Have a Sweet Christmas Card!

Hello everyone! Summer has arrived in Idaho! We have finished planting our raised beds and garden, doing warm weather projects and of course sneaking in some crafting where we can! Thank you for stopping by, we are so glad you did!

So it begins.... Christmas in July! My mom and I love it! We can't wait to make Christmas Cards! Fair warning... there will be a lot! haha!

This card was inspired by a fruit themed Christmas Card Swap and a Christmas Sketch! We don't have just Christmas themed fruit paper and stamps, so I combined what I had, an adorable fruit stamp set that includes fruit we love during Christmas - apples, oranges, and bananas - with fruit and Christmas paper scraps! I loved the result! I am joining a few fun challenges with this card, the links are near the end of this post! I hope you will check them out and join in the fun!

Here is the card:

Products I used:

• My Favorite Things Sweetest Friends Stamp and Die Set
• Simon Says Stamp Gingerbread Joy Stamp and Die Set (Sentiment)
• Simon Says Stamp Nocturne Black VersaFine Clair Ink Pad
• Various patterned paper from personal crafting stash
• Various colored cardstock from personal crafting stash
• Various colored pencils and fine-line markers

Here are some more photos to show some close-up details of this card:

The BYSHC Sketch:

......and that's it! 

Happy crafting to you all! We hope you feel inspired to create something and try something new! 

 

I am joining the following challenge(s):

Critter Crazy Challenge Blog: Challenge #112 - Anything Goes w/featured Critter

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: Challenge 121 - Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB #69 Anything Christmas Goes

Cut it Up Challenge Blog: #359 - Critters

We hope you will join us!

 

"We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life's busy ways." – J. R. Mille

 

As always you can check out Our social Media pages and YouTube channel for more projects and ideas! Links on our blog home page under our bio!

 

See you on the next post!  

Sabra

Sabra & Holly
The Crafting Duo

Sweet Critters! A Christmas Card!

Hello everyone! Summer has arrived in Idaho! We have finished planting our raised beds and garden, doing warm weather projects and of course sneaking in some crafting where we can! Thank you for stopping by, we are so glad you did!

So it begins.... Christmas in July! My mom and I love it! We can't wait to make Christmas Cards! Fair warning... there will be a lot! haha!

This card was inspired by a fruit themed Christmas Card Swap and a Christmas Sketch! We don't have just Christmas themed fruit paper and stamps, so I combined what I had, an adorable fruit stamp set that includes fruit we love during Christmas - apples, oranges, and bananas - with fruit and Christmas paper scraps! I loved the result! I am joining a few fun challenges with this card, the links are near the end of this post! I hope you will check them out and join in the fun!

Here is the card:

Products I used:

• My Favorite Things Sweetest Friends Stamp and Die Set
• Simon Says Stamp Gingerbread Joy Stamp and Die Set (Sentiment)
• Simon Says Stamp Nocturne Black VersaFine Clair Ink Pad
• Various patterned paper from personal crafting stash
• Various colored cardstock from personal crafting stash
• Various colored pencils and fine-line markers

Here are some more photos to show some close-up details of this card:

The BYSHC Sketch:

......and that's it! 

Happy crafting to you all! We hope you feel inspired to create something and try something new! 

 

I am joining the following challenge(s):

Critter Crazy Challenge Blog: Challenge #112 - Anything Goes w/featured Critter

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: Challenge 121 - Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB #69 Anything Christmas Goes

We hope you will join us!

 

"Don't get caught up in the wrapping paper and forget that the gift of the Christmas season is simply love." – Toni Sorenson

 

As always you can check out Our social Media pages and YouTube channel for more projects and ideas! Links on our blog home page under our bio!

 

See you on the next post!  

Sabra

Sabra & Holly
The Crafting Duo

A Blueberry Collapsible Column Birthday Card!

A Blueberry Collapsible Column Birthday Card!

Thank you so much for joining the new Love to Scrap Challenge! We can't wait to share what we created for the new challenge and see what you all create!! Thank you for stopping by, we are so glad you did! If you like our blog & posts we would love for you to give our blog a follow and you can check out any of our socials: Facebook, Instagram, & YouTube with the Links on the righthand sidebar!

Holly here, I am so excited to share my new project for the new Love To Scrap challenge: LTSCB #180 Anything Goes. Love To Scrap is a scrapping challenge blog that is for all types of scrapped projects - cards, scrapbook layouts, ATCs, mixed media, art/junk journals, etc! We can't wait to see what you create, so let's get crafty!

I love making fun fold cards and saw a video to make a Collapsible Column Card! It looked like a fun card to make and it is just like it sounds! The column in the middle pops up and out but collapses so the card can be put in a standard envelope! So much fun! I also love fruit cards so of course this had to be a fruit themed card! I used Lawn Fawn's fruit salad paper (on of my favorites) and Stampin's Ups! 

