*Spring Into Christmas 2025 {BYSHC} Linky Party*

It's time for the {BYSHC} Spring Into Christmas Holiday Linky Party!!!  We want to help encourage you to make a bunch of Christmas cards this week, to build up your stash so that you don't feel the pinch in the fall!  We have a TONNE of great prizes to be won... how do you win?  Simply create and share (new creations only) Christmas cards at the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers website... the more you enter, the more chances you'll have to win!  You'll get an entry for every card you share with us (no back linking please!)

Just look at these amazing sponsors... 

*Tawny Owl Paperie

*Club Scrap (new sponsor!)

*Lawn Fawn

*Thermo O Web

*Taylored Expressions

*Twiddler's Nook

*Not 2 Shabby

*Unity

*Angie Blom Digital Designs

*Jaded Blossom

*A Colorful Life Designs

*Gina K Designs

*Fresh and Renewed with Teresa

*Pink & Main

*RAM Stamps

*Newton's Nook Designs

*Gina Marie Designs

And now on to my card... I can't believe I used such a LARGE piece of gold glitter paper for this card!  But I am SO glad that I did!  I love how this card turned out!

Card Info

*Paper:  Unknown glitter; DCWV Dec 25th; Spellbinders gold foil

*Dies:  We R Memory Keepers Nesting Stars; Hero Arts Joy

*Challenges:  BYSH Spring Into Christmas Linky Party

*Addicted to CAS #281*

It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS... and this time I am the host!  I chose the code word "star" for this challenge!

I'm sure I had an idea when I chose this word for my challenge... but when it came time to create, I had no idea what I wanted to do LOL!  I had some of this beautiful rainbow pattern paper on my desk so I decided to play with it.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Full of Life

*Dies:  We R Memory Keepers Nesting Stars; Pretty Pink Posh Congrats Scripe

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  Addicted to CAS #281

*Build Your Stash Instagram Hop*

 Each month, the Build Your Stash Instagram Hop encourages us to make one or more cards following a common theme... to help us each build up our stash of those cards we may not make as often.

For March, our theme is Graduation.

I made two cards... not bad for someone who doesn't think she'll need a graduation card this year.  One of the cards will be tossed after 2025, but the other is timeless.

For my first card, I kept a simple black and gold colour theme with a simple message of congratulations.  Some of the stars are popped up on foam adhesive, the others are adhered directly to my front panel.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Spellbinders gold foil; Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Stamps:  MFT Something for Everything

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  We R Memory Keepers Revolution Stars

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Etc:  foam adhesive

For my second card, I created a pretty embossed background and added some white numbers on top of it to represent the graduation year.  A quick gold die cut to finish it off...

Card Info

*Cardstock:  unknown gold foil

*Dies:  MFT Impact Alphabet; Pretty Pink Post Congrats Script

*Embossing:  Spellbinders Leafy

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*CASology #398*

It's time for the last challenge of 2021 with the design team at CASology.  We are so thankful that you have joined us this year and we hope to continue to inspire you to play along with us in 2022!  

As you can see from the prompt card below, our cue word is "above".

My first thought was an angel, but I don't have any angel stamps... so I went with a simple star instead.  To add some interest, I cut the star in two different sizes and layered them with foam adhesive.

To add a little something more to the card, I added a simple 1/16" mat behind my front panel using my Perfect Layers Tool and some gold glitter paper.  Rather than wasting all that glitter paper behind the panel, I used a rectangle die to cut out the the centre of a piece of paper that was already slightly larger than I'd need it.

I really hope you'll play along with us by linking up your creation HERE

Items Used

• Cardstock:  unknown gold glitter
• Images:  Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas
• Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
• Dies:  Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas; We R Memory Keepers Stars
• Tools:  Perfect Layers
• Challenge:  CASology #398

*Starry Hello*

How are these twice a day posts working for you all?  It's helping me share some of the older cards in my pile instead of constantly pushing them back so I can share cards for current challenges.

