Holley's Blog

Friday, February 6, 2026

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

Audrey

Audrey R

Karin

Suzanne H

Glennis

Mel

Birgitta

Becca Y

Denise

Tina Z

Gaye

Jean M

Sindhu

Tina Z

TATY

Marjeta

Thursday, February 5, 2026

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.

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

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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 :)

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.

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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.

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

Monday, February 2, 2026

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.

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.

Sunday, February 1, 2026

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.

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!

Saturday, January 31, 2026

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

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

Friday, January 30, 2026

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!