It's a Girl Thing

Hello Blogging Friends!!

Welcome to my project for the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural Blog Hop!  

Turner Syndrome is a genetic disorder where a female is born with only one X chromosome, instead of two, leaving her with life-long medical issues and learning disabilities. This condition occurs one in 2,500 female births worldwide, but is more common among pregnancies that do not survive to full term. That is why Turner Syndrome Females are considered MIRACLES!

Thirty-two caring Sponsors and five DT Members have partnered with us to bring Turner Syndrome Awareness to the Public. For details on how you might win any of these fabulous prizes, please see Lori's TS home page. Thanks for learning About Turner Syndrome. 

6 talented and caring designers are offering prizes on their personal blogs as well:

My TS related project is inspired by the TSA official color board:

Because it represents femininity, strength and uniqueness, the butterfly was designated by TSSUS to become the Turner Syndrome symbol. It reminds us that just like a butterfly, TS girls are considered fragile and beautiful miracles. Being a keen advocate for butterflies in general, I chose to highlight them in my card this year.

"Butterflies fly on their own which is our hope for our girls."

I began with die cutting the Butterfly Swell 

I have a box full of backgrounds that I have made over the years, which I went rummaging through to find something that would work with the mood board. I found this one which had been made with Color Burst powders and water on watercolor cardstock, I had used Lemon Yellow, Violet and Pthalo Green. A piece of this was inserted behind the die cut. I then used the Sizzix Thinlits Drop-Ins 661837 (believe you can) die cut to cut out the sentiment.

Double sided tape was then added behind the sentiment and I cut the sentiment again out of a piece of the background paper and put it in the negative space. A piece of scrap white cardstock was also cut and the little inserts from the "e"s, "a"s, etc. were added in.

Additional butterflies were die cut using the butterfly swell and green vellum and then one was cut from the background paper again. Green vellum butterflies were also cut using the recollections Butterfly Cutting Template and a little glue was added to all of them and they were arranged around the front of the card.  

Once the glue was dry I was able to curl up the wings to give plenty of dimension to the card.

Below are the products that I used for my card today:

Sizzix Thinlits Drop-Ins 661837

Memory Box Butterfly Swell

Recollections Butterfly Cutting Template

Color Burst: Lemon Yellow, Violet, Pthalo Green

Green Vellum

I hope that you will take the time to visit the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop 2020  page to become eligible for prizes and to learn more about Turner Syndrome. 

The more comments you leave on all the different blogs, the more chances you have of winning - there are lots of fun prizes up for grabs.

I'll be back soon,

Shona