Butterflies and Peace

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know! 

I'm playing catch up with my regular scheduling... so, the cards I'm sharing with you today feature September's and October's NDC plates from Clarity... and the post title combines elements from both cards...

Here's the video of how I created the card...  

Card: Unbranded white and kraft (under the parchment) and Clarity's baby pink parchment

Groovi Plates: Picot Square (square frame) and Butterfly Pocket NDC (everything else)

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, Square picot dies, Polychromos pencils and Pergamano brads

Challenges... 

#306 AG at Dream Valley

AG at Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday

Wk 24 AG at Gem of A Craft Challenge

Here's the video of how I created the card...  

Card: Unbranded white and kraft and Clarity's clear parchment

Groovi Plates: Linda's Father Christmas - Christmas Treasures (frame) and Peace, Joy & Hope NDC

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing tools, square picot dies, Polychromos pencils and rhinestones from my stash

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

Christmas Virtual Retreat - Bonus Sessions

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The cards I'm sharing with you today are from the 2 bonus sessions of the 4th annual Christmas virtual retreat held early last month in my Facebook group...

Here's the video of how I created the card...  

Card: Unbranded white and kraft and Clarity's pale green parchment

Groovi plates: Josie's Love Circular Lace Duet and Linda's Christmas Treasures - Advent (sentiment)

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, circle picot dies, Pgold Posca pen and Pergamano brads

Challenges...

AG at Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge

Wk 46 AG at Digi Choosday

AG at Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday

Here's the video of how that card and the full set of 24 featuring every image from Linda's plate was created...

Card: Unbranded white and kraft, and Clarity's pale green parchment (video shows various other colors, too)

Groovi Plates: Prince William Lace Duet and Linda's Christmas Treasures Advent

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, gold Posca pen and Pergamano brads

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

Christmas Virtual Retreat - Part 2

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The cards I'm sharing with you today are from sessions 3 and 4 of the 4th annual Christmas virtual retreat held early last month in my Facebook group...

Here's the video of how I created the card...  

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity's clear parchment and Antarctica card

Groovi plates: Tina's Buttercups and Fans Embroidery Parchlet (frames) and Tina's Christmas Snowman Parchlet

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing tools, Square picot dies, gold Posca pen, gold Madeira thread and size 12 needle

Challenges... 

#479 Winter/ Snow at Use Your Stuff

#305 Occasions other than birthdays at Dream Valley 

Wk 45 AG at Digi Choosday

Here's the video of how that card and the entire 12 Days of Christmas set was created...

Card: Unbranded white and kraft, Clarity's clear parchment and apple green parchment (faux ribbon)

Groovi Plates: Barb's 12 Days of Christmas and Josie's Prince William Lace Duet

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, Square picot dies, Polychromos pencils, gold Posca pen and rhinestones from my stash

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

Christmas Virtual Retreat - Part 1

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The cards I'm sharing with you today are from sessions 1 and 2 of the 4th annual Christmas Virtual Retreat held early last month in my Facebook group...

Here's the video of how I created the card...  

Card: Unbranded white and kraft and Clarity's clear parchment

Groovi plates: Linda's Christmas Treasures - New Year Party (frame) and Linda's Silent Night Layering Frame (imagery)

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing tools, Square picot dies, Polychromos pencils, gold Posca pen and Pergamano brads

Challenges... 

#117 Texture at Path of Positivity (there's lots of different textures in the scene)

#93 Christmas at Unicorn Challenge

November AG at Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge

Here's the video of how that card was created...

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity's apple green parchment and Marina Fedotova's Poppets Postcards

Groovi Plates: Love Circular Duet

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, Polychromos pencils (skin) and Ranger Mica Powders (all other coloring)

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

Embossing at 613 Avenue Create

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know! 

It's time for another challenge at 613 Avenue Create!  This month's OPTIONAL twist is EMBOSSING (WET OR DRY).  Because Groovi is done with dry embossing, it is basically an anything goes for me, so I've revisited a design I first blogged earlier this year...

Here's the video of how I created the card...

Card: Unbranded white and Clarity's blue parchment

Groovi Plates: Linda's We Three Kings Christmas Treasures and Linda's Contours - Daisy Chain Pattern

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, Polychromos pencils, Picot Square dies, gold Posca pen and Pergamano brads

Challenges...

#456 Make your mark at AtSaM

#8 AG at Creative Inspiration (new to me)

#265 AG at Creative Fingers

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

Linda's & Lace - Daffodils

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It may seem strange to be featuring daffodils in November, because even for those of you in the southern hemisphere they are seasonally off.  But this is the design that triggered my idea to create a 12 part blog and video series with Linda's stunning & Lace collection of Groovi plates.  So, I hope you agree that the design is a fitting finale?

Set 3 recap...

And here's the video of how I created the card...

Although this is the last video in this series, if you're subscribed to my YouTube channel, please make sure your notifications are turned on as a new series will begin on there this coming Saturday, November 4.  I've got some catching up to do on the blog, so the first post for that series won't be for a few weeks

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity's clear parchment and Indian Summer paper (behind the parchment square)

Groovi Plates: Linda's Daffodil & Lace, Kiss of the Sun and Square Picot

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing tools, square and circle picot dies, Polychromos pencils, gold Posca pen and Pergamano brads

Challenges... 

#752 Embossing at Allsorts (everything is dry embossed onto the parchment)

Wk 43 AG at Digi Choosday

Wk 22 AG at Gem of A Craft Challenge

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,

Linda's & Lace - Primrose

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

After several months we've reached installment 11 of Linda's beautiful & Lace Groovi plate collection.  Again, I'm sorry if you weren't expecting to see this one this week, but next week's finale is real show stopper!  This one is pretty special, too, as Linda's design on the plate has the ribbon wrapped around a CIRCLE.  Please watch the video below to see how I adapted it for the square...

Set 3 preview/ recap...

And here's the video of how I created the card...

Card: Unbranded white and kraft and Clarity's clear parchment

Groovi Plates: Linda's Primrose & Lace, Special Day Sentiments and Diagonal basic grid

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing tools, picot square dies, Polychromos pencils and Pergamano brads

Challenges... 

AG at Jan's Digi Stamps

#150 Fancy Florals at Double Trouble (new to me challenge)

#302 Flowers at Crafter's Cafe (new to me challenge)

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then,