Happy New Year's Eve

 Here's a magnificent card from Karin of  Karin's Art Scrap. I know I have shared many of her stunning creations throughout this year.  I thought this card was just perfect for New Year's Eve.  Be sure and check out Karin's Blog, I am sure she is sharing stunning card every day!

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End of 2023 is near

 Hello!  i can't believe this is end of 2023.  What great things happened with you this year? I'd love to hear your comments about 2023.  This card comes from an assortment by 3 Quarter Designs.  I added some yummy Turkish lace to it.  As for my 2023--I moved from full time to a part time class with the 2 yr olds in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Department, that's been wonderful.  I had an amazing summer in Turkiye.  

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Friday

 Happy Friday.  Isn't it weird how Fridays don't mean nearly as much when you are not working the whole week?  in fact, they almost just signal the end of a week off, so almost a little disappointing? Here's a lovely card from PhotoPlay

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You're my type...

 I am still having a wonderful winter break and enjoying the time off. I hope to be able to take some prize photos for the upcoming celebration month. I hope i have something you would like.  Keep your eyes peeled on the blog through January for the celebration month of February.

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Tea-riffic

 I hope everyone had a magical christmas or other holiday season what ever you happen to celebrate. Now we are approaching 2024!  I am so thankful for all the wonderful things that happened in 2023.  I am super excited because my DH of course got me a dual birthday/Christmas present---i am sure you all know what it was---yep, a ticket to Turkiye!  woo hoo.  You are TEA-riffic dear.

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Guest Designer AJ

 Well, since we are on the week of Christmas, I had to sneak in another christmas project along with a guest designer from my Elementary School names AJ (third grade).  He gave me this fun dinosaur project he made.

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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Wishing all of you a very Merry Little Christmas and a Happy New Year.  I hope your holidays are wonderful.  Best Wishes from Holley&DH

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Christmas Eve

 Happy Christmas Eve everyone!  Wishing you all the best for this holiday season.

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Guest Designer Karin

 Here's another wonderful Guest Designer project this week from Karin of KarinsArtScrap.  I just love her blog filled with gorgeous projects daily.  Be sure and drop by to check out her new creations.  I adore this cutie which is just perfect for Christmas.  She's using a little stamp that she won a couple years ago.

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Happy Friday

Happy Friday everyone! It's the weekend before Christmas. I hope you are all snug in your homes and not running around to stores getting prepared for the holiday.  I must confess I bought the majority of my christmas gifts while I was in TURKIYE this summer, so I didn't have much shopping to do this year.  It does make it a lot easier, but also makes luggage a lot tighter.

Here's a fun card from Simple store kit for Christmas time

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Penguin Christmas

These little penguins are just TOO cute.  I found a whole pack of them at my local reuse store for 50 cents.  I used them in combination with two card kits that were a dollar each and made a total of the twenty cards you saw.  What a great deal huh?  I do so love Austin Creative Reuse.

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Christmas trees

Here's a gorgeous mulberry paper card with some cute Christmas trees and wonderful Turkish lace.  I love the little accent added by the gold paper and the white lace.  Just the right amount of eye catching.  If you want to try some lace on your cards, check out my store (Link below)

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Wreath

Here's a sweet little wreath card with some gorgeous Turkish lace across the base. I just love that the paper and the lace match perfectly.  It's a sweet and simple little holiday card with all handmade components.

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Make it Merry

 Make it Merry this year.  I hope you are enjoying the Christmas cards I am sharing.  I usually don't have hardly any to share as I usually don't bother making handmade cards for Christmas, I know that sounds weird, but i don't like making a ton of the same theme, so these wonderful kits and of course the handmade ones you are seeing are not even close to the same.

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Guest Designer: Karin

Here's a wonderful project from Karin of KarinsArtScrap.  Be sure to go check out her wonderful blog for her beautiful creations shared daily.  She's been a friend for a long time and won many goodies from me over the years. I love sharing her projects like this one!

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Penguin Love

 Woo Hoo, it's Saturday, the 16th.  No real plans for me, but I am happy about that.  A few little things to get done before the holidays like wrapping up gifts that need to be mailed out of state to family.  I would say they would go out on Monday, but you know, procrastination....

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Gorgeous Lace

 Happy Friday everyone!  Can you believe this is the third Friday of December?  I would say I am still recovering from my bday, but at 53, you know that's not true.  A) I'm not much of a party girl anymore (lol a party means going to a late-night scrap-a-thon); B) if I was going to do it, I would wait until the weekend anyways; c) The weekend is here and yeah, I'm not going to, because Imm already tired.  HA!

Here's another Christmas card using some gorgeous Turkish lace.

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HB to ME!!

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me!

It's time for the big 53!  lol I've been claiming 53 or 54 lol all year long so most people don't realize i'm only 52.  Now when I tell them I am really 53, they will be like, WHAT?!?  Heck, I just round up a couple years all the time.  I FEEL like I am a few years older.  HA!

Thanks so checking my blog and celebrating with me!!  I chose this cute card from Pink and Main and of course I HAD to have some Turkish Lace on it!

