Merry Christmas Mouse!

 Happy Tuesday and welcome back to the Falling for the Holiday's 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party!

Today's card features three of our amazing sponsors.....Unity Stamp Co., Gina K. Designs and Gina Marie Designs. 

I based my design on the October Sketch at Unity's Show & Tell page. This particular page is a great place for inspiration! It's open to everyone to post their creations, participate in challenges and shae knowledge! The inspiration here is UNBELIEVABLE! So much talent all in one place!

So as I said, I started with the sketch (it's below). The stamped image is called Peppermint Kisses Mouse Gnome. I stamped on regular cardstock with VersaFine Clair in Nocturne. Colored with a few different markers....some Tombow ABT (water based markers) and some Self-Made Creative Sketch Marker (alcohol markers). There was a certain look I was going for so hence the combination of colors! Measured and cut the panels and glued them to the card base. The dots are from Gina Marie Designs. While she also has dies and stencils....the enamel dots are what draws me here! THE. BEST! Stamped the sentiment from Unity's Gotta Love Sentiments. Stamped on a scrap of grey with VersaMark and embossed with Gina K. Designs White embossing powder.

Sketch as promised!

As I mentioned, our list of sponsors is quite extensive! Enter a project to be eligible for the drawing to be held at the end of the party!

Angie Blom Designs

Fresh and Renewed with Teresa

Gina K. Designs

Colorado Crafty Company

Newton's Nook

Jaded Blossom

NEW Sponsor - Pink & Main

Gina MArie Designs

Tawny Owl Paperie

Unity Stamp Co.

NEW Sponsor - Pretty Pink Posh

Twiddler's Nook

Lawn Fawn

NEW Sponsor - Therm O Web

Not 2 Shabby

NEW Sponsor - Danni's Dreams

In Love With Paper - Cindy Messer

Taylored Expressions

NEW Sponsor - Kat Scrappiness

Cuppa Joy!

The Falling for the Holidays 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party is still going strong!

My card today was inspired by one of the Unity Stamp Co. Design Team, Tenia Nelson. Her cards have a clean & simple look but still dimensional and interesting utilizing the white space on the card! 

Today's card showcases some Unity stamps in action. First is the background, pop dots background. I started by stamping this large A2 size background stamp onto white cardstock with versamark and using white gina k. designs embossing powder. I then ink blended some speckled egg and vintage photo distress oxides over the embossed image. I then sprayed some water to soften it up a bit. Die cut a small part of it using the smallest rectangle from the Scallops & Rectangles nesting dies. I then added some sparkly blue/silver washi tape to opposite corners and stapled the corner for extra pizazz.

Next I stamped the cup from joy, peace and comfort mug onto some watercolor paper with VersaMark and clear embossing powder, then did it again with VersaFine Clair in nocturne and embossed with clear. I took the two oxide colors from the background and smeared some onto an acrylic block and used it as a pallette. Using a water brush I diluted the colors and colored the cup with them. "JOY" was stamped using the VersaFine Clair nocturne and clear embossing powder as well. Then I fussy cut! I added some foam adhesive to the back and some blue sequins to finish it off.

This linky party keeps on going until Friday the 28th so be sure to link up your cards and/or projects to be eligible for a random drawing for some amazing prizes! Sponsor list is below!

Angie Blom Digital Designs

Fresh and Renewed with Teresa

Gina K. Designs

Colorado Crafty Company

Newton's Nook

Jaded Blossom

NEW Sponsor - Pink & Main

Gina Marie Designs

Tawny Owl Paperie

Unity Stamp Co.

NEW Sponsor - Pretty Pink Posh

Twiddler's Nook

Lawn Fawn

NEW Sponsor - Therm O Web

Not 2 Shabby

NEW Sponsor - Danni's Dreams

In Love with Paper - Cindy Messer

Taylored Expressions

NEW Sponsor - Kat Scrappiness

Thanks for following along!

Noel

 I'm here with another card for the Falling for the Holidays 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party! Have you joined in yet?

