Temporarily Away

 Hello!

I hope this finds everyone well and happy, having made it through the holidays and boldly forging forward in 2025.

I just wanted to give a quick update, and let you know that my time will be rare on the blog.  Fear not, I will return as quickly as possible; however, an emergent, time-consuming event has taken me away from crafting and into caretaking While the overseeing of care is not new, the situation has changed and must be resolved, so it will take priority right now.

I will be reading your posts, but my phone has decided that I may not comment on blogs from it; and where I'll be, there is no internet.  I do hope that this situation is resolved quickly, but know that I will be back as I can.

Take care, God bless you all and hug your loved ones hard.

Hugs,
TK

Merry Christmas to All!

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

I hope you all have, or have had, a wonderful Christmas filled with love, peace and joy with your loved ones!

I'm here today with a couple cards, completed and given out, and a few last-minute gift tags -- I hope you don't mind.

PFS - Holiday Foliage (a CASE of Heather Hoffman), Holiday Diamond cp, Making Spirits Bright sentiments

PFS - same products, this time my design

And a few tags, just for fun!

All tags:  MFT - Tag Builder 2 and PTI - Stained Glass sentiments; then clockwise from center top ~

HA - Holiday Trees, PB - Arctic Friends, HA - Holiday Flakes, and PB - Snow Folks (NBUS).

 

Enjoy this Christmas with love in your hearts, and joy in your soul!

Hugs,

TK

 

Yikes!

 Hello!

It's been an entire month since my last post!  I'm not sure where the time has gone but I have an extreme amount of "life" that has pulled me away from the blog -- and yes, stress has been a constant companion.  I do not say that to solicit empathy, but hopefully some understanding and patience.

While I have made some cards and photographed them, I have not been able to post them, with limited time and all, BUT I am here to remedy that today!

A few sweet purchases, after seeing a card from Michele, and this one purchase came about.  While I love this image, my card pales in comparison to Michele's but I have to say, it was strictly due (not!) to the adorable jammies her little sweetie wore!

This little guy also came to live at my house!  My images were Copic-colored, this one fussy-cut and mounted with the sweet message below.  I must NOT be remiss to thank Bonnie for her sweet card recently, which had these backgrounds tucked in between!  These backgrounds allowed me to make a few cards, very quickly, which I desperately needed since I'd gotten so behind this year.

And my last card for today, need I say more?!  I will add that these panels were all colored during a camping trip in late summer, with the intention of getting them into cards upon my return.  So much for well-laid plans!  And since all of these images are on their first outing, one of them will go to our beloved NBUS #69 Challenge.

Supplies:

  Card #1 - PB Beary Merry

  Card #2 - PB Love & Magic

  Card #3 - PB Arctic Friends

    Gifted embossed panels are from Martha Stewart & CuttleBug (If I remember correctly), both retired

Thank you for the visit - may all your shopping be done, your house decorated and willpower still in be in-check!

Hugs,

TK

 

CASEing

 Hello and welcome!

I'm here today with a couple of CASEd cards.  Last week I actually made it to a PFS Craft Along, I usually miss them because they're early on Fridays but it happened to be my Friday off and no other urgent matters going on. Anywhooooo... 

the first 3 cards were designed by Heather Hoffman or Lea Lawson, and I put my spin on them.

Card #1 ~

Card #2 ~

The first two card were made from a large 6x6 panel from a heat embossed rubber stamp, light ink blending in select areas, the flowers ink blended with a stencil, then split diagonally and placed according to your liking on opposing corners.

Card #3 ~

Lightly stamped 6x6 rubber stamp, then partially ink blended with the stencil and placed under the pretty frame.

Card #4 ~

This card is a similar design but I definitely wanted to use up the leftover panel from card #3.  I couldn't see a great strip going to waste!

PFS:  Magnolia Pattern stamp & stencil; Outline Foral Frame; Notched Corner Frame; Fancy Label Frames dies; Sentiments - 2 ephemera, 2 Extra Special Sentiments & dies

And since the Magnolia stam and, Floral frame die are both NBUS #68, I think I'll send one of these over there -- it's been awhile since I've actually joined in on challenge fun!

Well, another round of cards and no closer to getting those Christmas cards done!  Oy! 

Wish me luck!

Hugs,

TK

Ida 2.0 and Christmas stash for the win!

 Good day, Fine Feathered Friends!

I come bearing more cards, this time from my most recent visit with Ida.  While we ended up going for lunch, I thought it wouldn't be appropriate to bring crafts so I went empty-handed and Ida came bearing more adorable images.  Sorry, Ida...  Bonus!  Most are Christmas, so here's to adding to my stash -- thanks, Ida!

Card #1 (not so Christmas-y) ~

Unity - Reel Great Guy; Darice - Argyle

Card #2 ~

Unity - KOM August '24; Splb - A Little Message sentiment

Card #3 ~

Unity - KOM Sept '24; Splb - Ski Lodge ef; Alt - Nested Slim dies; PFS - Magical Holiday sentiment pp

Card #4 ~

Unity - KOM Sept '24; PFS - Intricate Tiles & Frames

Card #5 ~

Unity - Simply Holiday Deer Oct '24

And a close-up... if you look really close, tilt your head to and fro, crank your screen around, you may be able to tell that I "lightly" inked a sky background, masking off a drift.  The drift was then outlined with Wink of Stella... well, at least I tried to capture it, but it's pretty IRL!

ETA - there also a couple of trees that I didn't dare fussy-cut, so those were added inside, to frame the inside sentiment.

That's it for me today, thanks for popping in and sharing a bit of your day.  Off to make more cards!

Hugs,

TK