A Little Fly-By

 

Hello Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun Slimline Pop-up card using new products from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott.

For this card I used the Spread Your Wings die set from the Another Surprise Inside Collection which was released in July. This die set includes dies to create a butterfly pop-up card as I have done here. But it also includes a number of smaller butterflies which can be used to embellish the card.

I love that it fits inside a Slimline card.

I added a sentiment to the top section of the card, which is from the new Verses & Sentiments stamp set also from the Another Surprise Inside Collection.

For the front of the card, I added the two patterned papers I used on the inside of the card. 

The "Hello" sentiment is from the Big Words die set. I also added a few of the smaller butterflies included in the Spread Your Wings die set.

Splash of Happy

Hi Crafty Friends,

 Today I am sharing a fun Fish Bowl shaped card using dies from Trinity Stamps.

For this card, I have used the Fish Bowl Die set which coordinates with their Circle Card Die set.

I decided not to use the Circle Card die set for this card, using just the elements included in the Fish Bowl die set to create the shaped card.

There is a fish included in the die set, but I decided to pull out a Spellbinders Club kit from last year. I found these fish already assembled which were the perfect size for this card.

The sentiment is also from Spellbinders.

When I was going through the Spellbinders kit of spare die cut pieces, I discovered this small die cut splash, so I decided to use that on the inside and add another of the sentiments included in the stamp set I used on the front.

Winterberry Poinsettia

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing four Christmas cards I created using products from Altenew.

For this card I used the Winterberry 3D Embossing Folder & coordinating stencils. I figured while I have all the inks etc out I might as well make 4 as one, after all I need to make a number of cards to send out each Christmas.

Here is a close up of my card. After stencilling the card, I added gold splatter to the card.

For the sentiments I found some already made gold glimmer foiled Christmas sentiments. I had two of each type of sentiments, so I used those on these cards. 

This is the same card as the one above, just the sentiment is differed. Two say "Season's Greetings" and the other two say "Merry Christmas".

I kept the inside fairly simple, added a red strip that I also gold splattered to the bottom of the card.

I also stamped a Christmas sentiment in gold to the top portion of the card. This is an older stamp set from my stash.

Pink Poinsettia

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing two A6 Christmas cards I created using products from Altenew.

To create the poinsettia I used Altenew’s Lush Botanicals: Poinsettia Die set & 3D Embossing Folder. 

I added a textured background using Spellbinders July 2026 3D Embossing Folder of the Month … Festive Greetings.

The sentiment is from the Merry Messages Betterpress Plate which i foiled with gold glimmer foil.

I stamped an older Christmas sentiment to the inside of my card using gold ink.

A Sunny Hello

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun summer time themed card using products from Spellbinders. This card is a 5 x 7 card.

I found some older beach themed patterned paper in my stash which I had from Divinity Designs. So I pulled that out to use on this card.

I recently purchased the Surfboard die set, as I had seen a few other people use it with the hula girl. So I also pulled out the hula girl which was a bonus die set from the June 2026 All Clubs Crate.

For the inside of the card, I pulled out the stamp set from the June 2026 All Clubs Crate to create the sign post and the sentiment.

From The Jolliest Duo

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I have a Christmas themed 5 x 7 card I created recently using products from Spellbinders July 2026 All Clubs Crate set.

The tree, Santa & elf are all from the Large Die of the Month called Merry Shuffle. I used the Press & Foil set called Festive Forest to silver foil the background panel of blue cardstock.

I added the cute sentiment which is from the Clear Stamp/Die of the Month ... Cue the Merry.

I had a tiny strip of the foiled cardstock left over after die cutting the front of my card, so I used that to add to the bottom of the card.

I added two sentiment from the Cue the Merry Stamp/Die set and also added a row of the Christmas lights which were also left over after making the front of the card.

Rebus - Found in the Garden

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time to share another rebus swap with you. This month the theme is " Something Found in the Garden"

If you would like to solve my rebus puzzle, why not post a comment on my blog post with your answers. I will let you know what the correct answers are next time I post a rebus card here.

How did you go solving my June Rebus which was "Movies Starting with the letter 'H'"

 Here are the correct answers so you can check how you did

1. Happy Gilmore
2. Harts War
3. Honey I Shrunk the Kids
4. Hanky Panky
5. Hoodwinked
6. Hell or High Water
7. Heidi
8. Hook
9. Happy Feet

You can find all my past Rebus Cards here.

 

Ho Ho Ho

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing four 5 x 7 cards using the Jolly St Nick Collection from Concord & 9th.