My card today is based on another older sketch from {BYSHC} Facebook group. Each month there is a new sketch for inspiration! The one I used is #2.

My image, called joy & noel, is a new design from Angie Blom Digital Designs....she is one of our amazing sponsors!  Printed directly onto watercolor paper and colored with multiple colors of Tombow ABT markers. I used a silver gel pen on the ornaments to give a little sparkle! I cut that panel out with the smallest rectangle from the Unity Stamp Co. Scallops & Rectangles nesting dies and mounted it with some foam adhesive. Simple but elegant!

List of sponsors you say?!? Here they are!

Angie Blom Digital Designs

Fresh and Renewed with Teresa

Gina K. Designs

Colorado Crafty Company

Newton's Nook

Jaded Blossom

NEW Sponsor - Pink & Main

Gina Marie Designs

Tawny Owl Paperie

Unity Stamp Co.

NEW Sponsor - Pretty Pink Posh

Twiddler's Nook

Lawn Fawn

NEW Sponsor - Therm O Web

Not 2 Shabby

NEW Sponsor - Danni's Dreams

In Love With Paper - Cindy Messer

Taylored Expressions

NEW Sponsor - Kat Scrappiness

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas!

Welcome back to the Falling for the Holidays 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party!

I'm so excited to get some Christmas cards ready for the busy season that's about to unfold!

My card is based on Sketch 23 from {BYSHC}. This facebook group shares a new sketch each month for some additional inspiration!

During my hurricane power outage (see a few posts ago), I stamped, colored and fussy cut a bunch of images.  This santa was one of them! He comes from Unity Stamp Co. (Cute Santa). I took a watercolor paper panel and added a ink-blended stenciled brick background. Used a stencil from The Rabbit Hole Designs called back alley. Started with Vintage photo distress oxide and then added some walnut stain to just a few of the bricks for some dimension. Santa was popped up with some foam adhesive. The dots are nuvo vintage drops in Postbox red. Enter as many cards/projects as you'd like! The more you enter, the better chance you will have to be the lucky recipient of one of these amazing sponsor's prizes!!

sketch 23 for reference!

Here is that list of sponsors I was telling you about! Seriously!!!! 

Angie Blom Digital Designs

Fresh and Renewed with Teresa

Gina K. Designs

Colorado Crafty Company

Newton's Nook

Jaded Blossom

NEW Sponsor - Pink & Main

Gina Marie Designs

Tawny Owl Paperie

Unity Stamp Co.

NEW Sponsor - Pretty Pink Posh

Twiddler's Nook

Lawn Fawn

NEW Sponsor - Therm O Web

Not 2 Shabby

NEW Sponsor - Danni's Dreams

In Love With Paper - Cindy Messer

Taylored Expressions

NEW Sponsor - Kat Scrappiness

{BYSHC} Falling for the Holidays!

Welcome to the Falling for the Holidays 2022 {BYSHC} Linky Party! This fun week will be filled with sooooo many good things! We have a fantastic list of sponsors here to provide prizes at the end of the week too! Enter as many times as you'd like and may the odds be ever in your favor! Now on to my first card!

My first card is based on the {BYSHC} Sketch 18. The image is from the always amazing Angie Blom Digital Designs!

I apologize, the lighting isn't the best.....I'm getting a new roof today and they have tarped my entire back patio! LOL Didn't realize it would be this dark!  Printed this lovely festive image on watercolor paper, the colored with my Tombow ABT markers. I die cut the image with the smallest rectangle from Unity Stamp Co. Scallops and Rectangles nesting die set. My background papers are from Basic Grey Jovial 6x6. Instead of an added sentiment (as per the sketch) I have chosen to add a few rounds of May Arts Ribbon natural burlap cording and some sequins finish it off. What you cannot tell from this picture is that the "o" jingle bell in the middle is sparkling with some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer in Glitter Gloss!

Thanks for visiting with me today, stay tuned for more fantastic inspiration!

Sketch for reference!

And don't forget about our FANTASTIC sponsors (check out this list) !!! 

