Christmas in July 2024 {BYSHC} Linky Party ~ TOP Inky Inspiration Sketch 23 ~ Santa's Workshop ~ Jaded Blossom

 Hello there crafty friend!

It's day 5 of the Christmas in July 2024 {BYSHC} Linky Party!! I'm adding another sweet card to my Christmas stash! This time I played with the super cute Christmas Village: Santa's Workshop stamp set from Sponsor Jaded Blossom. I'm also sharing inspiration for the Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch Challenge 23 in the Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Facebook group. In my continuing effort to finish off some paper scraps I did use a few scraps of pattern paper from one of my Christmas paper pads. Every little bit counts!

I paired up the cute Christmas Village: Santa's Workshop with the Brewing It Up 6x6 Paper Pad from our Sponsor Not 2 Shabby! Love these pretty papers! I adhered all of my background layers using the iCraft UltraBond Adhesive from Sponsor Therm O Web. I die cut a panel of white card stock using the Wonky Stitched Rectangle Die from Sponsor Gina Marie Designs and adhered the two smaller rectangles to the panel. I then added foam tape called iCraft 3D Foam Tape Jumbo Roll (white), also from Therm O Web, to the back of the whole combined panel and popped it up on the card.

Here's a look at the fun sketch for Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch Challenge 23. The sketch, as always, is meant to inspire not require. So let the sketch lead in your design, but don't feel limited by it. A great example is how I turned the sketch for a landscape card. This fun sketch challenge ends July 29th!!

I wanted to add a bit of snow to my panel so I die cut a scrap of white card stock using the hill die from the Land Borders Die Set from Sponsor Newton's Nook Designs. I trimmed it and adhered it to the bottom of the panel. I then fussy cut Santa's Workshop. Boy was that a task! About halfway through my third or fourth Christmas light, I was wishing I had left a nice white border around the image. Hahaha... anywho, I colored the edge of the fussy cutting using a Memento Tuxedo Black marker making it all nice and neat and then I adhered it to the panel. Next I stamped a sentiment from the Big & Bold Santa's Sleigh Slimline stamp set from Sponsor Colorado Craft Company.

To finish off the card I added a bunch of cute little clay snowflakes from the Christmas Confetti Clay Embellishment Mix from Sponsor Twiddler's Nook. I love how this card turned out! And I think I used products from 7 of our amazing Sponsors. Woohoo! That may be a record!! 

Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used: 

Workshop / Chimney: E53, E55, E57

Windows: Y11, Y15

Doorknob: Y11, Y15, Y28

Snow: C00, C1, C3

Wreath: YG11, G24, G46, R20, R14

Santa's Workshop Sign: R20, R14

Christmas Lights: R20, R14, B0000, B00, YG11, G14, Y11, Y15

Flags: R20, R14, YG11, G14

North Pole Sign: YG11, G24, G46

Pole: R20, R14, C00, C1, C3, E53, E55, E57

If you haven't already, stop by the Christmas in July 2024 {BYSHC} Linky Party to check out all the wonderful Holiday inspiration being shared!! So much amazing inspiration! You can't help but be inspired to make a card or two! Have an ink-tastic week!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Falling for the Holidays 2023 {BYSHC} Linky Party ~ Chillin' Gnomies ~ Colorado Craft Company

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm back with my second card for the Falling for the Holidays 2023 {BYSHC} Linky Party! I just checked the link ups and there's already 59 entries!! Woohoo!!That's so awesome! It was so much fun checking out the inspiration shared yesterday for the start of the Linky Party. Today I'm sharing a card using a sweet stamp set from return Sponsor Colorado Craft Company.

I used the super fun and adorable Chillin' Gnomies Stamp Set for this card. All these fun images were so fun to color up! And then I had a blast building a fun scene! I stamped all the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Here's a quick list of the Copic Markers I used to color up all these images:

Santa Gnome: E000, E00, E11, R20, R14, R46, C00, C1, C3, Y11, Y15, Y28, N0, N1, N3, N5

Bunny: W00, W1, W3, W5, R00, R20

Penguins: C00, C1, N0, N1, N3, N5, YR21, YR15, YR24

Polar Bear: C00, C1, C3, R00, R20, Y11, Y15, Y28, R20, R14, 

Sled: R20, R14, R46, E51, E53, E55, E57

Gift: YG11, G24, G46, Y11, Y15, Y28

I paired up these cuties with a vintage paper in my stash called Pine St. Square from The Paper Studio that I got a long time ago at Hobby Lobby. I thought the vintage vibe of the sled worked well with these papers. I die cut the holly paper using the Cloudy Frames Dies from our return Sponsor Pink & Main. The die that I used isn't available anymore but here's one that is similar... Diagonal Cover Dies. 

