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Handmade white A2 card featuring the Altenew Enchanted Castle Window 3D Embossing Folder and Gothic Arches Die Set, layered with a black lattice window over a stone-embossed background. A pink Bamboo Rose floral cluster with bright green leaves accents the lower right corner, and a “Here for you” sentiment is placed across the arch.

CARDS | cards for friends

Altenew Enchanted Castles and Gothic Arches Die Cut Card

Recently, Altenew generously sent me a few goodies from their February 2026 release, and today, I finally had the chance to play.

February 24, 2026 8 Comments

Lavender tone-on-tone handmade card featuring a large gold heat-embossed floral image from the Simon Says Stamp “Make My Heart Flutter” set. The layered flower and butterflies are outlined in gold on purple cardstock, set over an embossed geometric background with a brushed gold sentiment strip reading “sending lots of love” and accented with gold gems.

CARDS | cards for friends

Simon Says Stamp Make My Heart Flutter | Tone on Tone Card

Today, I have a Simon Says Stamp Make My Heart Flutter | Tone-on-Tone Card to share with you.

February 23, 2026 7 Comments

Three handmade A2 cards created using the Altenew Joyful Garden products featuring a stencil over embossing technique. Each card showcases layered floral stenciling applied over an embossed background for added texture and dimension. The designs include large hibiscus-style flowers and leafy greenery in three colorways: soft purple and mint, bright pink and yellow, and vibrant teal and blue. Each card features a bold, layered “Hello” sentiment in coordinating colors centered across the floral panel.

2 | Cardmaking Videos

New Video – Stencil OVER Embossing

Today, I’m sharing a brand new video featuring a fun technique: stenciling over embossing.

February 20, 2026 8 Comments

A handmade A2 card featuring the Pop of Color stamp and die set from Simon Says Stamp. The design showcases a vibrant rainbow color wheel ink blended in bright hues of pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange. The sentiment “You Color My World” is layered in the center of the wheel. Three realistic paint brushes with brown handles are arranged around the circle, all popped up with dimension. The white background is stamped with overlapping black color wheel outlines and splattered with black ink for artistic detail. The card is layered over bright green and teal cardstock panels.

CARDS | Copic colored cards

Simon Says Stamp Pop of Color | Color Wheel Card

Hi cardmaking friends – welcome back! Today I’m sharing a super fun project that truly speaks to my artist heart.

February 19, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade Easter card featuring a white die-cut bunny holding a purple flower, standing in grass with bright red and purple flowers inside a teal arched frame. The background is covered in colorful embossed Easter eggs in pink, yellow, teal, and purple. Styled with spring greenery and decorative pastel eggs around the card.

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

Happy Spring by Simon Hurley

Hey cardmaking friends – welcome back! Today I’m sharing two new greeting cards created with the Happy Spring By Simon Hurley release.

February 18, 2026 6 Comments

Close-up of a handmade Easter card created with the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month (February release). The card features a teal embossed leafy background layered over bright pink and lime green cardstock. A purple pierced basket filled with layered die-cut greenery, pink tulips, and orange carrots sits in the center, with a cute yellow chick peeking out. A small white bunny embellishment and decorative greenery accents complete the cheerful spring design.

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Feb 2026 Small Die of the Month Cards

Hey cardmaking friends – Welcome back! I have a couple of Spellbinders Feb 2026 Small Die of the Month Cards to share with you today.

February 16, 2026 6 Comments

Mixed media AALL & Create MemoryDex card featuring a vibrant background created with Distress Oxide sprays in bright greens and purples. The card showcases bold “ART” lettering over layered text textures, accented with hand-colored butterflies shaded with Copic markers in teal, purple, and lime tones. The card sits among coordinating Distress Spray Stains and lush greenery, highlighting the bold, artistic color palette.

CARDS | AALL & CREATE

AALL and Create MemoryDex #13 Birds & Butterflies

Hi cardmaking friends – I’m a little behind from last week, so today I’m finally sharing my AALL and Create MemoryDex#13 Birds & Butterflies challenge card.

February 12, 2026 10 Comments

A collection of colorful handmade 3D felt Easter eggs decorated with layered felt flowers and leaves, displayed on clear risers alongside a whimsical felt gnome, set against a bright turquoise background with green foliage.

