Hello my friends,

I am so super excited to be a sponsor once again for this wonderful hop. I had to miss all of last year due to some health problems but I am back sponsoring and I am also participating! Thanks to my sweet friend Crystal for always including me in the sponsorship opportunity even though I do not have a business, just years and years and years of stash! Did I say years? 

You have a chance to win prizes if you join in with the linky party. All information can be found here at the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers blog

My prize for a total of 3 different winners will be a Mystery Christmas Cardmaking kit. I hope you will enter and can't wait to see all the submissions!

For inspiration today I went through my Not 2 Shabby Christmas collection stash...I have quite a bit! I had a kit that was basically scraps so I wanted to completely smash it! 

Here are the cards I did using this month's sketch. 

I hope you will come back each day this week to see what I am entering into the Spring BYSH cards blog hop. I am certainly looking forward to getting ahead on my Christmas cards.

BYSHC Linky Party Day 6 | Using up Old Stash

 

I have a drawer in my Dream Box that I have full of Christmas papers. I recently sorted and organized this drawer into sets of cards that would be easy to pull out and make in one cardmaking session. I even sketched out a little sketch and attached it with the papers. So today, I pulled out a set from that drawer. 

I was able to create 7 cards from that little set. 

You can create some cards as well and enter them in the Build Your Holiday Stash Linky Party.

Unfortunately, the papers were left over from another session some time ago and I did not have any indication with them as to what the collection or company these papers come from. 

BYSHC Linky Party Day 5 and Stayin' Cool, Kendra's Card Challenge, and Lawn Fawn

I am loving this Linky Party...it is really motivating me to get these cards finished. Another busy day though so I did not get the rest of KCC 11 cards created but did finish off 2 more. Sketches #4 and #5 are up today. And the super cute little snowmen are the star of the show.

Make sure to enter your own creations over at the BYHSC blog.

You can find all the products listed below the photo.

Supplies

Not 2 Shabby Stayin' Cool Paper Pad

Not 2 Shabby Winter Snowman Treats Ephemera

Lawn Fawn Critters in Snow Stamp

 

BYSHC Linky Party Day 4 | Stayin' Cool and Kendra's Card Challenge

Day 4 and I made it! Only 1 card today but it was a super busy day. 

I am using the Not 2 Shabby paper pad "Stayin' Cool" and Kendra's Card Challenges for my set of July cards. I already showed 3 cards last week prior to the Linky party starting on my YouTube Channel. 

You can enter your own creation here. There are some fantastic sponsors. 

So today, I started working on the rest of the cards and before having to leave to go to an appointment I was able to get one completely finished! I have also used Gina Marie Designs Cursive Merry Christmas die and a snowflake that I am unsure of the brand. 

 This is Sketch # 7 from Kendra's Card Challenge 11. You can download her sketches from her website. Kendra's Card Challenges. Then enter your cards in her Facebook group...there are LOTS of prizes to be had for the quarter. She also gives out prizes for each month as well. 

Build Your Holiday Stash Cardmaker Linky Party Day 3 | Sponsor Products: Not 2 Shabby and Gina Marie Designs

For Day 3 I decided to pull out some dies from my stash and use on my cards. I combined 3 products from  Sponsors of the hop to create my 2 cards. 

You can enter your creations to be eligible to win some awesome prizes. Enter over on the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmaker Blog.

Now onto my cards! I used Not 2 Shabby products, Gina Marie Designs products, and Lawn Fawn products. I love how these cards turned out! 

Supplies Used:

Not 2 Shabby Winter Blues

Not 2 Shabby An Elegant Christmas

Gina Marie Designs Wreath Die

Gina Marie Designs Cursive Merry Christmas Die

Lawn Fawn Scripty Joy Die

Bow Die...so sorry that is unknown

 

BYSHC Linky Party Day 2 | N2S Gingerbread House

 

Hello, I am back for day 2 of the Linky Party! I am thrilled to be able to show you my creations today. I created 4 cards using a super simple sketch, the paper pad, cardstock, ephemera, and some enamel dots!

You can link up your creation by going to the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Blog and share your holiday creation. There are lots of awesome prize sponsors!  

So for my process, I always pick the sketch first.

Next, I choose however many pattern papers the sketch calls for. Then, I choose any solid cardstock colors. I move on to cutting all the papers and die-cutting anything if need be. After that, I adhere all my cut pieces to my card base, then add my ephemera (in this case). Lastly, I embellish with enamel dots, bling, sparkle pen, or other embellishments.

Shown are my 4 cards here. *Note 1 card only has one strip behind the focal panel because I did not have another piece that matched and I didn't want to cut into another whole sheet of paper. 

Supplies can be found here:

Gingerbread House Paper Pad

Gingerbread Cookies Ephemera

Let's Get Cool Collection Enamel Dots