Well with Christmas being over (still can’t believe it), its time to focus on the next holiday-Valentines Day.
I have not stamped at all in like a week or so. I have a cold, and feel like crap! LOL! So I really hope to get some stuff done today. I’m still in the holiday hangover.
Now that the holidays are over, I hope you all will remember to continue the loving, and giving spirit of the holiday season. I have a link below I’d LOVE for you to watch-it cost YOU nothing, but raises money towards awareness, each time its viewed!
So for this week’s Blogger’s Challenge, we were to get inspired by something. A pattern on a rug, or paper-whatever we wanted.
This is what I came up with
If you can’t tell WHAT my inspiration was, then I will tell you-it was the patterned paper at the top of my card. Its by Me & MY Big Ideas. I got it at Michael’s.
When I saw it, I instantly thought about this detailed heart from Heart To Heart. I just used my SU! markers to color each layer, like my paper.
To continue the “circle” theme, I stamped the heart on the white layer base, then cut the circle patterned paper layer out. I popped out a circle with my punch, and attached a metal rim. So the heart is under the raised circle layer. I LOVE doing that lately!
The ribbon was by Martha Stewart. A simple, yet detailed card. Love it!!!
I added a border, and fuzzed the bkgd with my software. Just playing around, having fun!
Hope you likey.
Now I also want to share a link to a video.
I always like to do things that raise awareness, and I think so MANY people are affected by Autisim. I have many friends with Autistic children. I was recently forwarded a video, done by parent, of a daughter with Autism.
Its am amazing video. Get a tissue!!! It really spoke to me. I would love to be able to help any child with a disabliltiy.
The band, Five for Fighting, is generously donating $0.40 to
Autism Speaks for *each time* the video is viewed. The funding
goes toward research studies to help find a cure. When you have a
moment, please visit the link below to watch the video and pass
it along to your friends and family.
They are aiming for 10,000 hits, but hopefully we can help them
to surpass this goal.
Click here: Five for Fighting
https://www.whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com/videos/view/id/408214
As always, thanks for reading.
I hope you take something away from here each time you visit. Be it art related or otherwise 😀
Till tomorrow-
Its Saturday sketch time!!!
25 Responses for "Blogger’s Challenge-and a video you need to see!"
Another spectacular beauty. Love all the colors in your focal heart. Very nice design and that dp rocks!
I love your Valentine card! It looks like your photo editing software is pretty cool too! (I need details!) Great job on this challenge! I totally forgot about it… so I’d better hurry up I guess! Yours is beautiful!
Gorgeous card, Lauren! Beautiful background paper, no wonder you were inspired by it!
Pretty card, Lauren! Love the background paper.
Wonderful card! Great paper! I just saw that video last night and it brought me to tears. I will have to add that to my next post.
Thanks for sharing. Feel better!
What a great card Lauren! It looks like that paper and that stamp were meant to go together. I love your layout too!
I love the video! Thank you for sharing it. By the way, adorable card too!
Jen
Hey Lauren, you don’t HAVE to do Valentines yet. (great card though!!) I always think of Jan. as snow time, even though we hardly ever get it here in the South. I love seeing snowmen and snow scenes after Christmas. I can not stand it when the Christmas decorations are all down, so years ago, I started collecting snowmen. I keep my greenery up around my windows and over my kitchen cabinets, and change the lights over to blue. It just helps EASE me back into the normal every day life so much gentler.
Thank you Lauren for sharing the video, it was wonderful. A very close friend of mine has a son with severe autism and her daughter is more functioning but does have some characteristics of autism. It is VERY difficult for her as her husband is so NOT supportive but luckily her Mom is…. Thanks again for sharing as I will definitely pass this on to her!
Have a great day!
~Lynda
That paper is inspiring! Very cute card!
Super card you really hit the inspiration! Beautifully done. And by the way this is an awesome video, I have sent it to many people.
Super card Lauren. I am just checking out the video…thanks for sharing it.
Here is something I wanted you to see, since I have been watching you go ga-ga over Daisy ( so have I actually, Daisy made me want to adopt a lil puppy but I can’t, that is another story.)
Do check out this link, its another new dog lover gone ga-ga…I love the post, I’m hoping you will too…
Here’s the link..
http://thepioneerwoman.com/2007/12/i_dont_have_time_for_this.html
Very pretty card Lauren. Love how you used the colors in your DSP on your stamped image.
I love your blog its always so wonderful to come here and read and see what you may be up to! Its always one of my stops of the day! (HUGS)
Love the card… and I must be reading the same blogs because I came up with the video a few days ago. And, yeah — lots of tears. I just can’t stand the thought of being cut off from my own kids.
So many people are in the dark about how they can help their own kids, too — and some things are difficult to do/try because of cost or other logistics.
Finally — folks are beginning to see some genetic elements coming up. Soooo much research needs to be done.
Thanks for helping to raise awareness, but it doesn’t make it easy, that’s for sure.
Sigh.
Blessings…
Great card Lauren! Awesome colors that you were able to pull out for the heart stamp with your markers!
Lauren ~ I got this video from Kelly Sampson…Too much!!! I too am so glad that more people are getting involved with Autism and Downs! Such a worthy and fullfilling cause. I also would like to know more about your editing software…are you pleased with it? And would you recommend it to someone like me who is quite the novice?
Thanks for the tissue warning – I needed it! Hopefully with Autism being more recognized insurance companies will be forced to cover the needed treatment.
VERY cute card!
Lauren that is a beautiful, fun looking card! Thanks mostly for the video clip, I plan on sending it to everyone I know!!! I have a few friends with Autistic Children…thanks again!!!
Tangii
Beautiful card! The heart and the patterned paper are perfect together.
I have watched the movie, said my prayers for all who have children who endure these challenges, and then forwarded the link to over 3 dozen people. I don’t know what you go through. But I know that God holds you and your family close in His loving arms. You have a strength and a courage, and most of all a deep, abiding love that is evident to many.
Happy New Year to you and your precious family!
Jennifer
Thank you for that video Lauren. We are having Audrey assessed next Tuesday for Autism, and frankly I am beyond overwhelmed. I will be sharing this video with many people and hopefully it will hit more than 10k.
Thanks so much Lauren for sharing that video. It’s been around for a very long time, I have been forwarding it and posting about it on autism forums but I received mixed responses: Some parents actually got upset that the money was going toward finding a cure because they feel it’s an insult to their kids that isn’t sick and doesn’t need to be cured!!!!! How stupid is that! This kind of things infuriates me! Those people certainly don’t have a kid that suffers a lot from his disability and are not thinking about the people who do!!!
Anyway, people really need to be more aware about autism, there are a lot of misconceptions about it and a lot of people still think those kids are just living in their own little world when really that’s not what it is…
My little guy really is a ray of sun in my life and we are blessed to have him! 😀 ♥
PS: This video actually is different that the one I had but the song is the same and the organisation etc…are the same.
Having a kid with autism isn’t being doomed, there are a lot of things that can be done, and there is hope, always! Those kids progress! 🙂
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