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CATHY MAKES A CARD LIVE—THE GIVEAWAY POST FOR THIS WEEK’S YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (October 23, 2024), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by noon tomorrow.

Here’s the livestream:

That was SUCH a fun livestream!

The toppers are so easy to make. Panel is 7-1/4 tall by 3 inches wide. Score at the top at 3 inches. Use a 1-1/2 inch circle punch or die.

Thanks for watching my live!

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A relatively small craft haul (and what I made with the goods!)

Today I’m sharing a small but might craft haul of my latest purchase from Simon Says Stamp. It all started when I realized I had no Quickie Glue pens, and so I figured, why not add a few things to the order. I had recently watched my friend Jenn Shurkus teach a class for the Crop & Create Delivered Cardmaking, and she inspired me to “glitter all the things” with said pen. And glitter. I was also looking for some cute stamps and found this Lawn Fawn set that had stamps, coloring stencils and ...

A simply stenciled card featuring gorgeous products from Altenew (plus a fun promo!)

Today I’m sharing a lovely stencil and stamp combo that let’s you create the look of dreamy watercolor, but no paintbrush needed! It’s all done with blending brushes and dye ink. It’s like magic, I tell ya!

The Altenew Dynamic Duo: Playful Watercolor Flowers is a two-stencil set that lets you create two different floral looks. Here is my second card:

How gorgeous are those? And basically, not much dimension at all, save for the fact that I popped the blended panels up on co...

A fancy shaker and a simple string of lights: fun cards featuring Pretty Pink Posh

It’s Day One of a blog hop to celebrate the newest release from Pretty Pink Posh, and I’m sharing two winter-themed cards: one a fancy but easy to create shaker and two, a very clean and simple light strand card. Both are featuring gorgeous hues of blue and I love how they turned out.

The Winter Hat Shaker die set is all kinds of adorable! I created the card panel using the Layered Winter Hat Stencils and kept it very simple with my two blue ink colors that perfectly match the hat out...

Double up your stencils for some fun card looks!

Today I’m using a pair of new stencil sets from Gina K. Designs to show how fun it is to mask a stencil with another stencil. The Winter Rose Layering Stencils are perfect for this technique, along with the Masked Oval stencil.

You can do this technique with any shape stencils and any patterned or layering stencils you have. Here’s my video showing how easy this is to do:

Plus, it was fun to add a shiny greeting using my Fuse and some Sterling Fancy Foils. I’m not great at c...

Let’s unbox the latest card kit from Simon Says Stamp and make 5 cards

The November 2024 Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp is called Christmas Cheer and is packed with wonderful holiday-themed products and more!

First things first, here is my unboxing video to show you the full kit and five cards I created:

Let’s take a closer look at the cards:

The Rainbow Splash Twinkling Stars folder is great for the holidays, but can be used for any theme at all. The mini stars are so cute!

For card two, this sweet Santa, along with the papers from th...

A lovely holiday card to celebrate the new release from Simon Says Stamp

It’s the Day One Blog Fop for the Simon Says Stamp Sweet Wishes release! Today I’m sharing a card featuring the Classic Cloche Christmas Duo die set and my Joyeux Noel word and shadow die set.

This was such an easy card to make and I created a Reel to show you how it came together:

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The cutest stamp set for the winter and the holidays

It’s new release day from Simon Says Stamp! The Sweet Wishes release is packed with stamping fun, including new additions to my CZ Design collection. First things first, my Zippy Winter Stamps & Dies.

You can also buy the stamps and the dies separately!

Join me at 11 a.m. on Thursday and I’ll show you how these cards came together:

Next up, I have two new word/shadow dies:

Next I have two new Sentiment Strips in a winter/holiday theme...

CATHY MAKES A CARD LIVE—THE GIVEAWAY POST FOR THIS WEEK’S YOUTUBE

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card AND the prize bundle from Kristina Werner from today’s livestream (October 8, 2024), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by noon tomorrow. Click here to jump right to the comment box.

I am giving away Kristina’s entire new release to one lucky commenter on this post. Good luck!

Here’s the livestream:

How fun was that?

Also, today is new release day for Concord & 9th! To see all of th...

Create a delightful pumpkin patch with this stencil and die from Waffle Flower

Fall is in the air at Waffle Flower with their new Pumpkin Patch release! I have a fun card project to share with you today, highlighting some of the new products, plus a giveaway.

The Pumpkin Patch Panel die is the perfect base for a fall themed design! And the two-layer Pumpkin Patch Coloring Stencil makes it so easy to color in!

The new A2 Piercing Layers Dies are another must-have die set, the perfect companion to my favorite A2 Layers Dies. I used both to make this sweet g...