myasperations 12-31-22

I like that the monthly sketches at the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers group {BYSHC} usually inspire me to use some of the many scraps of my patterned papers. The December-January sketch is inspiring, so I pulled out a few patterns of snowflake paper and got busy. This sweet little Cute As a Button ginger chef image was just asking to be the center of attention, so I printed the cutie on kraft brown cardstock and printed two copies of his hat on white. After a bit of coloring and fussy-cutting, I was able to complete my card… with the help of a few Beccy’s Place Christmas sentiments. So SWEET! 

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Cute As A Button (Sugar is Sweet)

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

·   Front Sentiment “Christmas Baking…” from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Making Merry)

·   Inside Sentiment- “Sweet Holiday Wishes” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Cheers)

·   Snowflake Papers- Hobby Lobby

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

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

{BYSHC} Sketch Challenge FB- #29 Dec 2022

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday Christmas

Papercraft Challenges- Challenge #89 Decking the Halls

 

I had found a white sentiment background, with the large white “JOY” cut out for a different card… and was surprised at how quickly a card went together for the current Double D Challenge. I slipped a rectangle of red & white striped paper beneath the sentiment and the card almost finished itself. All it needed was a sweet embellishment, specifically a mint candy printed on white cardstock, colored with shades of green (because I prefer spearmint flavoring vs. peppermint) and fussy-cut. The only real challenge was to make the cellophane wrapping of the mint look transparent by positioning and adhering it at the base of  the “O”, then  penciling the stripes from the letters onto the embellishment. After carefully adding the red stripes with a marker, a bit of shading and highlighting of the cellophane and mint brought the yummy candy to life! 

                          
Supplies: 

·   Front Sentiment “Christmas Joy” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Tied Up With String)

·   Cellophane wrapped mint Digi- from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Candy)

·   Inside- “Wishing You a Sweet Christmas” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Candy Canes)

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Double D’s Challenge- Red & White   

Outlawz Sunday Challenge- Deck the Halls

Allsorts Challenge- Week 708-709: ATG (CAS)

Paper Funday- #48 ATG (Optional Twist-Holiday Time)

Beccy’s Place Challenge-January   

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

This final post was created for Scribbles Designs current Challenge “Not a Creature Was Stirring” (i.e.-Create a Christmas-themed project featuring one or more ANIMALS.) I love artist/owner Sandy’s punny sentiments and quirky characters, so decided to highlight them in my cards for this challenge. Here is my first card, featuring one of my favorite’s named “Wooly” (an added note, this digi is actually a freebie. He is also winking… but you can’t see that here since I used another freebie- the sunglasses- on my card. Go HERE to see him in full wink mode!) 

Supplies: 

·   Sheep Digi- Scribbles Designs (Woolly Wink-FREE)

·   Instructions for Z-fold card can be found on Pinterest (I liked the one HERE)

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

·  Front Sentiment From Scribbles Designs (BAAPPY Birthday)

·  Sunglasses-a Friday Freebie from Scribbles Designs found HERE  

·  Inside Sentiment - Computer Generated

·  Sheer black dotted Swiss ribbon- JoAnne’s

·  All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Scribbles Designs Challenge- #115 Not a Creature Was Stirring

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #52 Anything Goes