{BYSHC} Sketch Challenge #8 ~ Happy Owlidays ~ Sunny Studio Stamps

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm so excited... not only am I back to share another Christmas card for my stash using the March Sketch from the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers group, it's also time for the Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop of 2021!!! I always love participating in these hops and today I actually have two cards to share for the first day of the hop! Let's get to it!

I used the adorable Happy Owlidays stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps and paired it up with the super cute Winter Market papers from Carta Bella. That sweet little owl looked like he needed a little cuppa... isn't he just the cutest?!

I used the patterned papers for my layers... I even die cut the circles from the bottom card front layer. My favorite trick when using those coordinating papers in a paper pack.

I used the following Copic markers to color up this cutie...

Owl ~ W00, W2, YR15, YR68, C00, C2

Hat ~ C00, C2, R000, R11, R14, R27

Scarf ~ B00, B02, G12, G43, C00, C2

Wreath ~ G12, G43, G46

Bow / Berries ~ R000, R11, R14, R27

A quick look at the March sketch.

And my second card... when I saw this cute cut apart in the paper pack I just had to use it for another card using Sketch #7 that we featured in the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers group for the month of February. I love when a good sketch makes for a fun and easy card!

To finish off the card, I wrapped the card front with some New Leaf Topnotch Twill Tape ribbon from Papertrey Ink. I then adhered the card front to a white A2 top fold card base.

And a look at the cards together... I hope that you've been inspired to pull out some of your holiday stamps and papers and start building your stash of holiday cards now. 

Be sure to check out the Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop!! I always have such a great time participating in this hop!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Happy St. Paddy's Day ~ Lots O' Luck ~ Doodlebug Design

 Hello there crafty friend!

Just a quick post today to wish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day and share a handful of the St. Paddy's Day cards that I made to send to a few friends. I used the adorable Lots O'Luck collection from Doodlebug Design for my cards. Such an adorable collection!!

I had so much fun making these cards!! The fun ephemera pieces and cardstock stickers really made these cards come together quickly too! 

I used very similar designs for each of the cards and just embellished them differently to make each one unique for the recipient. 

The card fronts for each of the cards is Cucumber Crush from Stampin' Up that are adhered to a white A2 top-fold card base.

The cute shamrock paper is mat with Limeade Ice card stock from Papertrey Ink.

I die cut the large white circles from Stampers Select White card stock by Papertrey Ink and blended a little Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink in the center of the circles. Both the circle die and the scallop circle die are from Spellbinders. 

I flipped the design for this one when I realized the skinnier strip of shamrock paper is turned the other way. It worked out well because I also wanted to use this large Chit Chat piece of ephemera for one of the cards. Isn't that pup just the cutest?! I also cut the circle die cut piece for this one so it didn't cover up the sentiment. 

Here's another look at the cards all together. Too cute!

I hope you've enjoyed these cute cards! I'll be back on Friday with my weekly Christmas card!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

{BYSHC} Sketch Challenge #8 ~ Poinsettia Wishes ~ Unity Stamp Co.

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm back with another Christmas card... keeping to my goal of at least one per week! Woohoo! My stash is growing! Today, I'm sharing a card using a sweet Itty Bitty stamp from Unity Stamp Co. called Poinsettia Wishes. The Itty Bitty line of stamps from Unity are actually perfect for this sketch because most of them have an image and a sentiment included in the set. I decided to use this one because I adore poinsettias for Christmas.

And I paired this pretty stamp with the beautiful Rustic Wishes papers also from Unity Stamp Co. I chose to just mat the circles and the papers with True Black card stock from Papertrey Ink... just keeping the design simple here and letting the pretty paper and this stamp shine!

I stamped both images with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored in the poinsettia and holly cluster with the following Copic markers ~ R000, R14, R27, Y11, Y17, YG11, YG17, G14, G46, C00, and C2.

