Purple Onion Designs - Sweet Egg Nog

 Happy Sunday friends!

I am having a year of failing to conform and am making whatever cards I want to when I went too! (sorrynotsorry)

soooo - if you don't do Christmas in January - look away now! (:

Here is gorgeous Egg Nog by Stacey Yacula from Purple Onion Designs.  I have coloured Egg Nog before - he/she is really one of my favourites!  This time, I have used Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers, I'd be interested to know what you think?

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs

Egg Nog (Owl with Lantern Rubber Stamp)

Snow Cabin On Hill (I could n't find this in the store but there is plenty more background inspiration HERE

Warm Winter Thoughts Sentiment Set

6 x 6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Ingredients from Dies To Die For

Ink on 3 Blackout Detail Hybrid Ink Pad

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes Marker Geek

Concord & 9th Midnight Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Sky - TB5, TB3, TB1

Moon - TB1

Trees - CG4, CG1

Cabin - TN9, DR7, TN6, TN5, GB3, GB1

Egg Nog - MB4, MB3, MB2, MB1

BG8, BG5, BG3

TN3, EB1, BG1, Blender

Scarf - TN9, DR7, DR5, GB3

Lantern - GB7, GB3, GB1

Snow - TB1, IG1, IG2

Thank you for popping by today!

Happy Crafting from Sue...xxx

The Merriest Little City - Purple Onion Designs

Hello friends,

I hope you are all keeping well and are ready for the imminent Christmas holiday break.  

I feel I am scraping into the festive season by the skin of my teeth!  I am just looking forward to having a rest, with my boys, and getting by!

This is my last card of 2023.  It has been a sad and difficult year but I am looking forward with optimism to 2024.

It is no secret I am a massive lover of all things Stacy Yacula by Purple Onion Designs.  I have adored and cherished the beautiful red rubber stamps for many years and have been lucky enough to appear several times as a guest designer for lovely Michele.

Picking a favourite collection is like picking my favourite child but he latest of Stacey's collections,

The Merriest Little City is I think my favourite one so far!

I can not tell you how much fun I had creating this card.

... silver bells ... silver bells ...

come on... you know you want to! (:

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs

Stamps from The Merriest Little City Collection by Stacey Yacula

City Skyline Background

City Christmas Tree

 Hannah & Finn (Bunny & Bear Looking Up)

Park Background

Other Ingredients

Black Cardstock

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)

Copic Markers

Star Dust Stickles Glitter Glue

Vellum

Black Stazon Ink Pad

I want to say a massive thank you to Michele for her kindness and support with my card making!

...and also to Amy Young for always being so generous and sharing her talent, colouring palettes and processes.  I borrowed from Amy in the making of this card!

Wishing you all a peaceful and happy time

from Sue...xxx

I'll Be Home For The Holidays - Purple Onion Designs Holiday Sale

Saturday hugs friends!

I am so thrilled to be a Guest Designer for Michele's fabulous 

Purple Onion Designs 2023 Holiday Sale!

There are BIG reductions in store so please be sure to follow the links below for all the details.  Sale ends 3rd December so don't linger!!!

Here is another of my cards made with some of the gorgeous stamps available at Purple Onion Designs.

The ones I have used here are from the 

I'll Be Home For The Holidays series by Stacey Yacula

I stamped, masked and coloured this scene with Copics.  

I did a masking tutorial a while back especially for creating these gorgeous designs with Stacey's images.

I'll pop the link at the end of this post for you!

Ingredients from PURPLE ONION DESIGNS

I'll Be Home For The Holidays Stamp Set by Stacey Yacula

Holiday House Background

Melvin - Small Snowman

Sweet Hug - Fox Hugging Baby Fox

Eddie & Ethel  - Bunny Grandparents

Home For The Holidays Sentiment Set

Clear Mounting Stamp - 6x6

Other Ingredients

Multifarious Card by Lavinia Stamps

Extreme Black Hybrid Ink Pad by MFT

Distress Ink Pads Spun Sugar, Dusty Concord & Faded Jeans

Dr Ph Martin's Bleedproof White Ink

Gold Acrylic Paint 

Judikins Eclipse Art Masking Tape

Ranger Stickles Glitter Gel - Moon Dust

Acetate

Turquoise Card

Copic Markers 

Holiday House - BG93, BG90, BG75, BG72, BG70

Windows - E11, YR21, YR31, Tree YG67, YG25

Melvin - C2, C0, R24, R14, E34, E33, E30

Fox - YR68, YR02, YR00, YR0000, YR31, YR21

Eddie & Ethel - W3, W1, W0, R20, B28, B24

E34, E33, E31, V15, V12

Ground E50, N2, N1, N0

Thank you so much for popping by today.  

