Happy Thanksgiving 2024!
Best wishes for a lovely holiday with friends and family. Blessings and abundance are my hopes for all of us as we enter the holiday season. Lots to be thankful for! Now it will be time for full on Christmas crafting! XOXO
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The Greetery Release is LIVE – and there’s a big SALE too!
THE GREETERY NEW RELEASE IS LIVE NOW!!
THE ICING COLLECTION IS AVAILABLE!
It was my pleasure to introduce the brand new Icing collection to you today! And, I hope you love it as much as I do!! Happy Crafting!! If you scroll back to my last blog post you can see all my projects from the new release, and the accompanying supply lists. If you have any questions – reach out!! Thanks for all the love and kind comments! Happy Creating! Can't wait to see what YOU make!
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it helps me so very much and I'm so grateful!! XOXO
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The Greetery – Icing Collection – New Release Today!
Hi crafty friends! Happy Thanksgiving Week! I am sending love and wishing you and your families a wonderful holiday together! I can hardly believe it’s time for turkey already. This year is going to finish up fast! I am looking forward to a quiet week at home with my family, staying cozy and watching Christmas movies and eating tooooo much! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Today is a VERY exciting day because I’m here to announce a NEW RELEASE from The Greetery! The last release of the year! The new release is called the Icing Collection – as in the icing on the cake! The new release is full of more holiday goodness and things for packaging and giving. So here’s the deal – and it’s good. Today, the design team is showing you everything! And guess what? Today you can BUY everything too! No need to wait until tomorrow! The new release will be available at 10am EST today! Yeah!
I will be sharing four new projects with you today! Lots of photos and inspiration. Let’s get started!
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My first card for today features the brand new Nordic Tree Die set! I combined it with the Warm and Cozy sentiments from the last new release. I created a clean and simple Christmas card with Dr. Suess colors and vibes! My finished card is an A2 white card base, layered with soft pink and vellum. I die cut the tree layers (there are three layers to create the tree) from green cardstock and then added white paint splatters and a bit of snow too! I finished it off by adding a pretty gold star and some enamel dot ornaments. The sentiment is heat embossed in white onto kraft cardstock. Classically Christmas! I love the details in the die cut – makes for a gorgeous tree.
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My next card for today features the brand new Nordic Birds Dies and the brand new Crystal Charms Dies! Also featured are past favorites Joy and Pine Wisps! My finished card is an A2 kraft card base, layered in Christmas red, then a pretty arch to feature my design elements. I ink blended the top of the arch for a bit of warmth. My color palette is classic red and green for the holidays… I made it a bit rustic by using kraft paper also. I die cut all the pieces and added bits of sparkly glitter for a snowy feeling. My final touch was some red enamel dots.
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My third card for today features the brand new Hey Honeycomb Penguin Dies! More cute additions to the Honeycomb product line! And also, just releasing today, white honeycombs! Wait until you see all of these!!! I kept my card cute and sweet! My card base is a white A2 card, layered with some Doodlebug plaid for a subtle background. I die cut a scallop panel and added icy blue ink blending… I used the new Hey Honeycomb Holiday stamp set for my sentiment. These are SOOOO fun to make!!
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My final project for today features gift tags I made using the brand new Inside and Out Holiday Tags stamps, dies and stencils! I also used the brand new Ornamental Tags Dies. I love a soft color palette of pink, cream and gold… I do also love pretty pink packages! The stamp/die combo makes 8 tags at once, in a pretty, ornate shape! I stamped and heat embossed the stamp in gold embossing onto cream cardstock. I used the matching stencil to do ombre pink ink blending on the tags. I blended the ink only on the top of my tags… I splattered everything with white ink! I added some gold bows and classy pearls… The twine is natural with a bit of gold in it also.
That’s it for today – and for the reveals of this awesome new release! I am quite sure you must be in the holiday mood now! Thanks for stopping by to share with me today! It’s my pleasure to introduce the new release. Enjoy and happy crafting! XOXO
Giveaway: The Greetery is giving away TWO $50 gift certificates, the comment deadline is Wednesday, 11/27 at 11:59pm EST (comments from the design team blogs are all entered into giveaway). Winners will be announced on The Greetery blog on Friday, 11/29 at 7am EST! GOOD LUCK!!
