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Yes, It’s A Holiday - National Wine Day Card

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  Hello everyone and welcome to another "Yes, It is a Holiday" or "Yes, It's a Holiday" blog post.  Not that I need a reason to celebrate with a glass of wine but today is National Wine Day and the Yes, It’s a Holiday / Yes It is a Holiday crew (me, Debra, and Lori) are celebrating. To make this quick card, I started by making a top folding A2 card from white cardstock.  Then, to the card front, I adhered a piece of “wine” colored textured cover paper from Marco’s Paper that I had in my stash (bought this yearsssss ago). Next, I cut another piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die and then I embossed it using the embossing folder with wine names from Sunlit.  Actually, it seems to deboss, not emboss, but, whatever.  Then I adhered it to the card front.   Next, I stamped one of the sentiments from the Cheers stamp set from Rubbernecker Stamps  and layered it on a piece of the same wine colored cardstock, and then to the card front. ...

The Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - May 2022 Edition

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  Hello everyone and welcome to the May  2022 edition of The Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  If you are just joining us, on the 25th of each month, the Crafty Elves -  Debra of  Meticulosity , Lisa of  Life of a BZScrapper , and myself - post {up to} 4 Christmas/Holiday card ideas.  Instead of stressing in November to make holiday cards, we make them each month so, at the end of the year, we are ready to send them out.  And we hope to inspire you to do the same.   Links to Debra's and Lisa's projects, as well as links to all of our social media pages, are at the end of this post.      Now, on to my ideas for this month. Card Idea No. 1 So, let’s talk about this set of 6 cards.  I had to make these after watching THIS video from the Maymay Made It Crafts YouTube channel and I know y’all know who Maymay is.   Check out her video above for a more detailed explanation but, basically, you take a piece of 12” ...