Nothing but happiness

Hi!

I have a few pictures to share from our vacation to Disney World. These pictures are of Abbi with some of the characters at the different parks.
Abbi got into pin trading with the workers at the park. She ran out of room on her necklace thingy and started putting them on her hat! She ended up collecting quite a few pins of Stitch so of course we had to have a picture of her and stitch ;o)

Here she is with Pocahontas. Both this pic and the one with Stitch were taken at Animal Kingdom.

This one of her and pluto was taken at Epcot. This was our favorite park and we ended up spending 3 days at Epcot.

This was taken at Chef Mickeys were we had breakfast with all the characters on Abbi's birthday. This was a lot of fun. Each one of the characters came to all the tables where you got to get their autograph and a photo with them. They also put on a little show with singing and dancing for everyone that was celebrating with them.

This was taken at Magic Kingdom. This character was a high fashion designer in the late 1800's. I do not remember what her name was but at first we thought she was Mary Poppins. We had a good time talking with her. When she saw that it was Abbi's birthday she gathered a crowd around and had them all wish Abbi a happy birthday.

I have more pictures of our trip to share with you but I have to edit them first ;o)

I also have a card to share with you today...

This is another card I made using all scrap paper. I used Gina K Designs Botanicals and Your are not Alone stamp sets on the card. Again another fairly straight forward card but if you have any questions, please let me know...K?

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of your day!

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Botanicals & Your are not Alone - Gina K Designs

Paper: PTI White, SU, Basic Grey Indian Summer

Ink: SU

Other: Spellbinder Circle Nestabilities, Pearls, SU Ribbon

Cracked Flowers

Hi!!!

Did you watch the Super Bowl? It was a good game wasn't it! I am so happy the Packers won! I had to watch to last half in my bedroom with my little fur baby because my hubby's cheering scared the bejeezus out of the poor little guy! After the game I had to stay up and watch Glee. Love that show! I am paying for it today though...I get up at 4:30 a.m. for work so am a little tired today! *smile*

I made this card a while ago but have not shared it here on my blog yet because I wanted to try to get a better picture of it. I am not having much luck so I apologize for the photo. This is the best one of the batch!

The colors of the papers are off a bit. I used SU's Ivory and Chocolate Chip to match the SU DP which is now retired. The color of the flower image is really not that much darker than the ivory paper in real life.

The flowers are from Gina K's You are not Alone stamp set. I colored them with SU Markers before stamping on the paper. I cut the image out with circle nestabilities before creating my cracked glass. I always put at least 3 coats of the Ultra Thick embossing powder on for the cracked glass. I also have a little trick for you...if you are not happy with how 'glass' cracks, use your heat tool to warm up the embossing until it's liquefied again and all the cracks are gone. After it's cooled you can put it back in the freezer for 10-15 minutes and try it again.

The sentiment are from Gina's Arranged with Love and I framed it with a few pearls.

I spent the weekend baking up some sweet treats that I will be sharing for the Layers of Colors Cake Decorating Party on February 23rd. So check back with me throughout the week because I will be sharing a sneak peek of one of my treats very soon. I just need to get the pictures off my camera and edit them!

Enjoy your day and "Thank You" for stopping by!!

CAS shimmer

Good morning!

How are you all today? Boy was it hard to go back to work yesterday after being off over the Holidays! Not only did I come back to over 1100 emails but the day just dragged! I am positive today will be better...it's one day closer to the weekend after all! lol!

I have another card I made for the Stamp TV countdown challenges. Hopefully you will not get tired of them because I have 5 more to share after todays card. *smile*.
This one is for the Shimmer Background challenge and Abbi made a card for this one too.
Here is my card...
I kept this card pretty simple.
After embossing the lighter blue cs with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder, I colored the flowers with a clear glitter pen and the flourished stems with a green Spica pen.
The sentiment is from You are not Alone. I cut it out and matted it with a few different spellbinders Dies - Circles, Blossoms 2 and Labels 14.
To be honest, I am not sure I like this one. I think it's the green flourished stems that I am having a problem with. Maybe if I had used the clear glitter pen for them I would be happier with it.

Here is Abbi's card...

She picked out her own papers but used the same design as I did for my card.

Have a wonderful rest of your day!

CSS Alumni Inspiration Blog Hop

Hiya Stampers and welcome to another CSS Alumni hop!

The CSS girls are doing an inspiration hop base on this picture that Carolina selected for us.

Don't those cupcakes look yummie!

If you came from Shannon blog, you are right on track. If not, please go back to Stamp TV and start at the beginning. I don't want you to miss any of the fabulous eye candy the girls are sharing tonight!

I used some of the colors in the picture to base my cards on tonight. My first card uses the colors pink and brown.

Stamps: You Are Not Alone

Paper: SU, Gina K - White PL, Basic Grey - Indian Summer

Ink: Memento's Markers - Rich Cocoa, Rose Bud, Cantaloupe,

and Bamboo Leaves

Other: Circle Nestibilities, Swiss Dots EF, Brads

I used the stamp set 'You Are Not Alone' for both the focal image and sentiment. I used Memento's Markers and colored directly on the stamp before stamping the image on Gina K's White PL paper.

My second card uses the colors yellow, pink and green.

Stamps: Spring Florals

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury CS - Lemon Drop, Bubble Gum,

Grass Green, Copic X-Press It, Basic Grey - Sultry

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Rose Bud, Copics

Other: MS border and corner punches, Circle and Oval

Nestibilities, Stickles

The image is from the Spring Florals stamp set and was colored with copics YG07, YG17, RV02, RV04, RV09, C00, and C0. I added a bit of sparkle to the flower petals using stickles.
The flower image and the sentiment, which is also from Spring Florals, were cut out using Oval nestibilities.
I took a piece of grass green paper and cut out a circle using a nestibility circle die then used the corner punch to punch out the border around the circle. I tucked another circle I cut out of the pattern paper under the little tabs of the border.  I used the matching border punch for the strip of striped pattern paper. The pattern paper is from Basic Grey's Sultry pack.

Thank you so much for hopping with us tonight!! Please be sure to stop back at Stamp TV and join us in the blog hop discussion forum.