Here is my second card for this month's sketch #43 on the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Blog.
Friday, March 22, 2024
BYSHC Sketch Challenge #43
Friday, March 8, 2024
BYSHC March Sketch Challenge #43
It's been a while since I posted a card for the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers group on my blog. I have been working through a housing transition and moving through a creative funk. I am happy to say things are feeling more settled and the creative dry spell has lifted. My collection of layering stencils and last month's Pinkfresh Studios Create & Connect event were instrumental in getting me back into the craft room!
This card came during my dry spell - and I found most of the elements for it in my stash. Crystal's great sketch and all of the layers helped me. I think I have had the card base ready to go for more than three years! The embossed white square was die cut for this card from a time I was "playing" with a new technique. I saved the paper, knowing it would be good for "something". Santa was stamped and waiting to be colored (and then fussy cut). The only element I created for this card was the tree. It's from Taylored Expressions Through the Woods stamp set.
I hope you are feeling creative and can play along with the BYSHC Sketch Challenge this month. It's a greta way to work on holiday cards, plus there are always prizes!! Just add you card to the Sketch Challenge 43 album in our FB group.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. In kindness, Cathy
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Let's Craft & Create Challenge #205 - Optional Theme: Thank You Card
Back with this month's Let's Craft & Create Blog card. Challenge - #205 has an optional theme of "Thank You". Thank you cards are so nice to have in my stash, so I love this theme.
Monday, February 5, 2024
Let's Craft & Create - Challenge #204 Polka Dots & or Stripes
Back with a card for the Let's Craft & Create Blog. This month's optional challenge is to use polka dots and /or stripes. I went to my stash and found some Deco Foil polka dot toner card front panels and combined them with Wild Cherry foil. My image is a cutie from the talented imagination of Sandra Caldwell. I had the privilege of being part of her design team several years ago. Sadly, cancer took her all too early. This card is going to a friend who just received some bad news. I think the "Ugh" die from Whimsy Stamps is perfect for this occasion! I hope you have time to play along with us this month.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Let's Craft & Create November - Challenge #201 Stitched Up (Real or Faux)
Back after a hiatus on the Let's Craft & Create Blog with November's optional Challenge - Stitched Up (Real or Faux).
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
{BYSHC} Blog - November Sketch Challenge #39
November 1 - already!!! I am not sure I am ready for the cold weather we have recently had a taste of in MN! Yikes! The good news is I will have more time to hunker down in my craft room and create.
Both papers come with the gold foil, so I knew they would come in handy and made this card super-simple. The deer is the reverse image of Woodland Reindeer Deco Foil Adhesive Transfer from Taylored Expressions and a sentiment strip from my stash. I trimmed the border off of a different patterned paper scrap in my stash for the black border between the colors. See - saving those papers scraps pays off!!
Friday, October 20, 2023
{BYSHC} Falling for the Holidays 2023 Linky Party - Day 1
Hi {BYSHC} Friends!
It is hard to believe that the last holiday card making BYSHC Linky Party of 2023 is here already!!
I have been in a state of transition with my home space since the middle of June, so I started making cards for this party in July. It's not my typical pattern! Can I tell you how happy I am that I worked ahead?!?
If this design looks familiar to you, it may be because I used the sketch from this past August. It's super versatile and there is lots of inspiration in the FB Sketch #36 Gallery.
For my first Linky Party card, I inked up Taylored Expressions Through the Woods stamp set. I started by stamping the trees with Distress Inks on a piece of watercolor paper and then used a blender brush around the edges for sky. I dripped water onto the panel and then splattered with white ink to give it a feel of light snow. I fussy cut one of the skinny trees to use as an embellishment. The sentiment is from Unity's Feliz Navidad stamp set.Friday, October 13, 2023
{BYSHC} Blog - Sketch Challenge #38
Back with a second card using Sketch #38. I oriented the sketch vertically and adjusted the size of the vellum rectangles to fit the panel. The top layer of vellum was embossed with Taylored Expressions Confetti Embossing Folder. The card's main image uses Papertrey Ink's Deer to Me stamp and Deer to Me Die sets. All of those glorious stems and flowers come with the stamp and die set! This is a set that is easier to die cut first and then line up the stamps. The Birch trees are dies from Newton's Nook, called Forest Scene Builder Die Set.
Just one more week until the Fall Into Christmas Linky party! Hope you can play along with our BYSHC sketch and the Linky Party! Thanks for stopping by my blog. In Kindness, Cathy
Sunday, October 1, 2023
{BYSHC} Blog - October Sketch Challenge #38
A new month means a new sketch on the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Blog.
For this sketch, I went super simple. All of the layers and papers work together with Catherine Pooler's Belly Laughs Cover Plate. I pulled out my white glitter paper to add a little more sparkle and mounted it. The sentiment strip uses a variety of leftovers on my craft desk mounted on a die cut flag of white glitter paper! (Gotta love when that happens!!)
Take a peek at the growing Sketch #38 gallery in the {BYSHC} FB Group or the weekly updates on the {BYSHC} Blog. I hope you will be inspired to join us! FYI - our third and final Linky Party is coming up later this month. It's a great chance to get ahead or get a start on your holiday cards! Thanks for stopping by my blog.
In kindness, Cathy
Friday, September 15, 2023
{BYSHC} Blog - September Sketch Challenge #37
Back with my second card using the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmaker's sketch for this month.
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