2025 November Card Swaps - CHRISTMAS Cards

 

Greetings to you!  

This will be our last Card Swap for this 2025 year!  November's challenge was to design a card and envelope with the theme of CHRISTMAS - it's Creator's Choice with a Christmas design!

We had SEVEN participants who created CHRISTMAS cards this month, and they each are "outstanding"!  So excited to share these fabulous creations.   Each one is uniquely designed and offers such joy!                             

Maria

April

Angie

Meagan

Still under construction!  Coming soon...

Michille

Sandra

Melissa

Hope you enjoyed these unique Christmas cards from this swap!

The next card swap will be in January 2026.  For January, we will feature a "Valentine's theme" and a challenge to create a non-traditional shaped card with "bling"!

Please come back and check those out!

Here's a link to last month's card swap - October -  Christmas Tags (small, medium, and large).

Thanks for stopping by and letting us share our card swaps!  Remember to hug the ones you love the most... until next time!

Almost done... 2025 Book Blanket

 

 UPDATE!  

Here's a current pic of the Book Blanket at the start of DECEMBER!  Almost there...   

Previous post:

This year, I am putting two of my favorite hobbies together - Reading and Crocheting!

I'm posting this now to keep me "on track" and focused on this new adventure! 

 I'm planning to crochet a simple granny square inspired by the book's front cover that I'm reading.  I'm hoping to read 48 books this year -making a blanket of 6x8 squares.  We shall see! 

Here is my beginning row, so far!

If you have a recommendation of what to read, please let me know.  I like all types of genres of reading!  

Thank you for stopping by and allowing me to share my new crocheting project with you.  Remember though those you love the most... until next time!

2025 October Card Swap - Christmas Tags

  

Presenting our Christmas Tags for the 2025 OCTOBER Card Swap! 

This month's Card Swap challenge was to design and create
THREE Christmas tags - small, medium, and large sizes. 

We had SEVEN participants who created CHRISTMAS TAGS this month, and they each are "outstanding"!  So excited to share these beautiful creations.   Enjoy these whimsical creations.                               

Angie

April

Maria

Meagan

Michille

Sandra

Melissa

Hope you enjoyed these unique Christmas tags from this swap!

Next month, for November, we will feature a "Creator's Choice" Christmas Design card swap!  

Please come back and check those out!

 Here's a link to last month's card swap - September -  

Halloween Cards

Thanks for stopping by and letting us share our card swaps!  Remember to hug the ones you love the most... until next time!

2025 HALLOWEEN crochet blanket

 Looooooook!  

It's finally completed!  The Sirdar Halloween Blanket that I crocheted is done!

I added and subtracted from the general design that Sirdar came out with.  I LOVE IT!  It was a group crochet-along that was very enjoyable to crochet!  I followed along each week, and all my coworkers and patients at the hospital followed along with the progress - it was a great time!

The back is covered with a fleece blanket - this was also a new technique I learned for backing a crocheted blanket while working on this project.  I will do it again!  

Sirdar offers many crochet-along blankets that are available for free, or you can purchase a kit that includes all the instructions, videos, and yarn.  The videos were so helpful!  There was also a Facebook group for support that was entertaining, as well as informative, for each week's assignments - if you're interested!

2025 September Card Swaps - HALLOWEEN

 

 

Presenting to you these

    SCARE-ATASTIC   swaps from our 2025         SEPTEMBER Card Swap! 

This month's Card Swap challenge was to design and create a card using a Halloween or Spooky theme and an additional challenge of incorporating "Stripes and Polk-a-Dots" into the design. 

We had SEVEN participants who created HALLOWEEN card creations!  YES!  We've added to our fold - so excited!  Welcome Michille - she's got such a unique flair to add to our group!

Here are the Halloween creations - they are each amazing and unique!  Enjoy these whimsical creations.                                Thank you for looking!

Angie

April

Maria

Meagan

Michille

Sandra

Melissa

Hope you enjoyed the cards from this swap!

Next month, in October, we will feature handmade Christmas Gift Tags in a trio set - small, medium, and large sizes!  Please come back and check those out!

 Here's a link to last month's card swap - August. 

Thanks for stopping by and letting us share our card swaps!  Remember to hug the ones you love the most... until next time!

Crocheted "Forever Fleece" Lap Blanket

 

Finally got this one completed!  This was crocheted for a coworker at the hospital for her birthday that was in September!

It's crocheted with the 100% acrylic "Forever Fleece" yarn by BERNAT, and it's so soft to the touch.  

It's a heavy lap blanket.  This yarn-way is Orange Sun - she likes the Texas Longhorns, so I was trying to capture the orange color!  

The pattern was free from Bernat - Crochet Textured Frame Blanket.

2025 August Card Swap - Texture, Fall, & Thinking of You Cards

 

The August Card Swap was held on the last Monday of the month, and these cards deliver a punch to this month's challenge!  

The challenge was to incorporate
TEXTURE into a card using FALL colors.   The theme was to create a "Thinking of You" card with an accompanying envelope. 

These cards are spectacular!

This month, we had six card swappers involved.  Here are these six awesome homemade cards!!

MARIA

ANGIE

SANDRA

MELISSA

APRIL

MEAGAN

Thanks for joining us and letting us share our card swaps for August with you!

 Here's a link to last month's swap here -

"Celestial/Magic" themed creations using moody colors for a birthday card. 

   

Next month's theme is to create a  "Fall/Spooky" card with envelope using STRIPES & Polk-a-dots!  Be sure to check back for next month's swap!

     Hope you are enjoying life!  Remember to hug the ones you love the most... until next time!