Yes It's A Holiday Collab | Happy Global Sleep Under the Stars Night

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Hello everyone, and welcome to a new "Yes, It's a Holiday" collab with my Instagram friends Debra and Lori.  Today, August 8th, we are helping to celebrate Global Sleep Under the Stars Night.  It's a day to get people to appreciate the beauty of the night sky by sleeping outdoors.  The event was started in 2020 by Eddie Bauer to help celebrate his brand's 100th anniversary.  

To read more about today's holiday, just click HERE.

To help celebrate, I made today's card using Mountain Adventure and Glamper Greetings.  Both of these sets were made by Stampin Up and, although retired, you can still find them for sale on Etsy or Ebay.      

  • I made my card base using dark blue cardstock.  Then I cut a piece of white glittered cardstock and adhered it to the card front.
  • I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using a 3.75" x 5" stitched rectangle die.
  • I stamped the mountain from the Mountain Adventure set, masked it off using Eclipse tape, and added the clouds using my DIY cloud template and two inks from Ranger - weathered wood distress ink and Blue Ribbon dye ink.  
  • Using Versamark ink and white embossing powder, I stamped the moon and stars from the Glamper Camper set and heat set.   I realized after that the clouds and the stars were a bit overkill but, being half done with the card, I let it go.  
  • I added some fun foam to the back and then adhered it to the card front.  
  • I added glitter glue for the snow and set it aside to fully dry. 


  • Using my Misti and the Glamper Camper set, I put the camper together, fussy cut it, and colored it.  I decided to add a pie in the window.  Then I adhered it to the card front using foam dots.    
  • Lastly, I added glitter glue for the snow on top of the camper and I adhered one of the sentiments from the set.  


I hope you have enjoyed this card idea.  It was a lot of fun to put it all together. Maybe you will enjoy looking up at the night sky tonight or sleeping under the stars.  

I hope you can also pay us a visit on our Instagram pages, give us all a like, and maybe even follow our pages.  Links to our Instagram pages are below.


Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael

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