Love Heart

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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! 

Another deep dive into my diminishing To-Blog pile finds this card, created using one of my favorite duet plates and a heart club plate...

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity's clear parchment and designer paper

Groovi Plates: King Charles Duet, Heart NDC and Occasions border (sentiment)

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, Perga color pens and pearls from my stash

Challenges... 

#64 AG at 2 Sisters on the Blog

AG at Bizzy Becs Challenge

#101 AG at Crafts Galore Encore

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

Delicate Roses

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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! 

The card I'm sharing today, on what would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday, features an arch covered in her favorite flowers...

Card: Unbranded kraft and Clarity's clear parchment

Groovi Plates: Linda's Rose Arch and the King Charles Duet Grid

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, Perga color pens, and rhinestones from my stash

Challenges... 

AG at TTCRD

AG at 613 Avenue Create

AG at Polkadoodles

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

#34 Gloriously Goldenrod at Rainbow Card Challenge

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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's the first of the month, so it means it's time for a new challenge at Rainbow Card Challenge.  Our theme this month is Gloriously Goldenrod, and please, if you must, use only a hint of a preferably neutral color.  After all, we are a monochromatic challenge!

And here's my card...

Card: Unbranded white and Clarity's yellow parchment
Groovi plates: King Charles duet and Tina's Primrose & Alliums
Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating and cutting tools, Gold Posca pen and Pergamano brads

Challenges...

 #216 AG at Creative Fingers
#92 AG at Crafts Galore Encore

AG at ABMTTC Extra

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

A Festive Wish

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Firstly, you're not seeing things... I am posting a non-challenge post on a Monday instead of my usual Wednesday, primarily so I don't forget!  With that in mind, after this utterly crazy year and whatever your beliefs, my festive wish for y'all is thus in the form of the Serenity Prayer...

So many of us have felt so out of control this year... a feeling that will likely only intensify with the emergence of the COVID mutation... and none of us know what tomorrow will bring... but I hope and indeed pray, that you and yours find some peace in our Savior's birth.  Christmas is very different this year, but it's not cancelled.  And with that, I also share a favorite Christmas creation of the year, details of which can be found in THIS post.  Yes, she is colored to look like me... grin!

For the prayer...

Card: Unbranded white, Clarity clear parchment and DP

Groovi Plates: King Charles Duet and Serenity Prayer

Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating, and cutting tools, Perga color pens, and Clarity's handmade paper flowers

Challenges... 

#21 at NBUS (prayer plate)

#214 Tis the Season at Crafty Gals Corner

AG at TTCRD

I'll be back on the first of the year with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.  In the meantime, I again wish you peace,

Paris with King Charles

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The card I'm sharing today, created for a client, features the first stamping I've done since starting Groovi in November 2018!  It features the 2nd element of Clarity's City of Paris - three way overlay stamp and Josie's King Charles duet grid, hence the post title.  My client asked that the image be colored, but left said color and indeed frame up to me, but we're both very happy with the result...

Perhaps unsurprisingly after so long away from ink, it took EIGHT attempts... not all on parchment... to get to the final image with a brand new ink pad, but it was well worth it!

Card: Unbranded white, and Clarity's clear and teal parchment
Groovi Plates: King Charles duet
Tools and embellishments: Groovi and Pergamano embossing, perforating, and cutting tools, City of Paris 3 way overlay stamp, Ranger archival black ink, Perga color pens, and Pergamano brads

Challenges...
August AG at 613 Avenue Create
AG at TTCRD
NBUS #17 at NBUS (stamp and ink are NBUS)

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

Snip, snip, snip!

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The card I'm sharing today was a bonus card I created during my regular Facebook live demo earlier this month which was dedicated to the Groovi plate's designer, Josie Davidson.  There is absolutely no embossing involved, only piercing and snipping, hence the post title.  Grin.

Card: Unbranded white and Clarity's clear parchment
Groovi Plates: King Charles duet grid
Tools and embellishments: Clarity plate mate and brads, Pergamano piercing and cutting tools, and pearls from my stash

Challenges...
#374 Use Snippets at Pixie's Snippets Playground (It's ALL snippets!)
#73 AG at Crafts Galore Encore
Wk 12 AG at Polkadoodles

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

Love You A Bunch!

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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!

Today's cards are more from the almost ancient 'Must Blog' pile...

Card: Unbranded kraft card blanks and unbranded white colored with Distress Ink, and Clarity's clear parchment
Groovi Plates: King Charles duet (top), Queen Mary duet (bottom) NDC bouquet, and Occasions border
Tools and embellishments: Pergamano embossing, piercing, and cutting tools, Clarity brads, and Arteza pencils

Challenges (all top card)...
AG at Incy Wincy Designs
AG at Brown Sugar
AG at TTCRD

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

Magically Metallic at Rainbow Card Challenge

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 the first of the month, so that means it's time for a new challenge at Rainbow Card Challenge.  Our theme this month is Magically Metallic. Yep, with the holidays just weeks away it's time to bring out the bling!  As usual, we don't mind a hint of another color if necessary.

And here's my card...

Card: Unbranded white card, and Clarity's silver parchment
Groovi plates: King Charles duet and Twas the Night 4
Tools and embellishments: Pergamano embossing, piercing, and cutting tools, Clarity brads, and Nuvo Shimmer pen (virtually invisible in the pic, but it's on the moon and roof!)

Challenges...
AG at TTCRD
#364 Use Snippets at Pixie's Snippets Playground (large white snippet used for mount)
Wk 43 AG at Polkadoodles

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

Passion for Purple at Rainbow Card Challenge

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 the first of the month, so that means it's time for a new challenge at Rainbow Card Challenge.  Our theme this month is Passion for Purple although your card does NOT have to be passionate, if you don't want to!  What we do ask is that it is MONOCHROMATIC PURPLE, but we don't mind a hint of another color if necessary.

And here's my card...

Card: Unbranded white blank, and purple parchment from Clarity (one sheet used, which is shiny on the reverse, so I cut the flowers from the scraps)
Groovi Plate: King Charles
Tools and embellishments: Unbranded flower die, and Clarity brads

Challenges...
AG at TTCRD
#173 3+ Layers at Crafty Gals Corner
Wk 30 AG at Polkadoodles

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