My Favorites from 2025

Happy New Year friends!  As I say goodbye to 2025 and look forward to 2026, I reflect on all the good things that took place last year. God is immeasurably good, and He has great promises for our family for 2026.

  I thought it would be fun to ring in the new year with a recap of my favorite posts from 2025.  Here is a quick glimpse of my favorite projects.  You can click on the links if you want to see the original post. 

 

January  

The postage theme is still going strong.  I adore these spring pond stencils and all the fun stencils from Waffle Flower.

 

February

  

 As you all know, I love anything vintage.  The vintage Valentine rub-ons are so much fun to work with.

 

March 

 I enjoy making treat boxes of all kinds.  I love the rich texture on this vintage style book box.

 

April

 

 Vintage Easter on an egg shaped treat box.  What could be cuter?

 

May

 

 Tropical is a fun change of pace for me and one that I don't do enough of.

 

June

 

 Stash busting some patterned papers.  I'm always up for more of that!

 

July

 

 Loved the glitzy gold accents on this moody, floral card.

 

August

 

 I can't forget how much I enjoy using printables in my craft making.  There are so many free images you can find online.  These library cards are generic enough to use for any project.

 

September

 

 Creating my own background is something I don't often do.  I would like to get messy more often in 2026.

 

October

 

 More treat boxes... They're just too much fun!

 

November

 

 I do enjoy making these 3D lighted ornament boxes.  They're addictive, fun to make, fun to give and fun to receive.

 

December 

 

 Easel cards are a nice option when you want to make a card with that little extra something special.

 

I hope you enjoyed today's recap of 2025.  It's been a fun and creative year.  My wish for you all for 2026 is that you are blessed with health, happiness and plenty of time to do what you love. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Spellbinders Flea Market Finds ~ Mixed Media Monday

My projects today give focus to Spellbinders Flea Market Finds Christmas release from Cathe Holden.  If you know me at all, you know I love anything vintage and everything in this release has me wishing for more!

I made this mixed media entry into my stone paper art journal from Create Happiness.  

The Home For The Holidays 6x9" paper pad is filled with nostalgia and holiday charm!  I covered the journal page using this sheet of advertisement and distressed around the edges.  I stamped some script, randomly over the page and added some white polka dots using texture paste and a polka dot stencil from Heidi Swapp.

I also stamped some images using Compliments of the Season Clear Stamp Set and added this amazing Christmas tree die cut from the Christmas Pines Miscellany Die Cuts, along with a stamp image from the same pack.

I finished the corners off using a bit more of the beautiful, patterned paper.  I simply cut a small square, ripped it corner to corner and added Distress Oxide Ink to the edges.  It looks like a treasured keepsake from a Christmas event long ago.  

Next up are a few postcards I made using the Compliments of the Season Clear Stamp Set, more amazing images cut from the Home For The Holidays 6x9" Paper Pad and die cuts from the Christmas Pines Miscellany Die cuts.

These post cards practically made themselves because the images in the paper pad are so perfect, I didn't want to add too much and risk covering the image.

Do you see the bells in the top left corner of this post card?  Do they look real or what??  They're die cuts so this post card is completely flat and can be mailed using a postcard stamp.  

For this slimline card, I simply cut a piece of the printed paper from the Home For The Holidays Paper Pad using a Fluted Classics Slimline Etched Die and cut the sentiment out of the same page, layered it and added the gold bar die cut to the bottom.  Super easy and fast! 

I really loved how all of these came out and enjoyed working with this release so much!  I hope you enjoyed this post too.

Here is a list of links that will bring you directly to the products I used today:

Entire Flea Market Finds Collection

Home For The Holidays 6x9" Paper Pad
Compliments of the Season Clear Stamp Set

Christmas Pines Miscellany Die Cuts

Fluted Classics Slimline Etched Dies

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Spring Blossoms ~ DRU

Hello friends~ It's the first of the month so that means that there's a new challenge starting up over at Dies R Us Challenge blog and the theme is "Flowers/Spring".

Today's card is a slimline card featuring Amy Design Blossom Branch.  This is a lovely spring set with many different styles of flowers and leafy branches.

For the background, I started by cutting the stitched scalloped panel using Heffy Doodle Slimline Pull Tab Die Set.  This was purchased during a special-order event at Dies R Us.  I embossed a sky-blue cardstock panel using a cloud embossing folder and added a brick embossed panel on the bottom to make it look like a brick wall in the garden.  I then added three Blossom Branches, from Amy Design.

