*2024 Spellbinders Advent Hop - Day 13*

 Day 12 of the Spellbinders Advent Calendar was a small sheet of sentiment stamps.  I put three different stamps on to an acrylic block and stamped them in lines across a panel of white cardstock and then cut it out with a stitched rectangle die.  I then stamped one of the other sentiments on a strip of white cardstock and cut it out and layered a little black behind it.  To add a little more interest to this all black and white card, I did add an embossed panel to the front of the card.

This would be so easy to mass produce....

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Stamps:  Spellbinders Advent Day 12

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  MFT Stitched Rectangles

*Embossing: Spellbinders Candy Cane Stripes
*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  Word Power #12

*{BYSHC} Sketch #52*

 It's a new month which means there is a new holiday sketch over at Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers.  I love these sketches because the measurements for each layer are provided in the sketch!  It takes away so much of the guess work!

This is a fabulous mini-slimline design for you to play with this month.  I love a mini-slimline!  I decided to play with an embossed image instead of patterned paper because most of my patterned paper that seemed suitable was only 6" long. This lead to a somewhat clean and simple card...

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Handsome Hunter, Chocolate Chip; unknown vellum; Spellbinders gold foil

*Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp Christmas Blessings

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Spellbinders Christmas Blooms

*Embossing:  Lisa Horton Crafts Pinecones

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  BYSHC #52; Word Power #12

*Christmas Means More*

I was playing around with an embossing folder the other day and tried embossing it on a dark green cardstock.  While it was pretty, I just felt like you couldn't see the definition.  I took a chance with a white pigment ink pad and a blending brush and put a very light layer of white ink on the raised portions of the embossed panel... and it did exactly what I hoped it would do!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Handsome Hunter; unknown gold sparkle

*Stamps:  Stampin' Up! Christmas Means More

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Copics; Hero Arts Unicorn

*Dies:  Waffle Flower Nesting Circles

*Embossing:  Gina K Holiday Flora

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  Word Power #11

*Joyful*

 A few weeks ago, I shared a card using a die set that I won in an Instagram giveaway.  To get the pieces I used, I had to cut two of each of the pieces... so today I am sharing the card I made using the pieces I didn't use in that first card.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen; Spellbinders gold foil

*Dies:  Simon Says Stamp Joyful; Spellbinders Christmas Blooms

*Embossing:  Gina K Holiday Flora

*Challenges:  Just Us Girls #753; Word Power #11

CAS on Friday #290*

 It's a Sentiment Only challenge at CAS on Friday... 

While my card is a little less clean and simple than I'd like, I think it still works.  I simply cut out the letters to the word happy in three different colours two times and layered them up to place on top of the same colour of cardstock.  I added a stamped word at the bottom to finish it off.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Parakeet Party, Tahitian Tide, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black

*Images:  Picket Fence Studio Happy Birthday Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  MFT Happy

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenge:  CAS on Friday #290; Word Power #8

*{BYSHC} Christmas In July Linky Party*

I decided to play along with the Christmas in July Linky Party at Build Your Stash...  ya, I'm a designer too, but I had another idea in my head that I wanted to play with!  You all know how much I love making Christmas cards!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Tidings of Christmas

*Images:  Kasiercraft Yuletide

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Waffler Flower A2 Layers Dies; Spellbinders Christmas Blooms

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  BYSHC Christmas in July; Addicted to Stamps and More, Pretty Paper Challenge; Word Power #7

*Combining Challenges*

 I'm combining a few challenges with my card today...  I found a new challenge called Word Power where the focal point of your card should be the sentiment.  I will play along with them again, for sure as I am not 100% convinced that this card fits the bill.  I am also playing along with the colour challenge at Color Throwdown.

To get the different shades of blue, I used the same colour but blended a different amount of ink on the three different stencils that I used.  I ended up with a medium blue as the lrger flowers, the medium flowers in a really light ink and the small flowers in the darkest ink.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake

*Images:  Stampendous Big Words Happy

*Ink:  Catherine Pooler Sand Castle, Hot Tub, Stone Blue; Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Stencils:  MFT Flower Fusion
*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Challenges:  Color Throwdown #778; Word Power #2