I also die cut a piece of black card stock using the Cloudy Frames Dies and then I splattered it with white acrylic paint for a snowy night sky. I adhered all my layers together using iCraft UltraBond Adhesive from our wonderful Sponsor Therm O Web. I cleaned up the edges of the fussy cut images by coloring them with a Memento Tuxedo Black marker. To finish off the card, I stamped the sentiment on white card stock, trimmed it up and adhered it to the card.

Before you leave be sure to stop by Colorado Craft Company and check out all their wonderful holiday stamps! If you're in the mood for instant gratification... they also carry digital stamps! And then hop on over to Pink & Main and check out their awesome new releases... including an adorable October Pup that you can get for free with a $50 purchase {get the October Pup stamps and coordinating dies with a $75 order}!!  And if you haven't already, stop by the Falling for the Holidays 2023 {BYSHC} Linky Party to check out all the wonderful Holiday inspiration being shared!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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{BYSHC} Sketch Challenge 34 ~ Lovely Legs Hugging Elves ~ Colorado Craft Company

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I'm sharing another Christmas card for the {BYSHC} Sketch Challenge 34 for the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Facebook group. This time I played with a fun digi stamp from Colorado Craft Company called Lovely Legs Hugging Elves. Did you know that Colorado Craft Company started selling digi stamps?! I was super excited to get couple of their digi stamps during one of their Buy One Get One sales... such a fab sale!

I paired up this sweet Lovely Legs Hugging Elves digi stamp with the Santa Claus Lane 6x6 paper pad from Echo Park Paper Co. These fun plaid papers have stitches on some of the plaid which reminds me of the stitched ribbons I used to hoard from Stampin' Up. I thought it was a fun plaid paper and the perfect colors for my focal panel.

The digi stamp was inserted into a Microsoft Word Document where I adjusted the size of the image. I kept it kind of big because I wanted it to be a large focal panel. I love how the line of the snow works so well with the line of the focal panel in the sketch. This digi stamp is so perfect for this sketch! Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used to color up the digi stamp:

Skin ~ E000, E00, E11, E04

Dress / Red Shoes ~ C00, C1, C3, R20, R17, R27

Pants ~ Y06, Y15

Jacket ~ YG11, G24, G46, Y15

Belts ~ N0, N2, N4, N6, Y06, Y28

Black Shoes ~ N0, N2, N4, N6

Snow ~ C00, C1, C3

Sky ~ B000

I die cut a piece of white card stock with a die from the Double Roped Rectangle dies from Gina Marie Designs. I trimmed the copic colored digi stamp to fit inside of the die cut rectangle. I covered the back of the die cut with lots of foam tape and popped it up on the card. The sentiment is a sticker from the Christmas Clippings Stickers from Tim Holtz and Idea-ology. I trimmed the ends with my scissors and just stuck it on the card. I love these sentiment stickers! They have been so handy!

Here's another look at the {BYSHC} Sketch 34 for this month's challenge. Did you know that Colorado Craft Company is sponsoring this month's challenge? The winner of this month's challenge will receive a fun prize package of Colorado Craft Company goodies!! I sure hope you'll join us and play along... there's still a whole week left to enter the challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky hugs,

Crystal

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Spring into Christmas 2023 {BYSHC} Linky Party ~ Snowflake Cover Plate ~ Gina K Designs

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I can't believe that it's Day 7 of the Spring into Christmas 2023 {BYSHC} Linky Party! It's gone by so fast! I'm sharing card number 7 today and I'm featuring a few of our Sponsors again. 

I used the beautiful Snowflake Cover Plate die from return Sponsor Gina K Designs. I die cut a piece of white card stock using the die and poked out all the little pieces. I did end up using a shim with the die. I had a couple stubborn pieces that didn't want to cut but I added a thin card stock layer to my "sandwich" and ran it through my Big Shot again and they all popped out easy peasy. I blended Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac over the die cut piece using TE Blender Brushes from Sponsor Taylored Expressions.

I splattered a bit of water on the die cut background for the oxides to react. I dabbed it with a paper towel to pick up the rest of the water. Once the background was dry, I adhered it to a white A2 top fold card base measuring 4-1/4 x 11"; scored at 5-1/2".

I stamped the sentiment from the Bethlehem's Light stamp set from Sponsor Colorado Craft Company using Sugar Cube Pigment ink from Sponsor Taylored Expressions. Love the mix of fonts on this sentiment and I thought it would look fab with the snowflake background. I added some white embossing powder and melted it with my heat tool. I trimmed it up and then adhered it to the card. I finished off the card by adding three black enamel dots from the 9 Color Rainbow Mirror Foil Enamel Dots from Sponsor Gina Marie Designs.