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Sweet Vintage Reindeer Christmas Card!
Hi friends! Popping in this weekend to share a cute and cheerful Christmas card! The new release from Honey Bee Stamps is called Cozy Christmas – and boy is it cozy! And gorgeous! I will be making more cards with this fun new release, but I couldn't wait to share the first one! I do love a vintage reindeer motif – kitschy and adorable…. Well, Honey Bee came out with a die set that makes the MOST adorable little reindeer! I turned him into a card and used classic Christmas colors and a vintage vibe…. Stripes and holly and snowflakes, oh my!
Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving week coming up! Stay tuned next week, too, because there will be a NEW Greetery Release! YEAH!
My card for today is an A2 cream cardstock card base. Layered with candy cane stripes and red and more cream. The star of the show is my dapper reindeer in his winter scarf… I added lots of greenery and a few sparkles and snow flurries. It all worked together so nicely. I die cut the background with a subtle snowflakes pattern. Using cream cardstock instead of bright white cardstock softens everything just the right amount here. I used Copic Markers to shade my die cut pieces and also white gel pen accents…. Again – just SO fun! Happy crafting my friends – hope you're having a great weekend! XOXO
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The Greetery – Merry Christmas Gifts!
Hi creative and crafty friends! It's my turn on The Greetery Blog today, and I'm sharing my project here too! Hope you're doing great and enjoying this beautiful Fall season. My birthday is over, and voting day is over. It will be Thanksgiving before we know it…and then Christmas! The rest of the year is going to fly by!! For my project today I created a classically red and green Christmas Card using the gorgeous Gifts Galore Stencils and Dies… This card is nice and flat for mailing too! I added a bit of sparkle to it, and I used the new Warm and Cozy stamp set for the perfect sentiment. Time to make Christmas cards for sure!My finished card is an A2 white card base. I layered green patterned paper on top of the white card base. To begin the card I used the Gifts Galore Stencils and kept my colors to only red and green. This idea has been in my head for a long time and I really like how it turned out. I used two shades of red and two shades of green for a clean monochromatic look. I die cut the bows and ribbons using the Gifts Galore dies – and used bright gold cardstock.
I trimmed my presents panel down to 4" x 5.25". I glued all the gold pieces onto the gifts and then added a few pearls as embellishments. I heat embossed the pretty sentiment onto vellum using white embossing powder for an elegant look. I wrapped my vellum strip around the presents and affixed that whole panel to the card base. I couldn't resist adding a few snowy white paint splatters too!
My 60th birthday was this past Sunday and I had a wonderful day! My husband spoiled me rotten and I am so super grateful!! On to a new decade as a sassy old lady!
That's it for my project for today! I hope you have a fantastic and creative day! Wishing you a wonderful November as we get ready to celebrate gratitude and move into the holiday season. I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! XO Wanda -
Fun Halloween Felt Pennants and a Birthday Witch!
Hello friends! Happy Halloween Week! I love this week! AND, it’s also my birthday week! So I especially love this week! LOL. Saturday night we went to a fun and festive Halloween Festival and I dressed up (photos at the end of my post), and we had the best time. Sunday we carved pumpkins all day. The house is all decorated and the front yard is REALLY decorated! (My husband goes crazy with the decorations and it’s the talk of the neighborhood!) We are Halloween ready. We have a lot of fun – setting up a table in our driveway and playing spooky music, the fog machine going…passing out candy. And especially chit chatting with the neighbors and seeing the cute costumes.
On Sunday I am turning the big SIXTY! Gosh, it’s been bothering me for months. That seems like so many years. I’m not ready to be this age. In my brain I’m still about 25! No other birthday has really bothered me, but this one is. I can’t stop thinking about it and obsessing about it. (Nothing I can really do though, right?) My husband has been spoiling me already and I feel loved, and blessed by so many people. I do know that I am lucky to have had so many years. In the comments, leave me your one best piece of advice for graceful aging! Wish me luck!
