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Cathy Makes a Card: the giveaway post

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (July 30, 2025), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by next week’s live.

All supplies for this week’s livestream will be listed at the bottom of this post. In the meantime, check out the live (or replay) here: 

What a fun livestream! I loved combining things from my class with a new die set!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Preparing for my free Christmas in July class with Simon Says Stamp!

Only one more sleep until my free Christmas in July Create Together class with Simon Says Stamp. The class is free on YouTube. If you can’t make the class, no worries. It will stay on the Simon Says Stamp YouTube channel indefinitely, so you can always come back and watch. You can set a reminder by clicking on the image below. The time is noon eastern.

There is NO homework for this class. I planned it this way to make it easy, peasy and breezy! If you were lucky enough to snag the k...

Cathy Makes a Card: The giveaway post

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (July 23, 2025), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by next week’s live.

All supplies for this week’s livestream will be listed at the bottom of this post. In the meantime, check out the live (or replay) here: 

Photos coming soon!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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More fun with foil and Poly-Glaze from Gina K. Designs

Foil and the holidays go together and Gina K. Designs has just released her Christmas in July kit and it’s packed with some amazing designs!

In addition to the kit, she has created Poly-Glaze sheets as add ons, if you want to foil your designs, rather than stamp them, which is what I chose to do for my cheery card. Here is my video showing you how the card came together.

Here is a preview of the Christmas in July kit:

There is even a free gift in the kit, a 2 oz jar of...

Cathy Makes a Card: the blog post

Welcome to the blog post for my livestream. If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (July 16, 2025), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by next week’s live.

All supplies for this week’s livestream will be listed at the bottom of this post. In the meantime, check out the live (or replay) here: 

I hope you enjoyed how the card came together!

As part of today’s live, I have a special offer from Altenew! Get ...

Let’s unbox the August 2025 Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp and make five cards!

It’s Kit Unboxing Day and I’m so excited to share the August 2025 Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp called Best-Teas.

First up, the video where I’ll unbox and share all the card makes for this kit.

The Best-Teas stamp set is all kinds of cute! Plus, there are coordinating dies you can purchase for this to cut out all of the cuteness! Here are all the cards:

Give me a grid any day of the week! Gosh, I love this design so much! So basic, and yet it really takes advantage of the...

A great tip, Christmas in July cards, and an Altenew blog hop!

Today’s post is part of a fun blog hop to showcase the July release from Altenew. I am using the fun Festive Triangles stamps for my holiday-themed cards today, plus sharing a great tip for using a tool you may already have (or will want to have!) for lining up stamps.

First up, the video:

As I said in the video, I may not be the first to use the Center Alignment Guides for lining things up or masking, but it was new to me!

The third card showed how the Festive Triangl...

Cathy Makes a Card: The Blog Post

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (July 9), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by next week’s live.

All supplies for this week’s livestream will be listed at the bottom of this post. In the meantime, check out the live (or replay) here: 

Again, if I had to do it over, i would have placed the outer umbrellas in just a bit. I do love how they extend out from the blue panel.

And the cute inside! I nee...

Christmas in July… or is it Pinkmas?

Today I’m sharing two cards for Christmas in July. There is a new release out from Waffle Flower called Magical Christmas. I know many cardmakers love to begin planning their holiday cards in the summertime, when days are long, and craft supplies are handy. (Note: there is a disclaimer in my video for people who don’t love early holiday card sharing!)

Here is my video sharing my two holiday designs with a pink palette flair:

I really do love a pink vibe for holiday designs. I...

Cathy Makes a Card: The Giveaway Post

If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win the card from today’s livestream (July 2, 2025), just leave a comment below! I’ll choose a winner at random by next week’s live.

All supplies for this week’s livestream will be listed at the bottom of this post. In the meantime, check out the live (or replay) here: 

I will share photos and update the supply lists following the livestream! Probably right after I scarf down some lunch!

Here is the chart that I created to show compa...