May 2025 Card Swap - Fun Fold Floral

Welcome to May's Card Swap

April/May's challenge was to design a card and envelope with a "FUN FOLD" and an added "floral" element!
Things were hectic for everyone's schedule in April and May. We skipped or extended our swap until the end of May! We wanted each swapper to have enough time to complete the card-swap challenge! Here are the designs that they came up with for this time!

We had SIX participants who created card swaps this month. These swappers brought the "Fun Fold" Floral cards to the table this month in full form!

Megan

Still under construction...

Michille

April

Sandra

Still under construction...

Angie

Melissa

Hope you enjoyed these creative cards from the Fun-Fold Floral swap!

The next card swap will be in June. For this swap, we will have a challenge to create a card with an envelope that has a monochromatic color scheme and includes an animal of choice

Please come back and check those out!

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

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

March 2026 Card Swaps - EASTER

Greeting Friends! Welcome to March's Card Swap

March's challenge was to design a card and envelope with an EASTER theme and to create with "something we already have in our craft stash!" We want to use what we already have, to dig in and find a forgotten item or use an old stamp, paper, or device this month!

We had SIX participants who created card swaps this month. These swappers really brought the extra creativity to the table this month!

Megan

Michille

April

Sandra

Angie

Melissa

Hope you enjoyed these creative cards from March's swap!

The next card swap will be in April. For this swap, we will have a challenge to create a card with a "fancy fold", a sentiment of choice, along with something FLORAL.

Please come back and check those out!

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

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

March's Crochet Share

For March, I was able to create some crocheted sleeves in some "shabby chic" designs.

First up is a denim jacket! I cut the sleeves out of a denim jacket that I had in the closet and inserted crocheted sleeves! In the construction of the sleeves, I used a low-pilling acrylic yarn with a "granny square" stitch; the standard cluster of three double stitches with a 5.5 hook. I started with crocheting the cuff and started with the stitching, adding on gradually to fit the opening of the jacket. To insert and sew in, I used a thicker type of thread and attached the yarned sleeve to the denim jacket.

Next project to share is adding crochet sleeves to a vintage T-Shirts! This project has been in the making since last summer, and FINALLY getting to it now!

I chose to sew in the sleeve arm about 1/2 inch and add a running stitch with yarn in that seam. Then attaching to the yarn stitch, started with a double stitch and chain series. After the first row, switched up the stitching to use a treble and chain series for the desired length of the arm. Then finished with a standard cuff of 10 stitches with single stich in the back loop to make the standard ridges in a cuff!

And the last project was this blanket. All crocheted in 100% acrylic in colors of yellow, purple, turquoise, and white.

Used a zig-zag stitch and then added a thick border. Of double stitches (camel stitch) in the 3rd loop to create the roll-over effect, and topped with a zig-zag styled border.

Thank you for looking and letting me share my crocheted projects with you!

February 2026 Card Swap - Adding a BOW

Hello, welcome to February's Card Swap

February's challenge was to design a card and envelope with the choice of the theme Spring or St. Patrick's Day, and the challenge of adding a BOW to the creation!

We had FIVE participants who created card swaps this month. This time of the year is a busy one, so we understand when a card swapper can't participate due to other obligations! The ones that were able to swap really brought the extra creativity to the table this month!

Angie

Michille

Sandra

Meagan

Melissa

Hope you enjoyed these creative cards from February's swap!

The next card swap will be in March. For this swap, we will have a choice of an EASTER theme and a challenge to create with "something we already have". We want to use what we already have in our supply stash to dig in and find a forgotten item or use an old stamp, paper, or device this month!

Please come back and check those out!