Holiday Sparkle Blog Hop

November 12, 2022November 12, 2022 Happy Ink Designs72 Comments

Hello, hello, hello!! Welcome to Day 2 of the Holiday Sparkle Blog Hop. As always, I’m super excited and honored to be a part of this hop so let’s get crafty.

GIVEAWAY INFO:

Let me start off by sharing the above blog hop exclusive code. If you spend $50 or more and enter code: CUTEBAG you will receive this adorable zipper pouch for free!! This offer is valid while supplies last or until November 13 at 11:59pm EST. How cute are the little snowflakes and paw prints??

Simon Says Stamp is ALSO giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from our comments section so be sure to comment on every stop to increase your chances of winning!! Simon will announce the winners on the Simon Says Stamp Blog on Wednesday, November 16.

To view the entire release click HERE.

I used the Warm Christmas Stamp Set from this release and let me tell ya, this is my kinda holiday!! Oh how I wouldn’t give to spend the holidays on the beach somewhere warm and sandy. In fact, I just might have to add that to my bucket list.

So for this card, I started out by coloring all of my images with my Copic markers on X-Press It Copic Blending Card. I fussy cut them all and set them aside to move on to the ink blending. For my sand, I created my own stencil awhile back and it was perfect for this card. I had the On the Horizon Lines Stencil in mind and at the time it was out of stock so I thought, I have the stencil material, why not create my own hilly landscape. Starting off with an A2 size piece of Bristol Smooth Card Stock, I masked off the top of the panel and used Antique Linen , Scattered Straw and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks to create my sand. I splattered the sand with Gathered Twigs mixed with a little water and then with White Gouache and water.

I used the other half of the homemade stencil and just a straight edge from another stencil and masked off the sand to work on my ocean. I ink blended Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon and Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide inks for my ocean. I reversed the straight edge of a stencil so I could move on to my sky. I ink blended Mustard Seed, Abandoned Coral and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide inks for the sky.

To add a little interest to my sky, I added a few rolling clouds by adding a little water with a fine paintbrush. I heat embossed my sentiment using Alabaster White Embossing Powder. I trimmed my entire panel down to 4″ x 5.25″ and I started to assemble my card.

I popped Santa and the palm tree up with some 3D Foam Squares and then I glued everyone else into place using my Bearly Art Craft Glue. To make my tree shine a bit, I added Crystal Glaze over all of the lightbulbs and the round ornaments. I also added a touch on the Blue Hawaiian cocktail that Santa is enjoying. For a final touch I added a few Tiny Iridescent Bubbles by Studio Katia. I attached my card panel to a top folding landscape card base.

For my second card, I used this adorable snowman from the same Warm Christmas Stamp Set. I started out with an A2 size piece of Bristol Smooth Card Stock. I used my homemade stencil to mask off the sky and did the sand the same way as I did above. I went a little heavier with the Gathered Twigs though. I also used one of the A2 Masks Stencil to keep this card clean and simple.

I masked off the sand and worked on my sky. I ink blended Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks. I set that aside to dry and I colored my snowman. I know this isn’t going to sound good but I fussy cut the snowman out and I respectfully trimmed off his arms as they were too thin to fussy cut.

Before gluing my snowman in place, I stamped him on my background panel so that his arms would no longer be missing. See, no snowman was harmed during the making of this card.

I heat embossed this sentiment from the same stamp set with Alabaster White Embossing Powder. To finish off my card, I added a few Flat Silver Sequins and a thin strip of Silver Glitter Card Stock at the bottom. I attached my panel to a side folding card base.

Now that I’ve shared what I made, it’s your turn!! When you get your goodies from this latest release, be sure to add your projects to the Holiday Sparkle release gallery and anywhere else you choose to share on social media! We LOVE seeing what you all create.

If you haven’t checked out Day 1 of the Holiday Sparkle Blog Hop, then click HERE to be directed to even more inspiration!!

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Holiday Sparkle Release

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 Happy Ink DesignsLeave a comment

Hello all. I’m so excited to share the newest release by Simon Says Stamp called Holiday Sparkle. Click HERE to be taken to the entire release. You do NOT want to miss this one. Be ready to fill that shopping cart!! I told myself I wasn’t going to place another order until next month, but I can already tell you that that’s not going to work.

I made a card to share with you specifically for this release. I used the Warm Christmas stamp set to make this card. Stay tuned because I’ve made a few more that I’ll be sharing very soon.

