BYSH Cardmakers Spring into the Holiday's Linky Party Day 5

 

I'm back with another card for the BYSH Cardmakers Spring into Christmas Linky Party. My project uses a pre cut and scored A2 heavyweight Toffee side fold card base from Taylored Expressions, one of our great sponsors. My pattern papers are from Echo Park. My red pattern paper is cut to 4" X 5 1/4".

I recently purchased the florals and flutters card kit from Taylored Expressions and included in the kit was the Happy Square sheets TE Map. It includes 5 laminated maps to create 19 unique card layout. To use these maps you start by cutting your cardstock to 5.75” square. These were designed to use with a 6” X 6” background stencil, but they work great with your 6” X 6” pattern paper. I used one of the maps to cut my pattern paper panels for my card. I used a dark green piece o pattern paper to cut a mat that was 1/4” larger than my the width and height of my pattern paper panels. In case you were wondering, the Happy Square Sheets maps are not currently available for individual purchase, they do currently offer 3 different volumes of their Happy Half Sheets TE Maps for individual purchase. I would suggest checking back at the TE Store if you are interested in the TE square maps, they may be offered for individual purchase at a future date.

I used two of the smaller square dies from the Taylored Expressions Square Stacklets Die set to make my Christmas gift for my card. I ended up using my Cricut Joy2 to cut my bow for the present top, I couldn't finf my TE Little Bits Mini Bows dies. I cut the tails off of my bow with some scissors as I decided I didn't want to use them. I ised my paper trimmer to cut a couple of thin green strips for the ribbon to wrap around my present.

I diecut my tag using a small tag die from the Newton's Nook Frames and Tags Die set. I white heat embossed my sentiment onto the tag. The sentiment is from the Taylored Expressions Itty Bitty Sentiments - Holiday. To finish my tag I tied a bow using some tan colored twine that I fed through the hole in the tag. I attached the tag to the top of my gift with a glue dot.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm linking this card up with the BYSH Cardmakers Spring into the Holidays Linky Party. I hope you will link up a project for your chance to win a prize from our great sponsors.

BYSH Cardmakers April Sketch #68

 

I'm here today to share my inspiration project for the BYSH Cardmakers April Sketch #68. Here is a look at the sketch.

The pattern paper I used on my card is from Echo Park. I used two of my infinity circle dies to cut my circles, one from black cardstock and one from some white glitter card stock. I used my Cricut to cut my santa and sleigh from black cardstock. I used some Cosmic Shimmer Glue to adhere santa to the glitter circle. I used more liquid adhesive to adhere the two circles together, then used some 1mm foam tape to add the circle to my card front. My sentiment was white heat embossed on a scrap of glossy black heavy weight card stock and is from the Taylored Expressions Mini Strip Stamps - Holiday 2 Stamp set.  The sentiment was adhered to the front of my card.

I appreciate you stopping by to get a look at my inspiration project for the new April Sketch #68 challenge. I encourage you to go visit the BYSH Cardmakers blog to check out more inspiration from my fellow design team members. Then head over to our Facebook group and enter your project for a chance to win a prize.

I also encourage you to check out our  Spring Linky Party and link up your entry for a chance to win a prize from one of our awesome sponsors. You can check out more information about our sponsors on the BYSH Cardmakers blog.  Hope to see you over there.

BYSH Cardmakers Spring into Christmas Linky Party Kickoff

Today is the kickoff of our BYSH Cardmakers Spring into Christmas April 2026 Linky Party. My project for the kickoff features pattern papers from the Doodlebug Designs Oh What Fun 6" X 8" paper pad. I used foam tape to adhere the two pattern papers together. I used some Gina K. Designs Connect glue to adhere the focal image to the middle of the aeched opening. The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions Mini Strip Stamps - Holiday 2 and die cut with the Mini Strips Die. Both Gina K. and Taylored Expressions are just two of our many wonderful sponsors for our Linky Party. 

I appreciate your visit today. Now, I hope you will head over to the BYSH Cardmakers blog and check out all the inspiration offered up by the rest of the Design Team, find out about the rest of our great sponsors, and see a list of the prizes you will have a chance to win when you link up a holiday card project. Can't wait to see you there.

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