I hope you and those you love are all keeping well

Sue...xxx

Link to Stamping/Masking instructions...

HERE

 

Winter Silhouettes - Purple Onion Designs Holiday Sale 2023

Happy Sunday Friends!

I'm back today with another card made with beautiful stamps from 

Purple Onion Designs.

Today's card is vastly different to anything I usually make - in fact it is so different it spent half a day in the bin before I fished it out and decided perhaps it was okay after all! (:

I used one of the gorgeous stamps from Julian Charlton's Winter Silhouettes set.

See!  I told you it was different! 

It has some sparkle added which sadly the camera does n't capture.

As a bonus this card was quick to make and the style suits any of the beautiful images in the Winter Silhouette collection.

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs

Winter Silhouettes Stamps by Julian Charlton

6 x 6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Other Ingredients

Black & Blue Card Stock

Taylored Expressions Sugar Cube (White) Ink Pad

Ranger Stickles Glitter Gel in Moon Dust

Ink on 3 Detail Black Ink Pad

White Pastel Pencil

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen Number 08

Small Circular Mask

Thank you so much for popping by today.  There'll be more Purple Onion gorgeousness from me soon!

I hope you and those you love are all keeping well

Sue...xxx

A Little Christmas Magic - Purple Onion Designs Holiday sale

 Hello friends!

Oh my! It has been an age has n't it!

An understatement, but I have had a bit of a year and blogging has definitely fallen off the edge!

Thankfully I have some lovely friends in our craft world and they have stuck with me - the first of those being dear Michele from wonderful 

Purple Onion Designs

I am beyond thrilled to be a Guest Designer for Michele's fabulous 2023 Holiday Sale!

There are BIG reductions in store so please be sure to follow the links below for all the details.

Here is the first of my cards made with some of the gorgeous stamps available at Purple Onion Designs.

The ones I have used here are from the 

A Little Christmas Magic series by Stacey Yacula

I stamped, masked and coloured this scene with Copics.  

I did a masking tutorial a while back especially for creating these gorgeous designs with Stacey's images.

I'll pop the link at the end of this post for you!

Ingredients from PURPLE ONION DESIGNS

A Little Christmas Magic Stamp Set by Stacey Yacula

Santa's Workshop (Exterior)

Destination Sign

Santa's Toy Sack

Comet (Elf Bunny With Pocket Watch)

Chippey (Elf Mouse With List)

Santa's Sleigh

Santa's Sentiments

Other Ingredients

Bockingford HP Card

Extreme Black Hybrid Ink Pad by MFT

Distress Ink Pads Chipped sapphire & Faded Jeans

Dr Ph Martin's Bleedproof White Ink

Judikins Eclipse Art Masking Tape

Ranger Stickles Glitter Gel - Moon Dust

Ranger Distress Glitter - Rock Candy

Acetate

Black Card

Copic Markers & Derwent Lightfast Pencils

Workshop/Sack E74, E77, Chocolate Brown, Natural Brown

Windows & Sleigh Trim E11, YR21, YR31 

Sleigh - B95, B93, Ocean Blue, Dk Indigo

Comet B25, B23, B21, R20, Sienna Red

Chippey W3, W1, W0, R20, Taupe

Reds R46, R124, Raisin, Scarlet

Roof BG99, BG96, Spruce Green

Trees G29, G28, Grass Green

List/Sign E43, E41, E40

Ground E50, N2, N1, N0

Thank you so much for popping by today.  There'll be more Purple Onion gorgeousness from me soon!

