Handmade Paper Hugs

  Hello everyone! The August release from Alex Syberia Design is now live! As always the designs are gorgeous and for you cut file lovers there are more news too. So check out the new release on Etsy .  For my first card I used the Lotus stamp. I really love this design and I thought it would pop off a black background. So I Copic colored the image, fuzzy cut it and used a black Memento pen around the edges. I gold heat embossed a sentiment from The Stamp Market - One of a kind, and splattered on some diluted acrylic gold paint. Copics used: RV09, RV06, RV04, RV02 Y08, Y06 YG13, YG11, G43 For my second card I used the Gardenia Duo and the Caleidoscope card panel for background. The background has a beautiful pattern and I thought it would work well for a little interest to the background. And the gardenias are just gorgeous! As always I copic colored the flowers, and all I had to do was add a sentiment (My favorite things - Happy hedgehogs) and a few Nuvo drops. Copics used: R...

Hello everyone! Until a few days ago I didn't even know there was an epilepsy awareness day. But when I found out that through Time Out challenge blog that March 2th is just that, I had to join. You see, my Bonita (the doggie we just lost) had stress-induced epilepsy. I hope to never see another epileptic cramp again 🙏 But did you know not all seizures are visible? Some seizures puts the patient in a sort of trance, and some go by unnoticed for years. Either way, it's scary. Purple is the color for epilepsy and the sea horse is a symbol of it, because the seizures take place in the brains Hippocampus, which in latin means sea horse. So I stamped the Hero Arts layered Sea horse using Altenew purple inks. I used the same inks to ink smoosh the background. I also stamped a few more sea horses and stenciled through Taylored Expressions Splash stencil. I didn't move the stencil. Instead I added a bit of Nuvo Moonstone glimmer paste for a little sparkle. The sentiment...