September 2024 Card Swap - FALL Theme w/a Fun Fold

 

Hello!  Our September 2024 Card Swap was held on Tuesday this month - 

The challenge this month was to create and design a Fall themed card with some kind of a fun-fold!  

What's a "fun-fold" card, you may ask?  A fun-fold card is a card designed to fold in a way that is different from the traditional way of a card! 

 

The results turned out AWESOME!

We had six swappers this month that created a Fall Fun-Fold Card.  Enjoy looking at these creative cards!

SANDRA

ANGIE

APRIL

MELISSA

MARIA

MEAGAN

This month was a great success!  - Here is a link to August's card swap - Masculine Birthday Card.  If you haven't already - check these card swaps!

Our challenge for the month of OCTOBER is a HALLOWEEN-themed or "Breast Cancer Awareness-themed" card!   

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

August 2024 Card Swap - Masculine Birthday Cards

Greetings!

August held a fun and creative challenge - to design

masculine birthday cards.

I'm excited to present card designs that are diverse and innovative for this month's swap. It's always inspiring to see how artists interpret themes and cater to specific audiences with their unique styles and ideas.

Here are the standout designs or themes that participants have incorporated into this month's card designs. I'll start with our newest member. We are so excited to have her participate with us; she's relocated to Texas from Florida and we're proud to have her join our card swap!

SANDRA Due to most of her stamping materials still on the move to Texas; Sandra was using her "bare necessities" to complete her card swaps - she designed SIX cards for this challenge! Unfortunately, I was able to only photograph three designs. I am so sorry! Here are the ones I did snap a pic of!

MARIA

MEGAN

ANGIE

APRIL

MELISSA

Thank you for viewing our August Card Swaps! Next month, our challenge is to create and design a Fall-themed Fun-Fold card! Be sure and come back to find what our artists design for this challenge!

Remember to hug the ones you love the most...  until next time!

NEW! July 2024 - Card Swap is back!

 

Hello! It's been a while!  

We are back after a year-long hiatus!   Our challenge entries for this month was to design and create a set of GIFT TAGS (set of 3) or a CARD with the theme of CHRISTMAS - "Christmas in July" was the theme for July 2024.  

 We had 5 entries this month - and OH MY!  they are all fabulous - just keep on browsing - you'll see!  We met at the local Starbucks for our exchange -  

ANGIE

MARIA

MEAGAN

APRIL

MELISSA

Hope you enjoyed viewing this month's card swap entries!  Our next Card Swap will be held August 2024!  Thanks for joining us here today! 

The next month's challenge is to create and design a "masculine birthday" card with envelope.

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

The "Bloomscape" Crocheted Blanket is FINALLY completed!

 

    I just finished crocheting a beautiful blanket that I started in September 2022! It's based on a CAL (crochet-a-long) by The Secret Yarnery and features 12 different flower "bloom" designs. I decided to make a larger blanket by doing three of each design. The best part is, that I used 100% acrylic yarn from my scrap box, so it's a colorful mix of different yarn brands. If you're curious, you can check out the YouTube series for the Bloomscape Blanket. I'm so proud of how it turned out!- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK-JYEJfqMA&list=PLpolLUf9SLHhu3J6fyAPvXHLCDx-HOPwj&index=1

Remember to hug the ones you love, until next time...

Here's the 2023 "Moogly" Crochet Blanket

 

I just finished an intricate and beautiful crochet blanket I've diligently worked on for the past year. I'm really proud of how it turned out!  It's a MOOGLY crocheted blanket! 

Never heard of a MOOGLY - just wait!  It's a CAL (Crochet-A-Long) with 24 patterns that are designed by crocheters all over the world. It's been active since 2014 AND you can go to each year's patterns on this website! https://www.mooglyblog.com/category/2014-afghan-cal Such a treasure-trove of designs and ideas for a blanket. Two patterns for a 12" square per month - 24 squares per year!  I can't tell you how much we have learned from completing a MOOGLY in our crocheting skills.  

Kyle has completed several squares and is in the process of putting them into a blanket.  This is my 2nd MOOGLY and I've already started on the 2024 one!

This blanket is completed with BIG TWIST 100% acrylic yarn with a color scheme of white, mustard, rose pink, ruby red, and beige.  I wet-block each square before joining them together.

This blanket is going to Arkansas with one of my favorite couples - my sweet aunt and uncle!  I hope they like it!  Thank you for letting me share my crochet creation!  If you are a crocheter - look up MOOGLY; you'll be glad that you did!

Remember to hug the ones you love, until next time...

My first LOVEY to crochet!

 Here's my first "lovey" to crochet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjxA14f3qk&t=10002s&ab_channel=KittensandCrochet

Followed along with this youtube video, and it is SO CUTE!  Excited to make more of these for future baby gifts!

Kyle's My Hero!

 Here are some pics of Kyle's crochet projects over the last year...  He is my partner in crime with crocheting.  HE makes beautiful blankets,

and most are really hard patterns!  

Study of Texture Blanket

 

https://www.yarnspirations.com/bernat-study-of-texture-afghan/BRC0502-011777M.html

Here's our "Study of Texture" Blanket that we crocheted this year, 2023, from Yarnspirations.  We each chose a different color scheme, resulting in different looks!  This was a fun stitch-along to complete!  I'm giving this blanket to one of my favorite family pairs to remember me by! 

Study of Snow CAL

 

https://thecrochetcrowd.com/study-of-snow-crochet-blanket

Here's my blanket from the "Study of Snow" that Mikey designed.  It's a free pattern from The Crochet Crowd.  It is made up to be a quick, thick & cozy blanket.  Going to give it to a sweet cousin of mine and her family (I was a flower girl at their wedding many, many years ago!) - hope she likes it!

My first MOOGLY Square Blanket for 2022

 Here it is - my first MOOGLY!

This crocheted blanket is made up of 24 12x12 squares that are assembled during a year - two per month with selected patterns for a CAL (crochet along) project.  

I used "Red Heart" Super Saver 100% Acrylic yarn - Aran, Buff, Light Blue, Light Periwinkle, Cafe Latte, and Mirage with a 6.0 mm hook.  I have learned SO MANY stitches and techniques by completing this CAL!  Come join us!

Remember to hug the ones you love, until next time...