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. 

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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.

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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.🎄