This card is super cool because it glows in the dark!! But let’s back up and start from the beginning. I started out with an A2 sized piece of Bristol Smooth Card Stock. I also made a second card using Neenah Solar White 110 lb. card stock because I wanted to compare the differences in the background. To be honest, they look pretty much identical. I think the color blend is slightly better on the bristol smooth card stock but not much at all.

I made a hilly mask using stencil material for a previous card and it was perfect for this card too. I made it myself because at the time I wanted the On the Horizon Lines Stencil but it was out of stock so since I have the stencil material on hand, I thought I’d just quickly make it myself until I can get my hands on the On the Horizon Lines stencil. I masked off the sky and covered the bottom of my panel with Simon Says Stamp Clear Ink. I also used a VersaMarker to get right up next to the mask.

For my sand, I used Hero Arts Sand Embossing Powder. I reversed my mask, now covering the sand and started to ink blend my sky. I used Salvaged Patina, Uncharted Marina and Villainous Potion Distress Oxide Inks. Before setting it aside to dry, I splattered the background with White Gouache and Liquid Stardust by Lawn Fawn. I love how sparkly the Liquid Stardust brings to my projects. I set the background aside to dry.

I colored the palm tree from the Warm Christmas stamp set with my Copic Markers and I fussy cut it out. I decided I wanted to try Lawn Fawn’s Glow In the Dark Stencil Paste on the lightbulbs to see if it was enough to make them glow and it is! They do!! I tried to capture it in a photo but I didn’t capture it well. I stamped the palm tree on my background panel so I could trim off the hanging ornaments making it much easier to fussy cut.

For the ornaments, I used Lawn Fawn’s Pixie Dust Sparkle Card Stock. To bring them alive, I went over the ornaments with Crystal Glaze to make them shine. For my sentiment, I heat embossed Alabaster White Embossing Powder on Black Card Stock and trimmed it down using one of Simon’s Sentiment Labels dies. Using an extra piece of Craft Foam I had floating around on my desk, I used it to pop up my sentiment. Before putting the sentiment on, I cut the entire background down using one of the A2 Layers dies by Waffle Flower.

I attached my panel to a side folding card base and my card was complete! I didn’t add any embellishments because I wanted to keep it simple and I thought the stars in the night sky were enough.

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Dancing Butterflies

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 Happy Ink Designs4 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Simon Says Stamp Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

I couldn’t decide which colors I liked best so I’m sharing two cards today. This first one I made for my Mom who is the most amazing woman I have ever known. She’s my rock. She’s been there with me for every single surgery I’ve had and I’ve had over 30 intestinal surgeries. She stays in the hospital with me and everything. Well, before covid she did. Now she has to get a hotel but she’s with me during visiting hours everyday until I’m discharged. She really is amazing.

For this first card, I started out with a piece of A2 Bristol Smooth card stock and I ink blended Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon distress oxide inks. Then I heat embossed the sentiment from the XL Greetings 2 stamp set by Simon Says Stamp using silver embossing powder.

I splattered some white gouache and Villainous Potion onto my background using my Tim Holtz Splatter Brush. I used Neenah 110 lb. card stock to die cut 3 layers of the Leafy Frame die from Simon Says Stamp. I glued all three layers together using my Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue.

I LOVE these butterflies from the Dancing Butterflies Hot Foil Plates and Dies by SSS. I foiled them with prism foil by Spellbinders. I inked blended Salvaged Patina, Prize Ribbon and Villainous Potion over the top of the foil. I used the 100 lb. Hammermill card stock that I keep hearing people say it great for hot foiling, but I wasn’t really impressed. Maybe because I’m so used to ink blending on bristol smooth and that’s just what I’m used to now. But to be fair, I’ve never foiled on anything else besides the Hammermill because I’m brand new to the hot foil world. I sprayed my butterflies with Sheer Shimmer Sparkle Spritz to give the butterflies a little twinkle.

I added a few Clear Round Drops by Studio Katia as an embellishment and adhered my panel onto a top folding card base.

My second card is basically the same, just with different colors and a different sentiment. I ink blended Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness.

I splattered the background with Rustic Wilderness and White Gouache.

For these butterflies I used Blush foil by Spellbinders. I think they turned out just as beautiful as the first ones did.

I heat embossed my sentiment from the Clean Line Everyday stamp set by SSS and CZ Design with white embossing powder on black card stock.

I popped my sentiment up with black foam squares.

For these butterflies I ink blended Wild Honey, Candied Apple and Aged Mahogany. They are absolutely gorgeous!!

I attached my card front to a top folding card base and I was done!

So now it’s YOUR turn. Happy Crafting!!

