So glad her surgery went well. That fabulous card will definitely brighten her spirits.

Oh my word, how stunning. The texture you have achieved is so lifelike.

Great color combo for a thinking of you card - looks serene and calming.

From crazy cute to fabulously floral - you've got mad skills, lady!!

Well, these will perk up the person on the receiving end. So happy and fun!

Oh, stunning!

Lovely, I am really liking the sentiments that are close cut with the dies like that.

These are lovely; isn't it nice to craft quickly sometimes. Enjoy your vacation. Now that you mentioned Papertrey and kit - I think I may have one lurking in the back of one of my cabinets - I should get that out and play.

Very pretty. Stenciling is all the rage now, I need to pull my old ones out and use them in new ways. Thanks for the inspiration.

Love the cards. Thanks for supplying the name of that plaid embossing folder. I have been on the hunt for one for months, but can never catch any in stock.

Love the card, geometrically stunning.

How do you do that? You always know just how much is enough. I would never had thought to use these elements together - and you whip them into such an eye-catching card. Fab!

Happy birthday, Alexa. Enjoy the extra attention and celebration. I found that on paperwork, the more I really think about it the less I really need to save. I had a major shred fest the other day. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to be as brutal in the housewares and home decor departments.

Pretty card, so professionally colored. I will have to remember that color combo.

I loved that first one when at first glance I thought it all black and white, it is even more stunning in color. You make the simplest designs stand-outs!!

He's a cutie!

Love the eclectic photo selection. And how nice to turn a yucky necessary thing into a game for the little one. Knocking soundly on wood here that I have not had occasion to need a test as yet. Hoping 3 shots in the arm keeps it that way. Having worked on my sis-in-law's estate in 2021, means I am hoping to do a little of that forward planning this year as well. With more and more online, the amount of actual paper in the office has thankfully steadily been shrinking the last several years, but there is still progress to be had. Hubby and I just started Wordle this week - and he is ultra-competitive about it - which was no surprise to me. So far his streak is unbroken, mine not.

Love it! (That would be the most appropriate comment, obviously.) :-)

Lovely snapshots - especially that second one. As an accountant, I applaud balance as your one little word - it's all about equaling out debits with credits in my world.

What a stunning effect on that card. Fab!

You had me at purple!

How wonderful to have been at Chatsworth, definitely smile-inspiring, and yours is a welcome sight. On the "tolerations" front, I have made progress in that some things that have been so long ignored even through nearly 2 years being mostly at home, are now clearly no longer necessary and I am finding it easier to clear them away in one way or another. I have this quirky habit of loading up a to-do list on my phone when hubby was going to be away and I knew I could get through lots of little projects. But I never got to even 1/3 of them when at my most productive. So I have taken a new tack, and those long lists are being dealt with in groups of 5 - I have a spot for 3 weekly projects in my planner. So each week 3 of the projects get put in the planner, and 2 projects are deemed to not be necessary and are forgotten and the objects discarded as appropriate. It worked wonderfully in Week 1 of 2022, wish me luck in continuing.

How lovely to see you back. I had spotted your post a day or two ago, but consciously decided to wait until I had a little more time, as your posts, more than most, make me want to linger and reread and fully take in the photos and words, and in this case your lovely start on your journal. That bit of washi tape made me smile, as I usually want to make sure I have all my new supplies put away right away, but I have left 4 small rolls of floral washi sitting out on my desk just for inspiration. (And a way of "planting flowers" as one of the other gals mentioned.) Here's to a happy 2022 for all of us "making" it into what we want.

Such a fabulous variety! Those tag cards are iconic, of course, but my favorite is the white snowflake with the large red merry and little black Christmas sentiment. I think red, white and black is my all-time favorite color combination. If I am stamping cards, I cannot do more than about 8-10 before I am ready to move on. I much more enjoy "scrapping" the front of cards, that way they can all be a bit different. Doing Christmas cards every month doesn't appeal to me, but I can certainly see the benefit of it being a July or September project instead of a December one. 2020 was the year I came closest to having them done ahead of time (in September), but of course there were still a few add-ons in December. I am saving photos of several of yours to my card inspiration folder.

Looks like quite the celebration was had by all. Super cute cards!