Last year I used this set to create Santa shaped cards, so I wanted to use it on a rectangle card this time round.

To create this card I started by taking the main die from the Jolly St. Nick die set to cut the Santa face shape. 

Next I took the coordinating Jolly St. Nick Stencil set to add the details for the face, hat etc. This was pretty easy to line up.

I used 12 x 12 patterned paper for the background. I was able get 4 pieces of 5 x 7 panels out of the sheet with clever cutting.

I die cut the speech bubble from white & blue spruce cardstock, offsetting the blue spruce panel behind the white one. I used the coordinating stamp set to add the “Ho Ho Ho” to add to the speech bubble.

For the inside of the card, I used the narrow left over patterned paper strip to the bottom of the card. I added the sentiment which is also from the coordinating stamp set.

Merry Little Christmas

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another Christmas themed Slimline card, using products from Spellbinders July 2026 All Clubs Crate set. 

The reindeer is from the July 2026 Stitched die of the month, I opted not to do any stitching, using the Embossing Folder  of the month ... Snuggly Knit instead.

I have used this layout a few times lately on a Slimline Card, I like how you don't have to use such a large image/design but still can create a Slimline. I used the embossing folder again to add texture to the green panels above and under the main image.

The cute teddy the reindeer is holding is another bonus die set you receive if you order the All Clubs Crate.

I added sentiments using the Merry Sentiments Clear Stamp/Die set designed by Lisa Horton for Spellbinders. The snowflakes behind the reindeer are from the Clear Stamp of the month.

For the inside of the card, I added another embossed panel to the bottom and an older Made to Surprise sentiment to the top of the card.

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Let the Merry Begin

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another Christmas Card using some of the products from Spellbinders July 2026 All Clubs Crate.

For my card today I created a Slimline Card using the Small Die of the Month, I love those cute penguins. It's summer down here at Christmas time, but I do enjoy making a few wintery cards for Christmas. 

For the snow portion of my card, I used the Streamline Embossing Folder designed by Simon Hurley for Spellbinders. 

I added two sentiments, one from the July 2026 Press & Foil set of the month and the other an older Mama Elephants stamp ... if I have penguins on a Christmas card, I have to use that sentiment lol!

I added a older Christmas sentiment from Made To Surprise and added the snow embossing folder and penguin to the bottom.

Cue The Holiday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing two 5 x 7 Christmas cards using mostly products from Hero Arts Hero Handmade Holiday Workshop 2025. I didn’t get around to playing with anything in this kit last year, as the end of the year wasn’t the greatest for me, ending up in hospital 3 times in 3 months. But I do love anything record related.

Earlier this month, Hero Arts released all the products included in this set individually so those who didn’t get it back then could purchase it now. Included in this release are two stamp sets for occasions other than Christmas that can be used with the records. I can’t wait to play with those.

For the background on this card I pulled out Spellbinders Poppy cardstock & the Music Notes Embossing Folder.

I used the Drop the Needle die set to create the record & record player parts. I used two of the sentiments from the Swinging Christmas stamp set to add the record label in the centre of the record.

To finish off the front of the card, I added a Christmas sentiment from Waffle Flower Crafts.

 

For the inside of the card, I added the left over piece of embossed card along the bottom edge. I added a sentiment from the Wishing You stamp set. 

Gnoel

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another "Christmas in July Card", recently when I was looking through my Spellbinder Collections I spied the folder that held my Stampendous Hugs die sets (Stampendous is own by Spellbinders).  Anyway I could see through the file that there was a Christmas gnome already die cut and assembled, waiting patiently to be used on the card, so I pulled it out to make this card.

The die set used here is Stampendous Gnome Hugs.

To create the background behind the gnome, I pulled out an older Spellbinders Betterpress Plate called Season's Greetings Evergreens. I used my Betterpress and two different green inks to add the trees to my white panel. I moved the trees slightly up and to the right before inking the second time with my lighter ink.

I sponged the top of the white panel with blue inks to create my sky and then splattered it with white paint to resemble snow. The sentiment GNOEL, is from an older Honey Bee Stamps stamp set.

I layered this to the middle of a Slimline card, adding embossed green pieces of card to the top and bottom. This was embossed using Made To Surprise's Festive Tartan Embossing Folder and then adding white ink to the raised areas.

For the inside of the card, I added another gnome themed Christmas sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps stamp set.

I added another green embossed panel to the bottom of my card and added the die cut stocking which I also found in my stash.