Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #52

Hi there, I'm excited to share a card I made for Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #52 using the new Lawn Fawn Magic Picture Changer. I was a bit nervous to give this die a try but actually it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Definitely makes me smile every time I pull the tab!

The challenge is to show some love for beloved pets, well turtles can be pets too especially if they are cute as this little guy.

Happy Birthday Bloom

I am up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with a card I created with the Delgithful Daisy Die Set and Distress Oxide inks.

Hope you have a chance to pop over and say hello!

Picket Fence Studios First Anniversary Celebration

Hi there and wishing you a very Happy Tuesday! I am so excited to be a part of Picket Fence Studios First Anniversary Celebation! For the entire month of May they are celebrating their birthday and what a party they are having! 

I am so honored to be one of their guest during the celebrations. Today is my day to post a project here on my blog and to offer a giveaway! More information about my special discount code and my giveaway later in the post! If you haven't heard about Picket Fence Studios or haven't seen their fun and unique designs you are in for a real treat today. Not only do they create that most fabulous stamps and dies but they are also the company that sells the Life Changing Blender Brushes that honestly will rock your world when it comes to ink blending! I have a card and video to share with you today so let's get started...

I used the beautifully designed Peony Bouquet Stamp Set for the flowers on my card and the Thank You Stamp Set for my sentiment.




I started out by masking, stamping and white embossing the blooms from the stamp set onto a panel a Bristol Smooth cardstock. I stamped and embossed each bloom one at a time. After the embossing was done I used the Life Changing Blender Brushes to sponge Distress Oxide Inks on to my panel overlapping the colours slightly to create a rainbow blend.



 I flicked some clean water on to the panel and picked up some of the colour with a paper towel.  Once the panel was completely dried I stamped and clear embossed the 'thank you' sentiment using VersaFine Onyx Black ink.  The entire panel was popped up with foam tape and I finished it off with a few clear sparkling sequins!

I also have a video to better show you how I created my card with multi-step embossing and ink blending with these amazing brushes here and on my YouTube channel. I would love it if you let me know if you enjoyed my video by giving it a thumbs up and while you are there.

DISCOUNT CODE

To celebrate Picket Fence Studio’s One Year Anniversary, Nicole and Matt have GENEROUSLY provided a 20% off code for my blog readers! Simply use code PFS20 (Case Sensitive) at checkout at the Picket Fence Store store to take 20% off of your entire purchase from May 14, 2019 - May 16, 2019.

GIVEAWAY

Picket Fence has also sponsored a giveaway! One of my lucky blog readers will win a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR shopping spree over at the Picket Fence Studios Store! An absolutely amazing giveaway! To be entered to win, please leave a comment on this blog post telling me what is on your desk right now! Please leave your comment before Midnight EST on Sunday May 19th! I will draw a random winner on Monday May 20th! For more chances to win you can enter on on my Instagram account @traceymcneely and by subscribing and commenting on my YouTube channel! Three chanced for a fabulous price! 

Please use an email address you check regularly because that is the one I will  use to contact you if you are a winner!

Thank you so much so stopping by today.
Good Luck!

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Thanks Friend

Happy Monday!

I hope all the mother's out there had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend!

I spent Sunday with my family going to the garden centre which seems to be a bit of a thing with us each year on Mother's Day. Since we have had an unseasonably cool and rainy spring no 'real' flowers came home this week, we will wait a couple more weeks and hope the weather improves some. So today I came home with a green wreath for my front door and some  faux flowers for me to place on the wreath. I'll be sure to share a photo once it it done.

An update on the flooding here. Things are much better and the town is now focused on recovery efforts. The army reserves have left after being enormously helpful and we are forever thankful for them and all of the volunteers who came together to keep everyone safe, fed and helped and are helping clean up the debris. The water going through the falls is not so violent anymore and the waters are receding along the river. So good news all around!

I have a post and video up on the Birch Press Design blog today for this rainbow card, I hope you head over and let me know what you think...

You can watch my video  here or over on my YouTube channel. I would love it if you let me know if you enjoyed my video by giving it a thumbs up or subscribing to my channel.

Here is a list of the products I used today for my card. If you shop through my links I receive a small commission from my affiliate providers at no cost to you. Any commissions I receive is put towards the running of my blog.

Thank you for supporting me.

Coffee and a Friend

I am up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with a card that is also for the Spring & Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!



I hope you have a chance to pop over to A Jillian Vance Design blog to see what sets I used to create with!

For the Graduate

Well here we re the last day of April and posting the April 12 Kits of Occasions!

I just got back from an amazing and restful vacation to Turks & Caicos with my husband and very dear friends. Summer is is full swing on the island, in fact it always it there but it was just what we all needed after what was a long, cold and dreary winter.

As usual the days of 2019 are whizzing by but so happy to see the tell tale signs of spring--warmer temperatures, snow almost 100% gone, buds on the trees and the first robin of the season! It makes me so happy!

Kara Lynn, Bright Hope Creations,  was our hostess this month with her debut kit as a 12 Kits of Occasions designer themed--For the Graduate! The kit is full of everything you want to create those perfect cards for the graduates in your life! Papers, stamped images, die cuts and embellishments that are just perfect for the occasion. All of the amazing kit contents can be found in the Monthly Kits Supplies on the 12 Kits blog.

So lets get things started with what I created with this amazing kit...

Please be sure to head over to the 12 Kits of Occasions blog to see what the rest of the fabulous designers did with their kits!

Pretty Pansies

I am up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with a card I created with the Pansies Die Set and ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

Hope you have a chance to pop over and say hello!