*Patterned Paper Instagram Hop*

 On the 20th of each month, I play along the Patterned Paper Instagram Hop.  We are a group of creative people who play with our ever growing stash of patterned paper, in hopes of using up some our stash.  I am not playing along with the optional theme of Hallowe'en because I am totally over Hallowe'en at this point... so I used all patterned paper to create a Christmas card.

Card Info

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Tidings of Christmas

*Stamps:  MFT Christmas Wishes

*Ink:  Versafine Clair  Nocturne

*Dies:  MFT Stitched Rectangles, Christmas Wishes; unknown stitched tree

*Challenges:  BYSHCardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party

*Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop*

It's time for another Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop.  I had to quickly make a new card for the hop because  misread the challenge prompt as "frosty" when it was actually "frosty flowers"  Whoops!  I looked to see if I could add a flower to the card I had made (the snowman I posted earlier today) and it was a no go.

I had a few ideas for frosty flowers, but settled on using a die I'd never pulled out before to cut some vellum pointsettias.

Card Info

*Paper:  vellum

*Stamps: Penguin Palace Magical Christmas Sentiments

*Dies:  Waffle Flower Nesting Circles, Additional Circles; Dee's Destinctively Mini Poinsettis; Penguin Palace Magical Christmas Sentiments

*Embellishments:  HAI Supply gold pearls

*Challenges:  BYSHCardmakers Falling For The Holidays Linky Party

*BYSHCardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party*

 I am SO loving being in almost totally Christmas card mode these days.  Christmas is truly my favourite reason to make cards and I love my Christmas stash oh so much!  I made this card for the Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop, but then realized that the prompt was "frosty florals" not just "frosty".  So there's an extra card for me to share.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Blue Shimmer
*Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp WarmestWishes; MFT Christmas Wishes

*Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Versafine Clair Nocturne; Copics

*Embossing:  Stampin' Up! Dotted Circles

*Tools: PerfectLayers; Brother Scan 'n Cut

*Challenges:  BYSHCardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week, the prompt for the My Favorite Instagram Hop is favourite shape.  I couldn't chose a basic shape for myself... but my favourite shape is snowflake.  I think they are absolutely beautiful both in nature and in my creativity.  I don't like the cold weather that comes with snowflakes, but I sure do think they are pretty!

Card Info

*Paper: Unknown silver sparkle

*Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Impressions Obsession Snowflakes; MFT Stitched Rectangles

*Embossing:  Simon Says Stamp Snowflake Visions

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  BYSHC Falling For The Holidays

*Create It 3 Ways Instagram Hop*

Today is the 3rd Saturday of the month which means I am here with my cards for the Create It 3 Ways Instagram Hop.  Each month, we create 3 cards using at least one element the same on all three cards.  Our theme this month is Thankful.

I chose to make three cards using all of the same products.  I was visiting my sister when I made these cards so the die is hers and the patterned paper I used from her stash were papers that came from my Mom's stash (she passed away in 2010).

As you can see I used slim strips of the fall coloured patterned paper in a few different ways to create these cards.

*Joy*

 Good morning crafty, friends... I'm here with another card for the BYSHC Falling for the Holidays Linky Party... a super great card today, showing how to use up some smaller scraps of your favourite pattern paper

Card Info
*Cardtock:  Unknown gold shimmer
*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Tidings of Christmas
*Dies:  Hero  Arts Joy; MFT Stitched Rectangles

*Addicted to CAS #294*

 Happy Saturday, creative friends.  It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS.

I made most of my card simply white... with a bright pop of colour to finish it off. I love the texture I created in the little 1" squares...

Card Info

*Stamps:  Trinity Stamps Autumn Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne.

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies

*Dies:  Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies; MFT Stitched Rectangles
*Embossing:  Stampin' Up! Dotted Circles

*Challenges:  ATCAS #294

*{BYSHC} Falling For The Holidays 2025 Linky Party*

  Good morning, creative friends... and welcome to day one of the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Falling For The Holidays Linky Party!!!  For one whole week, we will be sharing Christmas cards with you in the hopes that you will share your Christmas cards with us!  Link up your newly created Christmas cards on the Build Your Stash blog for your chance to win some amazing prizes from some fabulous sponsors!  Be sure to check out the end of my post to see a list of all of our wonderful sponsors!

My first card for this week long party is using these fabulous die cut and embossed pointsettias...  I was visiting my sister at the beginning of the month and this was one of the things she had recently purchased...

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler, Certainly Celery, Handsome Hunter

*Stamps:  MFT Christmas Wishes

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Embossing: Lisa Horton Christmas Floral Builder; Stampin' Up! Soft Waves

*Dies:  Lisa Horton Christmas Floral Builder; MFT Christmas Wishes
*Embellishments:  Spellbinders Opal Gems

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenge: BYSHCardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party

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*CAS on Friday #320*

 The current challenge at CAS on Friday is to create a clean and simple card featuring feathers.  I am not a big fan of birds, but I think feathers are pretty!  I cut my feather out of a brushed silver cardstock.  To add a little more life to my simple design, I added some scored lines on my front panel.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black; unknown brushed silver

*Stamps:  MFT Something for Everything

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  MFT Something for Everything; Picket Fence Studio Fanciful Feathers

*Tools: ScorBuddy; Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  CAS on Friday #320

*AAA Colourful #21*

Happy Day, creative friends!  It's the 15th of the month and time for a new colourboard challenge at AAA Colourful!  We are asking you to be inspired by the colours in the graphic to create a card this month

I chose the red, green and a dusty blue to highlight in my card today...  a simple wreath of flowers and some added colourful mats

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Misty Moonlight

*Stamps:   Honey Bee Stamps Best of Everything

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Essentials by Ellen Essential Circles; Spellbinders Floral Spray, Be Bold Blooms

*Embellishments:  Kaiser Pearls

*Tool:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  AAA Colourful #21; Freshly Made Sketches #708

*CAS Colours & Sketches #571*

 It's time for a new colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches... I can't wait to see what you create!