Angie Blom Digital Designs

Fresh and Renewed with Teresa

Gina K. Designs

Colorado Crafty Company

Newton's Nook

Jaded Blossom

NEW Sponsor - Pink & Main

Gina Marie Designs

Tawny Owl Paperie

Unity Stamp Co.

NEW Sponsor - Pretty Pink Posh

Twiddler's Nook

Lawn Fawn

NEW Sponsor - Therm O Web

Not 2 Shabby

NEW Sponsor - Danni's Dreams

In Love With Paper - Cindy Messer

Taylored Expressions

NEW Sponsor - Kat Scrappiness

GIU Week! TGIF!

 Well here I am on the last day of this wonderful week! To recap my week....here are day 1, day 2, day 3 or day 4 .... click on each number! If ever given the opportunity to participate in GIU, you should absolutely do this! It's so fun to challenge yourself by doing things you wouldn't normally do and getting it done quickly! LOL Unity is an amazing company and while I've not actually "met" people in person, the people I've met online are marvelous and super talented!

Now onto the actual card! LOL When I started planning my week, I hadn't planned on so many or "only" Christmas cards, but alas, here we are! LOL Let's shake it up a bit! This month's Whit Kit arrived earlier this week so let me dig into that and share what I can! The Unity kits are all kinds of fabulous! 

This month's kit doesn't disappoint! For this card I used the embossing folder (plaid company), a sheet of the paper pack and a couple of the stamps! WOW! 

Started with the kraft background, which I embossed and then gently brushed with first vintage photo distress oxide, then went back and focused on the edges with black soot distress ink. I used the scalloped & rectangle nesting dies to cut the orange panel and also the watercolor panel. The watercolor panel was ink smooshed first with several distress inks! Ripe persimmon, dried marigold and vintage photo. 

After the ink dried, I stamped the distressed wording and the large pumpkins directly on top of the ink, then die cut. I went back in with more distress inks as a pallet and a water brush and target watercolored the pumpkins, stems, leaves, etc. I added some Nuvo aqua shimmer at the top of the pumpkins and then added some white gel pen for added dimension. Added some may arts burlap string and the sentiment was added with foam tape!

Thanks for visiting and following along! I had the best week and all of your comments were read and appreciated! Please don't forget to leave some love (and your name) to be eligible to win one of 2 $20 gift credits from Unity!! Winners will be chosen at random sometime tomorrow! Thanks again until next time! :)

Jenni

p.s. edited to update.....when your 7 mo old puppy gets on the counter and eats part of your card......embellish, embellish, embellish! She not only ate the corner of my image, but also the twine that was tied as well! luckily the bows were included in the Whit Kit and covered exactly! 

GIU Week! Day #4

 Happy Thursday!!  Wow that was a quick week! Catch up by going back to check out day 1, day 2 and day 3! Today I'm sharing another card I created with the Unity Stamp Co. October Sketch! I love love love sketches! It's a jumping off point. It can inspire and also gets the creative juices flowing! Flip it around, turn it sideways, make the panels different sizes.....whatever floats your boat! I love the quote on every Unity challenge I've seen....."it's meant to inspire not require!"

I used the Unity Itty Bitty called warm & cozy stamped on plain white cardstock and colored with Tombow ABT markers. I used foam tape to give some dimension. I did distress the patterned paper panels and also the image panel and tapped on some walnut stain distress ink. Kraft cardstock background is from Unity. Their kraft cardstock is a-ma-zing!!! It's the perfect color and weight! The patterned paper is from an older pad by Carta Bella called (ironically) Warm & Cozy! The sentiment was attached by adding some natural colored twine and foam tape. The top right corner seemed plain so I added some brads (c'mon now.....I know you still have brads in your stash! LOL)

Thanks for visiting and following along so far! Please don't forget to leave some love (and your name) to be eligible to win one of 2 $20 gift credits from Unity!! Winners will be chosen at random at the end of the week! 

See ya tomorrow for TGIF!!