FELT | Felt Stitching Projects

3D Eggs and Flowers Felt Decor

I’m back, and so excited to be sharing my new 3D Eggs and Flowers Felt Decor line from Spellbinders. Today, as promised, it’s the EGGS. So many Eggs, with cute new flower dies to decorate them, and you can use the flower dies to decorate your Fergus’s too (image below).

February 11, 2026 6 Comments

Handmade Easter Fergus the Gnome felt decor featuring a teal cone hat and matching coat decorated with beaded felt eggs and colorful felt flowers, a white beard, and pink accents, styled on a wooden slice with greenery against a turquoise background

FELT | Fergus the Gnome

Meet Easter Fergus and New 3D Felt Eggs

I’m so excited to finally share this with you! Thanks to your incredible support, my little Felt Fergus the Gnome has become such a fan favorite that Spellbinders invited me to design even more 3D Felt Decor.

February 10, 2026 9 Comments

Square handmade spring card featuring a white bunny with oversized round glasses that read “Happy Spring,” layered die-cut flowers between the ears, and a pink scarf. The bunny is set against a turquoise embossed background, with coral and green cardstock mats peeking out underneath.

CARDS | cards for friends

Spring Specs Bunny Card

I may have fibbed a little yesterday and promised you a very cool egg card today….but plans changed.

February 7, 2026 10 Comments

Handmade Easter card featuring a white die-cut bunny from the Simon Hurley Bunny Buddies Die Set by Spellbinders, standing beside colorful flowers on a green grass border. The background is softly ink blended in teal and aqua tones, framed with a white mat, and finished with a pink embossed “Happy Easter” sentiment banner. Decorative spring greenery and pastel speckled eggs surround the card in the styled photo.

CARDS | cards for friends

Sweet Bunny Die Cut Easter Card

Hi cardmaking friends – welcome back! Toda is NEW RELEASE day over at Spellbinders today, and I’m starting of with the NEW Simon Hurley Happy Spring release and this Sweet Bunny Die Cut Easter Card.

February 6, 2026 6 Comments

One-layer handmade thank-you card featuring colorful stamped wildflowers from the My Monthly Hero Wildflower Stamp and Cut set. Pink, coral, and yellow flowers with black centers rise from simple green stems on a white background, accented with a bright pink ribbon bow across the lower third and a stamped “Thanks a Bunch” sentiment.

CARDS | Clean and Simple Cards

My Monthly Hero Wildflower Card

Hi cardmaking friends – Welcome back! Today, I’m sharing my third card created with the My Monthly Hero Kit from Hero Arts.

February 4, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade spring card featuring a white bunny standing in green grass and looking up at pink flowers inside a gold-trimmed arched window. Two pastel Easter eggs sit at the bunny’s feet. The scene is layered over a pink stenciled background with teal and lime cardstock mats, photographed on a white surface with alcohol markers and greenery accents.

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

My Monthly Hero Happy Spring Card

Hi cardmaking friends – Welcome back! Today, I’m sharing my second card created with the My Monthly Hero Kit from Hero Arts.

February 3, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade Easter card featuring layered die-cut spring flowers and a white bunny in a grassy garden scene. The card has a soft aqua sky background, bright coral and white flowers with green foliage, and a “Happy Easter” sentiment stamped along the bottom, created using the My Monthly Hero February 2026 kit.

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

My Monthly Hero February 2026 Card

Hi cardmaking friends – Happy Sunday! I’m popping in a little later than usual today because I didn’t quite get my card finished in time to photograph yesterday…and Miss Bailey generously let me sleep in –win!.

February 1, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade winter birthday card featuring an easy diorama design with a smiling snowman wearing a teal scarf and hat, standing inside a layered arched window. The scene includes snowy pine trees, falling snow accents, and a pink-to-teal blended sky, set on a teal card base with scattered white splatter and a small “Happy Birthday” sentiment.

2 | Cardmaking Videos

New VIDEO – EASY Diorama Snowman Birthday Card

Hi cardmaking friends! I have another new video to share with you today! Yes – I’m on a roll! haha.

January 31, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade Galentine’s card featuring a heart wreath embossing folder background colored with Distress Oxide ink sprays and heat embossed in gold. The pastel purple, pink, and blue panel is layered on a lavender card base and finished with a gold-foiled “Galentine” sentiment and small gold embellishments, styled with flowers and greenery.

