myasperations 10-25-24a

These three cards were created for the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers {BYSHC} Falling for the Holidays 2024 Linky Party.

                                                 

     The first one features a favorite Angie Blom digi named “Birthday Girl Sass”, mainly because the set contains birthday sentiments which all have a snarky sass! It was easy to make a Christmas-themed card, using a rich, although non-traditional, color scheme (pasted pink and sage green vs. bright red and green.)  This sentiment adds some holiday snarky sass!  It’s from one of my favorite free sentiment sites named gingershouse. Although the site has not been updated since 2017, its owner, Ginger Brown, has left it open for us to enjoy! I have over 50 of her fun sentiments in my files!

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Angie Blom Digital Designs (Birthday Girl Sass)

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

·   Patterned paper-Hobby Lobby

·   Sentiment (divided to fit front and inside)- 12-24-16 Freebie from gingershouse.        

        (Apparently crawling…)

·  Green velvet ribbon, rhinestones and all other items from my stash.

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{BYSHC} Falling for the Holidays  2024 Linky Party  

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #42 AG                                       

Paper Funday- #69 Anything Goes      

ABC Christmas Challenge- “U and V are for…?”   'V is for Velvet’

      Both of the next cards feature an adorable little doggy from artist Angie Blom Digital Designs, and it’s one of her freebies!

      I colored the little guy on the first one to look like our beloved Brittany Spaniel, Cody. Although Cody never stood at the window watching for Santa, he regularly watched for my mom… but as soon as he glimpsed her car he started bouncing around on the sofa and whining with joy. (He did love her. And she called him her “grand-pup!”)

      The beautiful window digi, from Beccy’s Place, is a favorite that I’ve used a lot over the years. For this card I needed two copies of the pre-colored winter window. On the first one, I used an Exacto blade to carefully cut out the windowpanes. On the second one, I just needed the framed window portion, so I cropped that from the digi in my Word program, printed, and trimmed around the frame.

      I adhered a scrap of acetate to fill the window panes with “glass” and adhered the acetate to the backside of the digi. When finished, I laid it onto an A2 sized card front, slid the trimmed window behind it, positioned it to match up with the top window, held it in place when removing the top digi, and adhered it.

     Time to add the cute pup! I experimented a bit to find the best placement, taped him in place (nose to the “glass”), then sandwiched strips of foam tape between the two layers to add depth to the scene. Added sentiments, embellishments, and… TaDa!! Cuteness overload!

Supplies: 

·   Pre-colored  Background Digi- from a Beccy’s Place digi Set, (Seasonal Windows)

·   Digi- Angie Blom Digital Designs Freebie (Doggy Coloring Page)

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

·   Front Sentiment- “Waiting for Santa Paws” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Holiday Hounds)

·   Inside Sentiment- Christmas Sticker set from Hobby Lobby

·   Christmas Stocking Sticker, and Santa Hat Stickers- Hobby Lobby.

·   Sentiments- Computer Generated

·   All other items from my stash.

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(via Pinterest) {BYSHC} Falling for the Holidays  2024 Linky Party  

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Christmas

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #671-672

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Oct)    Santa’s Village

    The same cute little pup also decorates this second card, once again patiently waiting for Santa. The pup in the digi has a “patch” drawn around one eye. Although I love that look, I made this card for a friend who has a golden retriever. So, I sketched a small oval around the other eye, then colored her shiny fur in shades of light golden brown. (I decided that his wide-open eyes just help show how excited she is to meet the “Big Guy”!)

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Angie Blom Digital Designs Freebie (Doggy Coloring Page)

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

·   Front Sentiment- “Waiting for Santa Paws” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Holiday Hounds)

·   Inside Sentiment- “Have a Howling Good Holiday” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Holiday Hounds)

·   Santa Hat Sticker- Hobby Lobby.

·   All other items from my stash.

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(via Pinterest) {BYSHC} Falling for the Holidays  2024 Linky Party       

Passion for Markers Challenge- Week #762: Make it Cute  

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Christmas)

Outlawz Challenge- Oct 2024 Linky