Spring into Christmas 2024 {BYSHC} Linky Party ~ Hipster Christmas ~ Jaded Blossom

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm back with another fun holiday card for Day 5 of the Spring into Christmas 2024 {BYSHC} Linky Party! My card today features an adorable stamp from the Hipster Christmas stamp set from our wonderful sponsor Jaded Blossom. How cool is this hipster reindeer?! I love him!  

I paired the stamps up with the Meowy Christmas 6x6 Paper Pad from our lovely sponsor Newton's Nook Design. I adore these holiday papers from NND! The holly paper is one of my absolute favorites.

Some of you may have recognized my card design from the Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 20. I have really been enjoying this sketch. I host another sketch challenge in my Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Facebook group. I really do love a fun sketch! And this one doesn't have any theme restrictions... any occasions are welcome. I hope you'll join us!

I stamped the cute reindeer using my mini Misti and the fabulous Pressure Pal from return Sponsor Twiddler's Nook. I always use my Pressure Pal when I stamp with clear stamps. It gives me the perfect stamped image every time. I also stamped the sentiment but it was a little big as it read "So like... Merry Christmas... or Whatever." so I trimmed it removing the "So like...". It gives it a bit more of a snarky vibe but I still love it!

I colored up the reindeer using a bunch of Copic markers and then trimmed the panel. I cut down a piece of Real Red card stock from Stampin' Up to the measurements in the sketch - 2-3/8 x 4-1/8". I die cut a scrap piece of pattern paper and a scrap of Green Parakeet card stock from Papertrey Ink. I adhered them together and then adhered them to the reindeer with red mat panel. I popped up the reindeer and sentiment using 3D Foam Squares from Sponsor Therm O Web. Love the dimension that it gives the card. I finished off the card by adding one little red enamel dot from the Red & Green Foil Mirror Enamel Dots from Sponsor Gina Marie Designs. 

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

Reindeer: R00, R20, E21, E23, E25, E29, N0, N1, N3, N5

Glasses: N0, N1, N3, N5

Bowtie: R20, R14, R46, N0, N1, N3, N5

Coffee Cup: R20, R14, R46, YG11, G24, G46, N0, N1, N3, N5

Have you stopped by the Spring into Christmas 2024 {BYSHC} Linky Party to check out all the wonderful Holiday inspiration being shared?! I am loving all the inspiration being shared! I sure hope you'll stop by and check it out! Have an ink-tastic day!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Snarky Kitty Card ~ Kitty Boop ~ Unity Stamp Co.

Hello there crafty friend! 

Popping in with a super cute and snarky kitty card featuring the sweet new Kitty Boop from Unity Stamp Co. I am loving this adorable kitty and right now she's the spotlight steal over at Unity!! Can't pass her up at $6.99! A serious steal!

I paired up the cute kitty with the Timeworn Paws Anthology {paper pack}. I love the vintage vibe of these papers! I colored up the kitty with a handful of Copic markers and die cut her with a tag die from the Make a Tag {die set}. I also die cut the HILARIOUS sentiment using one of the dies from the Scalloped & Stitched Sentiment Nesting Dies.

Inspiration for my card came from the TOP Inky Inspiration Sketch 20. If you follow my blog, you've seen a few cards I've made using this fun sketch. I host a fun sketch challenge in my Tawny Owl Paperie | Inky Inspiration Facebook group. Lots of fun inspiration shared just about every day in the group, as well. I'd love to have you join us!

I distressed the edges of the kitty tag and the sentiment with Vintage Photo Distress Ink so the colors coordinated better with the pattern papers. Here's a quick list of the Copic Markers I used for the cute kitty: N0, N2, N4, C00, R00, R20, YR21, YR15.

I adhered the sentiment to the tag and added foam tape to the back of both. I popped them up on the card. Finished off the card with a few heart enamel dots from my stash. Loving how this card turned out! Have a wonderful night friends!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky hugs,

Crystal

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Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 20 ~ Birthday Present Marci ~ La-La Land Crafts

 Hello there crafty friend!

