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Monday, June 29, 2026

250 YEARS OF BLESSINGS

 This week we are celebrating our Nation's 250 Anniversary, so I've decided to share a couple of Patriotic projects.

Today's card has a Red, White and Blue Faux Herringbone Design and it wishes the USA a Happy Birthday.

The Faux Herringbone Background is a fun way to use up scraps.  I made my Red, White & Blue Herringbone design with Real Red Cardstock and two woodgrain designs (one is mostly white and the other is mostly Navy) from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper.

If you are unfamiliar with how to create a faux Herringbone Background you can watch this video that I made a couple of years ago.  In the video I demonstrate this "faux" herringbone version as well as an alternative that creates more of a "real" herringbone pattern.

The letters on the card front were die cut with two different alphabet die sets. 


The Silver Foil letters were die cut with the Alphabet a la Mode dies and the "YEARS" letters were made with the Mini Alphabet die.

An adhesive sheet was added to the cardstock before cutting, and then all letters and numbers were cut 3 times.  I used Basic White cardstock to create the extra two layers for the Silver Foil die cuts.  The adhesive sheets makes adhering the die cuts together quick and easy.


A few stars die cut from Basic White cardstock with a die from Swirled Designs were scattered the card front and topped with a Basic Rhinestone in the the center of each.

The faux bow was made with 1/4" White Ribbon which I cut in half lengthwise to make narrow strips of ribbon.  Two of the strips were colored with Real Red and Night of Navy Stampin' Blends.  I was out of White Baker's Twine so improvised and cut down ribbon.  I really like the frayed look of the ribbon strands.


As I typically do when I create any type of technique sheet, I make is larger than I will need.  When I trim it to size this provides "scraps" that I can use to decorate the inside of the card.

Use this link to download a tutorial with all the needed dimensions, a supply list and step-by-step direction.

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Thursday, January 1, 2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026

 Today I just want to share a quick card and wish you a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!


This card is made with Secret Sea Cardstock and Silver Foil.  The HAPPY is from the Happy Place Stamp set.  It was stamped with VersaMark Ink and heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder.

The NEW YEAR letters were die cut using the Mini Alphabet Dies.


Silver Foil was first adhered to an Adhesive Foam Sheet and then the letters were die cut.  The remaining adhesive backing was removed and the letters were adhered to the card front.  Super Simple!

I made my favorite simple type of bow which I call a "faux bow".  It is just ribbon folded back and forth a couple of times and then tied tightly in the center with a piece of cord.  In this case I used retired silver cord from Simply Elegant Trim.  When that cording retired, I stocked up, but I am now down to my last rolls of silver and gold.  I hope they come out with a similar replacement before I run out as I love this cording.


For the inside of my Happy New Year Card, I stamped the Happy stamp again, this time with Secret Sea ink.  Then I chose the "life" stamp to stamp below it.   

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  HAPPY LIFE.  That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?


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