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  I used the Balloons palette stencil from Taylored Expressions for this easy, birthday card.  The stencil has the balloon background, and four squares that get blended at the same time, which are then cut by the long tag die as a sample or swatch.   I also used Little Critters and the Birthday Vibes Stamp Set and Die. Colors:  Cake Pop, Lollipop, Jelly Donut, and Popsicle.

A little bit of everything on these cute, thank you notes for the holidays. I made the dancing gingerbread people before the holidays using the Spellbinders dies.  I was going to save them for next year's cards, but my three grown kids still love our annual gingerbread decorating contest so I decided to use them on their thank you notes. Embossing folder:  Taylored Expressions Thanks Die:  Concord and 9th Gingerbread people: Spellbinders  

  Easy Strips, Tree Dies, and Greeting from Taylored Expressions (strips and tree from advent calendar 2025) Snowflakes from So Very Merry 2025 online card class kit by Concord and 9th.  Santa is unknown- found him already cut in my stash.   Mistletoe create in quad stencil from Taylored Expressions Be Merry Greeting by Lawn Fawn

 Continuing my new obsession of hand stitching with felt.  This is Beloved Bear from Poshta Designs.  I used the tail to make the eye patches.

  Jolly Holiday Santa Stencil (Let's Stamp Together Kit but also at Concord and 9th) Stripes stencil by Waffleflower

 I made this card for my nephew based on a card class by Jennifer Maguire in the So Very Merry 2025 Online Card Class.  Dinos are by Lawn Fawn. Greeting and leaves by Pretty Pink Posh.  The money/gift card slides up as the card is opened. (see video).

 If you are looking for a virtual card class to "try it out", I highly recommend the Online Card Classes from Jennifer Maguire and Kristina Werner.  They offer optional kits or you can shop your stash.  They offer five days of classes for just $29!!  Here are some of the cards I made from the Be Merry 2024 and 2025 classes (I did purchase the kits from Concord and 9th).

 Each year, after I finish my holiday cards, I put all the unused backgrounds, die cuts, greetings etc in a bin in my holiday supplies drawer.  The next year, I can pull out the elements and make them into cards, which is what I did for these cards- pulling them together mostly from already created elements. Lawn Fawn Snowman with C9 snowflakes and an alcohol ink panel. Te Snowflake foil it, snowman, and greeting TE Gus and Gertie stamp, Lawn Fawn Greeting

 Featuring more "from the desk" cards.  I foiled and stenciled these greetings last year and just pulled them out for some quick cards.  The snowman and script greetings were also in my book of extras. Now that I have all these bits and bobs sorted, I used them so much more!! Here are the coupon pages I use.  I don't put them in binders, just add three rings.  I keep them sorted enough, but it's so nice to stamp extra greetings, file them away, and be able to put my inky fingers on them and use them at a future time. Thank you for using my affiliate link (below) Ad:  https://amzn.to/3YxBZUz All supplies are by Taylored Expressions- except the script words and the green tree, which came from Scrapbook and Cards Today's Holly Jolly one day virtual event.