I colored the flowers using Distress Oxide Inks and then added a generous coat of Wink Of Stella to make them sparkle.  The sentiment is stamped on two, layered Colwell Labels from Poppystamps.  I added some iridescent gems to finish it off.

Here's a list of products I used that can be found at Dies R Us:

Amy Design Blossom Branch
Heffy Doodle Slimline Pull Tab Dies (Special Order Event)
Poppystamps Colwell Label Set
Distress Oxide Inks

The Heffy Doodle die set was purchased during a "Special Order Event" that Dies R Us offers quite often.  Be sure to sign up for their newsletter so you can be notified of these awesome events!

I hope you'll pop on over to the Dies R Us Challenge blog to see what my talented teammates have created and join in on the fun!  

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Spellbinders Invitation ~ Fluted Classics Rectangles

Hello friends~  I'm happy to be joining you today with a card I've made using Spellbinders new Fluted Classics series from Becca Feeken.  

Fluted Classics series come in basic shapes,  (circle, square, oval and rectangle) with a ticking design inspired by the blanket stitch on its edges.

For this card, I used Fluted Classics Slimline Etched Dies.  This set includes 9 dies which will help you create different sizes of slimline cards.  The  Party Cupcake Pocket Etched Dies are simply adorable cut in soft pastels!  

Here's a list of supplies I used that can be found at Spellbinders:

Fluted Classics Slimline Etched Dies

Party Cupcake Pocket Etched Dies

Click HERE to see the entire line of Fluted Classics.

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Spellbinders Large Die of the Month ~ November

Good morning friends~  If you love the slimline craze, you're going to love November's Large Die of the Month from Spellbinders. 

 "Christmas Foliage Strips & Borders" comes with 13 cutting dies to make the most beautiful layered cards!

Here's a close up to show you the amazing detail!

There are four different border strips to choose from.  One of the strips has the poinsettia and leaves detail and the other border strips can be used for any occasion.

I die cut the coordinating poinsettia flowers, pine sprigs, berries and holly leaves in traditional Christmas colors to add depth and color, but you could change up the colors and make a card for every season.  The sentiment is from Christmas Time Sentiments.  

Here is a sneak peek of Monday's project using both the Small and the Large Die of the Month.  I wanted to show you another one of the beautiful border dies that are included in this month's set.   I'm in love with that pretty scalloped, lacy border!  

You can find all these at Spellbinders:

Small Die of the Month Club

Large Die of the Month Club

All Monthly Clubs

Christmas Time Sentiments

Did you know you can also shop past club kits without signing up for a subscription? 

 Click HERE

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Llama Hugs ~ Double D Challenge ~ Colorful

Good morning stamping friends.  There's a new challenge starting today over at Double D Challenge.  The theme is "Colorful", so get out your favorite coloring medium and let's go!

 If you know me at all, you know I love to work with dies.  A while back, I won a gift certificate  to Taylored Expressions from the Cut It Up Challenge.  I had fun shopping and had a hard time paring my cart down to something more affordable.  In the end, I landed on this darling No Drama LLama die set.  Oh my is he ever cute!!

These succulent images were from leftover from the 12 Kits of Occasion.

I made a slimline card using Pink Fresh Studio Slim Stitched Rectangles, did some ink blending and lined up all those cacti, tucking the llama in for height interest.  The die cut sentiment is covered in Wink Of Stella.  

I hope you'll join in on the fun by clicking here 
using this mood board to inspire you:

Here's what you could win when you play along:

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Peace & Joy ~ Christmas In July

Good morning dearies.  I'm popping in with a Christmas in July card for The Card Concept.  Their inspiration photo was just too beautiful to not to join in on the fun.

I was inspired to make a slimline card using the colors and the Christmas tree as my jumping off point.  I recently got the Slim Stitched Scalloped Circle Die from PinkFresh Studio and I couldn't wait to try it out.  

I pulled out beautiful papers from Mintay called Christmas Stories.  I heat embossed the sentiment in the center circle, in gold and added a few fussy cut images from the paper pack.  

I stamped some berry sprigs using PaperTrey Ink Beautiful Berries: Winter.

The Defined Style of this card is "Shabby Chic / Vintage".  There's plenty of time to join in on the challenge here.

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