I hope you and those you love are all keeping well

Sue...xxx

Link to Stamping/Masking instructions...

HERE

Purple Onion Designs Holiday Sale 2020 - Egg Nog!

 Happy Fri-Yay friends!

I hope you are all well and getting your heads around it being DECEMBER!!! o-:

You still have a few days to visit the fabulous Holiday Sale at

Purple Onion Designs

...there is so much off the scale gorgeousness to look at there so be sure to pop along and look at the beautiful selection of stamps bought to life by Michele's amazing Design Team! - I can't tell you how humbled I am to be a Guest Designer for this fabulous event.

This little chap has had quite a journey with that lantern to light his way!

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs

Egg Nog Rubber Stamp - Stacey Yacula Twas The Night Collection

Warm Winter Thoughts Sentiment Set

6 x 6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Other Ingredients

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)

Judikins Eclipse Masking Tape

Ink on 3 Blackout Hybrid Ink Pad

Copic Markers

Egg Nog - E47, E74, E71, E43, E50, E41,W8, W4

Scarf R89, R39, E35, YR23

Lantern Y02, Y21, Y26, E39, G20, Y04, G000

Light Y0000, Y000, YR30

Ground BV21, BV23, BV25

Catherine Pooler Inks in Stone Blue, Twilight, Limoncello

Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

White Gel Pen

Sparkle Spray (Prima I think)!

Thank you for popping by!

Please stay safe

love from Sue...xxx

Purple Onion Designs Anniversary Sale - Jackson Bear - make a wish...

Hello everyone!

Happy Monday!

Today is the last day of the fabulous Anniversary Sale at Purple Onion Designs 

You have until Midnight tonight to get those orders in!

Here is my final Guest Designer card - thank you so much Michele for asking me to do this!

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs

Jackson and Bubbles - Stacey Yacula Studio

A Beautiful Day Sentiment Set - Stacey Yacula Studio

6x6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Copic Markers

Jackson - E70, E40, E000, R12, R21, BV31

(Derwent Lightfast Strawberry and Scarlet Pencils for stripes on jumper)

Bubbles - BG13, BG11, BG10, BV02, BV00, BV000, RV02, RV00, Y0000

Ground W4, W2

Other Ingredients

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes Marker Geek

Ink on 3 Blackout Detail Hybrid Ink

Whimsy Stamps Rounded Rectangles Die Set 

Whimsy Stamps Quick Strips Die Set

Distress Oxide Ink Pad in Tumbled Glass

Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

Bo Bunny Design paper

Remember to pop to 

Purple Onion Designs

to look at the gorgeous goodies there and see the beautiful Design Team samples!

Thank you for popping by today

Happy creating!

from Sue...xxx

Purple Onion Designs Anniversary Sale - Happy Skies...

Hello friends!

I hope all is well with you!

Have another card to show you today for 

Purple Onion Designs 

Anniversary Sale

...and this was such fun to make!

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs 

Happy Skies Stamp Set - Julian Charlton

6x6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Copic Markers 
Moon and Stars Y18, Y15, Y11, BV31

Background
Distress Oxide Ink Pads in
Chipped Sapphire, Tumbled Glass, Wilted Violet, Mustard Seed
Perfect Pearls
White Gel Pen

Other Ingredients

Watercolour Card

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes Marker Geek

Ink on 3 Blackout Detail Hybrid Ink Pad
Catherine Pooler Ink pad in Twilight
Whimsy Stamps Pierced and Stitched Circle Dies
Whimsy Stamps Crystal Hearts Sparkletz
Stardust Stickles Glitter Glue
Remember to pop to 
Purple Onion Designs
to look at the gorgeous goodies there and see the beautiful Design Team samples!

Thank you for popping by today
Happy creating!
from Sue...xxx

Purple Onion Designs Anniversary Sale - Misty and Champ Happy Birthday

Hello Friends!

I'm back with a second card made for 

Purple Onion Designs 

for their Anniversary Sale

This card is a stamped and masked scene coloured with Derwent Lightfast pencils with a Distress Oxide Background!

