Handmade Paper Hugs

  Hello everyone! AAA Birthday challenge blog is celebrating 2 years and we are having a month-long party with LOTS of chances to win some amazing prizes sponsored by wonderful brands in our community. Yes, these 👆 are the sponsors. Check out how to get your crafty hands on them below, but first, my card for this challenge which is Anything Birthday Goes!  If you know me, you know I LOVE a card challenge, so I had to come up with a design that would fit products from as many sponsors as possible. Products used, all from sponsoring brands: Graciellie Design  Love puppies digital stamp set Altenew Painted Flowers stamps and coordinating dies Altenew Cherry Blossom inks + Golden sunset inks My favorite things Paw prints die-namics My favorite things Celebratory banner die-namics My favorite things Little Letters (for "YAPPY") My favorite things Big balloons stencil Lawn Fawn Happy happy happy stamps and coordinating dies Disclaimer: No products were giftet to me, they were...

Hello and welcome, We are closing in on fall temps and colors, but there's still time to enjoy the summer mood! I'm still working on some of my many digital images. I just love the versatility. I printed the Graciellie Brew like a boss Hibiscus cold brew image and one of the sentiments from the Fall wishes set on Neenah cardstock. I colored the image with my Copics and fuzzycut it out. The sentiment, which I need to put by my bed btw, I cut with my guillotine and softly blended Picked Raspberry oxide ink over it.  The smaller panel is actually part of a background made a while ago that I had tossed, not liking it. Ink smooshed background using Squeezed lemonade, Spiced marmelade and Picked Raspberry Distress ink - this I loved by the way. Then I smeared texture paste over through the Simon Says Stamp Star medallion stencil and covered with WOW! Pink Fizz embossing glitter, a technique I love! Except it just looked messy. Here I cut it down to about half si...