The Little Things You Do

Hello Blogger friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with the Charmed Life Blog today. It's Sunday and I hope it's a day of rest and relaxation for you. And that you were able to get some crafty time in over the weekend. 

I was able to get crafty las week for several days. I was actually making Christmas cards. I am determined not to be in the Christmas rush of not having cards done. I say it every year but hoping this year is different. I did manage to make 10 cards las week. I usually need around 40 so I am off to a good start. I usually don't make more than 1 of the same card. But I had some designer paper that  I wanted to use up so I made 10 cards in the same design but with different paper. 

I bought some product last Christmas and never got to use it and that will be my next batch of cards.  I am excited to start those ones. Although I have some Mother's Day calendars I am making for some of the women at church so I need to get moving on those. Plus making my Mother's Day card. 

Now onto my card for today. This one I made for the Splitcoaststampers challenge #1100.  I was the hostess this week and I chose pretty peacock, cloud cover and secret sea for my color trio. Optional was to use designer paper. I encouraged stampers to get creative and choose paper that doesn't have these colors if they wanted.

secret sea, cloud cover, pretty peacock

I needed a thank you card for my next-door neighbor who helped me out in a huge way a couple of weeks ago.

To create my card, I used the Stampin' Up December 2025 Paper Pumpkin Kit. That's how I chose my colors for this challenge. These kits come with everything you need to create at least 9 cards. Sometimes I create them as per the instructions and sometimes I make alternate designs. 

I created my card according to the kit instructions except I added an additional layer of cloud cover for the card base.

My background paper is one of the card bases that was included in the kit. All the other items on the card are also from the kit including the beautiful bronze sequins.

Well, that's it for me for this post. So, until next time......God bless. 

Card Details:

Stamps: Watercolor in Bloom (PP Kit Dec 2025)

Paper: cloud cover (Stampin' Up),

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Pretty Peacock (Stampin' Up),

Accessories: Watercolor in Bloom Paper Pumpkin Kit Dec 2025,

I am also entering:

1.  Allsorts Challenge is in the garden or anything goes. 

2.  Love Those Pretty Papers is anything goes using patterned paper.

3.  Creative Fingers challenge is anything goes. 

4.  Paper Funday is anything goes w/option of die cuts or punches.