"It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness 3rd Annual Blog Hop & Challenge

Hello Blogging Friends!!

Welcome to my post for the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness 3rd Annual Blog Hop and Challenge.

 

My daughter, Julie, was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome at 6 weeks of age.  She is 33 years old now and I am amazed at how few people are aware of Turner Syndrome!  I have made it my mission to bring as much awareness of TS to as many people as I can!  I am a board member for the Turner Syndrome Foundation here in NJ and I volunteer on the TSF Awareness Committee!  I am hoping with more awareness we can get the medical field to do some much needed research on how TS affects females through their lifetime.

Here is a picture of Julie and Me at the "Take A Step for TS" back in October 2020.

Julie is the happiest and kindest person I know!  She is my hero!  She never had a bad word to say about anyone.  She has many specialist that she sees, but she loves going to the doctors!  All her doctors love her!  Actually anyone who meets Julie falls in love with her!

I am very fortunate that the Crafting Community is such a generous community and that so many Companies and Card Designers have joined me to spread awareness!!  Please shop at the Sponsors stores and please leave some love on the awesome Card Designers Blogs!!

Twenty~three Caring and Generous Sponsors are helping bring Turner Syndrome Awareness to the Public!  To win one of the Sponsor prizes you have to make a card that is feminine and has an uplifting or encouraging message, write a post on your blog about it including details on how you made the card and the products used.  Your blog post has to link back to the original My Turner Syndrome Journey Blog here:  https://myturnersyndromejourney.blogspot.com/   

The winners will be announced on that same blog on Saturday, March 13th, 2021.

My TS related project is inspired by the TSA official Mood Board created by Jan Mahew:

Here is my first card:

Ingredients:

Jan's Digi's TSF Fairy digital stamp

Pink card stock

Lemoncraft Green Patterned paper

Neenah Solar White paper

Unity Stamp Company Camille sentiment stamp

Black ink

Pink sequins

Pink paper heart

glitter on wings

For this A2 card I started by making the card base with Pink card stock.  I took a piece of Lemoncraft Green Patterned paper and added that to the card base.  I took a piece of Neenah Solar White paper and printed the Jan's Digi's TSF Fairy Stamp, the colored version, onto the paper.  I cut that down and added it to the card.  I took some Pink sequins and added them to the card. I took Black ink and stamped the sentiment from the Unity Stamp Company Camille stamp set onto the Green paper. I took the Pink Heart that I had in my stash and added that over the sentiment onto the card.  I put some glitter on the wings and I added some Pink sequins to the card.

* I am entering this card into Jan's Digi Stamp February Challenge 

Here is my second card for today:

Ingredients:

Stampingbella Tiny Townie Butterfly Girl Brianna stamp

Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Brianna Butterfly 'cut it out'

Lawn Fawn Stitched Ovals

Waffle Flowers Lacy Layers die

White card stock

Neenah Solar White paper

Black ink

Copic markers 

Blue paper

Blue Striped paper

Sentiment stamp

For this A2 card I started by making the base of the card with White card stock.  I took the Blue paper and the Waffle Flowers Lacy Layers die and cut that out and attached it to the card.  I took a piece of Neenah Solar White paper, Black ink and the Stampingbella Tiny Townie Brianna Butterfly Girl stamp onto the paper and colored it in with Copic markers.  I took the Stampingbella Tiny Townie Brianna Butterfly "cut it out" and cut her out.  I took a piece of Blue stripped paper and the Lawn Fawn Stitched Oval die and cut that out and added that to the card.  I then took the butterfly girl and glued her onto the oval.  I took the sentiment stamp and Black ink and stamped the sentiment onto the bottom of the card.

Here is the prize I am offering:

**To be eligible to win this prize, along with the prizes the other Card Designers are offering, you have to leave a comment on each of the 12 Blog Posts.**  

Each Card Designer will pick a winner from the comments on their post.

My second giveaway is to a random donor and it is a $50 Gift Certificate to any Scrapbooking Store.

To become eligible for this prize you can make a donation (Any Amount) to the Turner Syndrome Foundation with the link below, I will enter a ticket for every dollar amount you donate.

Click Here

I will be posting a card everyday in February to help bring Awareness of Turner Syndrome to more people!  All my cards will be up for sale on my  Cards for Charity Facebook page for  $3 each with 100% of the money going to the Turner Syndrome Foundation.  

I do hope you will play along with us by creating a card for the Challenge part of the Blog Hop.  You can link it up here!

Please be sure to leave some love for all the wonderful Card Designers!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Lori

Why I Fundraise for the Turner Syndrome Foundation

People ask me why I fundraise for the Turner Syndrome Foundation.  I do it to not only help my daughter, but to help other TS girls and women and their mothers!  I do it to help fund research about the long term affects on TS girls and women.

Why is this so important to me?  Because my daughter, Julie, was diagnosed at 6 weeks old and the doctors in our area had no other TS patients and were not familiar with TS.  We had to take her to a Children's Hospital 2 hours away from where we live to see her specialists who were familiar with Turner Syndrome.

Julie is now 33 years old and still people have never heard of Turner Syndrome.  I have made it my mission to bring more awareness of TS to the public in hopes that more research will be done.

I am a scrapbooker and card maker and in 2018 I decided to host a Scrapbooking Fundraiser Event for the Turner Syndrome Foundation.  I invited all of my scrapbooking friends and they invited their friends.  I held the event at the Ocean Acres Community Center in Manahawkin, NJ.  I am on several Stamp and Die Companies Design Team so I contacted a lot of on-line scrapbooking stores for donations for prizes.  I talked to local businesses to get meals donated for the event.  Everyone had a great time and were very pleased with the prizes that they won and we made a nice donation to the Turner Syndrome Foundation.  Here are some pictures from the event.

A very close friend and scrapbooking buddy helped me put the Scrapbook Event together.  We set up a Photo Booth area for the event.

We had vendors there selling scrapbook supplies and the prizes lined up on the table and window sill.

Julie was the Star of the day!  We had Julie pull the prize winners names from the bags.

Everyone wanted a picture with Julie!  Everybody who meets Julie falls in love with her!

We all had fun taking photos with the props!!

My friend moved to Florida so I decided that in 2019 I would do a Blog Hop called "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop.  On the main blog I gave information about Turner Syndrome and I made some cards and had my Card Designer friends make cards too and people would go from one blog to the next to see the cards that we made and there were chances to win prizes.  I sell my cards on a facebook page called "Card for Charity" for $3 each and I donate all of the money to the Turner Syndrome Foundation.  The "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop has become an annual event in the month of February which is Turner Syndrome Awareness Month.  This year I changed it up and there will only be 12 blog stops and then anyone who wants to make a card can and have a chance to win a prize from the 23 Caring and Generous Sponsors.  I will again be selling my cards for $3 each with all of the funds being donated to TSF.  

One of the Sponsors, Jan Mahew, has designed a TSF digital stamp set that people can purchase from her on-line store to make their own cards.  Jan is donating all the funds from the TSF Digital Stamp Sale to the Turner Syndrome Foundation.

Here is a link to Jan's Digital Stamp Store:   https://www.janmahew.com/product-page/tsf-fairy

Here is a link to my Facebook page where I sell my cards:  Cards for Charity:  https://www.facebook.com/handmadecardsforcharity/photos/?view_public_for=1690891904328198&tab=album&ref=page_internal

Here is a link to the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop and Card Challenge:  https://myturnersyndromejourney.blogspot.com/ 

I hope you will hop along with us and even make a card for the Card Challenge part!  

Thanks for stopping by!  
Lori