*{BYSHC} Sketch #69*

There is a wonderful new sketch over on the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers blog... we are encouraging you to use our sketches to help build up your stash of Holiday cards so that you don't feel like you're in a mad rush to get them done later in the year!

I had fun with the sketch this month...  todays card is a lot more playful than the one you'll see later this month.  I had fun with a brand new die I purchased and some paper that has been sitting in my stash for quite a while.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Bubble Bath, Seaside Spray

*Paper  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Stamps:  Gina K Holiday Wreath Builder

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  The Ton Winter Mitten Dies; Waffle Flower Nesting Circles, Additional Nesting Circles
*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  BYSHCardmakers #69; Addicted to Stamps & More #517

*{BYSHC} Sketch #68*

 Happy April, creative friends!  A new months means there's a new sketch to inspire your Christmas Cards at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers!

I cheated a bit with my first card...  I saw this patterned paper in my stash and I thought it fit the sketch absolutely perfectly!  And honestly, I wasn't sure what I'd ever use it for!  I added some navy blue element to the card and a simple stamped and die cut sentiment to finish it off.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Night of Navy

*Paper:  Siple Stories Winter Wonder

*Stamps:  Penguin Palace Magical Christmas Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Stampin' Up! Laying Ovals:  Penguin Palace Magical Christmas Sentiments

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  BYSHCMakers #68

*My Favorite Instagram Hop*

 This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop we were challenged to pay with our favourite thing that we will miss about winter...  LET ME BE CLEAR.... I will miss NOTHING about winter!  I hate the lack of daylight hours and long hours of darkness.  I dislike the cold and the wind.  The snow looks pretty but it's a lot of work to shovel it.  I get so frustrated with slippery streets.  Here in Calgary, March is historically our snowiest month of the year so I'm not missing anything about winter yet!

But... all that being said... I LOVE snowflakes.  I think they are beautiful.  So beautiful that I have a tattoo of snowflakes.  If we could get snowflakes (and snowmen) without everything else, I'd be OK with that.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black; vellum

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Dies:  Memory Box Jolly Snowflake Trio; Stampin' Up! Peace & Joy

*Pattern Paper Instagram Hop*

 Today is the Pattern Paper Instagram Hop... Our theme is "chilly".  I didn't want to make a Christmas card even though that is where all of my thoughts went at first.  Instead I created a friendship card with a chilly (and warm) theme.

Card Info

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Stamps:  Kraftin' Kimmie It's Penguining To Look A Lot Like Christmas; MFT Festive Friends

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

*Dies:  unknown snowflake

*Tools:  Brother Scan 'n Cut

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*Atlantic Hearts Sketch #657*

 Another fabulous sketch from Atlantic Hearts to play with this week.  

I chose to play with an idea I saw on Instagram where you take two papers, cut them in to even rectangles and then cut those rectangles in half to create two quilted panels.  I used all papers from one paper pack as well as a simple stamped sentiment.

Card Info

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Stamps:  Catherine Pooler Nice List

*Challenges:  Atlantic Hearts #657

*{BYSHC} Sketch #62*

 Happy October, my creative friends!  I am here today as part of the design team for the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers challenge!  Each month, we post a sketch and challenge you to make a few Christmas cards to help build up your stash and relieve the stress that happens as we get closer and closer to Christmas!

Here is the sketch for October!

Canada Post was on strike last year leading up to Christmas so I didn't send any of the huge pile of Christmas cards I'd made over the year.  I gave several by hand delivering them, but I still have a bunch of cards from last year.  And I've been adding to my stash by a few each month since then.  I'm going to have way too many Christmas cards!  But I won't stop making them because my Christmas stash is my favourite part of my stash.

Oh... and did I mention that postal workers walked off the job again last week?  I wonder if I'll be sending Christmas cards this year...

My card for you today was super simple to put together thanks to a fabulous 6X6 paper pad... Everything but the pink cardstock (and my card base) came from that paper pack!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Bubble Bath

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Challenges:  {BYSHC} #62

*Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop*

 It's time for another Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop... this month, we are all playing with non-traditional colours.  My card is made from papers from a paper pad...no stamps or dies at all.  Just papers!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Spellbinders Indigo

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  BYSHC Christmas in July Linky Party

*Spring Into Christmas 2025 {BYSHC} Linky Party Take 9*

 Today is the final day to get your entries in to the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Spring Into Christmas Linky Party!  I had so much fun making all of the cards I've shared with you this week!  Today I have one more clean and simple card to share with you...  with another scrap of patterned paper!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black; Lawn Fawn Iridescent

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Stamps:  MFT Christmas Wishes

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  MFT Let It Snowflakes 2

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  BYSH Cardmakers Spring Into Christmas Holiday Linky Party

*My Favourite Instagram Hop*

 I've joined in the fun with a brand new Instagram Hop where, each month, we make a card with a prompt word...  each month these have a theme of "my favourite..."  for October, it's "my favourite fall drink". 

OK, let's be honest, I drink the same things, day in and day out, no matter the weather.  I don't drink a lot of hot drinks as I don't find them refreshing.  I like diet pop.  Sometimes water.  Sometimes a little booze.  Once in a while, on a chilly day, I will pull out a tea or a hot chocolate.  But that's pretty seldom.

For my card today, I decided to do a hot chocolate... and it could be a winter wishes or a Christmas card... what do you think?

Card Info

*Paper:  Simple Stories Winter Wonder

*Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp Christmas Blessings; Lawn Fawn Thanks a Latte

*Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics