myasperations 12-15-22

     I am honored to have served as a Guest Designer for Beccy Muir at Beccy’s Place and am now one of her “Contributors” (which means that she provides me with digis or clear stamp sets several times a year and I get to create cards or other items with them!) It is always fun to see the images Beccy invites me to use.  This time, the digis and sentiments are all from a just-released set named “Gingerbread Season.”

     Beccy names each of her digi characters and this pudgy cutie is named Jed. The background is made with an upcycled envelope from a gift card that I received from my generous boss last year. It is a perfect setting for this sweet digi. I printed Jed onto Kraft cardstock, adding a cropped image of his left hand that holds the garland, colored the images (leaving the Kraft garland uncolored), fussy cut and adhered them to the gift card background. I printed two sentiments, plus two cropped copies of the tinsel garland, onto white cardstock, fussy cut, and set them aside. For additional bling and texture, I added two embellishments. For the first, I punched a small circle of silver star vellum to adhere atop the ornament. The second was more time-consuming, but I think it was worth the effort! First, I colored the tinsel garland on the white cardstock with grey markers and added LOTS of swishes of silver gel pen. Some major fussy-cutting brought the spiky tinsel to life. I adhered one of the garlands onto the Kraft background and popped the other atop it with foam tape popped.  The final touches were to add the fussy-cut hand atop the garlands with foam tape and to add the sentiments, including a few gingerbread cookies I fussy-cut from some patterned paper and added to the inside of the card.

     I am entering this card into several challenges including Outlawz Sunday-Baby’s First Christmas (Babies are usually fascinated with Christmas baubles and love pudgy dolls and cookies, so Jed would surely make them giggle!); Outlawz Tuesday- TicTacToe (Card features items in the first column- top to bottom: garland, cookie, ornament); and Path Of Positivity Challenge-Share your dreams for the future (My sweet hubby and I celebrate our 45th  Anniversary later this month. He is in the final stage of MS, so my dream is that we’ll get to celebrate at least one more Christmas together before he moves on to his heavenly mansion. He is the most amazing man I’ve ever known, and I’ve been so blessed to share nearly five decades of my life with him!)

 

 

Supplies: 

·   Digi and Sentiments- Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Gingerbread Season)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers, Sakura Gelly Roll white & silver gel pens

·   Vellum imprinted with Silver Stars -Hobby Lobby

·   Christmas Basics Boxed Cards - Hobby Lobby (fussy-cut cookie embellies from one of the cards)

·   Silver photo corners available from several web sources (WXJ13 Photo Mounting Corners)

·   Upcycled Gift Card envelope, foam tape, a scrap of red ribbon and red vellum, assorted Stickles, plus other items from my stash.

Entered into: 

Incy Wincy Designs-Christmas and/or Movement   

Outlawz Sunday Challenge- Baby’s First Christmas

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge- TicTacToe 

         Since I’m a DT for Beccy's Place (sponsor), I’m entering just for fun!

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday  

Digi Chooseday Crafting Challenge- Week #50 Anything Goes  

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #50 Anything Goes                     

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #194 Anything Goes 

      Since I’m a DT for Sheepski (sponsor), I’m entering just for fun!

The Paper Shelter- #537 (12th Birthday and Blog Hop: Celebrations)

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #573-574 Anything Goes                   

Di’s Digi Stamps- Any Winter Holiday  

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #107  

The current challenge at wecraftcards (Red and White with a tad of black) was a bit more difficult than I had expected, because… well… I tend to complicate things that should be simple. (This is no surprise to my hubby and staff members!) I wanted to make a card for the current Double D’s Stocking Challenge, so decided to use this sweet cardinal in a stocking image from Beccy’s Place. I did end up adding a bit more additional color than a tad of black, mainly because of the cardinal’s beak, and this stuff called Christmas GREENery! So, my card might not be accepted for the challenge, but it was fun to create! (An added note- the cute inside sentiment is from a stamp company named Tiddly inks, which closed a few years ago. However, I was happily surprised to see that artist Christy Croll kept her blog site with its many wonderful freebies open. So, I was able to provide a link to this sentiment. And, if you stop in to download it, you’ll also have access to many of her other wonderful digis!)

Supplies: 

·   Digi is from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Jolly Holiday)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   I added knit texture to the stocking using an excellent tutorial found HERE

·   Inside Sentiment- Tiddly Inks Freebie (Christmas Tweetings)

·   Pioneer Clear Black corners- available from several sources

·   Sheer black dotted Swiss ribbon- JoAnne’s

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Wecraftcards-  Red and White (with a tad of black)

Beccy’s Place Challenge-December  Since I’m a Contributor for Beccy’s Place, I’m entering just for fun!

Double D’s Challenge- Christmas Stockings 

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Traditional Christmas Colors Red and Green

Outlawz Challenge- Twisted Thursday Anything Goes    

Outlawz Challenge- December 2022 Linky

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge- #625 AG   

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- December

Papercraft Challenges- Challenge #89 Decking the Halls

2craftycrittercrazies challenge- #69 Dec 2022