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Hugs are the Cure! | Playing with Washi, Foil and The Rabbit Hole Designs!

Happy Sunday!!  I'm up on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog today with this shimmery pretty!  I had some fun playing with Washi, Foil & the Hugs Scripty set & dies!  I know the below photo is awful for lighting, BUT I wanted you to be able to see all of the shimmery goodness!  

The 2nd photo was taken in natural lighting and it just doesn't show the shimmery at all.  I started off with 2 different Rose Gold Washi Tapes and alternated them on my main panel, then using a die to get the scalloped edges.  

Next up die cut my shadow on some Midnight Blue cs.  For the "hugs" I used the die cute word on white cs, then I foiled the letters.  Stamped the sentiment in Midnight Blue ink and finally stamped, colored up then cut out the envelope.  Both the envelope and the "Hugs" are popped up with foam tape!  That's all I've got for ya, thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon!

 

The Rabbit Hole Designs September Release Hop, Day 3

Happy Wednesday!  It's the last day of peeks for The Rabbit Hole Design's September release.  There are 8 new stamp sets with 8 coordinating dies, an uppercase alpha set, a lowercase alpha set and 4 stencils, and they are all available in the TRHD Store right now!  For my card today I used the NEW Birthday Word die & Shadow and the NEW Birthday stamp set.

First of all, would you just LOOOOOOK at that alcohol ink panel!!!!  Is it not the most gorgeous thing ever?!?!?!?!?  A few weeks ago Niccole asked the DT to send her a 2 or 3 color palette we liked, of course I said "pink & green and maybe gold".  THIS is what I got!!!!  WOW-o-WOW-o-WOW!!!!  Let me tell you, it took a lot of staring and gazing at this beauty before I could even imagine doing anything to it to turn it in to a card!  Finally I got up the courage and used it for this card.  

I know there is a name for this technique, but I can't remember what it is.  So here's the scoop of what I did... First off I used the BIRTHDAY scripty die and cut the word from my inked panel, then I carefully set those die cut letters aside.  I grabbed some white cs and die cut the word 2 more times.  I adhered both white cs words in the negative left behind on the ink panel, then I added the word die cut from the ink panel on top.  It raises it enough to be able to see it, but not quite as high as foam tape and the layers are solid. I finally added the sentiment from the Birthday Scripty stamp set to the top and added a couple of enamel dots.  Pictures just do not do this alcohol panel justice!

Well that's it for me, be sure to visit the rest of the Hop list for lots more inspiration!

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Amanda
Jenn
Joy
Kelly
Kim
Lauren
Tangii
Terra
Vanessa

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release,  The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower.  Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post.  So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post  @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post  at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 09-02-2021.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 09-03-2021.

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon!

The Rabbit Hole Designs September Release Hop, Day 2

Happy Tuesday!  We're in the middle of September Release peeks!  There are 8 new stamp sets with 8 coordinating dies, an uppercase alpha set, a lowercase alpha set and 4 stencils, and they are all available in the TRHD Store right now!  For my card today I used the NEW You Word die & Shadow and the NEW You stamp set.

This card was built from the top layer (black & white) down.  Once I had my black & white striped panel ready (cut with a wonky rectangle die), I lined the YOU silhouette and the 2 hearts on it and taped them down with "purple tape". Next I added a layer of red glitter paper with foam tape underneath.  I die cut the "You" in paper that matches the blue/green base piece and adhered it on to the glitter paper.  I also added a few sprinkles from one of the previous freebies in our orders from TRHD!  Finally I stamped the "are loved" from the sentiment set  in the lower right.

I adhered all of that on to the Blue/Green base piece.  I just love all of the dimension on this!  In the upper right corner I added a flutter heart with a couple of sprinkle pieces! 

Well that's it for me, be sure to visit the rest of the Hop list for lots more inspiration!

 

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Amanda
Jenn
Joy
Kelly
Kim
Lauren
Tangii
Terra
Vanessa

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release,  The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower.  Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post.  So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post  @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post  at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 09-02-2021.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 09-03-2021.

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon!

