Sledding with a Winter Bunny – FMS #718

There’s no snow for sledding around here just now but perhaps we’ll see some soon. Now that I’m retired, I look forward to see some snow in the winter. Although, I worked in an elementary school, so I did enjoy my fair share of snow days (without the sledding!). I’ve had this cute little Winter Bunny stamp and die set from Lawn Fawn for a very long time, so she came to mind when I…

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Simple Vintage Christmas Card – #TTTC284

It’s Tic Tac Toe Thursday and Team X is up. Silke created a fun challenge board that I’m sure will spark your creativity. I kept it very simple with my card for this challenge. And the reason for that is that I found this wonderful patterned paper that I’ve had sitting on my craft desk for sometime just waiting patiently to be turned into a card. So when I saw the challenge board and one…

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Magnolia Flower Pot Holiday Gift Card Holder – CC2C

It’s time for Creating Coast to Coast with Karen Hallam, in California and myself here in Pennsylvania. This month our creative adventure starts here in PA, where I chose our direction. Given the holidays are quickly approaching, our theme this month is “gift giving”. So a holiday gift card holder seemed like a good idea. I really enjoy creating unique ways to give either money or gift cards. Today’s card was especially fun to create.…

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Pretty View of Fall – PP763

I noticed an arched window die online recently and was half tempted to purchase it until I realized I could easily re-create the window using SU’s Everyday Arches, so that’s what I did! I began with a card base of Early Espresso card stock and added brick patterned paper from my stash. To create the window, I cut an arch from Early Espresso and then cut the next smallest arch using a patterned from SU’s…

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