I have a reallllllllly fun project to share today. Maybe one of my favorite things I’ve ever made!! It came together exactly how I pictured in my head and I love how the color palette turned out. I made some Halloween Felt Pennants/Banners for decorations for our home! They were easy and fun to make – a cheerful project with minimum supplies…a quiet afternoon in the craft room…. The dies are from Ellen Hutson! Did you know that you can still buy EH stamps and dies on Amazon?? Well, you can! CLICK HERE!
I used the dies from Ellen Hutson (sadly I think the Halloween ones are sold out right now, but the pennant with different sayings is available) and my favorite felt (the only felt I use) in Halloween colors. The other supplies are either from Amazon or Hobby Lobby and I’ll talk more about that below. Let’s take a look at my finished pennants! EEK! Lots of photos ahead, because I was having too much fun actually. Aren’t they the cutest thing??
I made two pennants but I could have made tons more – I just ran out of time!! The dies + that felt = delicious! The felt cuts like butter with those dies. Couldn’t be nicer. I used orange and black of course, but then popped in some pink and peach. This is my new favorite Halloween combo.
The banners were kind of “floppy” with just the felt so I die cut a matching piece of cardstock and glued it to the back to make them look nice and finished and to stand out straight.
Like literally who knew that I would love pink and orange together??? I used ribbons from my stash and mirrored stars as a nice small accent. I tried not to go overboard as you know I like to do….
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Here are my pretty felt colors – they are also listed in my supply links! MMMMMMM. Yummy. This felt is 100% wool and it crafts like a dream. And it comes in many many beautiful colors!!
I used this fabric glue to glue all my pieces together – gave me a nice hold without lumps and bumps and it did dry quickly! I bought the dowels and the little wood balls at Hobby Lobby and used this metallic paint to paint the wood balls that are on top of the dowels.
I used my hot glue gun to attach the dowels to the back of the pennants and to attach the wood balls on the top. I also used hot glue for the stars…
Some pretty ribbons from my stash….
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And now for Wanda the Witch – the birthday witch! Here is my costume for the Festival! I had fun doing bright green sparkly eye shadow (hard to see because of my glasses) and a nice spider on my neck! (a temporary tattoo)….and that hat! Mark bought that for me this year!! My spider earrings and my face stickers are from the Spirit Halloween store.
And here I am at one of the antique stores on the street with the Halloween Festival. You can see I’m getting attacked by a giant spider! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!
That’s it for today! Hope you have a really fun and cheerful Halloween. Don’t forget to be a kid and be silly once in a while! Eat candy and have some laughter. It’s good for the soul. Stay crafty and I’ll see you soon – after I’m SIXTY!!! Now that is the real spook! Hahahaha. XOXOXO Wanda
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Pretty Pink Posh – Holiday 2024 new release – Let it snow!
Hi friends! I'm so excited this week because it finally cooled off and it feels like Fall! This makes me giddy with excitement! The house is cool in the mornings and we can cozy up and have our coffee and watch the leaves fall from the trees across the street. I am renewed!! But, alas, we are also at the same time making all kinds of Christmas projects! Today is a big Instagram Hop to celebrate the new release from Pretty Pink Posh. If you have Instagram, be sure to pop over and leave some comments for a chance to win a prize from PPP! Here is my card for today's Instagram Hop!
I used new and old supplies from PPP to create a cheerful winter greeting! My finished card is a white A2 card base covered in pretty green stripes. I layered kraft paper (because I LOVE red, white and kraft together)… That adorable hat I made in traditional colors and added sparkly snowflakes and a tweet little birdie…. Such a happy card!
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CLICK HERE TO SHOP THE PPP NEW HOLIDAY RELEASE!!
CLICK HERE TO SHOP THE PPP NEW HOLIDAY RELEASE!!
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Pretty Pink Posh – Holiday 2024 New Release Blog Hop – Holly Jolly Cupcake!
