myasperations: myasperations 12-15-25

Monday, December 15, 2025

myasperations 12-15-25

This year, the Path of Positivity (POP) is challenging you to Embrace the Unexpected! (Click HERE if you'd like to read more in-depth about our overall theme for 2025). To help inspire you on this journey, each month we will undertake activities such as creating fun, unexpected projects, working with items we might not typically work with, taking approaches that differ from our usual methods, and offering the unexpected to someone in our lives. This month's theme is "Unexpected Animal on a Holiday Card.” (More theme information can be found HERE.)

Note- This theme is optional, so as long as your creation is positive or encouraging in some way, enter it into the POP challenge for a chance to win $6 worth of images fro our sponsor, Scribbles Designs, and/or be honored as one of our special "picks"!

I had fun featuring a frog digi from the POP Sponsor, Scribbles Designs on my card. The suave amphibian is named “Cool Carl,” and I paired him with the perfect sentiment to match his debonaire pose, "I'm the official mistletoe tester" (also from Scribbles Designs). Since Carl's glasses are shaded in the digi image, coloring him took very little time, and since I used an oval template from my scrapbook stash to draw an oval around Carl, there was very little fussy-cutting required, and the card went together in a snap!

Supplies:

· Digi Image- Scribbles Designs (Cool Carl)

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

· Background Paper- JoAnnes Crafts (Sadly no longer in business)

· Front Sentiment- Desert Diva Freebie (hello)

· Inside Sentiment-Scribbles Digital Image (Official Mistletoe Tester)

· Sookwang double-sided tape- Available from several sources on the web.

· All other misc. items and tools from my stash.

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I created this card for the December Colorful Options Monthly Challenge which features Gingerbread and other treats! I’ve had this cute little Santa Gnome digi in my collection for several years and had fun perching him on a large 'NOEL' sentiment, where he could enjoy a holiday treat!

Supplies:

· Large NOEL Sentiment- created with alphabet set from my scrapbook stash

· Digi-KLM Digital Designs (Santa Gnome Digi set)

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

· Sentiments-Computer Generated

· Gingerbread and candy cane embellishments- fussy-cut from Hobby Lobby patterned paper

· Sookwang double-sided tape- Available from several sources on the web.

· All other misc. items and tools from my stash.

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Colorful Options Monthly Challenge: Dec Color Board (Gingerbread and other treats)

I rarely used sketches when making cards until I discovered the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers (BYSHC) Challenge a few years ago. I used this month's sketch to create this card that features a silver wire coffee cup brad (that I bought at Oriental Trading Company during 60-80% off after-Christmas sales at least 20 years ago… because I remember the house we were living in at the time is where I had my first ever “craft room” for myself!) I’m also entering this card into the Coffee Loving Paper Crafters/Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge because… well… it’s coffee dressed up especially for Christmas!