Merry & Bright

Happy New Year and Happy Holidays!

I started to post this, then realized I was too early, so deleted that post but kept the important parts. So really, here is my posting for the December Woodblock Wednesday. A pretty simple card, but I like it.

The A2 card base is Taken With Teal, retired by SU. I love the color and recently bought a pack on line. Expensive, but worth it. 

Keeping the card simple, I used a oldie and retired and wonderful stamp by Hero Arts. It's dated 2005!

I inked up the stamp with Encore! Silver ink. To add some balancing, I stamped in the corner an image also from SU called Stars At Night.

It took many tries to get a decent photo, but finally was ok with this one. The white paper behing is trying to cover up some of my messy desk. LOL

 Inside I placed a nice piece of white card stock with Merry Christmas from the above set also done in silver. There is room for a note, what I try to do in my holiday cards, if I am not too rushed. Do you do that too?

Happy New Year Amy and all my readers. Thanks for following and challenging us, Amy.

Sunny and cold today. Around 10 degrees F. Brrr, but the snow is pretty.

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Celebrate Christmas

 

Merry Christmas to All and Happy New Year too!

Here is my card that is winging over to Norway. It's for the December 2025 Card Chain Challenge. This challenge has three things that had to be on the card. Something new, but unused, 3 favorite colors and an animal, flower, or fruit.

The fancy DSP from SU is my new, my three favorite holiday colors are red, gold and white, and there are poinsettias in the biggest layering piece. For a 4th favorite thing, love the gold stars decorating the sentiment. The DSP is called Traditions of Christmas and the gold is Gold Foil.

Fun to make but tricky lining up the words and getting the little stars to stick. Inside I stamped Merry Christmas in Encore! Gold. I wish the front Christmas word was better done with the Encore. Oh well, a special card for a special friend.

The base card is SU Real Red and the gold mat from them too. Celebrating another card done!

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Hugs and best crafty wishes to all my visitors.🎄

Snowy Owls

 Happy New Year!

Today I am adding this card to the Snippets Playground: Challenge 522. I am playing just for fun. I love this unmounted stamp that I got on Esty. They called it Winter Owls and said it is from The ArtFloozy. 

Using my MISTI, I stamped with Memento black ink and colored the dressed up owls with SU Blends. I used a couple of brown hues, Granny Apple Green, Light Night of Navy, Light Shaded Spruce, Pink Pirouette, Basic Gray, and used Timid Tiger for the noses.  Aren't they cute? They make me smile. 

My snippets are from a nice rectangle piece of white c.s. found in my "to use" bag. I have a bag for each color scraps I use a lot. The branches are also snippets from my stash. 

I fussy cut out the owls and glued them atop branch dies from SU Winter Owls die set. To finish, I embossed an A2 base card with retired Softly Falling embossing folder and put a piece of white card stock inside ready for a note when I send the card. 

It is really pretty outside today, clear blue sky and white snow everywhere. BUT it is cold. Only 10 degrees F. High of 11 or so. Brrr.

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Warm Wishes

 Winter Greetings!

I am  posting in the Snippets Playground Challenge #521. It has been ages since I have joined and it is about time I can hear Sarn and Di say. :-) Can you see my snippet along side the card?

I was thinking of snow (we have so little here right now) and quickly got out an oldie Stampin Up embossing folder to use on my Night of Navy cardbase. Oops, the snow is blue. Being afraid to use paint trying to color them white I used instead Simon Says Stamp powder embossing prep bag. Hard to see on the card but looks a little like snow flakes on the card.

The flying owl is from SU Winter Owls die set. Retired now, but special so I will always keep it. I used Stick It to try and keep all the tiny pieces in place. It didn't work very well. 

The sentiment is another oldie called Warm Winter Wishes by Cut Plorations part of Stamplorations.

I just looked out the window and it is snowing! Yay, a white Christmas after all. Since I don't have a car or drive, I love it when it snows.

Happy and Merry Christmas to all. 🎄

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Joyful Poinsettia

 Holiday Greetings!

This is the last Christmas card I made for2025. It will be mailed soon - locally. My out of town cards went last week.

I had the black A2 card base on my desk so got to work on making a card for the The Flower Challenge #109. They are asking for Christmas flowers, so naturally I dug out one of my poinsettia dies.

The die is from Altenew. I struggled lining up the petals, so cut a bunch of extras trying to make a pleasent bouquet. 

The little Joy die is from an oldie but wonderful set from Queen & Co. Luckily I had a smidgen of gold cardstock handy, so used that for the sentiment and the flower center.

Time to finish this card, stuff my envelopes and find some postage stamps. 

Are all your cards done and mailed? 

It is so sad that this is the last challenge for The Flower Challenge as they are closing down. I've seen many wonderful cards on their posts over the years. Thank you for challenging us.

We are having a mid December thaw for the next couple of days here in my neck of the woods. There is a lot of snow, so not all of it will melt. 

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Naughty or Nice Puppy

 

Hello Again!

First time entering a Penny Black Saturday Challenge, so this link goes to the December 2025 challenge.  I do have a favorite in my collection of PB stamps: Naughty or Nice?  It is from 2009 and I love it. So fun, I think. Do you like it?

I stamped this funny wooden stamp in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored the images with SU Blends. Used Soft Suede, Real Red and Evening Evergreen colors. The Blends are so nice to color with, IMHO. 

I wanted more snowflakes around, so carefully used just part of Catherine Pooler's Swirling Snow Background Stamp. Messed up my big image, so cut it down to just 2"x5-1/2" then matted it with black.

The sentiment is from the SU set called Stars At Night. Inside I stamped Merry Christmas from the same set. This set is retired, but I see it for sale a few places on line. My dog loving friend will be getting this card.

Today we have lovely blue skies with a few clouds. Temps are still cold, but the snow covered view out my window is very pretty.

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