Hello sweet crafty people! How are you doing this week? It's so nice to have you visit me at A Blog Called Wanda! If you're new here – welcome! We like to have a good time here! Today is a fun celebration BLOG HOP of the new release for October – Holiday 2024 from Pretty Pink Posh! I am excited to be part of a big multi day blog hop to celebrate the wonderful Holiday new release – stamps, dies, stencils, and more! All with a Christmas/Winter/Holiday theme. I love how cheerful this release is – and you're going to love it too! Great news -the new release is available for shopping now! Enjoy the hop, and I'm excited to share a card with you today! I made another card with the new release and I'll share that next week! I always feel like once it's October, you blink and it's Christmas! So it's time to start on those Christmas cards!!
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My card for today features lots of brand new goodies – and a familiar theme from our friends at Pretty Pink Posh – cupcakes – for every occasion! I had SO much fun making this happy confection! My finished card is an A2 white card base, layered in striped paper, white layer, vellum and then my featured cupcake! I used traditional colors and lots of bling bling! I want to take a giant bite of this cupcake for sure! I stenciled some aqua snowflakes on the background and used bits of gold cardstock for accents… I think it screams Christmas! I used the brand new Big Christmas Cupcake Dies, the Cascading Snowflakes stencils, and the Holly Jolly Shadow Dies!
Well, I truly hope this new release puts you in the mood for the Christmas season!! It's so fun being part of this great blog hop!! The links to the other bloggers for today are at the very bottom of my post! Be sure to visit all the blogs and leave your comments!! Remember to come by next week and see the rest of my projects! It's my pleasure to share with you today! XOXO
PRIZE INFO: There are THREE $30 gift certificates up for grabs (one winner each day). Winners will be picked randomly from comments along the blog hop. All comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 10/22/2024. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog. GOOD LUCK!!
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BLOG HOP LIST FOR TODAY! ENJOY THE HOP!
Pretty Pink Posh
Amy Rysavy
Wanda Guess
Carissa Wiley
Dana Kirby
Marine Simon
Lisa Mears
Carly Minner
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The Greetery – Happy Fall Typewriter!
Hi there my creative and crafty friends! It's my monthly turn on The Greetery Blog today to share a project with you! And I'm sharing here on my blog too! I am always so excited and happy to share more Greetery with you. You already know I love Fall, and today I have another Fall project to share, using a favorite die set…. My card features the gorgeous Vintage Type suite of stamps and dies, and lots of colorful Fall leaves…oh and touches of gold too! I typed out a message just for you!My finished card is a cream A2 card base, layered with kraft cardstock die cut with the Postal Dies. I started by die cutting out the typewriter pieces and all the leaves. The leaves are from the Autumn Curio Die Set. I stamped the sentiment using one of the small phrases in the Fall Foodie Stamp Set. I stamped all the elements in brown ink for a softer feeling – instead of black ink. I used Distress Inks to gently ink the edges of all the leaves and then splashed on some gold paint to make it shine…. I also used gold accents on the typewriter. To finish up my card I used foam tape to attach all the elements. I mixed and matched all the leaves until I got a layout that I liked. So warm and inviting! I used a few fall colored gems to complete the look.
ALL THE SUPPLIES FOR TODAY'S CARD ARE LISTED HERE!
ALL THE SUPPLIES FOR TODAY'S CARD ARE LISTED HERE!
That's it for my project for today! I hope you have a fantastic and creative day! I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! XO Wanda
ALL THE SUPPLIES FOR TODAY'S CARD ARE LISTED HERE!
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The Greetery – Fireside Collection – Release Day! Yeah!
THE GREETERY NEW RELEASE IS LIVE NOW!!
THE FIRESIDE COLLECTION IS AVAILABLE!
It was my pleasure to introduce the brand new Fireside Collection Holiday 2024 to you this week!! And, I hope you love it as much as I do!! Happy Crafting!! If you scroll back to my last two blog posts – from yesterday and Monday, you can see all my projects from the new release, and the accompanying supply lists. If you have any questions – reach out!! Thanks for all the love and kind comments this week! Happy Creating! Can't wait to see what YOU make!
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it helps me so very much and I'm so grateful!! XOXO
