Friday January 30th

 Good morning, just a couple cards to share. These are cards from the Spellbinders advent calendar 2025. I still haven't finished, but I'm getting there slowly! Starting with the background embossing folder strip #6. Hard to see, looks like bubbles..sort of.

                           The fish bowl # 15. I tried bubbles on the scalloped edges and it looked awful, so I just quit. Ugh.

                    Yes, I like this better. The #14 worm. So cute

Sun stencil #22

completely different for the sun stencil.

Last one is the Happy day banners #8. Candles are from a Paper trey ink birthday cake. Perfect.

Thanks for looking!

Mary

                                 

Thursday January 29th

 These cards are one of my favorites. Perfect for any of the charities. I love when I can make several of one design & this was perfect. Yet everyone is slightly different. This is a Sizzix die from Eileen Hull. It has an arched companion die, but I just used the window. 

Never even made it to the 'colorful' windows! After I put everything away, I found different images for the backgrounds! 

Thanks for looking!!

Mary

Saturday January 25th

 As always, I wonder where the time has gone this month. Just needed to get in the "mood" to blog! Did make a bunch of cards this month. Think it is time to share!! So beautiful, has 18 blooms. It was nearly gone last year. Al has taken care of it, and it has thrived. 19 blooms today.

Time for the card share! 

I tried to watercolor. Maybe passable??

The gold shows up better on the card than the photo. 

Had about 30-40 cut out hearts for whatever (?) reason over the years, and I am REALLY using them!

 These are from Honeybee stamps, 2024. Have had them awhile and never used it. Just a 'vintage' looking gal, perfect for valentines. 

                                One more to share! This is a bunch of banner cards. Doing Cards for Soldiers & thought how handy these sayings are. Oh, bad grammer! These are from Concord & 9th. I am not sure how long ago. 

Last one is really pretty.. The banner is a Spellbinder die. It is foiled. Not sure how many words were with this, as I found it already cut! 

                                      Thanks for looking!

                                                Mary

Saturday Jan 3rd

                                   My second 'share' for 2026. 

                   These are just a few cards from the 2025 Spellbinders Advent calendar. Dawn gave it to me for the last 3 years! How Fun. Thank you, Dawn! 

 These are Day #1 of the Advent calendar. The hearts were cut-outs from a long time ago. Except for one card, I used the Bells and Ribbons backgrounds for all the cards. 

Curved corners Day #18, the You 'make me smile words' is Day #19. Day #16 is one of three banner dies. The flowers are Day #5. 

I started with the Curved corners. I still think they are my favorite! 

Such fun cards. They are all A-2 size.

Best wishes is #5.

 Here is another favorite! Day #16 Banner dies

 Reverting back to the curved corners & flowers without the Bells & Ribbons. 

 I finally decided that the wavy edges shown on some of my cards has the be the plastic 'box' that I use for editing. Yes one of those photo boxes. It doesn't lay completely flat. The cards do REALLY!

Thanks for looking! 

Mary