I die cut the sentiment and colored image with circle dies, mat them on slightly larger True Black mats and then trimmed off the one edge. I flipped the sketch for this one covering mostly white space on the patterned paper and adhered the circles. To finish it off I added a few black enamel dots. This was actually a pretty quick card with the coloring taking up most of my time. I love when cards are quick!

Here's another look at the March sketch... there's still lots of time to play along with the sketch challenge in the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Facebook group! Come join us and start building your stash of holiday cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

Happy Easter Peeps and Spring In Your Step Background ~ Unity Stamp Co.

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm back with another Easter card using the new adorable Happy Easter Peeps stamps along with the fantastic Spring in Your Step Background stamp... both new releases from Unity Stamp Co.

The background is ink blended with the Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade, Speckled Egg, and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide inks. I then stamped the fun Spring inspired font background stamp with Weathervane ink from Papertrey Ink. I die cut the background with the stitched rectangle die found in the Blueprints 20 dies from My Favorite Things. I stamped the sentiment with Amalgam black ink and trimmed it to fit across the background.

I then stamped the adorable bunny and basket of eggs with the same Amalgam black ink and then colored them with the following Copic markers:

Bunny ~ C00, C2, R00

Eggs ~ V0000, V01, V06, Y06, Y11, Y18, B0000, B00, YG11, G14, 

YR15, YR21, YR68, RV10, RV14, RV52

Basket ~ Y11, YR20, E33, YG11, G14

I have a little video for this card... you can check that out here ---> Happy Easter Peeps Card.

I hope you like the card I've shared. Are you working on your Easter cards? I have two for my stash now... yay!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

March 2021 KOM ~ Nose Wiggles & Bunny Wishes ~ Unity Stamp Co.

 Hello there crafty friends!

I just couldn't get enough of the Friends of Unity sketch for our March cue... I had to make another card using the sketch but turning it a bit to work for my design. Have you seen the adorable bunny in the March 2021 Kit of the Month?! Omgeee!! It's too cute! I just had to ink it up and color this cutie!

I used pretty patterned papers called Hello Easter by Echo Park for my layers and the banners.

So cute! I used the following Copic markers to color up this cutie:

Bunny ~ W00, W2, W5, R20, C00, C2, Colorless Blender

Flowers ~ YG11, YG23, R00, R20, RV14

I have a process video to share for this card. 

You can check it out here... Nose Wiggles & Bunny Wishes.

Not technically an Easter card, but I'm considering it my first Easter card for 2021! 

What do you think about that bunny? Too cute, right?!

I invite you to hop with our Friends of Unity blog hop and check out our March sketch cue!

You can start hopping here on my blog by clicking on the header above and scrolling down to the previous blog post or you can just click here... Friends of Unity March 2021 Blog Hop.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

~ Friends of Unity March 2021 Blog Hop ~

 Hello there crafty friend!

Welcome to our March 2021 Friends of Unity Blog Hop! Last year's Friends of Unity Sketch was such a big hit that we were excited to do it again this year and I've been so excited to share!! This is such a fun sketch and I've had fun creating a few different cards to share with you all today! But first, let's take a look at the sketch...

Fun, right?! So many possibilities with this one! I hope you'll join us in the fun and share a card or two in the Unity Show & Tell Facebook group... we'd love to see your creations!!

My first card features the new March 2021 Uniquely Unity membership kit... My Smiles Begin... I adore this new beautiful stamp! I've always loved cameras and even aspired to be a professional photographer at one point in my life.

I decided to flip the sketch for this card... no particular reason... it just seemed to work for this image. I used a mix of papers from the Mint Berry paper pack by The Paper Studio. I love the mix of pinks and mint in these papers... they just seemed perfect for this image! And to finish off the card, I added a little camera clip. So fun!

I used the following Copic markers for this stamp:

Skin ~ E000, E00, E11, R00, R20

Hair ~ E30, E35, E47

Clothes ~ R11, R32, R43, RV10

Camera ~ BG10, BG23, G000, G12, T0, T2, T4

Outline ~ BG0000, BG11

My second card features the beautiful girl in the Graduation Wishes set... I found myself in need of a graduation card and was struggling to decide on the design when it hit me that this could work along with the Friends of Unity Sketch! It's a different take on the sketch since I already had the image die cut using the Geometric Double Frame dies from Gina Marie Designs but I think it still totally works!