2 | Cardmaking Videos

NEW VIDEO – Embossed Card with Distress Oxide Ink Sprays

Hey cardmaking friends! I have a new video to share with you today featuring an embossed card created with Distress Oxide Ink Sprays.

January 29, 2026 13 Comments

Handmade birthday card featuring a cute Birthday Bear die-cut from Spellbinders, with outstretched arms and a pink party hat. The bear is layered in black and white with a smiling face and tiny pink details, holding a teal gift wrapped with a gold bow. The background includes a teal embossed panel framed with a black scalloped border and white dots, layered over pink and green cardstock. A pink banner at the bottom reads “Happy Birthday.”

CARDS | Birthday Cards

Spellbinders Birthday Bear Card

Hey cardmaking friends – welcome back! Today I’m sharing a Spellbinders Birthday Bear card that’s guaranteed to make you smile.

January 27, 2026 8 Comments

Under-the-sea themed MemoryDex card created with AALL & Create stamps and dies, featuring a whimsical red-haired mermaid with teal scales seesawing above a row of small fish. The mixed-media background is ink-blended in aqua and turquoise tones with splatters, sea plants, coral, and shells, accented with sequins and a “Sea Life” label.

CARDS | AALL & CREATE Memory Dex Cards

MemoryDex Challenge #17 Under the Water

Hey cardmaking friends! Today I’m sharing my MemoryDex Challenge #17 – Under the Water project. I’ve been working on these on my Sundays (my day off from design team work), and I’m just having so much fun with them.

January 26, 2026 6 Comments

Handmade 5-inch square Valentine card featuring die-cut chocolate-covered strawberries arranged in a circle around the sentiment “You’re the berry best.” The strawberries are layered in red, brown, and green cardstock on a white panel with red and green mat layers, set against a red background.

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

Berry Best Strawberry Card

Hi card-making friends – welcome back! Today I’m sharing a bright and juicy handmade card featuring the Berry Best Strawberry Stamp and Die Set by Simon Hurley for Spellbinders.

January 22, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade Valentine card featuring three cute blue peacocks holding hearts and love notes, colored with Copic markers and arranged on stitched purple heart inlays over a teal stitched background, with small purple hearts scattered throughout.

CARDS | cards for friends

Peacock Love Valentine Card

Hi crafty friends – welcome back! Today I have another Valentine card to share, created with the absolutely adorable Sweet Peacock stamp and die set from the Simon Says Stamp Heart to Heart release.

January 21, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade winter card featuring a bundled snowman die cut wearing a teal hat and scarf on a pink, purple, and teal ink-blended background. The card includes a layered “Warm Thoughts” sentiment at the top, a small “thanks for being you” label, and glitzy falling snow accents scattered across the background.

CARDS | cards for friends

Warm Thoughts Snowman with Glitzy Falling Snow

Hey card-making friends – welcome back! Today I’m creating with more brand-new products from the Simon Says Stamp Heart to Heart release.

January 20, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade pink card featuring a soft blush ink-blended background embossed with the Spellbinders January 2026 Embossing Club “Cloud Nine” folder, layered die-cut flowers from the Small Die of the Month, and a black heat-embossed “Have a Nice Day” sentiment from the Clear Stamp and Die of the Month, finished with black gems.

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Jan 2026 Embossing Clubs

Hi cardmaking friends – welcome back! Today, I’m wrapping up the Spellbinders January Clubs with these two January 2026 Embossing Club Cards.

January 19, 2026 8 Comments

Handmade Galentine’s Day card featuring a Copic-colored Simon Says Stamp Loving You Bouquet with purple roses and teal leaves on a watercolor background created with Distress Oxide sprays. A gold-embossed heart made of words is stamped behind the bouquet, the sentiment is layered with vellum and finished with a gold foil “Galentine”.

CARDS | cards for friends

Be My Galentine Handmade Card

Hi cardmaking friends. I’m back with another card created using brand-new products from the Simon Says Stamp Heart to Heart Release that went live last week. This time I’m combining four of those new goodies to create a sweet Be My Galentine handmade card – and I may have gotten just a tiny bit carried away, LOL.

January 16, 2026 7 Comments

A bright, mixed-media AALL & Create MemoryDex card for Theme #1 Photography, featuring a whimsical fairy character holding a camera in front of a large rainbow-colored camera with a smiling sun lens, layered flowers, grass, paint splatter details, and a “click” label on a teal background.

