A Very Merry Christmas from Purple Onion Designs

Purple Onion Designs has a Christmas treat for you with three different collections by illustrators, Whispering Pines by Stacey Yacula,(@staceyyacula), Tofu & Friends-Season's Greetings by Pei (@chillezegraphy) and Winterwood by Holly Mabutas (@hollymubutas).

Today I am featuring a card using an image from the Tofu & Friends-Season's Greetings collection by Pei. 

For this card I went monochromatic, coloring the Christmas Igloo image with a variety of purple hued markers, then fussy cut out. Before attaching the image piece to the wild wisteria background panel using layer of craft foam panel, I slipped a wintery cluster underneath. The sentiment from the Santa's Sentiments set released last year was stamped onto smoky shadow cardstock using Versamark ink, then white heat embossed. A few purple flat backed jewels added a bit of sparkle.

Products: Purple Onion Designs stamps, MFT, Spellbinders and PTI cs, Doodlebug jewels, The Greetery and Lawn Fawn dies, Altenew ink, Copic Markers

Copics: Igloo-BV0000, BV000; Penguins-BV23, BV25, BV29, W00, E81, YR30, YR31; Bear-W00, E81, BV29, BV23; Scarf/Hat-W00, E81, BV00, BV01, BV02, BV04; Stars-YR31

There is special pricing until November 15 if you want to purchase all of each collection. Whispering Pines for $123  (26 stamps), Tofu & Friends Season's Greetings for $52 (9 stamps) and Winterwood for $134 (30 stamps). 

A New Illustrator for Purple Onion Designs

Purple Onion Designs has a Christmas treat for you with three different collections by illustrators, Whispering Pines by Stacey Yacula,(@staceyyacula), Tofu & Friends-Season's Greetings by Pei (@chillezegraphy) and Winterwood by Holly Mabutas (@hollymubutas).

Today I am featuring a card using images from the Winterwood collection. Holly is the newest artist and she has illustrated a delightful mix of Christmas and winter images. 

After stamping Benjamin (badger) and Finn (fox), I masked both and then stamped the Snowy Forest. All images were colored with a combo of Copic and Caliart markers. I masked the trees, then blended on tumbled glass and broken china distress ink to represent the sky. After adding a strip of patterned paper at the bottom, I cut out with a stitched edge die, then added a strip of cardstock for a border. The sentiment from the previously released Merriest City Sentiment set was stamp using cherry kisses ink, then attached with foam dimensionals.

Products: Purple Onion Designs stamps, Avery Elle dp, PTI cs, MFT die, Altenew and Ranger Distress ink, Copic and Caliart markers

Copics: Badger-W00, E81, E21, E23, E25, BG000, BG01, BG02; Fox-W00, E81, R02, E11, E97, E99, YG01, YG05; Snow-C00, C1; Trees-G40, G43, G46

Caliart: Scarf/Cup-R105, R107, R218

There is special pricing until November 15 if you want to purchase all of each collection. Whispering Pines for $123  (26 stamps), Tofu & Friends Season's Greetings for $52 (9 stamps) and Winterwood for $134 (30 stamps). 

Merry Christmas from Purple Onion Designs

Purple Onion Designs has a Christmas treat for you with three different collections by illustrators, Whispering Pines by Stacey Yacula,(@staceyyacula), Tofu & Friends-Season's Greetings by Pei (@chillezegraphy) and Winterwood by Holly Mabutas (@hollymubutas).

Today I am featuring a card using images from the Whispering Pines collection. 

The background was prepared by blending tumbled glass, broken china and salty ocean distress ink onto  the panel. I mixed some white acrylic paint and water, then tapped onto the background piece using a fan brush to emulate snow. I added a snow bank cut from white linen cardstock using a stitched edge die. For the image, I combined Frosty & Sweet Pea (snowman and mouse) and Murphy (squirrel) with the help of a bit of masking. I colored with a combo of Copic and Caliart markers and then fussy cut out. After stamping the sentiment from the previously released Merriest City Sentiment set using cherry kisses ink, I attached the image piece with foam dimensionals. BTW, the sentiment set has been marked down and has several really cute Christmas greetings.

Products: Purple Onion Designs stamps, PTI cs, MFT die, Altenew, The Stamp Market and Ranger Distr3ess ink, Copic and Caliart markers

Copics: Snowman-C00, C1, E30, E33, YR01, YR02, N2, C3; Squirrel-W00, W1, W2, E30, E33, E35; Mouse-E40, E41, E42, W00, E81, R01, R02; Squirrel-E30, E33, E35, W1, W2, R01, R02; Scarves;Hat-W00, E81, G40, G43

Caliart: Bear Scarf-R105, R107, R218

There is special pricing until November 15 if you want to purchase all of each collection. Whispering Pines for $123  (26 stamps), Tofu & Friends Season's Greetings for $52 (9 stamps) and Winterwood for $134 (30 stamps). 

{The Cat's Pajamas} Believe

I am sharing another card using a digital image from The Cat's Pajamas October release. So many cute holiday images to choose from, but I managed to narrow it down to the Believe set.

