{BYSHC} 2025 Spring Into Christmas Linky Party - Day 3

Back with a card for Day 3 of the

Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Spring Into Christmas Linky Party. 

This card actually uses products from three of our Linky Party sponsors!  

I took advantage of Angie Blom's BIG 60% off sale which is running through today, Sunday, May 4th.  I loved the Christmas Mailer digital stamp set 

and promptly put it in my cart with a couple of other images! 

 

Angie provides a variety of formats for all of the images in the set. I used a background version of the images to create a card base and layered three of the images to create the "stamp" version of the tree. I printed them with toner ink and then used Therm O Web's

Silver Deco Foil to foil them in my Mini-Minc. The tree is colored with Copics. The foiling doesn't really show up in the photo. I had to chose between seeing Angie's fun artwork or the silver shimmer!

 Gina K Design's Master Layouts 2 was perfect for framing the background image with its red border on top of the "Ho, Ho, Ho" patterned paper.  I finished with one of the flag die cuts in the Master Layouts set, a red gingham bow, and some silver pearls. 

 

I hope you are enjoying playing along with the {BYSHC} Spring Into Christmas Linky Party. The gallery is full of inspiration and the sponsors are amazing!  Thanks for stopping by my blog.

In kindness, Cathy

  

{BYSHC} 2024 Christmas in July Linky Party - Grumpling Hoilday

 Another card for the Christmas In July Linky Party.  

This one is on the cheeky side with a stamp set called Holiday Grumplings from our July sketch challenge sponsor, Taylored Expressions.  I masked the grumpling snowman and stamped him four more times, colored with my Copics, and fussy cut them.  A strip of TE's White Glitter Cardstock is used behind the snowmen.  Directly behind the panel of snowmen is a giant snowflake from TE's Swirling Snow Foil It collection.  I fussy cut around the edges and cut it apart to give a background to the snowman.  The last layer is made with a snowflake stencil from my stash, some TE Glitter Grab, and silver Deco Foil.  I finshed off with a sentiment from the stamp set alsong with a sentiment strip from my collection. Lots of sparkle and shine on this card!!

Just one more day to link your creations in the Linky Party Gallery!  Thanks for stopping by my blog.

In kindness, Cathy

{BYSHC} Spring Linky Party

 I am having fun this week working on building up my stash of holiday cards with the {BYSHC} "Spring Into Christmas" Linky party.  It runs from today through April 28th and is the first of three opportunities to get a jump start on your holiday cards with Linky Parties before next December.  

For this card, I used Sketch #31 and went with non-traditional Christmas colors from my paper collection. 

A couple of the blue papers had splatters, but I added a few more by diluting the white gold cake from my Kuretake Watercolor box.  You can see that I also splattered the cute reindeer from Unity's Simple Little Joys stamp set.  That darling image is colored with a blend of Copics and OLO brown markers and framed using silver glitter paper cut from Kaisercraft Hanging Script Bauble die.  I tied it with some red twine to compliment the bits of red around the reindder, then added three silver embellishments and a silver foil sentiment from my collection of Pinkfresh Studios holiday sentiment pack.

I hope you will make some time to join us this week.  Link your card or cards on the BYSCH Blog.  I can't wait to see what you create!  Good luck!  Thanks for stopping by my blog!

In kindness, Cathy

Copic Coloring & Joy Clair Design's Hello Pumpkin

 I am back on the Joy Clair blog today with another September Mood Board inspiration card.  This one features Hey Pumpkin, a 4x6 stamp available in the Joy Clair Designs Shop.  I love the image and had quite an adventure playing around with my patterned papers and enamel dots to finish off the card.  Using scraps from my scrap drawers and cutting into the patterned paper makes me happy!!  I have a good-sized stash!!

This image begged to be colored, so I broke out my Copics.  Oranges are a tricky combination in Copics, so I did my best with the YR markers I have in my collection.  As I have developed my coloring skills, I notice that when I am not happy with my coloring, I usually need to work on contrast.  This pumpkin needed something and I tried a bunch of combinations.  Before I put it away for the day, I tried one more idea and added a layer of Prismacolor colored pencils.  Sparingly and with a light touch, they are often just what I need to enhance my Copic work and bring a new dimension to my coloring.  I've zoomed in to part of the image so you can see what I mean:

I have added Prismacolor Premier Dark Purple #931 to deepen the shaded areas on the pumpkin and berries and Prismacolor Premier White  #938 for extra highlights on both.  I learned this technique from Amy Shulke at Vanilla Arts.  Her classes are amazing. She swears by the purple - and says it's a chameleon color because it can be used with so many colors.  I agree.  It's a rare card that I don't use it somewhere (unless I forget to pull out my pencils!!)! 

The beginning of October will be full of Joy Clair posts!  My next blog post is the 4th and then the Joy Clair Design October release drops on the 7th with so many fun images!  I have another post on the Joy Clair blog on the 9th.  Hope you will come back and see what I have been working on for you! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog.  

In kindness, Cathy