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.

Falling for the Holidays 2023 {BYSHC} Linky Party Day 1

Join me here each day from October 20-27th for some new inspiration for the BYSHC Linky Party! I so look forward to these each time my friend Crystal hosts these. But, not only as a participant but mostly because I get to be a sponsor and share my love of Christmas crafting through giving! 

All you have to do to be entered is link up your own creation over on the BYSHC Blog. And if you comment on entries there is even a prize for commenting on the most! Fabulous sponsors of this hop as well!! 

I had totally intended to do a video each day of this linky party but my computer crashed this morning!! If you know me you know I don’t do things on my phone or even my iPad really I prefer my computer, however thank goodness for those other technologies this morning. 

I used Crystal’s sketch from the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers group to create my 2 cards today. 

Here are my 2 cards:

Supplies Used:

Not 2 Shabby Box of the Month

Not 2 Shabby Christmas Critter Basics Paper Pad

* links are affiliate links and do not cost you anything to use. I earn a small percentage when you use them. Thank you so much for supporting me in a small way should you decide to shop. 

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

Encouraging Words: Love is the word of the Month! (Warning long post!)

 

Today is the last Saturday of the month! Today is going to be all about something I love and that has become a very important part of my life. This is going to probably be a long story! 

At the end of 2020 I closed my business that I dearly loved...it was time though...and I am ok with that. When I closed the business I spoke with this business owner that owned a small business like mine who had helped me in closing out my leftover inventory...I told her that the one thing I was going to miss was designing paper pads and stamps! I did not realize what a true passion that was until I really had time to reflect on the fact I was no longer going to do that.

That person was Jamie of Not 2 Shabby Shop...so we began chatting and talking and her Box of the Month was born...then it has expanded from there...So what does this have to do with love? I absolutely LOVE designing and am able to continue doing that....BUT so much more developed from this. I feel like I made a life long friend, I was able to pour myself into someone who also owned a small business cause that task is not an easy feat when you are doing it all by yourself. 

It thrills my soul to be a mentor and friend to Jamie and I am totally in love with the friendship we have developed and the fact I can help her in anyway that I can.

She recently reached 10K subscribers on YouTube and today just happens to be the Celebration Video hop...There are some awesome prizes! And if you happen to be searching for a small paper crafting store to purchase from, well you cannot get any better than Not 2 Shabby Shop! If you would like to follow along with the Video hop here is the first stop~

My card for today is also a subject that I absolutely love! I LOVE, LOVE , LOVE making coffee cards...This one is up of the Not 2 Shabby blog today for the last inspiration for the Mood Board challenge for February!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!