CARDS | Copic colored cards

MemoryDex Challenge Card Theme #1

Hi card-making friends, welcome back! Today, I’m excited to share my MemoryDex Challenge Card for Theme #1 – Photography for the AALL & Create Challenge. Since I absolutely love photography, it was no surprise that this was the very first theme I chose to tackle.

January 14, 2026 8 Comments

andmade Valentine’s card featuring two classic cartoon mice die-cut from black, white, and teal cardstock, facing each other and forming a heart with their hands over a large teal heart. The male mouse holds a pink rose while the female mouse wears a pink skirt and bow. Above them is a die-cut sentiment reading “You Are My Happily Ever After.” The card is styled on a turquoise background with greenery and heart-shaped chocolates, created with the Spellbinders Steamboat Willie Duo and Classic Mouse Love Etched Dies.

CARDS | cards for friends

Classic Mouse Love Etched Dies

Hi card-making friends! Spellbinders has a bunch of BRAND NEW RELEASES, and today I’m playing with one of my absolute favourites – the Spellbinders & Simple Stories Classic Mouse Love Etched Dies.

January 13, 2026 8 Comments

A handmade winter birthday card with a teal, blue, and green watercolor-style background created using Lindy’s Magical Powders and the Simon Says Stamp Wonderland Snowflakes embossing folder. White snowflake designs are embossed across the panel, and a layered “Happy Birthday” sentiment in white cardstock and vellum sits in the center, giving the card a soft, snowy, elegant look.

CARDS | Birthday Cards

Simon Says Stamp Winter Birthday Card

Hi, card-making friends! I’m so excited to be joining Simon Says Stamp today for Day 2 of the Heart to Heart Blog Hop. There is so much beautiful inspiration waiting for you along the hop – plus giveaways and a free gift with purchase, which always makes things even more fun!.

January 10, 2026 79 Comments

Die-cut handmade card featuring a colorful hummingbird hovering beside a pink flower over white daisies and layered green grass, framed with a postage-style border on a teal background with a simple “hello” sentiment at the bottom.

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Hummingbird Delight Die Cut Card

Hi card-making friends! Today I’m excited to share this Spellbinders Hummingbird Delight Die Cut Card, created with the January 2026 Large Die of the Month Club kit – and it’s an absolute keeper.

January 9, 2026 12 Comments

Handmade Valentine shaker card with a white embossed heart background, a lavender and aqua layered heart frame, and a cute blue peacock holding a purple heart in the center. Pink heart sequins fill the shaker, and the sentiment reads, “Proud as a peacock to be your Valentine.”

CARDS | Die Cutting Cards

Simon Says Stamp Sweet Peacock Valentine

Good evening, crafty friends! Tonight kicks off the brand-new Simon Says Stamp Heart to Heart release, and it’s bursting with winter charm and Valentine’s Sweetness. For my first card, I combined four fabulous new products from the release:

January 7, 2026 10 Comments

Decorated MemoryDex card holder box created with AALL & Create products for the MemoryDex Card Challenge. The box is covered in bright mixed-media collage papers with words like “Sunshine” and “Love,” and features whimsical die-cut images including a colorful girl with a flower crown, a small white dog, a sun and cloud, and a pink “Kiss” label. The box is photographed against a teal background with the sandimaciver.com watermark at the bottom.

CARDS | AALL & CREATE Memory Dex Cards

AALL and Create MemoryDex Card Holder and Challenge

Hey card-making friends! I have something super fun and a little bit different to share with you today. AALL and Create is hosting a 3-month MemoryDex Card Challenge, and they invited me to join the design team for the event – of course I said yes!.

January 7, 2026 10 Comments

A handmade fan-shaped card created with the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month “Sunny Stems” set. The card features five arched black panels outlined in pink, each decorated with layered die-cut flowers in pink with bright green stems and leaves. A curved center panel includes a white heat-embossed sentiment that reads “hope this card brightens your day.” The card is photographed upright with greenery in the foreground.

CARDS | cards for friends

Spellbinders Sunny Stems Shaped Card

It’s the 6th of the month, and you know what that means – NEW SPELLBINDERS Club Kits! Whoo-whoo! I absolutely love happy mail day, and I’m kicking things off with the Spellbinders Sunny Stems Shaped Card, created with the Small Die of the month – Sunny Stems.

January 6, 2026 8 Comments

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