I just love this Pattern Party paper from Stampin' Up!  So many great colours and patterns to choose from!  I hate using pretty papers sometimes because I'm so afraid I'll use it all... but then I remember that there will be more and more papers and things to make my heart happy.  I might as well ENJOY it by sending it off to others in handmade greetings, right?

And the current sketch at CAS Colours and Sketches was just perfect for this card!

Items Used

*Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Pool Party

*Patterned Paper:  Stampin' Up! Pattern Party

*Images:  Altenew Henneh Elements

*Dies:  Waffle Flower Additional Circles; We R Memory Keepers Nested Stars

*Challenges:  CAS Colours and Sketches #441

*Warm!*

I am on the Scrap 'n Stamp Canada blog today sharing a card using the Random Acts of Cardness prompt of WARM... and if you think you've seen this card before, you're right!  Well, sort of!  Two weeks ago I shared a card with the prompt of cool and I thought it would be fun to play on the WARM and make the card again but with warm colours.  It can create a different look to mix up a gift set a little bit.

Items Used:

*Cardstock:  Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White 110lb; Gina K Tangerine Twist

*Images:  Lawn Fawn Simply Celebrate

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Copics

*Tools:  Scor Buddy; Perfect Layers

*Etc:  white gel pen

As you can see, this card is super simple...  it's one that would be great if you were needing a card in a hurry or if you wanted to make multiples.  A stamp positioner would make it all easier if you were making multiples.

Happy Crafting!

*AAACards #177*

 Hi crafty friends!  It's Sunday and time for a new two week challenge with the team at AAACards!  

As you can see from the graphic, for challenge #177 we want to see your clean and simple cards with a LOT of white space with the optional twist of stars.  Our guest designer for this challenge is Sue and our sponsor is Uniko.

I had an idea in my head for this card but I'm afraid I covered a bit too much of my "white space" to be truly "maxi white space".  I tried some different ideas but nothing else grabbed me like this card did.

Yes, this is still a lot of white space, but I'm sure not sure it's quite "maxi white space".  I challenge you to do better than I have LOL!

Items Used:

• Cardstock:  Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White 110lb; gold glitter paper; Stampin' Up! Basic Black
• Images:  Simon Says Stamp Believe
• Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
• Dies:  Simon Says Stamp Believe; We R Memory Keepers Nesting Stars
• Tools:  Gemini Jr

We want to see your creations using the prompt above... share your card on the AAACards blog for your chance to win a prize from Uniko as well as become a guest designer on an upcoming challenge!  You can link to your blog, Instagram or a Flickr account!  I can't wait to see what you come up with!

*More Scraps!*

Happy Saturday!  Do you even care what day it is any more?  It will be so hard to go back to life with alarm clocks and schedules when more restrictions are lifted and we try to get back to a more normal life.  Bruce starts his work day at 9am so we haven't set an alarm in weeks as we are both waking up on our own between 7 and 8am.  It's nice to be able to wake up when your body says "good morning" instead of to a stupid alarm!

This is another card using extras from a different project... or pieces that didn't work the way I wanted.  I am sure not going to waste that wonderful glitter paper and throw out an idea that didn't work out!!  I'm not sure that the sentiment is the right one for this design, but it is what it is...

Items Used:
*Cardstock:  Neenah Solar White 110lb; Stampin' Up! Basic Black; glitter paper
*Images:  Taylored Expressions Simple Strips
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne
*Dies:  We R Memory Keepers Nesting Stars; Taylored Expressions Simple Strips
*Embellishments:  Studio Katia Arctic Breeze Pearls

*Congrats!*

I was asked if I could make a graduation card for someone...  I don't have any graduation stamps, so I wasn't sure I could do it.  I thought about it a bit and came up with this card.  Hopefully the person who asked for it will think it's adequate!

For this card, I followed sketch #360 at CAS(E) This Sketch

Items Used:
*Cardstock:  Neenah Solar White 110lb; Stampin' Up Basic Black; Glitter cardstock
*Dies:  We R Memory Keepers Nesting Stars; Pretty Pink Posh Congrats Script
*Tools:  Perfect Layers; Gemini Jr