Dear Santa Holiday Kit from Spellbinders

Today, I'm sharing 11 cards I made using the Dear Santa 2026 Annual Holiday Mega kit! This kit is so much fun! I made 11 cards, but I have SO MUCH of the kit left over, I will be making so many more! 

 

 And this card has something else a bit special, because I used one of Spellbinders' new card spinners! (you can see the results on my Instagram!) 

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Craft Roulette Episode #310

I joined in with Craft Roulette for their 6th birthday episode! Mary Gunn and Crafty Al made cards using the following parameters: 

 Project - Tri-fold Card

 Colors - Vegetable Garden

 Element - Nursery

 Random - Star(s) or starry

This is what I created - I used stamps and dies from Trinity Stamps, and paper from Paper Rose Studio.  

 

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Four-fold fancy fold card for Paper Rose

Today, I'm sharing a fancy fold card that is four cards in one! And three of the four sides have a place to write a note! 

 

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Does somebody need a hug?

 Today, I'm sharing a simple CAS card I made for Hero Arts, with a fun twist!

And I made a video! 

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August Hero Studio release

Today, we're hopping to celebrate the release of the August Hero Studio, with Hallowe'en-themed products based on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. 

 

And I made a video of this first card! 

 

Hero Arts will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Tuesday, August 5th at 11:59pm PT, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week. Leave a comment on all stops for more chances to win! 

Hero Arts
Nichol Spohr
Seeka
Rosie Lopez
Rachel Kleinman
Natasha Polite
Mindy Eggen
Michelle Short
Michelle Lupton
Lisa Tilson
Karen Brown
Jennifer Kotas
Jeannie Lieu
Charlene Madrid
Channin Pelletier
Anna Mahtani 

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Chibitronics Instagram hop

Compensated affiliate links may be used - these are at no extra cost to you. I appreciate your support! 

 I'm taking part in an Instagram hop today - please visit my IG account, because there are prizes to be won!

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Release day at Picket Fence Studios!

 It's Release Day at Picket Fence Studios! Hooray! 

 

I made a video of how I made this card - it's on the Picket Fence Studios You Tube channel :) 

For this card, I tried to recreate the waggle dance that bees do (it's a thing - check out THIS VIDEO). Not only have I drawn the path of the waggle dance on the card, but the bees are popped up on action wobble springs, so they actually wobble! I used the "Honeycomb" stencil in the background, and the bees and the sentiment are from "I bee fierce".

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Challenge me a Christmas Card with Lisa Stein

Welcome! Last year, I did a series on my blog where I asked people to set me a Christmas card challenge. This year, I'm stepping it up a notch, by asking crafty friends to join me!

How cool is this graphic!! My crafty friend, Kylie Purtell, made it especially for me! YAY!  You can check out her blog HERE.

Today, the challenge theme is "Cross-stitch". 

My special guest today is Lisa Stein - you can check out her take on this challenge HERE.

Here's my take:

 I have not tried cross stitch since I was a teenager, and the reason I haven't done it since then because I was SO BAD at it! So I am really proud of myself for doing this teeny tiny bit of cross stitch successfully!

This card hides a surprise - the cross stitched panel is actually a bookmark! And it can be removed without destroying the card - see that tab on the left??

When removed, there is another holly image underneath, hand-drawn to mimic cross stitch, so that the card still looks complete with or without the bookmark in place.

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Challenge me a Christmas Card with Kelly Latevola

Welcome! Last year, I did a series on my blog where I asked people to set me a Christmas card challenge. This year, I'm stepping it up a notch, by asking crafty friends to join me!

How cool is this graphic!! My crafty friend, Kylie Purtell, made it especially for me! YAY!  You can check out her blog HERE.

Today, the challenge theme is Glow in the Dark

My special guest today is Kelly Latevola  - you can check out her take on this challenge HERE, and she has a video on her You Tube channel!

Here's my take:

And I made a video!

PS after I finished the video, but before I photographed the card, I added some Wink of Stella to every second stripe on the tree, to the lights on Blitzen and to Rudolph's bow tie.

P.S. There is ONE MORE DAY to leave a comment on THIS POST from November 26th to be in with a chance to win a voucher from Poppy Stamps!

Thanks for visiting :)