The Rabbit Hole Designs September Release Hop, Day1

Happy Monday!  Hope you've had a great weekend.  It's day 1 of the TRHD September release hop and there's a whole lotta awesomeness packed in to this one!  There are 8 new stamp sets with 8 coordinating dies, an uppercase alpha set, a lowercase alpha set, 4 stencils and a partridge in a pear tree (hahahaha), and they are all (except the pear tree) available in the TRHD Store right now!  For my card today I used the NEW Congrats Word die & Shadow.  There is also a Congrats stamp set that works with these dies.I had this fantastic glittery, shimmery paper and it was perfect for this festive card!  I die-cut the Congrats word from my base, and the shadow in black cs.  The shadow covers the the negative from my die-cutting and now my word has the same colors/gradient as the background.  My sentiment is from the Sassy Birthday 2 set, I stamped it on a white die cut piece and then blended some Oxide ink on the edges.  Finally I stamped, colored and then die cut some candles from the Just Cake stamp set & coordinating dies.  The candles are floating under the sentiment and popped up with pop dots.

The lighting on this pic stinks, but it shows the shimmery-goodness!

Lookie at all of those layers & all of that texture! Swoon!  Well that's it for me, be sure to visit the rest of the Hop list for lots more inspiration!

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Amanda
Jenn
Joy
Kelly
Kim
Lauren
Tangii
Terra
Vanessa
Roberta
Ricky
Lydia
Essie
Jammie
Caly

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release,  The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower.  Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post.  So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post  @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post  at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 09-02-2021.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 09-03-2021.

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon!

Advice From a Pumpkin | The Rabbit Hole Desgins

Hey Fall yall and happy, happy Sunday!!  Ok, ok, ok!  I know it isn't technically Fall, but a girl can wish can't she?!?  lol  I've used the Advice From a Pumpkin stamp set and coordinating dies and paired it up with the Cat Eye Stencil for today's card.  

 

I chose one of the larger pumpkin images and then nearly all of the smaller accent pieces (acorns, leaves, etc.), stamped them all and then using the dies cut them all out and set them aside.  Next I used some Transfer Gel and spread a thin layer here and there on my base piece.  I just wanted random pieces of it for my background.  Once dry, I ran it through with some Copper Foil.  There are missing/unfoiled pieces and that's what I was looking for, kinda "rustic" almost.  Now I grabbed my main pumpkin image, added some pop dots and placed him in the lower corner.

Finally, I stamped and placed my sentiment then I took all of those accent pieces and spread them around (they are also all popped up on dots).  I just LOVE the look of this card!

That's it for today's share, be sure to tune in tomorrow for the first day of peeks for The Rabbit Hole Designs Sept release!!

My Soul is Glittery and Blingy and Sparkly! | The Rabbit Hole Designs

Hey yall!  Happy, happy Monday!!  I'm up on the TRHD Blog today with this wicked cute card!  If it weren't so stinking toasty outside, I am just sure that Fall would be in the air, lol.  And if not, I'm pretty sure that inking up fabulous Halloween & Fall images will help it along!  For my card today I inked up the All About the Hat set from the August release.

 

I raided my Halloween patterned paper stash (which I discovered is in desperate need of a refresh! lol) and made a few panels.  Even though they are patterned and bold, they still seem to really make the hat POP!  I stamped my hat image and got it all colored up.  I am just loving silver glitter pens for spider webs!  Now, I would have used the coordinating fabulous dies on this next, but I got carried away!  I added the rhinestones and stickles without even THINKING! DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Needless to say, I hand cut the image out.

Look at all of those sparklies!!!!  So rhinestones and stickles on the "sprays" of the hat, black glitter brush pen on those stars and silver glitter pen for the web!  Whew!  That's some shimmeries!  I stamped a sentiment for the top and voila!  I am so ready for some Fall weather now!  

Well that's all I've got for you today, thanks for popping by and hope to see you again soon!

Abracadabra! | The Rabbit Hole Designs August Release Hop, Day 2

Happy Tuesday and welcome back for day 2 of The Rabbit Hole Designs August Release Hop.   This month's release is wicked-fun!!  There are 5 new stamp sets, 4 new die sets and 1 new stencil and all are available NOW in the TRHD Shop!

For my card today I used the Halloween Cupcake stamp set and coordinating dies.   I inked up, colored up and die cut my spookie cuppie cake then set it aside.  I took a couple of the spider images from the set and stamped them on my white panel and drew "webs" from the top to the spiders using Metallic glitter pen.