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Holly Jolly

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.  LOL!  That still makes me smile. I have to post this card right before the 14th which is my BDAY!  I love the beautiful poinsettia on this card.  As it says, Holly Jolly.....

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Tree Trio

 Here's a cute little trio of Christmas trees with some pretty Turkish lace to go with them.  They are on a large mulberry card.  I just love these papers.  Gorgeous and they feel so luxurious.  Wonderful.  I hope you are enjoying all the Christmas cards this month.  Come January we will start showing cards with some wonderful BLOG CANDY reminders for Feb celebration.

Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  Oh, I hadn't said it here on my blog, but I just got a WHOLE BOX of lace, all in light brown colors (cappuccino they call it in turkiye).  This is finer thinner type lace, i have added three new batches of lace to the store!

Merry Christmas

Here's a lovely card from Simple Stories.  I love it when I have a free afternoon and want to create cards but I don't have to time (or concentration) for stamping/coloring but I still love to sit and create, either following the design given or make my own designs.  

Check out my lace store for some wonderful lace pieces in many colors, lace menageries (1 yard lace assortments), lace embellishments all perfect for your crafting projects!! LacePlaceByHolley  Oh, I hadn't said it here on my blog, but I just got a WHOLE BOX of lace, all in light brown colors (cappuccino they call it in turkiye).  This is finer thinner type lace, i have added three new batches of lace to the store!

Guest Designer Karin

Here's an amazing card from Karin of KarinsArtScrap.  She does the most amazing work on her blog.  be sure to go over there and check it out.  She received the cute little stocking die cut from me one year. I just love dropping by her blog and see little tidbits from all the prizes she's won over the years.

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Red Lace

 Here's a Christmas tree card with some GORGEOUS Turkish lace in red on it.  You can order this lace from the store (link below) it comes in the 20pack (20 different pieces of red lace, all are different, approx 6" each).  Works great on Christmas cards and Valentines!

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Makin' a list and Checkin' it twice

Now that christmas season is really upon us, lol like that hasn't been true for several  weeks already (if you go to the crafting stores since June).  Here's a super cute card from Simple Stories.  Make Your List and Check it Twice everyone.  The day is upon us....18 days and counting

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Handmade Christmas

Here's another simple handmade Christmas card.  I am looking forward to sending out handmade cards this year. It's been a while since I have done that.  I had calendars made this year (and every year) that show wonderful photos of Turkiye every month. This time they will get a handmade card as well.

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Handmade Christmas cards

 Happy HUMP day.  It's the first wed of the month.  I am sharing some simple handmade Christmas cards that I made.  I found two kits at the creative reuse store.  They came with some card made of handmade paper.  I took the two kits and then made about 20 different cards (I think the kits were supposed to make 10 cards).  I had all the embellishments from the kits, some gorgeous Turkish lace, some wonderful little penguins and off I went.  before I knew it, 20 cards were done.  Here's one of them.

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We wish you...

 Here's the cutest card from Simple Stories.  I can just imagine this bird tweeting along to the tune of we wish you a merry christmas.  How sweet is that? 

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Three little trees

 Happy Monday everyone!  It's the first monday of December, just 16 more days to Christmas break lol.  Does it sound bad that I am counting?  lol, those of you who know me, know I love to count the days, esp when it comes to travel to Turkiye.  I haven't counted that up yet. I am afraid to do it.  HA HA.

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Guest Designer Margreet

 Margreet won this beautiful die cut set last February she created this amazing card with it. WOW.  I just LOVE it.  Thanks so much for sharing with us. It's just perfect for Christmas Margreet.

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Christmas

 sharing this fun Christmas card today using wonderful handmade paper and embellishments too!  I can't believe we have started December.  We are here in school almost all the way to Christmas this year.  SIGH. but it's just three more weeks to go.  WOO HOO to that.  I hope you all have wonderful upcoming plans

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Christmas card

 

Well, it's the last day of November!  I can't believe that December is upon us.  WOW.  That was fast.  Seems like the first couple of months of school have flown by.  Pretty soon we will be in Spring!  well, that's pretty relative.  I mean, jan-feb can be cold in TX too.

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Christmas in Blue

 Here's a simple and elegant looking Christmas card that I made using silver trees with gold stars and ribbon.  I did it with mulberry paper.  I have a bunch of wonderful handmade Christmas cards this year. I usually don't make much of them but decided to do so this year.

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Christmas Penguin

Here's the cutest little penguin for a christmas theme card this year.  I just love these kits that i got. They didn't really have any models for making cards (or at least none that I followed).  But they did have a lot of wonderful mulberry paper pieces in different little shapes.  You will see so many different wonderful little ideas throughout the month of December.

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Holly&Jolly

 You all know that this gives me a little laugh.  Everything needs a little more HOLLY doesn't it.  Well, of course it's not really spelled like my name (HOLLEY) but it's like my name sounds and how everyone thinks my name is spelled anyways so I still get a laugh.

