Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers - Card 4

   And here’s my fourth card for the {BYSHC} Spring into Christmas 2026 Linky Party! Find more info on how to link up your creations here -

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 Okay… I had another Susan Winget calendar image saved from recycling I decided to make into another card! After die cutting the larger image down, I found same random papers I could use as backing that I thought paired well with this lovely image.

I found another preprinted tag I cut down into a sentiment strip. I used a TH die, some ink pads, that I  used to color the paper to match, and a gold paint to create the tree branch used to back the sentiment. I finished the card off with a few gold enamel dots. (It would be a big challenge and, probably, impossible for me, to try to recreate this painting. But the trying would be fun anyway 🥴).

Well, that’s the final card for this Linky challenge! Thanks for stopping by … see you next one!

Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers - Card 3

  And here’s my third card for the {BYSHC} Spring into Christmas 2026 Linky Party! Find more info on how to link up your creations here -

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 As I continued my decluttering effort I came across these 3 pieces. The first is the lovely paper I think came from an old Susan Winget calendar I bought many years ago. Again, I loved her painting style and had glommed onto many calendars, cups, and diaries made with her paintings over the years. As I decluttered the paper items, I must have saved the large December calendar graphic page… what can I say… goes along the Friends of Unity Recycle/Earth Day theme. I die cut it to fit a card. I’m just enamored of that image. 

So, I then looked through my stash again, and looking through other paper ephemera pieces, I picked out a preprinted “MERRY” tag I cut down to use as a sentiment… it has some good foiling on it. I distressed the edges of it.

Looking through loose papers, I found, I think, a few Tim Holtz papers that I must have picked up from maybe an old SSS monthly holiday kit. It matched the colors and style I think of the graphics. So I used that as a background paper. Again, a pretty simple style… I stopped there with just the addition of black framing paper and gold enamel dots. Fun, huh?

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Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers - Card 2

 And here’s my second card for the {BYSHC} Spring into Christmas 2026 Linky Party! Find more info on how to link up your creations here -

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So, continuing on with using up my old Bunny Yuletide Carol collection. I used more ephemera from the collection and actually some other ephemera I had collected. I used a Simon Says Stamp sentiment from the Merry and Light Kit, and a TH evergreen die set. I added a tree ribbon and some red crystals around the evergreen. Pretty simple again, but easy to create with a few dies and papers. 

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Build Your Stash Holiday Card Makers - Card 1

 Here’s my first card for the {BYSHC} Spring into Christmas 2026 Linky Party! Find more info on how to link up your creations here -

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While starting to seriously declutter and organize my holiday papers, ephemera and chipboard in an effort to either discard or make a promise to myself to use, I found an old Bo Bunny Yuletide Carol collection. I started making some cards, remembering how much I loved the designs. Here, I cut down an ephemera piece in a circle to fit the wreath chipboard I had collected. The pale chipboard color perfectly matched the paper. I inked the edges to match the colors in the paper and adhered the 2 together. I die cut several more pieces from the papers to back the wreath. I cut down another ephemera piece in a tag form and backed and combined that with a brad from the same collection. A bit different kind of card… not everyone’s cup of tea, but what the heck… I still had fun creating it! 

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