First CCC Card in 2026

 New Year Greetings!

My card has gone to Linda in MI and I hope she likes it. I did follow almost exactly the sketch option shown below except I chose some of the colors because I had the card base on my deak.

I embossed the card base, which is a SU color though I am not sure which one, with my old faithful Subtle embossing folder.

Here is my card: 

My simple sentiment HELLO is from my older (2013) Gina K Vertical Greeting stamp set. It was stamped with Hero Hues white pigment ink.

The elements are all doubled up for a little dimension.

Inside I stamped with Night of Navy ink the phrase Life is Better With Friends Like You from my newer Flowers of Friendship stamp set.

See the Sketch Option that I used?

We are still having January thaw days as I write this, with temps in the 30's and 40's which is really odd for this time of the year. I wonder when that will change. Edited to say it got really cold again but will be warming up a bit though with wind chill below zero. Thawing out a bit more next week with snow. Yay.

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Loving Blue and White Together

 Howdy!

Blue being my favorite color (next to pink) so I had to join The Color Hues Challenge for January 2026.

Speaking of 2026, my camera is old and the year date doesn't have 2026. See, it reverted to 2008! Really, I took the picture today!

What is also really old is my Stampin Up sailboat punch. I am not sure how old and I doubt that I've used it is years.

My cardbase is SU Night of Navy and the lighter blue is Boho Blue. I embossed the piece of blue with the Altenew folder called Ribbon Waves. 

The white paper is from my scrap drawer. I doubled up the moon and sailboat images but not the stars. The moon was done with a small punch.

I used the tiny star from a cluster of stars in the Stars At Night die set and glued them with tiny dots of Tombow glue.

It's the first time I have used this embossing folder, so am adding my card to NBUS # 82 and adding to the Snippets Playground #524 beacause of the found pieces of white. 

A very cold day here in MN, with the temp in single digits with a lot of wind making it feel even colder. A good day to stay in and craft!

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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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