My hubby’s Valentine’s card this year includes a red embossed panel with hearts and X’s using an unbranded embossing folder from my stash. Spellbinder’s heart die was used to cut vellum hearts to back my Gina K Designs 12 Days of Christmas “A Paper Hug” stamp set. Ephemera sentiment was also die cut. It was a sweet card for a sweet hubby.

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Can You Handle the Pressure?: Anything Goes with a twist of Die Cuts

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Our buddy Johanna has daffodils that are coming up in her garden but I’m pretty sure the only flowers to be seen in my neighborhood will be on my card! Maybe more snow for us Sunday into Monday! Sigh! Anyway for a pick me up, I pulled out Taylored Expressions Daisy Dreams Stamp, Stencil and die combo. My background polka dot patterned paper was from my stash. The yellow cardstock is a 65lb layering weight from my local Michaels and the strip is TE’s Easy Strip 1/4″ patterns. Sentiment is also from Daisy Dreams. I can only dream that the snow will finally melt and it’s only 35 days until Spring. My card today will be shared with:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: February 2026 with a theme of polka dots

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A cute little trick or treater among all the shadows and dark for my card today. Using Whimsy Stamps Lil Friends Quick Card Fronts, Chunky Checkers die and Hero Arts Soft Landscape Window die for my card today. A fun card to make and jumpstart my participation in challenges.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: February 2026 Anything Goes Hallowen

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….10? If you are Double D Challenges….yes you are!! Congratulations Diane and Darlene on Double D Challenges 10th Birthday! My card for the celebration uses Kraft cardstock ( which I rarely use) and Taylored Expressions Hooray Layering Stencil, Postmarked Layering Stencils and die for the happy mail and Simply Sending stamp and die set for the sentiments.

Double D Challenges: Double D Ten Year Birthday 2026

It is our granddaughter’s 8th birthday! Every happy birthday song ends with Are You 1, Are You 2 until they get to your age. She counts by tens for my birthday!! Are you 8! Yay!! Here’s Alexandra’s card using TE products.

The inside has the stenciled Hooray and a few more 8 party balloons. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and keep safe.

I seem to have acquired a lot of Taylored Expressions Foil-it Insider panels. This is the left over portion of a foiled insider message that I foiled on Gina K Designs polyglaze. A two-for-one!!! My card also includes a stamped and fussy cut image from Inkadinkadoo’s Christmas Characters. TE’s Arched die stacklets were used for my image and shaped card as well as a tone on tone starfall background stamp. A few of my favorite snowflake dies and a stitched hill completes my card. My card will be shared with:

Word Power January 2026 Challenge Using a sentiment as the focal point

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Adding to my Halloween cards with the challenge at:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: January 2026 Anything Goes Halloween

Always an intriguing mood board, I was inspired by a combination of images on it. The haunted house in the snow globe was a Gina K Designs Spooktacular stamp stamped on the white moon. The image was stamped in black versafine and clear heat embossed. The patterned paper background is Whimsy Stamps “Haunted” paper pack. The snowy images on the mood board became white Taylored Expressions Graveyard Shift die and an A2 Thin Frame cutting plate die. A fun card to make. Thank you also for choosing my December card as a Top 3 and to our Buddy Gerry for sharing the good news notification to me.

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Playing along with the challenge at: Crazy is our Fame – STENCILS are our Game Stencil Fun January 2026 with an optional theme of Anything with Four Legs. I love the wonky cats from Tim Holtz Alterations/Sizzix stamp set. My background uses Taylored Expressions Wonky Dots stencil that I ink blended in two different colors of inks. TE’s Arch Noueveau dies were also used. My sentiment and the “fish” embellishments are also part of the TH stamp/die set.

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Digging through my stash of goodies, I ran across this Gina K Designs Snowman and a Silhouette Cut File for the image. Well that takes me back quite a bit! After digging a bit further, I found SimonSaysStamps Snowflake Season stamp set. I die cut an oval from the center of a piece of vellum, stamped the Snowflake Season snowflake stamps in versamark and white heat embossed. A second oval was die cut and embossed with Taylored Expressions Tiny Twinkles embossing folder and Frame in Frame 3 Cutting plate.

I’d like to share my card today with the following Challenges:

The Neglected Stuff Challenge January 2026 Challenge — GKD Snowman and cut file

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge – January 2026 Peace on Earth Challenge #103 Taking inspiration from the mood board’s colors.

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….is this Simon Says Stamp Pixie Snowflake embossing folder. I tried embossing this snowflake on a variety of different types of cardstock and finally decided that this patterned paper with simple white snowflakes was the best result. After embossing, I swiped first with white pigment ink then added Taylored Expressions Gumdrop ink. Sentiment is Gina K Designs incentive set Warm Mittens to Boot. The die was a separate purchase. Lots of “Blue Space” and simple layers so I think this can be considered CAS. I will be sharing this card with:

Simply Clean & Simple: January Use Something New Challenge

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