Hello and welcome. Today’s card for our 15 year old great-grandson. Yup, you guessed it, he plays basketball for his high school. I looked at a lot of basketball Valentine’s online to come up a design. Basketball, net and hearts are computer clip art. For the ball I printed off a basketball and punched it out with a hand punch. I used an exacto knife to make a slit at the rim of the basket so I could tuck the ball in to make it look like a slam dunk. For a little interest I rounded the corners. It was printed in my Hallmark card program.

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Hello and welcome. This is the last pocket Valentine for this year. As usual the pp was found online and the bear is computer clip art. Bear was fussy cut, then edged with a black marker. Script was added in my Hallmark card program. What I really like about this bear is how the eyes look googly.

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Hello and welcome. Since my first pocket card turned out so well, I decided to make more. This one will go to our 3-year-old great-granddaughter. She loves dinosaurs. Both patterned papers were found online, and the dinosaur is computer clip art. After printing ‘Be My Valentine Bernie’ I fussy cut Dino. I still have a 7 & 5 year old great-grandson’s that will also get pocket cards. Hopefully they’ll like that there’s an easel back.

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Hello and welcome. This is my first attempt at making a pocket card. I followed the video by Jackie Bolhuis here https://klompenstampers.com/bee-my-valentine-fun-pocket-card-designs/

Since it’s just a single piece of 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 cs I added an easel back so it could stand up. Pattern papers are Stampin Up, image is computer clip art fussy cut. There’s a heart border on the inside that is also clip art. This was really quite easy to make and I’m very pleased with it. This one will go to our 6-year-old great-granddaughter.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is DOS’s first chuckle card for 2025. I found the sentiment, “I’m not making any resolutions. I think it’s time for the years to be better, not me!”, somewhere on the internet. For the image I Googled snarky women clip art. All the printing was done in my Hallmark card program. Embossing folder used is Seascape by Stampin Up.

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Hello and welcome. Don’t know about you but I’m glad the holidays are over.

Today’s card is for my b-i-l. Hubby thought gray was appropriate for a gray old man’s card. Inside sentiment is “Enjoy the last year of your 80’s”. Background paper was embossed with Cuttlebug’s Happy Birthday ef. Patterned papers were in my stash and I have no idea where they came from. Pinwheel squares were cut with my paper trimmer. Center ‘button’ is hand punched with Glossy Accents added. Photo corners are punched squares cut in half diagonally.

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Happy New Year!!

Today’s card is for our soon to be grandson-in-law. I have become very fond of embossed foil for masculine cards. Since I learned to put the foil on a piece of cs before embossing it turns out so much better. Embossing folder used is Happy Birthday by Cuttlebug. Center image is clip art from my Hallmark card program and popped up. This was so quick and easy.

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Hello and welcome, hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was quiet but very nice, and today our bonus gift is a 4-day visit from our daughter. We’re going to have some good mother-daughter time.

Today’s card is for one of our granddaughter’s. When I saw this sentiment, “For the 32nd time…. happy birthday.” I couldn’t resist it for her. Patterned paper was found online, die used is Spellbinders scalloped rectangle, sentiment was printed on the computer. This was very quick and simple and she’s going to love it. She has my sense of humor.

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Today’s card is for our great-granddaughter. She’s been taking ballet for a couple of years so I was happy to find this pp online. The 6 is number clip art printed on pink cs, fussy cut, dry embossed and popped up. Before embossing the number, I edged it with a black marker. Corners of pp are rounded to add a little interest. This might be the easiest/quickest card I’ve ever made.

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