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!

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...   

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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!