I am back with inspiration for the Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch Challenge 20. I have picked out another paper pack leftover from my Scrapping for Less days. I absolutely love the colors in these papers!! I, again, don't know who made these papers or if they are still available. Sorry about that! I'm just so excited to be finishing up another paper pack!

Not only am I finishing up papers... I am also inking up stamps that haven't seen ink! A few years ago I was getting the La-La Land Crafts monthly kit and I haven't touched one of these kits. So I thought, why not grab one of those kits and see what we can make. Of course, I decided to go with a birthday themed kit because I'm still trying to build my birthday stash. But want to hear a secret?! I've been sending birthday cards!! For realz! So while I'm building my stash of birthday cards I'm also sending them out. So I need more!

Here's a look at the scraps I'm working with this time. I'm not sure if I'll officially include the tags as part of the leftovers. But I did use a few of the enamel dots from the leftover kit I opened up.

There was some fun products in this La-La Land Crafts monthly kit from August 2019... a couple sentiment dies and more stamps, but I chose this adorable girl and sentiment to play with. Trying to keep the cards I'm sending simple so the postage stays to the minimum. Of course, those enamel dots may call for extra postage, but we'll see. So for this card, I used the largest scrap {a 6x6" piece that I had already cut before taking the photo} for my background layer. I love the contrast of the stripes with the polka dots and the enamel dots play off of the dots in the paper.

I stamped the girl and sentiment using Black Amalgam ink from Gina K. Designs. I then colored up the girl using a bunch of Copic markers. I actually messed up the skirt while coloring. Did not like how it turned out! So I stamped the skirt on a scrap of white card stock and colored it up again. I fussy cut the skirt on the line and paper pieced it onto the girl. Easy peasy fix. Then I fussy cut the girl on the line and colored the edge of the fussy cutting using a Memento Tuxedo black marker {I also did that to the paper pieced skirt}. This makes the fussy cutting look much nicer! I trimmed up the sentiment and adhered it to the pink circle that I die cut using a 1-1/4" circle die from the Nesting Circles Die from Waffle Flower. I then adhered the sentiment to the girl and added foam tape to the back of both. Popped them up on the card and added those three enamel dots. I really like how this one turned out!

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

Skin: E000, E00, E11, E04

Hair: Y11, Y21, E23, E25

Lips: R20, RV11

Top: R20, RV11, RV14, RV06, RV19

Skirt: RV0000, R20, RV11, RV14, RV06, RV19 

Shoes: RV0000, R20, RV11, RV14, RV06, C00, C3

Present: Y11, Y15, Y35, G000, G12, G24

Here's a look at the fun new sketch for Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 20. This sketch does call for larger pieces so if you have a fun paper pad you've been wanting to cut into... now's the time! 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. My card is another good example of altering the sketch but still keeping within the sketch.

I'm so happy with how this card turned out! I hope you're inspired to play along with the sketch... and maybe even pull out some papers and stamps that you haven't played with yet! Have a wonderful week!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 20 ~ Spectrum Gardenia ~ 49 and Market

 Hello there crafty friend!

We're on Spring break here at the Minkler casa so I needed to throw together a card real quick. Beautiful papers and ephemera always come to the rescue when I'm in need of a quick card. I was reorganizing some of my ephemera awhile back and remembered the gorgeous Spectrum Gardenia collection from 49 and Market. Naturally, that came to mind when I needed a quick card for today.

I purchased these gorgeous papers and ephemera from the awesome crafty store in Deepwater, Missouri called The Craft Lab. {<--- Click the store name to check out the website!} I go to this awesome little store once a year for a fun get together. And, of course, I do a bit of shopping! I couldn't resist these papers and ephemera... so many wonderful pieces in the ephemera pack and the colors in these papers! Gorgeous!!

My card front is cut from paper in the Gardenia Solids 12x12 Collection Pack. It measures 4-1/4 x 5-1/2". All of the other pieces are ephemera from the Gardenia Ephemera Bits. I trimmed the large piece of ephemera to 3-1/4 x 5-1/2". And I just now noticed that I adhered it upside down on the card front. HA HA HA!! Oh well... it is what it is! The card front is adhered to a white A2 card base.

