Day" Bunny, Computer Generated "Hoppy Birthday" (freebie gift to my followers - not for commercial use)
• Dies: SB Lovin' Diamonds die set, SB "Leaves So Very Gorgeous", Dee's Distinctively Flourish Sset 4, Sue Wilson Dandelion Clocks
• Glitter: Purple, Green, Clear mixed with Pink
• Ink: Adirondack Citron, Plum, Purple
• DLArt Lavender ribbon, flowers

Challenges I would like to play in please:

1. The Cutie Pie Challenge #136 Make it Cute and With Ribbons & Bows 7/7
2. Penny's Challenges #436 Anything Goes (go to 2nd linky) 7/2
3. Crafty Creations #393 Anything Goes 7/9
4. Aud Sentiments #230 Anything Goes + a sentiment 7/9
5. Crafty Friends #113 Things Beginning with B (bunnies, balloons, birthday and BOO-BOOs! giggle) 7/9 (lower part of post)
6. World Wide Open DT Challenge #6 AG for a DT 7/15 
7. DL.ART July Anything Goes challenge 8/1

Stamping Hugs,

Bunnies, SheepSki Designs, and 2 Crafty Critter Crazies

Hello, Critter Loving Friends!
Can you believe it is already February?
Here in subtropical Florida, we have intermittently thawed out of our series of "deep freezes." Still, it is nothing compared to what Canada and the upper US have been experiencing. So grateful to live where we do!

It is my pleasure is to Design for the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge Blog today!

If you love critters - ANY kind of critter - this is a fun challenge made for you.
The ABCs: From Ants to Anteaters, Butterflies to Buffalos, Crocodiles to Cardinals
you get the picture.

SheepSki Designs is sponsoring February's challenge, so get hopping and show us your projects using critters!

Any style, any theme, any technique - just be sure to have a critter on it!

I'm featuring this dramatic, multi-purpose Rocket and Rosie image; great for just about any theme, but I am especially focusing on "love":

Colored with Copic Markers, and distressed with both water-based and pigment inks, my card uses LOTS AND LOTS of oldies from my stash! Sigh... I love using my hoarded goodies.

(like brads, ribbons, dies, papers, inks)

Do you find a certain SPECIAL ENJOYMENT using your older products? 

It's like running into an old friend, and reliving good times.

Like this amazing Spellbinders die. It's been crying out forever to be used, and it surely is an amazing die! I love all the possibilities with this set.

To make the intricate pop up, cut 4 frames, inking one of them:

Adhere the four frames. A bead of glue using Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive with fine tip around the very thin edge of this frame and the innermost part of the frame produces this look:

A little Brushable Glue on the Foliage and dredged with Beach Ultrafine Glitter gives a bit of texture and visual interest to the floral spray.

Thanks for popping by and don't forget to let us seeing your critter creations!

On A Personal Note:

Did you see the Super Blue Blood Moon the past few nights?
Amazing - it looks like dawn all night long with all the trees, grass, shrubs, etc.  illuminated brightly!

We keep our thermostat rather "cold", but thought you might like to look at the outdoor temperature:

Inside:

Outside:

Ice everywhere! On the roof, wherever trees did not protect the grass and pasture, from the downspout onto the driveway:

The deer don't have much grazing area:

Ice everywhere - I was unable to capture the glistening whiteness with the camera - the Crepe Myrtle trees are covered with icy limbs:

Does not look very subtropical, does it?

Thanks for visiting our little homestead.

Products Used:

• Rocket and Rosie from Sheepski Designs
• Spellbinders Lovin' Diamonds S6-019 die set, and Foliage Leaf set
• Memory Box Chloe Dies, and Flourish Vine
• Copic Markers, Distress Inks, Pigment Inks
• DLArt Rose colored crinkle ribbon
• Craftwell Modern Stripes Embossing Folder
• Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive with fine tip
• Brushable Glue
• Beach Ultrafine Glitter G1111
• White, pink, tan, brown cardstock
• Flowers

Challenges I'd like to support with this pretty card:

