Hey Boo

 Hello friends, we are halfway through our year round Halloween 
challenge at Two Old Bats
and have a fun mood board for inspiration!

For my card I used a card front I cut from a Carta Bella 12x12 paper
I purchased last fall just for this purpose.
I layered it on a white card stock
then adhered to a brown card stock base.

Come on over to Two Old Bats

and have some year round fun with us!!

Beautiful Blossoms December 2025

Hello friends, here we are in the middle of December and it is hard to believe
that another year is almost to the end.  At Beautiful Blossoms we have another
floral challenge for you starting today and a beautiful bouquet of flowers for inspiration. 

Last year (winter of 2024) I purchased a set of Katy Sue 3D designs.
They come on a sheet that are numbered that you punch out and
use pop ups in-between each layer.
They are stunning IRL, wish you could really see all the details.
They are also a bit addictive, as soon as I created the three I did I ordered
more, which will or have already shown up on my blog.

When I created these I put each on a different color card base just to change them up a bit.

Here is a look at how the 3D is, but they sure are much more beautiful IRL!

So, come on over to Beautiful Blossoms and have some 
floral fun with us, you don't have to use our colors,

any colors are okay as long as you have florals on your project!

Much Love

 Hello friends, we have an easy OPTIONAL theme at
Can You Handle The Pressure and it is 
ANY Holiday!

It's optional and you can create any embossed card
but it is Required that you use an embossing folder!

I chose to go with Valentine's Day for my holiday card giving me
a break from the Christmas/Holiday cards!
I purchased this embossing folder in January of 2025 and it is a beauty
from Simon Says called Dotted Hearts.
I used some very old Core' dinations papers on both cards so I could 
sand them and really make the hearts and dies stand out.
The sentiment is an OLD woodblock from the dollar bins that
Michaels used to have.  I embossed with Versamark using an
embossing powder from when SNS was in business, it is called Amour, so pretty.
The hearts came with the embossing folder and are die cut from scraps.

Card #1

Card #2

Have lots of embossing folders?  Then get them out and come and join our fun
challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure!

Angel Ornament Card

 The theme at The Sisterhood of Crafters is
Anything Christmas, easy peasy!
I am sure you have seen over this past year I have been sort of hooked on the
Katy Sue 3D cards , or maybe I should say addicted.  They are fun to do
and I work on them when my mojo isn't in the mood for anything else.
My angels card is one of those.  These cards have layer after layer and take lots
of pop ups for each layer.  My card is a square 4 1/2" x 4 1/2".

Hope to see you over at The Sisterhood of Crafters.

Entering the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG

Deepest Sympathy

There is a challenge at Little Red Wagon and the theme is

Sad Songs (Say So Much) meaning they want to see
sympathy cards, encouragement or support,
someone experiencing grief.

We had a tragedy of a member of our town this weekend,
a mother/wife lost both her husband and son to a
tragic car accident, I can't even imagine her pain.

Prayers go out to her and her family!!

This card was created with Katy Sue 3D cut outs,
it is very layered.  These cards are a bit time consuming
but quite the statement when done!

Thanks for visiting with me today!! 

Christmas Santa

 Hello Friends, today at Peace On Earth we have  a pretty
inspiration board that has a somewhat vintage look.
But, you can create anything as long as it's Christmas themed!

I always try to go with our mood boards as close as I can
so on this one I let the upper left big Santa face inspire me along with the colors.
Years ago I purchased these BIG stickers (1986), yes I've had them that long,
from a local Apple House that my sister, my mom and I myself used to go to for
lunch, they had the best grilled green olive/cream cheese sandwiches, plus a cute gift shop
which is where these stickers came from. These were so large that I had to make A6 cards
not my usual A2.  I decided to make three using all three stickers instead of putting them away for another 20 years.  I had some pretty vintage color papers  from P13 Cozy Winter that
looked good with the kraft card bases, so all in all these are pretty simple cards
using just the papers and big stickers!

Card #1:

Card #2:

Card #3 

Christmas will be here soon, come and have some holiday fun with us!

Entering the following challenges:

Let's Craft & Create .... Vintage Feel
Christmas Crafts All Year Round .... Santa Claus Is Coming To
 Town

Christmas Kickstart .... It's Christmassy

Santa Gift Card Holders

Hello friends, it's time to get those pretty designer papers out
you have been neglecting for so long and join us at
Love Those Pretty Papers challenge!

Our OPTIONAL theme is SANTA!!
But you can WOW us with anything as long as we see
those pretty papers being used!

I made these Santa money/gift holders using a die from
Art Impressions and LOTS of scraps of my pretty Christmas papers,
LOTS (the entire backs) more of these papers show on the back then they do the front
but I already had them bagged before I got pictures of their backs
but I think you get the idea!

Anything Goes:

Being the 'season' I created a second Christmas card
using some pretty papers from Mintay Winterland.
The die cut is Tutti Designs Poinsettia corner and the
large and fun sentiment is The Ton's Styled Christmas Sentiments.

I hope you will come and play with us at
Love Those Pretty Papers and show us what you have,
we can't wait to see it!!

Entering the following challenges:
Sparkles Christmas Challenge #179 .... Poinsettia
Jingle Belles ....ATG Christmas
Christmas Crafts All Year Long .... Santa Claus is Coming To Town
If You Gave A Crafter A Cookie .... Time For Santa