Be sure to stop by Gina K Designs and Colorado Craft Company to check out their fabulous products! I did see a few holiday products on clearance over at Gina K Designs. And Colorado Craft Company has an awesome BOGO sale happening on their digital stamps... use code BOGODIGIS. I may have snagged a couple awesome holiday digital stamps myself! Have you stopped by the Spring into Christmas 2023 {BYSHC} Linky Party yet?! I sure hope you will... so many wonderful cards being shared!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Christmas in July 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party ~ Merry Merry Mini ~ Colorado Craft Company

 Hello there crafty friend!

It's the last day for the Christmas in July 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party and I'm sharing a card featuring four Sponsors for our Linky Party... first, I've used the beautiful Merry Merry Mini Savvy Sentiment stamp from return Sponsor Colorado Craft Company. I stamped it with Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink.

I then die cut it with the Wonky Stitched Rectangle die from return Sponsor Gina Marie Designs. I cut all my layers of pretty pattern paper from the Meowy Christmas paper pad from return Sponsor Newton's Nook Designs.

 And to stay a bit closer to the sketch I decided to stamp the super cute coffee cup from the Perfect Blend mini stamp set from return Sponsor Gina K. Designs. Since the focal piece is the sentiment my little cup takes the place of the sentiment in the sketch. I stamped the little cup with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then colored it up with the following Copic Markers:

Whipped Cream ~ C00, C2

Candies / Straw ~ R20, R14

Cup ~ YG11, YG23

I fussy cut the cup along the black line and colored the edge of the cup with a Memento Tuxedo black marker. I added a bit of foam tape to the back of the cup and popped it up on the card front. I adhered the card front to a white A2 top fold card base. All done!

There's still a bit of time to play along with this month's Sketch 24!! This sketch has been great for using those pretty pattern papers. No matter how hard I try to use up some of my papers, I seem to always manage to grow my stash! Crazy how that happens! LOL

Colorado Craft Company just released some seriously adorable Christmas stamps and coordinating dies... you should really stop by their shop and check them out! I think the new Sweater Weather stamp will be coming to my house. :)  So cute! I hope you'll stop by the Christmas in July 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party to check out all the wonderful Holiday inspiration being shared!! So many wonderful cards and tags have been shared so far... I'm so inspired to keep on building my stash of holiday cards! I hope you'll join in the fun and play along!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Spring into Christmas 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party ~ Mommy Kissing Santa ~ Colorado Craft Company

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm so super excited today to share a card that I made using products from our brand new Sponsor Colorado Craft Company!! So happy they've joined us for our Spring into Christmas 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party!! Today, I used the beautiful I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa stamp set from Colorado Craft Company. I just love the Lovely Legs line of stamps that Colorado Craft Company has in their shop and I've been collecting them for awhile but haven't necessarily had the time to play with them... until now!!

I couldn't help but pick my favorite paper pad... Winter Plaids & Patterns paper pack from Ink N' Splatter! I wanted to use purple and blues along with some traditional colors to this paper pad was perfect!

I cut the plaid paper for my card front measuring 4-1/4 x 5-1/2" and then used a couple of scraps of the purple with polka dots that was in my stash to border the focal piece.

I stamped the I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa stamp with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used to color up this beautiful stamped image:

Skin ~ E000, E00, E11

Dress ~ V12, V15, V17

Santa ~ R20, R14, R27, C00, C2, C4

Belt / Boots ~ N0, N1, N3, N5, C00, C2, C4

Tree ~ YG11, G24, G46

Ornaments ~ Y06, Y15, R20, R14, R27, B000, B00, B02, V12, V15, V17

Presents ~ V12, V15, V17, B000, B00, B02, E30 E33, E35, R20, R14, R27, Y06, Y15, Y35

Wall / Baseboard ~ N0, N1, N3, C00, C2, C4

Floor ~ E42, E44, E47, E49

I cut the colored image to 4-1/4 x 3-1/2" and adhered it to the card front. I adhered the two scraps of purple with polka dot pattern paper on either side of the focal piece. I then adhered the card front to a white A2 top fold card base. I added a few red Cozy Flannel Gloss enamel dots from returning Sponsor Gina Marie Designs to tie in the red with the pattern papers. I think it finishes off the card very nicely.

I hope you'll go check out the Spring into Christmas 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party if you haven't already. I'm enjoying all the fabulous inspiration being shared so far! Even if you're not able to play along, I hope that you'll stop by and check out all the sweet inspiration being shared!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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