1. Cardz 4 Galz #64 Think Pink 2/15
2. Craft Rocket Challenges #45 "Love" 3/1
3. Crafty Creations #359 Anything Goes 2/14
4. DLArt Thankful Thursday #221 "Love" 2/8
5. Moving Along With the Times #64 "love" 2/15
6. Scrapy Land #82 Use Dies SL Sells (2 SB, 2MB listed above) 2/2
7. Sheepski Blog Challenge #11 Love 2/15
8. Sheepski FB Challenges #20 ends 2/20
9. The Crazy Challenge #267 "Love" 2/12
10. Tic Tac Toe Challenge #33 Diagonally - heart.die cut.ribbon (lots of hearts throughout my frame)

hugs,

Easter {Sparkle N Sprinkle}

Welcome newest followers Frea Konings, Sarah, and Kristi, and to all my sweet blogging friends. Here in central Florida, we are enjoying a splendidly gusty April day with winds from the southeast. My poor snap dragons and petunias are taking a beating!

Today's card share is from a cute Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp set. 

Some of the images are available digitally.
The rest are on the Celebrate Life Rubber Stamp Set.

matching cut file

A long-forgotten Spellbinders set (Fancy Tags One) was used for the sentiment, which was then distressed with distress ink and Opaline Cosmic embossing powder.

Beautiful on its own, the Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four was smooshed with VersaMark and embossed with more Opaline Cosmic embossing powder. The effect is a pearly, slightly opalescent appearance. I so wish the photography would have picked that up, instead of the over-kill around the colored sky, which was distressed with a VersaMarker and more Opaline Cosmic embossing powder. The camera has picked up the darkness rather than the opalescent quality. NOT FAIR! 

Maybe you can see it a little better here? 

(that silvery appearing stuff is actually a creamy iridescence.)

The outside frame is adhered with white dimensionals.

The interior mat is adhered with glue.

The bunny panel has double dimensional adhesive to pop it up a bit higher.

Love those tee-tiny white rose buds from Lavish Laces! 

Her products are so sweet and reasonably priced.

Sweet little card - and the dies actually made it very easy.

Smooshing VersaMark for EP is not very difficult, either! (giggle)

Fun to make, the image was colored with copics, and a little Daisy Velvet Glitter on the flowers, butterfly and the big carnation.

Products used:
Sparkle N Sprinkle "Celebrate Life" #457P4
Sparkle N Sprinkle Opaline Cosmic embossing powder EP359
Sparkle N Sprinkle Daisy Velvet Glitter (microfine) GM2019
Sparkle N Sprinkle Brushable Glue #540
VersaMark Ink
VersaFine Deep Lagoon (sentiment)
Distress Ink Tumbled Glass (distressed edges)
Spellbinders Labels thirteen S4-248, Elegant Labels Four S6-005, Fancy Tags One S4-235
Martha Stewart butterfly punch
Copic Markers
Cardstock: White, Neenah Solar White, Aqua
Flowers and Lace from Lavish Laces
Tulle, Dimensional Adhesive

Fun Challenges in which this card this card is entered:

1. Craft Your Passion Challenges - #209 Bunnies, Chicks and Eggs - my card uses all 3 elements 4/21.
2. Crafty Bloggers Network - April - Die Cuts or Dry Embossing - 4 die cuts were used in my creation 5/5.
3. Eureka Stamps Challenges - #85 Happy Easter - 4/20 (used Easter image, inside message)
4. Ooh-la-la-Creations - #154 Easter/Spring 4/26
5. The Pink Elephant Challenge - TPE246 "Easter" - 4/20
6. Through the Purple Haze - #37 "Anything Goes" - 4/19
7. Victorine Originals Challenges - #81 "Easter" - ?
8. Whoopsidaisy Challenge - "Easter" 4/19
9. Fairy Tale Stamper - #37 Bingo - 5/3 (top row Lace, Die Cut, Flowers and Diagonal Lace, Glitter, Text)
10. Hobby Cutz - #43 Bingo - 4/19 (first column Lace, Punch, Die Cuts and Diagonal Die Cuts, Tamp, Flowers)
11. The Alphabet Challenge - "E is for Easter" 4/25

thank you for stopping by today!
hugs,