I also used the Metallic glitter pen on the spiders on the cupcake and drew little lines on the descending spiders.  The "Abracadbra" sentiment is from the Things a Witch Might Say sentiment set.

Well, that's it for me, be sure to check out the eye-candy from the rest of the team and Happy Shopping!

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Kelly
Kim
Tangii

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release,  The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower.  Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post.  So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post  @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post  at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 07-29-2021.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 07-30-2021.

These are the NEW products used for today's share...

 

 

 

Boo! Halloween Wreath | The Rabbit Hole Designs August Release, Day 1

Hello & happy Monday!!  It's the 1st day of The Rabbit Hole Designs August Release Hop.  This month's release is Spooktacular!!  There are 5 new stamp sets, 4 new die sets and 1 new stencil and all are available NOW in the TRHD Shop!

For my card today I used the Halloween Wreath stamp and some glitter embossing.  I stamped my wreath in black and then colored it with Copics. Once The coloring was all done I placed my cs piece back in my MISTI and re-stamped with embossing ink and topped it off with some black/silver glitter EP.

It's a little hard to photo and show the glitter but not wash out the image, but trust me... it looks great ;-)  

The "Boo" is from the Halloween Cupcake set being shown tomorrow.  I stamped, colored and cut it out then popped it up in the middle of my wreath.  I also re-stamped the bow from the wreath on some patterned paper, embossed it, cut it out and then popped it up as well.

Well, that's it for me, be sure to check out the eye-candy from the rest of the team and Happy Shopping!

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Amanda
Jenn
Joy
Kelly
Lauren
Tangii
Terra
Vanessa

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release,  The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower.  Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post.  So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post  @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post  at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 07-29-2021.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 07-30-2021.

These are the NEW products used for today's share...

 

 

Just Pudding it out There... - The Rabbit Hole Designs

Hey yall!  Happy Christmas in July!!  I'm up on the TRHD Blog today with a fun card from our July release.  For my card today I did some paper piecing with the Christmas Sweets stamps set & coordinating dies.

I raided my Christmas paper stash and found some fun prints and used some white glitter paper for the frosting!  I stamped the sentiment in red and whipped up a bow with some Christmas twine and ran the tails down the sides of the card.

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon!

A Red, White & Blue Summer - The Rabbit Hole Designs

Hey yall!  Happy July!!  I'm up on the TRHD Blog today with this patriotic pretty!  For today's card I used the Lazy Summer set & dies from the July release over at The Rabbit Hole Designs.  In the spirit of the upcoming 4th of July weekend, I colored it up in red, white & blue.

I colored up my Madam Walrus & Miss Hippo with grays, reds and blues, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

I stamped a couple of the sentiments from the set on a tag and popped it up, then added a little twine bow.  Finally I sprinkled on few stars die cut from white glitter paper in the middle.

  That's all I've got for ya today, thanks for popping by and I hope to see you again soon!

 

 

Sending Something Sweet - The Rabbit Hole Designs July Release, Day 3

Happy, happy Wednesday!!  It's day 3 of The Rabbit Hole Designs July Release Hop.  There are 4 new stamp sets, 3 die sets, all are available NOW in the TRHD Shop!

Today I have some quick and easy Christmas goodie bag tags for you!  I used the Christmas Sweets set, coordinating dies and the Candy Twist die.  I used the smaller 2 images in the set and colored them in with Copics and used their dies to cut them out.  Both images are popped up.  The sentiment is stamped in the middle.  I used the Candy Twist die with some glitter paper and adhered it under the twine bow.

These tags were pretty quick to make and super easy to make en masse.  Perfect for your Christmas goodie gifties!!  Well that's all I have for you, be sure to visit the rest of the team for more inspiration!

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Amanda
Joy
Lauren
Tangii

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release,  The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower.  Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post.  So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post  @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post  at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 07-01-2021.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 07-02-2021.

These are the NEW products used for today's share...

A Drink in my Hand, and my Toes in the Sand - The Rabbit Hole Designs July Release, Day 1

Hello & happy Monday!!  It's the 1st day of The Rabbit Hole Designs July Release Hop.  This month we are sippin' Mai Tai's and chillin' beach-side!  There are 4 new stamp sets, 3 die sets, all are available NOW in the TRHD Shop!