This was one of those times where I colored the image before finding the papers... and I was lucky enough to find the beautiful Early Bird Collection papers by BoBunny in my collection of papers! I think they work wonderfully with this pretty grad!

I used the following Copic markers for this stamp:

Skin ~ E0000, E00, E11, R00

Hair ~ E51, E55, E57, E77

Clothes ~ BG0000, BG01, BG10, B39, B45, Y08, Y38, 100

My last card features the beautiful tulips from the March 2021 Kit of the Month... Hope to Be... such an amazing KOM this month!! Loving all the Spring images! I decided to change things up for this one by doing a little Spotlight Technique and rather than using a patterned paper for my background to have it CAS. Fun twist on the sketch, right?!

I wanted the Spotlight Technique to really shine for this one so I kept the other colors neutral with just black and white. That also meant that I had to dig through my paper stash to find one that would work and I decided on the Coffee papers by Echo Park. To finish this one off, I add a couple enamel dots from two different collections... unfortunately, they were also loose in my stash so I'm not sure which collections they came from. What do you think? Probably not the typical Easter card, but I really love how it turned out. 

Here's the list of Copic markers for this one:

Tulips ~ Y96, Y11, YR07, YR15

Leaves / Stems ~ YG11, YG17, G14

Pitcher ~ BG05, BG15, BG57

Outline ~ BG0000, BG01

I tried to keep the chit chat to a minimum... I hope you've stuck around to the end! Before we move on to the hop though, I need to announce the winner from last month's hop.

Drum roll, please....

Doenene!!!!

Congratulations Doenene!!!! Please email me at crystalominkler@gmail.com to claim your prize. 

Prize must be claimed within two weeks. 

I believe a few of my friends are having giveaways so be sure to check out all the fabulous creations along the hop and comment on each blog for a chance to win!!

Let's get to the hopping...

Crystal <--- you're here

up next ---> Eileen

Dawn B.

Colleen

Bobbie Sue

Kim

Dawn F.

Rachel

Joyce

Alaine

Robyn

Thanks so very much for supporting our little hop!

We appreciate you!!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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{BYSHC} Sketch Challenge #8 ~ Say Cheese Christmas ~ Simple Stories

 Hello there crafty friend!

Oh my goodness... I almost didn't make it this week with my weekly Christmas card to share! Thank goodness I have the adorable Say Cheese Christmas ephemera pieces in my collection! They made for such a quick card!

Isn't that just THE cutest card?! I adore these sweet ephemera pieces from Simple Stories. I especially love the touch of Disney in the Say Cheese Christmas collection. I just adore all things Disney!! I started with a card front of Wild Wasabi from Stampin' Up! The patterned paper is also from the Say Cheese Christmas collection. I trimmed that down to 4-1/8 x 5-3/8". I adhered it to the card front and then adhered the entire panel to a white A2 top-fold card base.

I die cut a 3-1/4" Real Red circle and a 2-3/8" True Black circle. Since I had already adhered my patterned paper I laid the circles down on my card and marked the two sides of the circle to trim off. I cut those in my Tim Holtz Tonic Guillotine Paper Trimmer and adhered them to the card. To finish off the card I adhered the sweet little girl from the Say Cheese Christmas Happy Kids Bits & Pieces and the Happy Holidays sentiment from the Say Cheese Christmas Bits & Pieces. Done! So quick!

Here's another look at the fun {BYSHC} Sketch 8. I'll be back next week with another Christmas card using this fun sketch! I hope you'll come check it out.

Speaking of checking things out, drop by the {BYSH} Cardmakers blog... we're featuring a mix of creations shared by the {BYSH} Cardmakers team and a fun card randomly chosen from the challenge entries in the {BYSH} Cardmakers Facebook group.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal