Cute Inspirational Card...

Today's card, I made for a friend, going through a rough patch right now. 

The card stock is all from my stash. 

The Shaker Window Foam and Acetate and Thin Cuts Shaker Window and Confetti for the thin Pink Circle trim are all from Close to my Heart.

The silver sequins are from Close to my Heart.

The adorable "Hello Baby Giraffe" digital stamp is from A Day for Daisies.

I printed the giraffe on photo paper, with my Canon Selphy Printer. 

I then colored it in using a few different Copic markers, to give it a water colored look.

I distressed each layer of cardstock with Toffee ink from Close to my Heart.

The background stamped hearts in Toffee, is from the mini heart stamp in the Dream Catcher hostess rewards stamp set from the Holiday Expressions 2018.

 I received the hostess stamp set for self hosting a party in December. 

The sentiment stamped in Toffee, "Everything Starts with a Dream" is also from the Dream Catcher stamp set. 

I entered my card into the following challenges:

Pile It On! Challenge Blog (Design Team Member)- #150 Land Animals 

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes Challenge the Week of 1-1-19

Crafty Catz- #443 Anything Goes 

CAS(E) this Sketch!-#303

As always if you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact me or leave a comment below. 

My New Toy, Canon Selphy Printer

So after looking at it online for several months, my upline for Close to my Heart, posted a review and tutorial on her Canon Selphy Printer. 

I finally decided to jump on the bandwagon and purchase one as well. 

So for starters, my set came with a bundle. 

It had the starter ink cartridge, and then an ink cartridge along with 54 photos sheets. 

I also purchased an additional 108 sheet pack with another ink cartridge. I figured if I like it I am going to use it. 

So my husband helped me set everything up (I was working on card swaps), and it took him less than 5 minutes. 

We connected everything to the wi-fi and it was up and running in no time. 

So far I've printed about 10 photos. It's very cool to watch them print out. 

It does one layer of color at a time, then adds a gloss type covering on the photo. 

I've noticed as long as I don't resize them, they look pretty good. 

The ones however that I tried to resize, appeared to have a lower resolution. 

Not horrible, but enough for me to notice. 

And honestly they could just be user error, from me changing settings or sizing.

I am happy with my purchase, and will watch a few more tutorials, to become more familiar with the settings.  

Now I can work on my Disney albums even faster, without having to run back and forth to Walgreens to pick up more printed photos.