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 really bring the extra creativity to the table!

Angie

Michille

Sandra

Meagan

Still under construction...

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!

Here's a link to last month's card swap - January's - Valentine's Day

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

February 2026 Crochet

Here are the items I finished crocheting in February.

First is a Grandfather Style Cardigan! THIS project was so fun, and I was led through each step with a TikTok-er, "Crafting Mama; she made individual videos for each step of crocheting the cardigan.
These were so helpful! I am a "visual" learner, and watching and hearing the instructions were exactly what I needed!
Here's my finished crocheted Grandfather Cardigan - 100% acrylic Caron Cake "Breathe" colorway from the Macchiato line.

The size MEDIUM pattern was what I used; I gave the sweater to a coworker! She was crochet-worthy and has a birthday coming up - it fit her perfectly! I was happy to share!

Next up is a blanket that I crocheted from the "Forever Fleece" yarn by Bernanet.

This yarn is SO soft and cozy! I used a "basket weave" stitch with a double stitch, and it's heavy and very warm!

This blanket is going to another friend who has recently moved to a new home, and I want to send some love to her through this blanket to remind her that she is loved wherever she goes! Will deliver it soon to her!

Hope you are doing well! Thank you for stopping by and looking! Enjoy the rest of your day!

2026 January Card Swaps - VALENTINE'S Theme

Hello, welcome to our first swap of 2026!

January's challenge was to design a card and envelope with the theme of VALENTINE - and the challenge of an "unusual shaped" card with bling!

We had SEVEN participants who created Valentine creations this month, and each one is SO unique and wonderful! So excited to share these fabulous creations. We started out this year with a huge bar to outdo for future swaps!

Maria

Angie

Michille

April

Sandra

Meagan

Melissa

Hope you enjoyed these unique Valentine cards from this swap!

The next card swap will be in February. For this swap, we will have a choice of a SPRING or St. Patrick's Day theme and a challenge to create a card that includes some type of "BOW".

Please come back and check those out!

Here's a link to last month's card swap - November - Christmas

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

January 2026 - Crocheted Blanket completions!

Here are two crocheted blankets that were finished in January of 2026.

The Book Blanket is finally completed! With 42 granny squares completed, each square represents a book read in 2025 and uses the book's cover color in the design color scheme.

The next blanket was a collaboration of both Kyle and me - the Snow Apocalypse blanket.

We each received a Christmas Advent Yarn Calendar. The calendar held just a small skein of colored yarn in 24 of the boxes - the 25th had crochet notions!

It wasn't a lot of yarn, so we added a couple of skeins of white yarn that had a small halo to the texture of the yarn. We thought this added to the snowy effect for the snowflake.

Kyle crocheted all the snowflake designs in each square, and I crocheted the color square around the snowflake to complete the granny square.

The squares were given another round of white yarn and attached together using a mattress stitch. A scalloped border to complete the blanket.

We finished the blanket during the 2026 Snow weekend that we had in January, hence the name Snow Apocalypse!

That's our January crocheted blankets! Thank you for looking!

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

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!