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Enchanted

August 26, 2020August 24, 2020 Happy Ink Designs3 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Gina K Designs Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

I have to say that I am in love with this stamp set!! There are so many fun images to play with and I can’t wait to use it again. This is the Enchanted Forest clear stamp set by Gina K Designs.

I started my card out on a piece of Bristol Smooth Card Stock and I ink blended distress oxide inks. I started with Antique Linen, Cracked Pistachio, Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and ended with Black Soot.

Then I used my brand new Misti 2.0 and I stamped out all of the images except for the moon. I stamped them all using Versafine Onyx Black Ink. My sentiment is from the Sketched Flowers clear stamp set by Simon Says Stamp. After I stamped the largest fairy, I sprinkled some Brutus Monroe Raven Embossing Powder to give her this beautiful sparkly silhouette. I masked off the wings though because I didn’t want the extra bulk.

I then stamped just the fairy wings onto a piece of Holographic Card Stock by Simon Says Stamp and fussy cut them out. I attached them to my fairy using Gina K Connect Glue.

I prepped my background to emboss the moon using Brutus Monroe Alabaster Embossing Powder.

After all of the images were stamped and heat embossed, I used Lawn Fawn’s Liquid Stardust and White Gouache with my Distress Splatter brush to add some stars. I used the Wonky Rectangles die by Simon Says Stamp to cut out my card front and attached it to an A2 sized Onyx Black Pearlescent Card Stock. I attached it all to a top folding black card base. To finish it off, I added a few silver stars from Itty Bitty Stars Silver Sparkly Shaker Mix by Lucy’s Cards.

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Stamping Bella Mermaid Shaker

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 Happy Ink Designs3 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week the challenge is:

Bling It On

We are showcasing Stamping Bella Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp are giving away a $50 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can join 5 times which means you have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this week’s Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. Sounds like a win/win to me!! Good luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

Well I hope everyone is enjoying all of the fun Stamptember goodness that’s been going on so far this month. Starting off with the latest SSS Exclusive Stamptember release. WOW!! If you haven’t seen it yet, click here. And I just saw the new Art Impressions line and I ooh’d and awe’d my way through it. So much cuteness!! I gotta mention the AWESOME collaborations, of course. It’s so hard though because every day there is a new collab, so I don’t want to jump and order the first thing I see, but if you wait, you risk it selling out!! I’m trying to refrain from placing a new order everyday. Can you imagine?!!? I think my hubby would divorce me…

Ok, back to my card that I made for this week’s challenge. I had so much fun making this card. I’m just so excited to be crafting again!! I had to do a little bit of everything for this card. I did some ink blending, stenciling, copic coloring and of course I had to turn it into a blinged out shaker card.

I ink blended Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot distress inks. I used the new Liquid Stardust by Lawn Fawn to splatter my background. What a beautiful product that is. I can see myself using it on many cards. Then I used the Ocean Scene Builder stencil by Honey Bee Stamps. I love that it comes with 4 different stencils!! I used one of the rays stencils from the set with Delicata White Shimmer pigment ink and the 2nd rays stencil from the set with Nuvo Moonstone Glimmer Paste. I cut my window out using a die from the Rounded Rectangles Infinity dies by Hero Arts, making sure I left enough room around the frame for my foam tape. Then I Copic Colored my images.

Next I worked on the acetate. I used Heat Resistant Acetate and white heat embossed a sentiment from the Magical Unicorns stamp set by MFT. I used my Anti-Static Pouch generously to make sure that the embossing powder wouldn’t cling horribly to the acetate.

I used foam tape to build up my shaker window. I decided to use 2 layers of the foam tape because I popped my mermaid up with foam squares so that the sequins would fall behind her, so 2 layers were necessary so that the shaker bits could move around freely.

Doubling up the foam tape like that left more room to see around the background piece or the negative part of my rounded rectangle cut. It was bothering me to see the white card base through the sides of the shaker and around the outer edge of my card (I even tried a black base but I wasn’t satisfied) so I quickly ink blended the same distress ink colors onto my top folding card base so that the the colors would all be cohesive no matter which angle you look at it.

I placed my sequins and jewels inside my shaker and closed it up!

Since this challenge is all about the bling, I decided to add a few Iridescent Bubbles by Studio Katia over the top of some of the bubbles that I heat embossed on the acetate. I absolutely LOVE these bubbles. I think they were that finishing touch that my card needed.

So now it’s YOUR turn. Happy Crafting!!