Here is the Card:

I used:

• Stampin' Up! Berry Blessings Stamp and Die Set
• Lawn Fawn Fruit Salad 6x6 paper pack
• Simon Says Stamp black ink Stamp pad
• Stampin' Up! Misty Moonlight Ink Stamp Pad
• Stitched banner dies
• Various colored Markers, cardstock and embellishments from personal crafting stash 

Here are some more photos to show some close-up details of this card:

......and that's it! 

Happy crafting to you all! We hope you feel inspired to create something and try something new! 

We hope you will join us! Here is the Link to the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog: Click Here!

 

“Change brings opportunity.” - Nido Qubein

 

As always you can check out Our social Media pages and YouTube channel for more projects and ideas! Links on our blog home page under our bio!

 

See you on the next post!  

Holly

Holly & Sabra

The Crafting Duo

Three Celebration Cupcake Shape Cards!

Three Celebration Cupcake Shape Cards!

Thank you so much for joining the new Mix it Up Challenge! We can't wait to share what we created for the new challenge and see what you all create!! Thank you for stopping by, we are so glad you did! If you like our blog & posts we would love for you to give our blog a follow and you can check out any of our socials: Facebook, Instagram, & YouTube with the Links on the righthand sidebar!

Sabra here and I am excited to share my new project for the new Mix it Up Challenge Blog: MIUCB #84 Anything Goes + optional Shape Card! The Mix it Up Challenge blog is a technique challenge blog featuring various techniques on mixed media projects, altered art, and paper crafts such as cards, tags, mini albums, ATCs, 3-D projects, scrapbook layouts, art/junk Journaling, etc! We can't wait to see what you create, so let's get crafty!

This was a super fun card set to make! I initially just made one and decided that I actually wanted to make a couple more, because I loved how the first one turned out!!! I love when that happens! haha! I used Trinity Stamps Celebration Cupcake Stamp and Die set! I even had some time and was able to make and edit a little video of creating these cards! You can check it out near the end of this post or on our YouTube Channel! 

Here is all Three Cupcake Shape cards:

Here are the products I used:

• Trinity Stamps Celebrate Stamp and Die Set
• Simon Says Stamp Fine Gold Embossing Powder
• VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad
• Simon Says Stamp Nocturne Black VersaFine Clair Ink Pad
• Various colored cardstock from personal crafting stash
• Various colored pencils and fine-line markers from personal crafting stash

Here are some more photos to show some close-up details of the individual cards:

Here is a little video of the cupcake cards being made:

......and that's it! 

Happy crafting to you all! We hope you feel inspired to create something and try something new! 

We hope you will join us! Here is the Link to the Mix it Up Challenge Blog: Click Here!

 

"Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake." — Animoto

 

As always you can check out Our social Media pages and YouTube channel for more projects and ideas! Links on our blog home page under our bio!

 

See you on the next post!  

Sabra

Sabra & Holly
The Crafting Duo

A Beautiful Rose Birthday Card!

Thank you so much for joining the new Love to Scrap Challenge! We can't wait to share what we created for the new challenge and see what you all create!! Thank you for stopping by, we are so glad you did! If you like our blog & posts we would love for you to give our blog a follow and you can check out any of our socials: Facebook, Instagram, & YouTube with the Links on the righthand sidebar!

Sabra here and I am so excited to share my new project for the new Love To Scrap challenge: LTSCB #180 Anything Goes. Love To Scrap is a scrapping challenge blog that is for all types of scrapped projects - cards, scrapbook layouts, ATCs, mixed media, art/junk journals, etc! We can't wait to see what you create, so let's get crafty!

I love to color, I always have! Coloring is therapeutic for me and coloring stamped images is like the adult versions of coloring books but you get to pick what images you want to color then put them on a project... and I love it! Roses always have such rich and vibrant colors and I really wanted to try to capture that vibrancy! I found and cut some patterned paper from our scrap papers collection using one of the sketches from Kendra's Card Challenges #22 as my guide for the layout! placed the colored rose image on some foam square to pop it up and stamped the sentiment. I loved how this card turned out!  

Here is the card:

Some specific products I used:

• Newton's Nook Roses Stamp and Die Set
• Simon Says Stamp Nocturne Black VersaFine Clair Ink Pad
• Various colored cardstock, designer paper (scraps from stash), and embellishments, from personal crafting stash
• Various colored pencils and fine-line marks from personal crafting stash

Here are some more photos to show some close-up details of the card:

......and that's it! 

Happy crafting to you all! We hope you feel inspired to create something and try something new! 

We hope you will join us! Here is the Link to the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog: Click Here!

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." — William Shakespeare

 

As always you can check out Our social Media pages and YouTube channel for more projects and ideas! Links on our blog home page under our bio!

 

See you on the next post!  

Sabra

Sabra & Holly
The Crafting Duo