For my card today I used the Lazy Summer stamp set & the coordinating dies.  I stamped my image and colored her in with Copics, matching her hat & drink with the colors in the striped paper.  Then used the die to cut her out.  I LOVE these beachy-colors!

I LOVE TRHD Sentiments, but I just couldn't choose 1 or 2 sents for this card, so I used 4... kind of a the more the merrier mindset, lol.

This was such a simple and quick card (which was not my intention when I started but just ended up that way), but I love the way it turned out... so bright and cheery and ready to send off in the mail!  Well that's all I have for you, be sure to visit the rest of the team for more inspiration!

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Amanda
Jenn
Joy
Kelly
Kim
Tangii
Terra
Vanessa
Jenn Shurkus
Becky Roberts

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release,  The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower.  Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post.  So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post  @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post  at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 07-01-2021.  Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 07-02-2021.

These are the NEW products used for today's share...

 

 

A Little Bit of Positivi-TEA! - It's Trinity Stamp's Third Birthday!

Happy, Friday!  I am so excited to be joining along in Trinity Stamp's 3rd Birthday Release Hop!  The hop is over on Instagram, you can start with @Trinity Stamps.  What a huge and amazing release it is!!!  Be sure to check out all of the amazing inspiration on Instagram and Facebook!

I used a handful of new goodies for this card & matching envelope!  Let's start with the card, shall we?  I started off with the Encouragement Text rubber stamp.  It's 6x6 and stamps beautifully in my Misti!  I inked it up with 4 shades of gray, the darkest on the outside fading to lighter in the middle of my panel.

Next I stamped my Cup of Positivi-TEA image, twice.  Once on coloring paper and once in sage green from my paper pad.  Using the coordinating die set to cut out the shapes.  I added some white gel pen to the "Positivi-TEA", paper pieced the cup and colored up the cup trim, handle and saucer with Copics and added some Glitter to the hearts.

There are also some gorgeous NEW Rhinestone embellies!!!  Look at the "steam" above my cup... those are the Andesine Aura mix... so yummy!!!!

Finally, my envelope.  This cute little Mug die is one of 12 NEW Mini dies being given away with orders of $25 or more!!  The die is designed perfectly to be used just like this or even as a shaker!  It also comes with the little tea bag die piece!  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!  Well that's all I've got for ya, thanks for popping by hope to see you again soon!

Coffee First, Schemes Later - The Rabbit Hole Designs

 

Hey yall!  Happy, happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to a great start, I'm up on the TRHD Blog today with this fun slimline card.  For today's card I used all 3 of the newest Caffeinated Critters, Meerkat, Hippo & Chameleon and the coordinating dies for all 3.

 

These guys made for a great trio for a slimline, check out their profiles!  I stamped and then die cute each of these guys out.  Once I got them all colored up, I placed them on my background piece and then sliced off the rest of their bodies (lol).  The frame is popped up for a little dimension.

 

The caffeine formula was stamped in a chat bubble in French Roast ink, and the sentiment from the Perfectly Blended set, was also stamped in French Roast on a separate tag and then popped up.

 

A Masterpiece and a Work in Progress - The Rabbit Hole Designs

Hey yall!  Happy Sunday, hope you are all enjoying a wonderful weekend. Tangii here, with another share from the June Release.  This time I'm playing with the Butterfly Stencil and the Clouds in my Coffee stencil and pairing them up with Distress Oxide inks and DecoFoil.

When I do clouds I always just go to blues, but this time I decided to do some yellows & orange, I gabbed Fossilized Amber & Wild Honey Distress Oxide inks.  I love a me cloudy sunset!  Once my Oxide inks were dry, I placed my Butterfly stencil and slathered it with a thin layer of Deco Foil Transfer Gel.  The jar says to give it an hour or so to dry, but it stays tacky once dry so it can go longer if need be (I ran to the grocery store).  I picked some pretty deep purple DecoFoil, and I just LOVE it against those yellows!  I did run mine through a hot laminator instead of hand pressing.  Finally I stamped my sentiment in a dark gray ink... voila!

While I do love stamping and coloring, sometimes it's just fun to get your fingers inky and sticky!  Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon!