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Monday, August 10, 2026

COLOR HUES # 138 NAVY & TEAL

Welcome friends, today I am playing along with Color Hues # 138 using Navy and Teal for the main colors on my card.
I love these colors together, and they even work for flowers!!

Products used for this card:
Penny Black: Dashed EF
Pinkfresh:  Flowers for the Soul stamp & stencil
The Greetery:  Sweetest Frames
Pinkfresh:  Basic Banners: Celebrate (sentiment)
Gina K inks:  In the Navy,  Turquoise Sea, Ocean Mist





Heart Hugs, friends!




Saturday, August 1, 2026

CAS CHRISTMAS CARD CHALLENGE ~ AUGUST ~ SLEIGH

Lisa is our hostess this month of August looking for cards that has a SLEIGH on it!
That should be fun, right?
I pulled out a very old PTI stamp and made my card:



Products Used:
PTI:  In the Meadow (stamp and die)
SSS:  Soft Snowfall EF

We have lots of cards from the design team and our special guest to get you started, so please check out the CAS Christmas Card Challenge over on the blog and join us this month!



Heart Hugs, friends!



Wednesday, July 15, 2026

CAS CHRISTMAS CARD CHALLENGE JULY MID-MONTH ~ SNOWMEN

Welcome to our mid month inspiration with more Snowmen cards at CAS CHRISTMAS CARD CHALLENGE!!


Are you all having fun with this challenge and getting some Christmas cards made?
We are half- way through the month to give you more inspiration!
These are the products I used for my card:
Penny Black:  Frosty Hops
Darice EF:  snowflakes
Copics

 Remember it needs to be a clean and simple Christmas card....lots of white space!
Have fun with it and please check out the gallery where there is lots of inspiration and more from the design team too!




Heart Hugs, friends!



Wednesday, July 1, 2026

CAS Christmas ~ SNOWMEN in July

Hi Friends and welcome back to our CAS Christmas Card Challenge for July!

Linda is our hostess and she is looking for a snowman on our Christmas cards.  We don't get much snow here in the Pacific Northwest especially these last few years, so I love making snowmen cards!


Products used for this card:
Penny Black Double Frames
PB Frosty Feathers
SSS  Underlined word die
 SSS Soft Snowfall EF
copics

I love the Penny Black Snowmen images, they are so cute!!
I hope you are inspired to play along with our Snowman challenge and check out all the inspiration from our design team!
See you in the gallery!!






Heart Hugs, friends!



Monday, June 15, 2026

CAS CHRISTMAS ~ JUNE ~ BIRD

Welcome Friends, I am so glad you are here again and I hope you are having fun playing with us at CAS CHRISTMAS CARD CHALLENGE for the month of June.  This is just a little extra inspiration as we are half way through the month with this BIRD challenge.


I couldn't resist watercoloring some of these birds sitting on the fir branch.

These are the products I used for this card:
Penny Black & SSS collaboration for Stamptember:  Bright & Merry
Spellbinders:  Forevergreen EF
Zig watercolor pens
Pinkfresh:  Ruby Glitter Drops

Once again I hope you will check out the CAS Christmas Blog and see what all the design team members and our guest has made for you, to inspire and encourage you to play along!



Heart Hugs, friends!



Monday, June 1, 2026

CAS Christmas ~ JUNE Challenge ~ Bird


Welcome friends to our NEW CAS CHRISTMAS CARD CHALLENGE!
We are all thrilled to be back at making Christmas cards year round and giving you inspiration.
This challenge hosted by our creator of CAS Christmas is Loll and she is looking for a bird on your Christmas card.  Here is mine:




Oh it was so fun to pull out older but goodie stamps and dies and have another play with them.  I listed all the products I used just below, do remember though that My Favorite Things is no longer in business.

Products used for this card: 
MFT;   Winter Songbird (birds)
Waffle Flower:  Vertical MERRY die & sentiments
Spellbinders:  Forevergreen EF


And just because I had fun pulling out the above dies and feathered friends, I saw the MFT MERRY die and decided to pair that with some robins, so here is a bonus card for you.   We will also have more inspiration on the 15th of each month using the same theme!

Products used for this card:
MFT:  Merry Dienamics
Hero Arts:  Christmas Robins
Spellbinders:  Forevergreen EF
SSS:  Christmas word die





Heart Hugs, friends!