These colours scream Hallowe'en to me... but I don't love Hallowe'en so I went with something different instead...  I cut the centre portion of the image with a rectangle die and matted it with the darker colour.  I added it back to the centre of my card with some foam adhesive to add a little more interest

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Timid Tiger

*Stamps:  The Ton Easy Expressions
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Stampin' Up! Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry

*Dies:  Waffle Flower Nested Rectangles

*Stencil:  Picket Fence Studio Sunburst

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*Challenges:  CAS & Colours & Sketches #571

*Atlantic Hearts #651*

Today I'm playing along with the fabulous new sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenges...

For many of you, my card will be clean and simple... but it's not.  The all over embossed background means my card is altered, almost entirely, which  means it is not a clean and simple design.  It is crisp and clean though, and that's what I was going for.

Card Info

*Stamps:  The Ton Easy Expressions
*Dies:  The Ton Easy Expressions; Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses

*Washi Tape:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses

*Embossing:  Spellbinders Leafy

*Challenges:  Atlantic Hearts Sketch #651

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 This week on the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are each playing with our favourite stencil.

I'm not sure that I have a favourite stencil, but how could I resist playing with these beautiful snowflakes!  This is a Taylored Expressions Create In Quads stencil... a multi-layer stencil that you use on a full sheet of cardstock to create several different panels.  What a great idea!

Card Info

*Stamps:  The Ton Easy Expressions Christmas

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Catherine Pooler Black Jack Skylight, Samba

*Stencil:  Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Snowflake

*Etc:  Nuvo Glimmer Paste Moonstone

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*CASE It Instagram Hop*

 Happy Saturday, Creative friends!  It's time for the CASE It Instagram Hop... each month, a group of us chooses any card we've seen on Instagram and we use it as an inspiration piece to make something of our own.  Sometimes we completely copy the idea, sometimes we use it as a jumping off point.

For today, I was inspired by a card I saw by Vicki Dutcher.

This is the card I was inspired by...

I loved the embossing on the blue, the shade of blue, the pop of white...  instead of using leaves, I used snowflakes... and instead of a die cut sentiment, I went with a simple stamped one instead.  I also changed up the shade of blue (although I really love the colour she used!)

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Spellbinders Windy

*Stamps:  Pink & Main Snowflake Sayings
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Picket Fence Studio Winter Snowflakes; MFT Stitched Circles

*Embossing:  Simon Says Stamp Snowflake Visions

*Embellishments:  Nuvo Aqua Shimmer

*Sending Sunshine Instagram Hop*

 Each month, I am part of a group on Instagram that shares cards that we would send to someone as a little piece of sunshine... a card of encouragement.

This month I used a bunch of items that were on my desk to put together a relatively quick card.

Card Info

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! True Love

*Stamps:  Altenew Gracious Peonies

*Ink:  Verasfine Clair Nocturne

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterlies
*Dies:  Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*This or That Instagram Hop*

The choices for the This or That Instagram Hop this week are Soft or Bright... I went for bright!  And I decided to play with a little bit of a black to really make the colours pop!  I don't have any colour or die info for you as I once again used a bunch of items from my bin of extras for the card today.

*White on White Instagram Hop

 This month, the theme for the White on White Instagram Hop is Halloween.  I had fun with a ghost die and a little shadow of black behind him.  I also added the soft waves texture on a panel behind my ghost, but in a vertical pattern instead... it felt kinda spooky that way LOL!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black
*Stamps:  Studio Katia Meowy Halloween

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  MFT Hey Ghoul

*Embossing:  Stampin' Up! Soft Waves

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite fall flower.  Honestly, I don't have a favourite fall flower... I am just SO happy to see any flowers still blooming in the fall!  I coloured a flower from a piece of patterned paper in some fall colours and FUSSY CUT it out to share this card for you!  I FUSSY CUT!  My Mom would be so proud.  It's 15 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! True Love

*Stamps:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines and Roses

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Copics

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Addicted to CAS #293*

 Good morning, friends... I'm slowly transitioning in to making more and more Christmas cards... and today is one of those days!  I LOVE making Christmas cards.  Today I'm sharing a card for the current challenge at Addicted to CAS.

The only sweater stuff I have in my stash are these great ugly Christmas Sweaters.  I bought a few sheets of this great pattern paper a few years ago and used my Brother Scan 'n Cut to cut them all out.  I'm getting low on them now LOL!

Card Info

*Paper:  Photoplay Tulla & Norbert's Christmas Party

*Stamps:  The Ton Easy Expressions Christmas

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  The Ton Easy Expressions Christmas; Waffle Flower Nesting Circles; MFT Stitched Rectangles

*Embossing:  Simon Says Stamp Snowflake Visions

*Challenges:  Addicted to CAS #293