myasperations 5-30-25a

     I unearthed a large box of wood-mounted stamps recently while I’m working at decluttering my craft supplies. Looking at a small cache of Denami Arts stamps, I remembered a beautiful CAS card a customer made in the ‘90s when I taught classes at a stamp store in South Dakota. Although I seldom make CAS cards because I love layers, fussy-cutting, and embellishments, this card was inspired by a CAS card that a long-ago customer made with these Denami Arts stamps.  My card is similar to the card that inspired it, except that I opted for a few (Ha!) extra embellishments.  I added “flight trails” for each bee with small pencil markings and used an Exacto blade to cut around the wings. Small foam adhesive squares beneath each wing helped to pop them up a bit, and Stickles provided bling to the wings and letters. I thought I was finished, then decided my card needed a bit more color, so I tore along the edges of my finished card and adhered the slightly smaller than A2-sized piece to a light blue A2 sized card base. The end result? A CAS-ish card made Kathy style!! 

 

 

Supplies: 
·   Wood Mount Stamps from Denami Designs- Bee, letters from alphabet set, and small square (Company appears to no longer be in business)
·   Bees colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen
·   Stickles- Diamonds
·   Sookwang double-sided tape- Available from several sources on the web.
·   Foam adhesive squares, other misc. items and tools from my stash.
Entered into:  
Time Out Challenge- Challenge #289  (Theme Challenge- Winged Things) 
Penny’s Paper Crafty Challenge- #597 Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Challenge- Weeks #700-701
 
    This is my final entry for May’s Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers group (BYSHC) Challenge on FB. It features a cute penguin digi from Whimsy Stamps, framed by 8 squares of silver cardstock, each holding dark circles of cardstock and snowflakes from my dear mom’s craft stash. (I’ve been organizing/decluttering my craft space and found a pile of window cling snowflakes. I know they are a few decades old because I remember helping her take them down from her apartment windows when she entered a nursing home.) They worked beautifully on this card, especially topped with a bit of sparkle from my much-used bottle of Stickles!) The final touch was to add a bit more texture to the snowdrift and penguin's hat with “Snow Accents.” (I recently found this jar of textured paint from my plaster craft painting days!)

Supplies: 
·   Digi- Whimsy Stamps (Penguin Thinking Of You)
·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen
·   Front Sentiment “Warm Winter Wishes!” from Imagine That! Digi stamps (company no longer in business)
·   Inside Sentiment- “Dreamin’ of a White Christmas” from my scrapbook stash
·   Snowflakes- old Window Clings
·   Stickles-Diamonds
·   Snow Accents- an old jar of white textured paint
·   The center cut from a paper doily serves as the base for the cute penguin
·   Sookwang double-sided tape- Available from several sources on the web.
·   Circle paper punch, other misc. items and tools from my stash.
Entered into:  
{BYSHC} Sketch Challenge FB- #57 May 2025         
The Paper Shelter- #640 AG  
Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday: May (Christmas) 
Outlawz Challenge-May 2025 Linky  

      The last five months have been bittersweet for me because my time working with Beccy Muir at Beccy’s Place is drawing to a close. I have been blessed to have met artist/owner Beccy Muir in 2017 when I discovered her blog… It’s many tutorials and a wonderful list of free digis. Since then, I served as Guest DT, and later as a “Contributor “ (which meant that Beccy provided me with digis, or clear stamp sets, several times a year to create cards/other items with them!) I always enjoyed working with Beccy, so I was saddened last November when she told her team that she would be discontinuing the digital images section at Beccy’s Place at the end of June. (Beccy explains the reasons she has made this difficult decision HERE.) So, if you have plans to add any of her digi sets to your collection, or have any gift cards you need to use, you have several months to go digi shopping. In addition, Beccy added a “Digital Stamp Sale” section to her shop, in which she has posted a large number of digis and sets from the past, priced from $3.00 to as low as 31¢ (US rate.)
     As that deadline approaches, I have been regularly posting cards made with her wonderful images, and will continue to do so through the end of June… and beyond! Here is my latest, a yummy ice cream cone from Beccy’s digi set named, appropriately, “Ice Cream Cones.”
     I printed, colored then fussy-cut the ice cream cone in all its yumminess! I colored the chocolate coating with dark brown, then added bright colors to the sprinkles with assorted gel pens. I tried to color the scoop of ice cream to be chocolate, but it ended up looking more like coffee ice cream. Hmmm… either flavor sounds great to me! When finished with the coloring, I added the background papers and sentiments, adhered everything, then added a layer of glossy accents to the cherry, chocolate coating, and satin ribbon. Now… I just need to go out and get a real cone!!

      

 Supplies: 
·   Digi- Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Ice Cream Cones)
·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen
·   Sentiment, split in half- A Freebie from gingershouse.blogspot.com (I scream You scream…)
·   Sookwang double-sided tape- Available from several sources on the web.
·   Glossy Accents, patterned papers, other misc. items and tools from my stash.
Entered into: 
Park Hopping-My Happy Place (May)       Disney’s Must Try Ice Cream Spots
Classic Design Challenge: Anything Goes May-June 2025  
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- AG