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More beautiful Team swaps for Autumn

September 19, 2025

First up is a fun fold card made by Paula:

This pretty stamp is part of the Rustic Centerpiece stamp set seen here. She colored the image in with Blends markers. Beautiful work Paula!

I don’t remember seeing a fold like this card before. I love that the main panel on the left is accented by the DSP panel on the right.

Here are her measurements:
– card base 10 3/4″ X 5 1/2″ scored at 1 5/8″, 3 1/4″, 7 1/2″ & 9 1/8″
– left panel – vanilla 2 3/4″ X 4 3/4″, Early Espresso 3″ X 5″
– right panel – DSP 2 3/4″ X 3 3/4″, Early Espresso layer 3″ X 4″
– Vanilla inside 3 3/4″ X 5″

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Next is a gorgeous card made by Tracey:

Isn’t it stunning?! Tracey loves to create her own background with stamps. It looks like printed paper! She says she stamped the flowers & leaves in 12 different ink colors!! Wow!

She used the following stamps: Encircled with Love, Blooming Phrases, Impressions Abloom, With You in Mind & You are Remarkable.

The leaves are from the Thankful Garden dies; the embossing folder is Exposed Brick. What a fabulous card!

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Lastly today is a fun Halloween card made by Barb:

She used the Spooky Halloween bundle & Halloween designer paper. See this suite here.

Her colors include Black with Daffodil Delight. She did a ton of extra work to make her card a bit spooky; notice all of her sponging….

She colored the main image in with Blends markers and textured the left panel too.

Measurements:
– Black card base 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″ score at 2 1/8″ & 4 1/4″
– Daffodil Delight 2″ X 5 1/4″ for the left panel, inside is 4″ X 5 1/4″
– Black square 3″
– White front square 2 3/4″, Inside is 3 1/2″ X 4 3/4″

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Beautiful Fall swap card projects

September 22, 2023
I shared quite a few of my Team swap cards yesterday and today are three more beauties!

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First up is a beautiful card made by Jacki featuring the Sending Smiles set seen here and the Sending dies seen here

I always love to see out of the box colors for the Autumn season. She used Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow and Pumpkin Pie with Crushed Curry. The background designer paper is the Inked Botanicals from the Annual catalog.

What a gorgeous bouquet of flowers she created.

Next is Marla's card – she also used the Inked Botanicals designer paper. She also used the Cottage Wreaths stamp set seen here on her main layer.

The colors include Crushed Curry, Lost Lagoon and Calypso Coral – all featured in her designer paper.

Measurements:
- Vanilla card base 7 1/2" X 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4", 2 3/4" X 3 3/4" for stamped front panel
- Crushed Curry 3" X 5 1/4" plus 3" X 4" for front panel layer & 1" X 5 1/4" inside
- Designer paper 2 3/4" X 5"
Ginny made this last card using the Natural Prints set and Nature's Prints dies seen on page 24 of the annual catalog.

She cased this card from Mitusu Crafts; she inked her clear blocks directly in our classic inks and stamped directly onto her card stock. She heat embossed the 'splotches' using Copper embossing powder.

There are so many awesome details here – the colors are Cajun Craze, Pretty Peacock and Pebbled Path. I love the greeting shape – cut by hand I believe.

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Amazing Bag of Bones Halloween & Pick of the Patch swap cards

September 21, 2023
We held our monthly Team swap last weekend and I'm excite to share these amazing swap cards with you.

First up is a gorgeous card made by Candace that features the Bag of Bones bundle.

She added a strip of the new Them Bones designer paper seen here to her Cajun Craze textured layer (Exposed Brick) and created the gorgeous blended background circles for her skeletons. I believe she used Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Starry Sky and blending brushes.

Her skeletons were heat embossed with White powder on Black cardstock, then die-cut with the Bag of Bones dies. The bats on the yellow moon are die-cuts from this same bundle.

This bundle was out of stock for a bit but it's back now! See it here.

Measurements:
- Black card base 8 1/2" X 5 1/2" score at 4 1/4", layer for DSP is 2" X 5 1/2"
- Cajun Craze 4" X 5 1/4"
- Them Bones DSP 1 3/4" X 5 1/4"
- Circles from Stylish Shapes – 1 1/4", 1 5/8" and 3"
Check out the inside; she jazzed it up with strips of cardstock and designer paper.

Sharon made this adorable card with the same bundle and Them Bones designer series paper.

She added the cool 'Glow in the Dark' bats & ghosts to her middle panel. The skeleton is stamped with Black Stazon ink on Glow in the Dark specialty paper (seen here) as well! So cool!

It's a spanner card! She jazzed up the inside layers too.

Measurements:
- Starry Sky card base 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4". Then cut up to center score line at 1 1/2" from both sides. Horizontal strip is 5 1/2" X 1 1/2"
- Black layers – front sides are 1 3/8" X 4 1/8", center 2 3/8" X 4 1/8" and 2 3/8" X 1 1/8" for greeting
- Designer paper – front side panels 1 1/4" X 4", back inside 1 3/8" X 4 1/4"
- Cajun Craze center 2 1/4" X 4"
- White inside 2 1/2" X 4"
What a fabulous card!

Lastly today is a sweet card by Candace who featured the Pick of the Patch bundle seen here:

I love her out of the box color choices of Pretty Peacock, Blackberry Bliss and Pumpkin Pie. She used the new Deckled Circle dies for the background of her punched pumpkins. Her ribbon is new as well – a Vanilla and Black gingham seen here.

The photo barely shows off the pretty and new Distressed Tile embossing folder. It's a new favorite for many!

I'll share more fabulous team swaps tomorrow! See three other gorgeous swaps here

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Two Neat Cheerful Daisy Fun Fold cards by Barb

September 19, 2023
Barb was our Artist of the Month for my Flowerbug's team in August and made this super neat card with the Fresh as a Daisy designer paper and the Cheerful Daisy bundle seen here.

It uses a long piece of the designer paper, scored and folded to create most of the card. She cased the idea from Patty Bennett.

She added two layers of die-cut daisies to the folds using layered circles as a base for them.

Measurements:

Start out with a 5 1/4" X 12" piece of designer paper and score it at 2", 4" and 6". Adhere the paper together on the score lines. Then add to a full card base measuring 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". Now embellish with your die-cuts or punches, layering them in different heights.

The inside has a die-cut from the Scalloped Contours dies.

Next is a beautiful Double-Decker fun fold card featuring Blueberry Bushel and White.

I made a card like this on a recent video; see it here.

This card looks a bit intimidating – at least it did to me – until I tried one. It's actually quite easy.

Measurements:
- Card base 8 1/2" X 5 1/2" score at 2 1/8" and 4 1/4"
- White front 2 1/2" X 3 1/2", die-cut scalloped rectangle 3 1/8" X 4 3/8" finished, front texture 1 7/8" X 5 1/4"
- White box for double-decker 2 1/2" X 3 1/2" score every 3/4" and form into a box
- Blueberry Bushel 2 3/4" X 3 3/4"
- DSP 4" X 5 1/4"
See more of her Cheerful Daisy cards here.

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