So Happy Together

I thought the mice in this card were so cute!  How fun is that? This card is from a kit by Simple Stories.  They make the nicest kits that don't require anything but basic adhesive.  Plus with the extras you have left over, you can often make a couple of additional cards or mini sized cards.

 Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  do you also have another crafting hobby?

Celebration 2026 winners

Winners, please email me your addresses at htondre@aol.com. If your name is in bold I have rec'd your message.

First winner is:  Karin

Taty

Susan T 

Gaye

Becca Y

Glennis F

Audrey R

Valerija

Mel 

Marjeta

bissecat 

kellyskardsfl

Suzanne H

Denise

All you need is LOVE

All you need is LOVE.  I totally remember last year while working with the 1-year-olds that I would be sitting with them during naptime and the teacher would always play the Beatles in Muzak form (so piano or just wordless).  I listened to the same set of music, everyday for months. Lucky that I can enjoy it.  I listened to it A LOT.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  What colors do you not like?

You are the Bee's Knees

Yay!   I am only 99 days to Turkiye.  WOW, that sounds so very soon now.  LOL, well, just over three months, but still close.  I am going to the scrapbook convention in Irving in March, that event is just 28 days away.  Doesn't that sound like fun?   Today is the registration for that.  I am trying to decide if I want to take classes as well as shopping. I just wanted to remind everyone that there is a card making contest HERE and the deadline is on Feb 25th.  did you send me a card for the contest?  please make sure it's there.....

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  what special event do you have coming up?  are you counting the days to something?

Forever in the Hearts

Happy Monday everyone!  Can you believe the month is half over already?  Be sure and check out the winner list (HERE).  If you haven't contacted me, please do so.  In a couple of days, I will already start putting packages together for you and as the last few questions go out, be adding more and more to the packages as the month ends out.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  Are there any stamp topics that you don't like?

Love

 Happy Sunday!  I hope you had a lovely Valentines and are now getting ready for a new week.  I am still going to continue this month in LOVE theme...and the card contest is still happening in LOVE (or still valentines if you wish to share that) until Feb 25th, 11:59pm Austin TX time.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  Do you send out your cards or do you have a stockpile of cards are home?

Love You

 Happy Valentine's Day.  I hope everyone has a special day filled with love from friends and family.  Do you have anything special planned for the day?  I made this card using one of my favorite stamp collections, Oddballs from Stamping Bella.  I just love that skull barrette in her hair.  I also had to add some gorgeous Turkish Lace.  Love  you DH!

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  Who are your favorite stamp companies?

You are Loved

Happy Friday the 13th!  Ooo, that sounds ominous.  Do other countries have an evil type connotation associated with Friday the 13th? is that just in the USA?  I have no idea where that idea came from or if it just developed due to the movies.  Hmmm, inquiring minds.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  what embellishment do you NOT ever use?

Love beyond words

Happy Thursday Everyone!  I just wanted to remind everyone that there is a card making contest HERE and the deadline is on Feb 25th.  You can enter two cards per person by sending them to htondre@aol.com There will be four winners picked and each winner will get an extra prize put in their packages.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  What's your favorite embellishment?

You stole my Heart!

Good Morning and Happy Hump Day!  It's time to go and see my kiddos and play and have fun.  I look forward to a good day (and exhausting, lol).  What are y'all up to today?  Making plans for Valentine's day this weekend? Today is the actual day of my surgery, so this is the REAL anniversary of the 2nd surgery.

NOTE: someone send me a card yesterday for the contest and I literally can't find it or any copy of the email....even in the deleted folder in my email.  Was it YOU?  if  you don't see your card in the card contest page, please resend it to me....thank you so much.  I really don't know what I did.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day: what types of die cuts do you like?

Together Forever

Here's a sweet card for Tuesday.  You & Me, together forever.  John and I will hit 28 years this fall.  To the point where I can't hardly remember life without John.  What a great DH.  He's really been there through the hard times, hasn't he? Just a reminder that we are having a card contest on the Feb 6th posting.  I have been adding cards that are sent to me at htondre@aol.com

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day: do you like word stamps?  what topics?

Love You

Happy Monday everyone!  Here's a CAS (clean and simple card)  using some great die cuts from Simple Stories.  I love their kits, you can make the eight cards that they design and usually you have so many leftovers that you can make your own cards (esp mini sized cards too).

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day: what holidays do you NOT make cards for?

Love + Chocolate

Hope you are all having a Blessed Sunday.  Here's a new LOVE theme card for today.  I figured I had to sneak in a few Valentine theme cards...All you need is Love + Chocolate.  Yum.  I love both.  Now I always have three day weekends Sunday is just a bonus saturday, lol

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Questions of the day:  What's your favorite snack?

Capture the love

Here's a fun card I made using Simple Stories papers, It says "Capture the love; It was always YOU!"  I think I made this cute card out of a kit that was meant for Weddings, but of course I have been married a long time, and I am not going to be making any scrapbook or wedding theme cards, so I turned the supplies into cards like this one here.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  which holiday is your favorite for making cards?

Card Contest: LOVE THEME

Card Contest theme this month is LOVE.  