I had so much fun just looking through all the ephemera and picking pieces to put together. The tag and view finder piece are adhered together and I popped them up on the card. I also adhered the little ticket and heart and then stapled it to the tag. I adhered just the center of the butterfly so the wings are free... giving some fun dimension to the card. I popped up the sentiment strip using foam tape.

Here's a look at the fun new sketch for Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 20. This sketch does call for larger pieces so if you have a fun paper pad you've been wanting to cut into... now's the time! 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. My card is a great example as I changed up the focal piece and the circle.

I finished off the card with some crinkled ribbon from Polka Dot Orchard and a few black rhinestones from the Rainbow Bling Rhinestones from Gina Marie Designs. I'm so happy with how this card turned out! I hope you're inspired to play along with the sketch... and maybe even pull out some papers and ephemera that you haven't played with yet! Have a wonderful week!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 20 ~ Pawsome Peepers ~ Unity Stamp Co.

 Hello there crafty friend!

Today I'm sharing a brand new sketch for the Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Facebook group. Once again I had so much fun that I ended up making two cards to share! I veered away from using up my scraps because there weren't enough pieces to work with for this card design. But I'll be back with some 'scraps cards' soon! I did, however, use stamps that still hadn't seen ink!

My two cards for TOPII Sketch 20 featuring all of the adorable pup stamps from Pawsome Peepers from Unity Stamp Co. I just had to ink them all up! I thought these cuties would be perfect for this sketch all stacked up!

My first card featuring four of the adorable pups. I stamped them all using Black Amalgam ink from Gina K. Designs. I colored them up with my Copic markers and fussy cut them out. 

I paired the Pawsome Peepers pups with the Timeworn Paws Anthology {paper pack}. I used these beautiful papers for my daisy card that I shared awhile ago. I just love the gorgeous colors in these papers!

I die cut a circle from another pattern paper in the pack using a 1-1/4" circle die from the Nesting Circles Dies from Waffle Flower. I mat the pattern paper circle using a scrap circle in my stash. I'm not totally positive but I think it's a scrap from the Stitched Circle Plate Background dies from Gina Marie Designs that I used on a sweet gnome Halloween card last year.

Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used to color up these pups:

Top: E50, E53, E21

Second: E000, E11, C00, C1

Third: N0, N1, N3, N5

Bottom: R00, R20, C00, C1

Here's a look at the fun new sketch for Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 20. Another great sketch for those larger leftover pieces. 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. I have a few fun ideas for this sketch and I hope to play some more with it during the next few weeks.

My second card featuring the other four pups from the Pawsome Peepers stamps.

Not only did I struggle to narrow down which pups to ink up for my card which resulted in my using all of them, I also couldn't decide on which papers I wanted to use. So I had to make two cards! All of my measurements are directly from the sketch. The only change I made was the black circle mat that's slightly larger at about 1-1/2".

The pups are adhered to a 2-3/8 x 4-1/8" piece of Kraft card stock from Papertrey Ink. The circles are adhered to the focal panel and then I added a bunch of foam tape to the back of both pieces and popped them up on the cards. I finished off the cards using enamel dots from Gina Marie Designs. They weren't labeled so I'm not sure which set they came from... sorry!

Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used to color up the last four pups:

 

Top: E000, E41, E53, E55 

Second: R00, R20, C00, C1

Third: E11, E13, E17, E09

Bottom: R00, R20, C00, C1

The sentiments are also from the Pawsome Peepers stamps from Unity Stamp Co. I trimmed them and mat them with True Black card stock from Papertrey Ink. The white of the paper was a little to bright for the card so I used a blending brush that I usually use for Vintage Photo Distress Ink and just blended over the sentiment without adding anymore ink. I'm so happy with how these cards turned out! I hope you're inspired to play along with the sketch... and maybe even ink up a stamp set that hasn't seen ink yet! Have a wonderful week!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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