Thursday, January 15, 2026

He First Loved Us


Hi y'all!  I realized as I sat down to type today's post that Valentine's Day is only one month away!  I know that it is traditionally celebrated as a romantic holiday but I have always thought of it as an extra opportunity to express my love not just for my husband but for my family and friends as well.  While I've used a romantic rosy red here, this card would really work in just about any color, and with Craft Consortium's Ink Drops series there are a lot of choices!  

This was a really quick one to put together because there is not much stamping.  It took several passes with the fishtail banner die through the die cutter, then I stacked them all, sliced them into three pieces (keep them in order if you care about the print aligning!) and then glued them onto a rectangle of card stock.  Two of the three portions go on the card front.  


The sentiment was stamped in the space in between.  


The remaining small square third portion is on the inside.  

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Thursday, January 8, 2026

Love Letters


Hi everyone!  With the Christmas and New Year holidays behind us and the Mardi Gras season firmly under way, it's time to turn our eyes toward the Spring holidays!  I'm here today with a romantic love letter for Valentine's Day.  Cards like this make me smile because as a back-in-the-days-before-email Navy wife, my husband and I have written and received many old-fashioned real paper love letters from each other over the years.  Those six month deployments sure felt like they lasted forever!


Today's card is a combination of one stamp set, two paper pads, scraps of metallic paper and several die sets.  So easy and so much fun to put together!


A very frilly bow of white tulle holds the "keys to my heart" (keys - Man of Knowledge dies set; heart - Farmhouse Hearts dies set) and slightly obscures the "zip code" (our wedding year) which is adhered to a "stamped" envelope of love letters (Tim Holtz Postales die set).  


The sentiment on the inside is another from the same Farmhouse Simple Sentiments set.  

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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Celebrate!


Happy New Year!

Welcome to all of you, and welcome 2026!  

I'm here with a clean and simple "Celebrate" card that might be for the New Year, or maybe to celebrate longer daylight, or it could even be for Easter! It was inspired by all the Narcissus bulbs (and amaryllis too!) that I've been seeing for sale at the garden center lately. Have you ever "forced" bulbs to bloom inside during the Winter?  I used to force paper white narcissus almost every year, but I haven't done it in quite a while.  It's not too late, maybe I need to try it again!  It is a great reminder that Solstice is behind us, the days are getting longer already and Spring is indeed coming!


It is hard to capture pale colors and sparkle on camera even inside a light box, but hopefully you can kinda see the pale blues, blue-greens and yellow-greens on the flower petals and the clear Wink of Stella sparkle that I layered on top of the Copics.  I used a gold metallic jelly roll marker to color the tips of the stamen.  Sometimes it seems like the flowers in real life almost look like spun sugar, and that is what that sparkle reminds me of, even on paper.  


The card's inside is super simple.  Do you do a word focus for the year?  Maybe this should be mine.  

My wish is that this new year will be filled with hope, warmth, love, health and happiness for everyone.  Blessings to you and yours!  

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