Friendly Smiles

 Cyber Greetings!

I made this card for the February 2026 Card Chain Challenge.  I chose the Colour Palette Option, the Theme option of friendship, and the sketch option too. The colored cardstock is all SU matching the colors shown below as best I could. The lime looks yellow in my photo. Sorry. I like using colored carstock, do you use it?

The Smile die came from Susan R. in a box of goodies I bought from her. Once again I didn't use backing for the die cuts so used my finger and glue to paste them. Sigh. Will I ever learn.

I found the sentiment in a fairly new stamp set by SU called Perfectly Pears. Inside on a piece of white I stamped Life is Better With Friends Like You from a new to me cling set called Flowers of Friendship. These sets are available several places online. 

Colour Palette Option                          Sketch Option

                    

Inside I stamped another friendship statment saying Life Is Better With Friends Like You from SU's Flowers of Friendship stamp set. I like using these red rubber stamps, although I do know that SU is not making them any longer. Boo hoo.

As I write this we are getting ready for another blast of winter including some snow. The snow was minimal and at posting this today it is cold and sunny. OK by me either way. 

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I Love Wooden Stamps

 

Hi There!

I made this card for Woodblock Wednesday February Edition on February 26, 2024 after looking through my hoard drawer of wooden stamps. Please ignore the date stamp on the picture. My old camera doesn't have year dates beyond 2025. Anyway, here is my card:

Ignore my awful photagraphy too. I took oodles of pictures but this is the only one half decent.

My oldie but goodie wooden stamp is labled Hampton Art Signature Collection 5/8/2012. Two shades of green from Stampin Up are holding my focal point. The lighter one is embosed with Spellbinders Plaid folder. I used a gold gel pen to outline the crown and VersaFine onyx black for the words. I made and disgarded several attemps to get the crown and words done nicely. 

I added three gems from SU in a light green, but they don't show well in my photo. Tap on it to enlarge may help to see them.

Inside I stamped a fun saying from Altenew's Keep Calm & Make Cards set. It says "I made this card just for you 

                                       Because you are priceless.

                                       Even if you don't like it, act like you                                           do:) "

Isn't that a hoot? I should have taken a picture. The set is available a few places online. I will most likely send the card to a fellow stamper.

Time to get to bed. Yawning. I often craft at night. Do you?

Nice spring-like weather today and tomorrow, but a cold streak coming in on Saturday. I am so ready to see flowers and trees budding. 

Take good care and thank you for visiting and I hope you will come visit again.

A Couple of Valentines

 Hi Again,

I forgot to take pictures of a couple more cards made for Valentine's Day and they have gone out in the mail. These two are left over for next year. 

For this one I was playing with my hoards of glitter after watching a video on line on how to get it to stick without flaking off. Sorry, not sure where I saw it. Anyway, it worked! 

I cut out the hearts using SU retired heart dies and remembering the rule of three. The background is Pale Plum cardstock embossed with a old Darice folder that I'll never get rid of. Isn't it wonderful? Finished with a card base of PTI white that is my go to favorite cardstock. Inside I stamped Happy Valentine's Day with a stamp from the old Taylord Expression If Hearts Could Talk set. 

Am happy with this card as I so love blue and hues of purple. 

I found this lovely embossed heart on blue in my "to use" folder and got to work figuring out how to play with it. I've no idea where I got it. Can you see I embellished it with a single faux diamond on the bow?

I took a circle die make the aperture for the card focal point. Next, loving the pale blue, I made the card base from SU Not Quite Navy c.s. and stamped the greeting in the same color. Inside is a die cut using an older die from Penny Black saying Be My Valentine. Fun gluing that down.

Right? I should have taken a picture. 

I do like using things I have tucked away and almost forgot. I do have engough supplies to last my life time and more. LOL

Still lovely and warm as I write this post. The snow is almost all gone. We'll get more. 

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will come by again. My thanks for all the comments lately. Love 'em.

A Fancy Heart

 Hello There!

Here is my card for The Paper Players Color Challenge: PP772. I haven't sent a card to them for ages, but I really like these colors.

I had a card base of Mossy Meadow in my "to-do" bin ready to go. I needed to make four valentines. So made this card. Not sure which person is going to get it, but it will get in the local mail tomorrow.

Do you have a stash of card bases all ready to use? I find it handy to do that.

So the floral heart was stamped in SU Blush Blossom which is sorta close to Petal Pink. The heart is from an oldie set called Heart Happiness and I fussy cut it out. The other two little pieces are from the same set. Calypso Coral was used on the triangle flower and Baja Breeze on the little leaf to complete the requested colors. All were glued on the card base. Actually, before gluing, I embossed the card front with an ancient folder from Darice. Don't you love that embossing folder? I sure do.

On a strip of a white cardstock I stamped in black Happy Valentine's Day from an unknown stamp set. 

To finish the inside I put HUGS using an Hero Arts wooden stamp and was done.

Spring-like weather today here and for the next week. However, we still need to finish February and March is one of our snowiest winter months.

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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.

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will come by again. ❅⛄

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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