If you want to participate in a little card making contest, it will be love theme in general, or if you want to go full valentines theme, that's ok too.  I will post a page to share your cards on and you can EMAIL your cards to me at htondre@aol.com

I post the cards below and you will have until the 25TH!! No more than TWO per person.  I will pick top 3 and my hubby John will pick his favorite.  Winners will get to pick and EXTRA goodie to be included in their packages.

Just EMAIL me your cards to htondre@aol.com or on FB Holley Tondre Barnhart

I will add them here.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  what's your favorite adhesive?

Card entries:

Susan T

Susan T 

Audrey

Audrey R

Karin

Suzanne H

Glennis 

Glennis 

Mel

Mel

Birgitta

Birgitta

Becca Y 

Denise 

Tina Z

Do small things with great love

Here's a cute BEE themed card with LOVE.  I do adore BEE cards. Do Small things with Great love.  What a lovely saying.  Off to school today, been a long week, I guess I am starting to get used to it.  LOL, so busy nowadays and it was such a simple change. 

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day: Do you like insects?  bees, dragonflies, spiders for halloween?  how about birds?

Love is a four legged word.

It's Wednesday and time to see the kids.  I hope we have fun at school today.  Maybe we can do some crafting together.  Here's my "LOVE" card today. It's using wonderful papers from Echo Park.  All the LOVE theme cards for the contest don't have to be LOVE of people, maybe you just LOVE animals :)

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  what four legged creatures do you love?

I like cats and dogs, also sometimes cute elephants, giraffes and llamas, I'm sure there is so many more but those come to mind pretty quickly.

I {heart} you

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday.  I hope your week is off to a good start. I am sharing this LOVE theme card today from American Crafts.  I love the bold colors on it. Let's just say, I {heart} you times three.  Off to work today to see my kiddos, only 8 today compared to 12 tomorrow.  Should be a little quieter, lol.  Just kidding 8 kids (3years old) make a lot of noise.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day:  do you have a die cut machine?  can you use thin dies and thick dies?

I love you

Well, keeping with the LOVE theme, here's a card from Bo Bunny.  I love the black and white with the gold stipe heart.  Just a simple I love you.  Perfect for this month's love theme.  Don't forget about the contest, more info coming soon...  Now my work schedule has changed and Monday is my only day off during the week.  I do Tue to Fri at the school with my class.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Question of the day: what's your favorite card topic?

lol, i think y'all know mine, probably coffee, but I do love some cute girls and cute animals too.

It's celebration time! WOO HOO.

 Can you believe we are in FEBRUARY AGAIN?  this makes it 16 years since 2 brain surgeries in 2010.  WOW. I never believed I would be alive at this point.  What a time to celebrate.  Let me first thank God and a second and million thank yous to Dr Aboumatar who tested, qualified me and arranged and set up my surgeries. Third a giant hug and kiss to my DH who stuck with me through all this.  And of course, huge thanks to all of you, the crafters who sent cards, prayed, texted, and gave so much love and support.

Theme this month is LOVE.  If you want to participate in a little card making contest, it will be love theme in general, or if you want to go full Valentine's theme, that's ok too.  I will post a page to share your cards on and you can EMAIL your cards to me at htondre@aol.com

I will set up a page to share the cards on, probably somewhere at the end of this week and you will have until the 25TH!! No more than TWO per person.  I will pick top 3 and my hubby John will pick his favorite.  Winners will get to PICK an EXTRA goodie to be included in their packages.

If you are new, here's how this year's contest will go, simply leave a comment each day and watch the WINNER LIST. When you see your name on the winner list, email me htondre@aol.com and send me your mailing info for your prize.  NOTE: for my out of the country friends, I am typically limited to what I can send inside a card like a stamp set or a die set.  For my USA friends I can send a package with an assortment of goodies.  All packages all get mailed at the beginning of March.  Please play along all month as I am asking little questions each day to help me choose what goodies to send you.  On the blog posts in March I will post each day whose packages are mailed that day.

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Did you see just SOME of the prizes for this month? check out here and here and HERE and HERE and HERE and here and HERE!

It's Time to CELEBRATE!! are you ready?

It's Time to CELEBRATE!!  are you ready? The celebration will start with the first card tomorrow morning (Feb 1st Austin Texas time).  Just leave a comment.  Everyone commenting during the month will get prizes.  Please answer the questions as that helps me choose what to send to you.

Cheers, Holley

 Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Did you see the prizes for next month? check out here and here and HERE and HERE and HERE and here and HERE!

Much Thanks

WOW just two days now!  Happy Friday everyone, I am happy to see the kiddos today and have Foodie Friday.  I hope we have something great to try out.   Dare I say, Pie?  Back in fall time we did give them pumpkin pie, that was a hit.  I wish I could share the photos with y'all but since they are little kids I don't want to invade their family privacy, Trust me though, it was just darling.

Much thanks to all of you for ready and coming to celebrate next month!

Please check out my lace store, there's lots and lots of wonderful items including tons of lace by the yard, great handmade items, and lace assortments!  Check it out   https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Here's a few last prize photos

Did you see the other prizes, check out here and here and HERE and HERE and HERE and here