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs 

Misty (Horse) Stacey Yacula Studio

Champ (Winter Puppy) Stacey Yacula Studio

Fair Accessories (Barrel) Stacey Yacula Studio

6x6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Derwent Lightfast Pencils 

Misty - Chocolate, Cool Grey, Granite, Cinnamon, Flesh Pink, Mars Black, Nightshade

Champ - Fossil Grey, Taupe, Chocolate, Cinnamon, Flesh Pink, Scarlet, Lilac, Lavender, 

Barrel - Sepia, Cool Grey, Granite, Natural Brown

Background
Distress Oxide Ink pads in Cracked Pistachio, Spun Sugar, Shaded Lilac, Tumbled Glass
Perfect Pearls

Other Ingredients

Bockingford HP Watercolour Card
Ink on 3 Hybrid Detail Blackout Ink Pad
Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

Zest It Pencil Blend

Paper Stumps
Sizzix Thinlits Scalloped Circles Dies

Bo Bunny Design Paper

Remember to pop to 
Purple Onion Designs
to look at the gorgeous goodies there and see the beautiful Design Team samples!

Thank you for popping by today
Happy creating!
from Sue...xxx

Purple Onion Designs Anniversary Sale - Happy Thoughts Of You!...

Hello everyone,

I am so delighted to be a Guest Designer for 
Purple Onion Designs
to showcase some cards for their fabulous Anniversary Sale.

This card is a stamped and masked scene coloured with Derwent Lightfast Pencils with a Distress Oxide Inks Background.

Ingredients from Purple Onion Designs

Stacey Yacula Studio - Bessie (Winter Calf)

Stacey Yacula Studio - Tree Line (Horizon)

Stacey Yacula Studio - Sweet Summer Sentiment Set

6x6 Clear Mounting Stamp

Background

Salty Ocean Distress Oxide

Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide

Perfect Pearls

Derwent Lightfast Pencils

Trees - Natural Brown, Warm Earth

Ground - Foliage

Mountain Green, Grass Green, Grass Green 70%

Bessie - Mars Orange, Raisin, Sandstone, Wheat

Other Ingredients

Bockingford HP Watercolour Card
Ink on 3 Hybrid Detail Blackout Ink Pad
Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

Zest It Pencil Blend

Paper Stumps

Twine

Bo Bunny Design Paper

Remember to pop to 
Purple Onion Designs
to look at the gorgeous goodies there and see some beautiful Design Team samples!

Thank you for popping by today
Happy creating!
from Sue...xxx

Together - Purple Onion Designs & Stacey Yacula Fundraiser...

Hello friends,

I hope you are all staying well and in good spirits!

I was so chuffed recently when Michele from Purple Onion Designs asked me to be involved in a special fundraising event.

Michele and Stacey Yacula have designed a stamp to raise funds for COVID-19 relief!

Together Stamp Set by Stacey Yacula

Isn't it absolutely gorgeous!

The stamp is a really substantial size and comes with five sentiments.

For every stamp sold $10 will be donated to United Way Worldwide Covid-19 Community Response & Recovery Fund. 

Here is my take on this beautiful image...

...created with special thanks to lovely 

Barbara Sproatmeyer 

for the background inspiration.

Ingredients from

Purple Onion Designs

Together Stamp Set by Stacey Yacula

Clear Mounting Stamp

Other Ingredients

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes - Marker Geek

Inkon3 Blackout Detail Hybrid Ink

Copic Markers

Distress Ink Pad in Tumbled Glass

Taylored Expressions Blender Brushes

White Gel Pen

Star Dust Stickles

Archival Ink pad in Cobalt Blue

Copic Markers

Mouse W1, E01, E00, W4, W2, W0

Bunny W4, E04, E01, E74, E71, E30

Owl E47, E74, E71, E43, E41, E50, W9, W5

Piggy R30, R11, R32, BV31, W5

Ground G94, G24, G21

Flowers YR24, YR23, YR21, BV08, V25, V22, B95, B93, B91, R27, R24, R22

Please pop to 

Purple Onion Designs 

to see the wonderful Inspiration from the Design Team and perhaps engage in some retail therapy!

 Thank you for popping by today!

from Sue...xxx