A Dream Journey!!

Happy President's Day everyone (for those here in the US)!!  My kids are STILL home from school and so is hubby today--LOL!  Valentine's Day went something like this for us....I slept in, James made me breakfast in bed, I worked, we had lunch, I worked, we had pizza for dinner, I worked some more, hee hee---I basically worked 16 hours yesterday getting ready for 3 Blog Hops this week, new stamp releases and the reveal of the Dirty Dozen Gallery at SCS--whew!  It was a VERY long day and I hope to keep the work to a minimum today so I can play a bit--it's of course supposed to snow here again tomorrow, but hopefully only 3 inches this time.  Hubby is heading to Whitetail Ski Resort to ski for the day--that's my VDay present to him---I do not like winter so skiing is not my sport :o)  Enough chitter chatter for ya--I have a ton of stuff to get thru on this post so make sure and scroll all the way to the bottom (there's some Blog Candy hidden down there too, hee hee)!

NewsBitz:

-The New Dirty Dozen Fan Club Gallery is up at Splitcoast Stampers and it's all about being "Bold, Dirty and Masculine" this month!  Come see all my manly creations HERE and if you're not a fan club member then now is a great time to join (see HERE for details)!  Below is a small sneaky peek of one of my projects (yeppers that's a Mo image) :o)

-Mo's Digital Pencil is having an awesome Celebration Blog Hop tomorrow to celebrate her 1000+ members on her PCP group and 6 fabulous months in the Digi Stamp biz!!  Make sure and hop with us cuz' the prizes that are being given away are AWESOME--me wants some too :o)

-Today, Blog Candy starts for the fabulous NEW Release from Elisabeth Bell for SCACD on the store blog HERE!  The release will be this coming Friday!

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Magnolia-licious DT Blog Hop

Today the Magnolia-licious DT has a fun Blog Hop planned for you today--and the theme is Pop-Up Cards/projects (my fave)!  You can find all the details for this hop on the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog HERE along with how you can play along for prizes!  I LOVE creating pop-up scenes, they're fun to do but they are definitely a labor of love!  I really wanted to use some of my stamps from the Magnolia "Pet Collection" that hadn't seen ink yet.  All of these stamps are available at Magnolia-licious--for the front of my card I used the "Jungle Car".  I used some old K&Co vellum that had postcards and stamps on it, cut them out and arranged them on the front.  The sentiment (just got this a few weeks ago--perfect timing) is from Hero Arts and distressed all my edges with my Tonic Distress Tool (luv that thing)!

And this is how the inside pops up--a real Jungle Scene Journey for you (I won't tell you how many hours I spent on this, it's scary)!  I'm all about details--the more the better, I want someone to look at this card and notice all the special touches.  I used the "Waterfall Background" and "Jungle Car" along with cute "Jungle Tilda" on the inside.  I wanted it to look as though she was going to step thru a photograph of the Jungle and start her journey!  The vine leaf ribbon can be found HERE--I just love it!  The sentiment is from the same Hero Arts set.

Here's cute Jungle Tilda getting ready to start her journey--I had to give her just a lil' bling on her shirt and pockets--a girl's still gotta look good! LOL!  The windows on the car got diamond glaze and the tail lights got some stickles for sparkle.

 From the side view, you can see how I create my pop-up elements.  Jungle Tilda is hooked directly to the car which is attached to the background--when the card folds so do the pop-ups!

Here's a close-up of the background---the waterfall got a layer of diamond glaze, then stickles on top once dry and the foam of the water got a coat of liquid applique.  And I added some sparkles to the mountains too--I wanted it to be dreamy beautiful!  Hope you enjoyed the journey today---now your NEXT HOP is to KERRY's BLOG HERE (and if you get lost you can access all the Blog Hop info on the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog as well)!!

Blog Candy Alert!!!  And for those that read all the way thru, I thank you, hee hee---leave a comment on this post letting me know "What Your Dream Journey is?" and you can win ALL 3 Magnolia Stamps I used today along with the Hero Arts Sentiment Set (your's will be new, hee hee--not used of course)!!  You have until this Friday to enter!!

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Easter Tulips for the Copic Creations Challenge Blog

Since today is the 15th that means it's another fun challenge over at the Copic Creations Challenge Blog!  This time our challenge was to use Copics to color embellishments, a really fun technique.  Copics can be used on so many things including fabric, ribbon, paper, buttons, lace, clear baubles, brads, etc.!  The sponsor this week is DZ Doodles and they have some beautiful digi stamps in their store and they so graciously gave each of the DT a digi stamp to use this week!  I got this beautiful stamp called "Wrapped Tulips" which I love--Tulips are my absolute favorite flower of them all!  The beautiful paper is by Prima, the lattice punch by MS and all cs is from PTI.

I used Copics to color my image (B01,B00,B0000/R22,R20,R00/G99,G25,G20) and also my Prima E flowers.  The center rose is already colored, but all the rest of the flowers were white and I enhanced them with R20 & R00 to match---I buy a ton of flowers in white so I can color them, paint them, airbrush them and spritz them to match my projects (find a variety of white flowers HERE).  The image was cut out with my oval nestabilities and then I coated the edges with MS crystal microbeads for a fun touch.

Now make sure and hop over to the Copic Creations Challenge Blog HERE to see the rest of the DT's beautiful projects and join in on the fun!