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Fire Up The Fun

July 10, 2019August 18, 2019 Happy Ink Designs3 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Add a Number

We are showcasing Your Next Stamp Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $50 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

What kid doesn’t love firemen and fire trucks and policemen and K9’s? I thought this stamp set appropriately titled Fire Up The Fun was perfect for a kid’s Birthday card. Your Next Stamp also has an equally adorable stamp set called Freeze for those police fans.

As I was working on this post, I started to feel really crummy. So I will add the colors I used and my video as soon as I can. The way I’m feeling as I type this, I’m afraid I may be in the ER or on my way to San Francisco by the time this posts in the morning. So I’ll just add a couple of pictures for now and pray that I’m wrong and I will be back ASAP to finish adding some details.

So now it’s YOUR turn. Happy Crafting!!

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Happy Summer!!

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 Happy Ink Designs1 Comment

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Travel/Vacation

We are showcasing Lawn Fawn Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

Happy Summer everyone!! Well, it’s still a couple of days from the official start date, but it’s close enough! My boy is out of school, the sun is shining and we just got back from vacation so this was a perfect challenge this week for me.

I chose to create my idea of the perfect vacation. Any where there is the ocean, palm trees and a beautiful sunset, that’s where I’ll be. That is my definition of vacation. I actually created two cards for this challenge. I did another one with a different sky technique which I shared at the end of my video. But for this card, I started out by ink blending Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade and Candied Apple on Bristol Smooth card stock.

Then I cut the frame out using Lawn Fawn’s Tropical Backdrop die. This is an awesome die! I love that you also get separate palm tree dies to add additional palm trees or to paper piece over the top of the trees attached to the frame.

I cut out my ocean waves using the Stitched Simple Wavy Borders die also by Lawn Fawn. I used two different colors for the waves. Both look amazing with the colors of the sky. I used a sheet of colored card stock that I believe to be Lawn Fawn’s Peacock. I also used SSS Audrey Blue card stock. Then I placed a ton of foam strips and foam squares on the back of my frame to pop it up for dimension.

I cut the sentiment out three times with the left over colored card stock. The sentiment is called Happy Summer Line Border die by Lawn Fawn. Using Elmer’s Craft Bond, I glued them all together and trimmed it down to fit in between the two palm trees on each side. I used a tiny bird die that I had in my stash.

Look at the gorgeous color!! The teal just pops against the blood orange color.

For a final touch, I went over the sentiment with my Nuvo Aqua Shimmer pen. I attached my card front to a black card base and I was done! Here’s the other card I created using a different technique to create the sky.

This ALMOST ended up in my trash, but luckily I was able to salvage it. I need to work on my sky colors next time, but I really like the realistic effect that this sky has.

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Welcome Sweet Baby

February 18, 2018March 11, 2018 Happy Ink Designs10 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! I’m back with another super cute card featuring Simon Says Stamp Wild Cuddly Critters. The theme this week at Always Fun Challenges is Zoo Animals, so I decided to go with one of my favorite zoo animals. I also made a baby girl card with the adorable elephant in the set, which is another favorite of mine. To be honest, I love all animals so all of them are my favorite!!

If you’d like to see the Valentine’s card that I made for my hubby last week, click here.

I am so happy with the way this one turned out. As usual, I had no idea where I was going with this when I sat down to make it. I knew I wanted to try a couple different ways to watercolor. Here are the results:

I ended up using the distress image on the left, but I was pretty happy with the way the others turned out as well. I think the Zigs were my least favorite, but I would still use him. I really liked the way the Peerless watercolored one turned out too. I used Gathered Twigs, Scattered Straw and a little bit of Vintage Photo for the hooves and nostrils.

I used Simon Says Stamp ink for the sentiment in Slate and then some Sea Breeze Nuvo Drops for an added embellishment.

And here is the card I made for a baby girl. I love how this one turned out too!!

I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brushes for this cutie. I used 091 Light Gray, 095 Dark Gray and a little 028 Pale Pink for the ears and cheeks. For the polka dot background I used Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet.

Please join us this week and share your zoo animal themed cards by going to the Always Fun Challenges blog. We have a new theme every week that everyone is welcome to join and we always have super fun themes.