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Guest Designer Jan

 Here's a STUNNING card from Guest Designer Jan today.  She created this card in a class she took during the convention, Scrapbook Expo in Irving Texas. I wish I could tell you who taught her class but I have forgotten.  so sorry. I am sure Jan would leave a comment and let you know if possible.  Here's what she made:

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two trees

 Happy Saturday y'all.  (Yep, I'm a Texan).  I am going to start sharing lots of fun christmas theme cards that I made for friends and family this year.  I hope you will enjoy them too.  Hopefully they are not too repetitive.  I had a ball making all of them with handmade paper and little paper embellishments.

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Black Friday

 My American Friends all know what black friday means, but for my friends out of the country, black friday is the day after thanksgiving typically when stores give some of their biggest sales of the year for Christmas time.  It's thought to be the time when stores go from being the red (not profitable) to black (profitable).  Black friday sales for Christmas are HUGE.  sometimes people get up in the middle of the night and camp out in front of stores to be the first one in the door for the sale or stores open up in the middle of the night!  As for me, I'm staying home.  Now that we have computer sales, much of the traditional black friday habits have changed.

So, I thought today good for the first christmas card 

this card is made on fancy handmade paper (not handmade by me) with cute little penguins and some wonderful Turkish lace!

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Happy Thanksgiving

 Wishing all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving today!  Best Wishes. I hope you all have wonderful plans and get in a little bit of pumpkin pie :)  One thing I am thankful for this year is my amazing new job at the school that started last year in like February or so working part time with the 2 year olds.  What a delight.

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Thankful

 Here's a little PRE-Thanksgiving card.  Feeling very Thankful, Grateful, and Blessed.  I hope you are having a wonderful week. If  you live in the USA, you may get this day off given that tomorrow is Thanksgiving day.  Best wishes for your holiday.  I'm thankful for the weather getting cooler this month and I am thankful for things like heating and air conditioning.

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Thankful for you! (And Brain Surgery)

One more thing I am thankful for this year is all of you!  I hope you are having a wonderful time before the holiday.  Just wanted to remind you all that there will be a HUGE celebration come February where everyone will get lots of wonderful prizes.  We will be celebrating 14 years?  Is that right?  how can it be.  WOW.  14 years post brain surgery.  AMEN.  I am very thankful for that!!

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Give Thanks

 So continuing on with the theme of Giving thanks this month.  here's a great card from Simple stories that says, "Give Thanks."  Huge thanks today for my dear bestie.  She's been a wonderful light in my life that helps me whenever I need her and more! I love her so much.  She's the sweetest person you ever did meet.  May God bless her and hear her prayers.

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Guest Designer Audrey

Here's a super cute Easter card from Audrey R of Austin TX.  I just love the bright and pretty colors she used to color the word easter.  How lovely.  Thanks so very much for sharing. I am sorry it took so long to get your card up on the blog!

If you would like to share something, please email it to me, htondre@aol.com

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Be Thankful

 There's always something to be Thankful for.  That's what this reflective card says.  I added some lovely Turkish lace to it as well.  I have been adding little comments this month about just a FEW of the things that I am thankful for...i mean I am leaving out the most obvious things that we are all thankful for, the roof over my head, the food on my table, the wonderful hubby, the fact that I have a job, that I live in a safe neighborhood, .....

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Woo Hoo

 Happy Friday everyone!  This a big one for us as we start on our Thanksgiving week break after today.  We are all looking forward to that.  Woo Hoo! I thought this card was funny, since I actually had a card kit that says WOO HOO!! (well, the kit itself didn't make a woo hoo card, I used the left over pieces after making the cards to create my own WOO HOO card)

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Happy Birthday Ms K

 Happy Birthday to a staff member in the DHH department at my school. She's an awesome teacher. I have really enjoyed seeing her most recent students just blossom into amazing 5th and 4th graders.  WOW.  They are so lucky to have her.  I hope she has a very happy birthday today!

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Happy Birthday Ayana

Happy Birthday Ayana!  Huge hugs from Holley and John. I hope you have a very special day this year.  Many blessings to you.  I made this cute card just for you.  

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Give Thanks

 Here's a love fall/thanksgiving theme card in many lovely fall colors. I added some great Turkish Lace to the project.  How sweet is that?  I just love the beautiful "fall" days, which for us is anything but summer or winter.  Could be 80 could be 40?  Hmmm....but in Nov, closer to 80, lol.  For thanks today, let me give those to my DH who gives me just everything I ever want and dream of including amazing tickets to Turkiye every summer!

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Door or ?

 Here's a great card that I think you could use (as it looks like a doorway) or use as a Christmas themed card.  You choice.  What do you think it should be used for?  I added some great Turkish lace to it.

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Guest Designer Gayle

 Here's a wonderful card made by Gayle of Texas. I just love these cute cards from PhotoPlay.  We did this cute kit together at a convention. This card has lovely flowers and says Thank You.  Perfect for lots of occasions.  Thank you for sharing it so I could show everyone!

If you have cards you would like me to share on my blog? drop me a message, htondre@aol.com

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