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dimanche 22 février 2026

Joyeux Anniversaire!

Hi everyone!

February marks the first birthday on my calendar, and I need to start making some cards.

This one is for my son's girlfriend.

I stenciled the background with roses and leaves, using the colors “Picked Raspberry” and “Mowed Lawn.” Die-cut two branches, one from gold cardstock and one from green design paper, and glued them together. Die-cut the words from black cardstock, glued them onto white cardstock, and cut them out along the outline with scissors.

I haven't used an embossing folder in a while, so I decided to get out my brand new one!

I embossed a small corner of white cardstock and placed it directly under the die-cut branches to create a smooth transition to the stenciled area. This also helped to highlight the sentiment nicely.

Finally, I stuck a few enamel dots next to the birthday sentiment, cut the panel to size, and pasted it onto a blank card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

Little Red Wagon - Just the way you are

Addicted to Stamps and More - Make your Mark

Allsorts - Embossing

Crazy is our Fame - Stencils are our Game - Use a Stencil w. opt. theme: Create ypour own Background

Seize the Birthday - CAS with Dies

The Pick 3 Challenge - Pick at least 3 of the 6 elements given. (Flowers, Bright Colors and Embellishments

Can You Handle The Pressure - Anything Goes with a Twist of Die Cuts

A Cut Above - Anything Goes with a Die Cut

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Picked Raspberry and Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide);

Embossing: Stampin'Up

Dies: AVEC

Stencil: Craft Sensations

Gold cardstock, design paper,

mardi 10 février 2026

Let it snow

Hi everyone!

Waiting is over!

Today marks the start of the very first challenge on our brand new challenge blog

“The Little Things”

The theme is: Penguins

As the name suggests, this challenge blog is all about little things—more specifically, little cards.

Any card type that is smaller than a standard card (10,5 x 15 cm / 4.1" x 5.9" inch) is okay,

such as ATCs, ATC coins, tags, Memorydex cards,

Mini Moo cards, bookmarks, inchies, etc.

The variety of card shapes gives you plenty of room to create something that suits your personal taste.

Today I made my very first Memorydex card.

This is something completely new for me and it was so much fun to do!

The Memorydex base consists of two layers of patterned paper, a piece of embossed dark blue cardboard and white glitter paper. The embossed snowflakes on the blue cardstock I highlighted with a white Posca pen.

I colored the penguins, fir trees, and stars with alcohol ink markers, cut them out, and glued them onto the Memorydex. Added a tab in the shape of a cloud and stamped the sentiment on it.

I think the penguin trio fits well with this small format. Hope you like it too :))

Here's a quick intro to Memorydex:

Memorydex cards are approximately 11 x 11 cm / 4 x 4 inches in size. They can be square or more rectangular. However, there is no specific rule for this. The important thing is that they fit into a Rolodex or a box specifically designed for this purpose.

There are now countless dies in various shapes and sizes, which make it very easy to cut out this type of card. But you can also make them yourself quite easily, without needing lots of craft supplies! Memorydex card tutorial

You can buy a Rolodex, or make a little box to store them. This video shows you how to make a box.

I hope this has been helpful.

Conny and I would be delighted to welcome you on our new challenge blog.

Join the Fun!

Linked up with:

Make My Monday - Use 2 Dies

The Pick 3 Challenge - Pick at least 3 of the 6 elements given (I choose: Tree - Texture - Layers)

Four Seasons - Anything Goes Winter

A Cut Above - Anything Goes With A Die Cut

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but must include an animal

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Penguins, firs and stars (Scrap Plaisir); sentiment (LoraByLora)

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Salty Ocean (Distres Oxide);

Embossing: Snowy background (Stampin'Up);

Dies: Memorydex (a gift from a friend);

White glitter cardstock, blue glitter pen, alcohol ink markers, patterned paper, white Posca pen,

dimanche 1 février 2026

Ruff Day!

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create!

The theme is: Animal Magic

(create something featuring your pet or favorite animal)

Alternately "Anything Goes"

I love animals, and as babies, they're even more adorable and simply irresistible.

When my eyes fell on this very old image, I knew instantly what I wanted to do with it.

The picture was part of a set of images for a 3D card I made a long time ago for my dear aunt,

who loves dogs more than anything.

The little puppy was the only thing left from the set, and today, over ten years later,

it has finally found its place on an ATC.

The pink background was, in my opinion, a little too dominant—even though I love that color!

So, I added hearts with texture paste, stars with a stencil, and some bits of washi tape. I think that gave the picture a nice balance.

Finally, I embossed a short sentiment, cut it out, and glued it onto the ATC.

Hope to see you play along with 613 Avenue Create

Have Fun!

...and thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

We Love Stamping - Hearts or Anything Goes

Alphbet Challenge Blog - T is for Texture

Tag-along (and ATC's) - ~~Add a Number~~ or Anything Goes

Allsorts - Create your Own Background or Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - ~~Favorite Stamps~~ or Anything Goes

We Love to Create mixed media - Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes

I used:

Stamps: Sentiment (Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps);

Ink: Picked Raspberry

Stencil: Hearts (Scrap Plaisir); stars (Craft Sensations);

Washi tape, Image, Versamark, texture paste, embossing powder,

jeudi 15 janvier 2026

Grand comme ça!

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

Our movie for this month is:

Love Actually

It's actually a Christmas love story,

but we're using it for our first challenge of the year.

So, for the next 4 weeks,

it's all about

Love, Hearts, and/or Valentine's Day!

I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day, but once a year I can convince myself! Haha

The background of my card is dry-embossed with small arrows and hearts -- hard to see, but it is!

I added a strip of washi tape under the frog's feet als well.

Frog and hearts are colored with alcohol ink markers and aqua markers, cut out and glued on.

The sentiment says: I Love you this much!

Movie Poster

Linked up with:

Shopping Our Stash - Out with the Old & In with the New (NEW: Hearts, sentiment, embossing folder OLD: Frog and washi tape)

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but you must Include an Animal

Paper Rocks Scissors - Anything Goes as long as you use Paper and/or Scissors!

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Frog (Katzelkraft); hearts (Polkadoodles); sentiment (Azza);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Picked Raspberry (Distress Oxide);

Embossing: Dutch Crafts

Alcohol ink markers, Aqua markers,

mercredi 14 janvier 2026

Best friends

Hi everyone!

ATC Around the World is looking for snowmen. Here's what I came up with.

The background is from my stash. So all I had to do was punch out a snowflake from glitter cardstock and emboss the saying. Stamp, color, and cut out the snowmen—they didn't need much color anyway.

...oh, and then there also were these tiny snowflakes to stamp!

I used Wink of Stella to highlight the snow, which, as usual, you can't see at all!! Hope you like it :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

ATC Around the World - Snowmen

Try it on Tuesday - It's Cold Outside!

Four Season - Winter

The 12 Months of Chrisrmas - Anything Goes w/Opt. Twist: Snow People

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes w/optional twist - Snowman

Tag-Along (and ATC's) - ~~Love and Romance~~ or Anything Goes

Allsorts - ~~Winter Animals~~ or Anything Goes

We Love Stamping - ~~Something New~~ or Anything Goes