I’ll see you next week ~

Misty

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Love Our Life Together

February 11, 2018March 11, 2018 Happy Ink Designs8 Comments

Hi guys!! I’m having a hard time believing it’s already almost Valentine’s Day!! Wasn’t it just Christmas??? Well, I do love playing with hearts and anything pink so this week’s theme at Always Fun Challenges is one of my favorites. If you haven’t guessed it yet, it’s Valentine’s!!! Anyone have any romantic getaways planned for the upcoming Hump Day?? Gasp! Get your mind out of the gutter!!! Valentine’s Day is this Wednesday!! I can’t believe you went there. It wasn’t me!! Ok, maybe it was. There’s gotta be a card or two taking advantage of that pun this year. To be honest with you, I haven’t even put any thought into the “Day of Love” yet. I know, that’s terrible of me. Well, I take that back. I did at least get a card made for my hubs, thanks to this challenge. Ross actually proposed to me on Valentine’s Day 11 years ago. Wow, I can’t believe we’re going to be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary this June!! That’s insane!!

My ideal Valentine’s Day would be… I’ll refrain from saying a day of nothing but crafting and instead I’ll go with a beautiful warm day with absolutely nothing to do. My house would be clean, my projects and orders would be all caught up. Ross and I would sit in our backyard, soaking up the warm sun, holding hands, listening to our chickens chatter. The cats would be next to our chairs while Bentley would be underneath them, enjoying the shade. The backyard would be freshly manicured. We’d either head to D’Aurelio’s (our favorite Italian/pizza joint) for dinner or Ross would cook up something yummy for the kids and I. Speaking of kids, they’d be on their best behavior, of course. They’d do their chores without being asked 50 times. There would be no arguing. Then we’d finish off the evening with a delicious eclair from Harvest Market, not the Safeway kind. Ross would give me a long overdue back rub. If it didn’t put me to sleep, I’d return the favor. Then we’d fall blissfully asleep in each other’s arms. That’s it. That is my idea of a perfect Valentine’s Day

Ok, getting back to the card… I LOVED making this card. I had never used the metallic washi tape before this and I am here to tell you, it’s so very cool looking!! I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like it before. It’s absolutely gorgeous!! That rose gold color is divine.

It was kinda hard to photograph but I think I captured it pretty good in this pic. Isn’t it beautiful?

To start off, I did some ink blending on bristol smooth white paper using two colors that I honestly didn’t think would blend so nicely together. I’ve been seeing this color combo on Pinterest for a bit now so I finally decided to give it a try. I’m so glad that I did!! When I think of Candied Apple, I think of a bright red. I really love how this soft blend turned out.

After ink blending, I cut the stacked hearts out twice and glued them together. I topped the hearts off with the SN clear glitter pen. Next I moved on to the sentiment. I cut the word Love out of this gorgeous metallic washi tape and cut the background out of vellum.

I used some SSS rose gold embossing powder for the rest of my sentiment and then glued the word Love in the center. Popped the whole thing up on some craft foam and we have a card, ladies and gents!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I do hope you will join us over at the Always Fun Challenges blog this week for some Valentine’s Day fun. As always, there’s a process video below and also on my YouTube channel and below that you’ll find all the products that I used.

If you’d like to see what I made for last week’s theme, click here.

I hope everyone has a lovely Valentine’s Day, whatever that means to you and I’ll see you guys next week!!

Misty

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One Layer Card

January 7, 2018January 14, 2019 Happy Ink Designs6 Comments

Hi folks!! Hope everyone has had a great start to the New Year. I have a one layer card to share with you guys today. I chose to use some adorable images from Purple Onion Designs. They are one of my favorite stamp companies.

I chose Birch the Bunny because I had our rabbit, Thumper in mind when I made this card. Unfortunately we lost him on New Year’s Day. I’m still pretty heartbroken about it. He was such a cool creature. I had never had a rabbit before so it was definitely a learning experience for us, but he turned out to have such a cool personality and I fell in love with him. Our dog, Bentley was “playing” with Thumper and we don’t really know what happened. We thought he was in shock, I held him for about 10 minutes then was told to put him in his cage, where he’s familiar with the smell and put a blanket over it to darken it. We did that. I went to check on him about 30 minutes later. I sat there with him and watched his breathing and the way he was acting, something was off. Then his breathing started to slow way down. Then he just quit breathing. The boy’s were pretty devastated. I’m still pretty devastated. I feel awful for letting him down.

But enough with all this sadness. Let me move on before I can’t. I made this card in honor of my dear Thumper. The theme this week at Always Fun Challenges is One Layer card. I’ve made a process video, if you’d like to see how I made this.

To check out last week’s project, click here.

RIP lil buddy.

Copics Used:

Birch: E70, E71, E74, R20, R30 (belly) W0, W1

Hat: RV32, RV34

Ground: W1, W2, W3

House: E53, E55, Y00

Snow: B000

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