I printed the penguin santa and the chimney with the snow ladened roof line plus the sentiment onto Copic friendly cardstock using Silhouette software. After coloring with Copic and Caliart markers, I fussy cut out. I attached the roof piece onto a dark blue textured cardstock piece, then cut out with a stitched edge die. I mixed some white acrylic paint and water, then tapped onto the background piece as well as the penquin piece using a fan brush to emulate even more snow. I then added the "moon" and the penguin image which was attached using foam dimensionals. 

Products: The Cat's Pajamas digital stamps, Bazzil cs, Copic and Caliart Markers

Copics: Penguin-YR30, YR31, R20; Santa Sack-G40, G43; Toys-YR21, YR24, RV10, R81; Gift Boxes-G00, G02, G07; BG000, BG01, BG02; Chimney- C1, T3, T5; Snow-BG0000, BG000

Caliart: Scarf/Gift Boxes-R105, R107, R218 

It's going to take some Christmas magic for this plump penguin to get down that chimney!

50 Completed and Donated

Today's three faith based cards were created for Grace Klein here in Birmingham (@grace_klein_community). This is a wonderful faith based organization that has many charitable endeavors both locally and globally. Their goal is to give out 100,000 scripture based cards this year to be included with the food, clothing and school supply boxes, etc. They want cards in bundles of 25 which is daunting to our kind of card makers but my goal is to donate 100 cards by the end of the year. If you have any questions or want to join me, please send me an email or comment on this post and I will give you the details. 

I used The Greetery Mighty Oak Botanicuts dies along with the sentiment from the Comforting Commands stamp and cut with the matching die adhered to a dark gray background. 

Products: The Greetery stamps and dies, Simon Says cs, MFT die, PTI and Ranger Distress ink

I used the same die set on the second card adhered to a lighter gray background. The sentiment is from the Stamp Simply Fear Not set. 

Products: The Greetery dies, Stamp Simply stamp, PTI and Simon Says cs, MFT die, Altenew ink

I found this tag in my card stash and in looking back on my blog discovered it was created in 2015 for a tag challenge. So that definitely gave me a much needed head start on this card. The background was created with a strip of patterned paper and an already blended paper pad. I just typed up the verse, cut out and then blended on antique linen distress ink. 

Products: Kaisercraft stamp, Lawn Fawn and Reverse Confetti dies, MFT cs,  Sunny Studios and MFT dp, Michael's Mirrored Gold cs, Ranger ink

Due to the devastation of Hurricane Helene, Grace Klein has begun shipping truck loads of relief supplies to Tennessee and North Carolina. These are people who have lost everything, family, homes, pets and their sense of security and safety. GK specifically asked for faith based cards to share along with the donations given out to those who are suffering so much. So....that meant I really needed to gear up to finish my second group of 25. I took another look at my card stash and found 9 that I could easily alter with a bible verse sentiment. That got me to 47 cards in total and these 3 represent #48, #49 and #50 of my second set of 25. 

I know these photos aren't the best but I had to photograph during a particularly gloomy day. Both sets a of 25 are probably on their way to either Tennessee or North Carolina. 

I am submitting these to the Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - Weeks #667-668,

and also to the October Four Seasons Challenge.

Sing to the Lord

Today's faith based card was created for Grace Klein here in Birmingham (@grace_klein_community). This is a wonderful faith based organization that has many charitable endeavors both locally and globally. Their goal is to give out 100,000 scripture based cards this year to be included with the food boxes, clothing etc. They want cards in bundles of 25 which is daunting to our kind of card makers but my goal is to donate 100 cards by the end of the year. If you have any questions or want to join me, please send me an email or comment on this post and I will give you the details. 

I used chocolate brown ink to stamp the Papertrey Ink Year of Psalms February (retired) sentiment onto pool party cardstock cut with the Paper Trey Ink Charming Tags 1. The kraft cardstock and patterned paper background was cut using a stitched edge die and after attaching the sentiment tag I stamped a couple of musical notes from the same Year of Psalms set using the same chocolate brown ink. Lastly I used the Feathered Friends 2 die set to cut from various cardstock in my scraps bag attaching to the card front using foam dimensionals.

Products: Papertrey Ink stamps and die, PTI dp and cs, SU cs, Lil Inker Designs die, MFT and Ranger Distress ink

This cards represents card #38 and is a part of my second bundle of 25.

I am submitting these to the Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - Weeks #669-670 Challenge.

{The Cat's Pajamas} Welcome Back Big Bear

The Cat's Pajamas October release of digital products is available now. Back in the day one of my very favorite TCP sets was Big Bear. It broke my stampy heart when it was retired. So....I was thrilled when Alma brought it back for the latest digital release. 

Using Silhouette software, I printed Big Bear, the signpost from the Beary Christmas set upon which I placed the words from Crossroads Gnome set onto Copic friendly cardstock, then colored with Copic markers. Since my cutting machine is still under the weather I chose to fussy cut out the two images. For the background, I created a snow bank using an older die and embossed a sno cone cardstock panel with an embossing folder. The images were attached to the main panel using foam dots then a few snowflakes anchored with a sparkly gemstone finished it up. 

Products: The Cat's Pajamas digital stamps, Bazzill and MFT cs, Darice embossing folder, Spellbinders gems, Lawn Fawn dies, Copic Markers

Copics: Bear-W00, E81, N2,N3,N5, N7; Signpost- W00, E81, Y02, Y15, Y17, R20G2, R24, R27, BG01, BG02, BG04