Faith, Trust and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust

I loved the book Peter Pan. The Walt Disney movie version was my favorite, but Hook kinda grew on me! This scene is so sweet and just tugs on your heartstrings...

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Wendy was always my favorite character, of course! I think we all have the memories of that "in-between" stage... not quite an adult, but you want to be and not a little kid anymore, but secretly you still want to to be! It's hard to grow up! That's why a little pixie dust always helps when you're growing up, up and away.

This is my niece Ellie...she turned 15 last week! She's super special...not only did she make me an aunt for the first time, but I was in the delivery room when she was born!



She's beautiful, has a great sense of humor and has more confidence at 15 than I do at 48! I love this girl!

Today starts a new challenge at Cupcake Inspirations and the theme is Mythical.



I happened to have the perfect stamp images and made this card for Ellie Belle's birthday!

[caption id="attachment_5918" align="aligncenter" width="575"] Club Scrap® card stock from the April 2017 Cherry Blossoms collection. Stamp set from Club Scrap Retreat 2015 Enchanted Forest. Images stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with copper foil embossing powder. Diamond stickles for sparkle.[/caption]

I just love this Tinkerbell quote!



Diamond Stickles makes awesome pixie dust!



The sponsor for this week's challenge is The Greeting Farm and they are generously providing a $25 gift certificate to shop in their store! Click here to check out what the rest of the design team created, then go make a card to enter in the challenge!

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Wild Thing Does the Wobble!

There's something about "googly eyes" and a wobble that really appeals to me. No, I don't have a thing for old men, but I LOVE this little wild thang!



This week's Cupcake Inspirations Challenge is sponsored by DRS Designs and they also shared some of their stamps with the Sweeties! I chose the One Line Wild Thing sentiment to go with the Goblin and he looked like he needed some googly eyes and a wobble! The Action Wobbles that I just bought were too big, so I made my own with a little wire, some tape and a little help from this tutorial by Craft Spot by Kimberly. It worked like a charm!

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The goblin is 1.5" x 1.25" and thought he would be the perfect focal point for an ATC. I haven't made any in a while and I love making mini works of art. I may have to make a Wild Thing series of cards!

[caption id="attachment_5616" align="aligncenter" width="3648"] Club Scrap® card stock and Love Inkorporated heart stamp image (Love Ink Digital images available). The heart stamp image was colored using Big Brush Markers as well as the shoes on the goblin and background "watercolor" splatters. The sentiment and goblin images were stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with Ranger Copper embossing powder. Diamond Stickles was added for sparkle. The card was framed using Versamark ink and Ranger Silver embossing powder. Gems and googly eyes from my stash.[/caption]

Hmmmm, well, you know it's handmade when you leave your fingerprint in the heat embossing!

Check out the challenge here and be sure to visit the rest of the Sweeties and leave them some love!



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