SUper Friends January Valentine's Swap

For our January SUper Friends swap, we decided to create Valentine's cards!  Here are the creations, which I think you will agree are amazing:

Connie created this gorgeous Valentine with the Made with Love Suite collection:

Connie also decorated the inside to be a perfect match:

Kallien created a sweet fun-fold, with a peek a boo corner fold to show off both sides of the designer paper on the front, and a pop up element on the inside.  Kallien used the Wooly Friends Bundle, Love Notes Designer Series Paper, and Endless Love Dies:

Judy's stunning card is a pull tab slider, featuring the Fragrant Layers Bundle: 

Margery's super cute and creative card combines elements from the Sweet Jar Punch, Notes and Totes Dies (heart glasses), and Sentimental Framing Dies:

Jaya's romantic card features the Gliding Swing Bundle.  I love how she added heart shaped pillows on the swing -- such a perfect Valentine's touch:

Jean's beautiful card layers die cut hearts, including some made with the Adoring Hearts Hybrid Embossing Folder over a sweet embossed background, with some elegant pearls: 

I decided to make a faux step fun fold for my Valentine.  I used the Endless Love Dies, and couldn't resist adding some stitching with Baker's Twine around the largest heart die.  I also used the Hope Love and Joy Bundle.  

Here's a little greeting hidden inside the card:

I hope you enjoyed these sweet cards and that they inspire you to create a heartfelt card of your own!

Thanks for visiting!

- Michelle

Merry Monday! Designer Series Paper Bracelets

 Merry Monday!   As gifts for my SUper Friends at our Yankee Swap, I created some bracelets featuring circles of designer series paper.  Here are how some of those turned out:

Do you recognize any of the papers I used?  

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

SUper Friends 2025 Yankee Swap Photos (at last!)

It has become an annual tradition for my SUper Friends demonstrator group to gather each December (or occasionally, early January, if we can't make a date in December work) for our Yankee Gift Exchange.  I'm finally sharing our photos from the swap.

Each person prepares some kind of home made gift for the exchange and brings it wrapped to the party.  Then, after a bit of visiting, when everyone has arrived, we draw numbers to determine the order in which we will get to select gifts.  Once opened, gifts can be "stolen" three times before they lock in.  

Here we are visiting before the swap got under way:

The gifts all wrapped up and ready for the exchange:

We always have lots of yummy food to share:

And, stopped to have Greg get our group photo before we started the swap:

Isabella made a brief appearance, too.  Had to see if she could get any treats out of the deal:

Connie opened a gift from Agnes that included a bottle of wine and a beautiful handmade beaded bracelet:

I opened Jean's gift which had dried apricots and a darling amigurumi:

Nancy ended up stealing that from me!  

So, I opened another gift, and this time, it was a wonderful, lighted decor piece by Connie:

Margery opened a gift from Nancy, which had some pretty pouches Nancy sewed using Stampin' Up! fabric:

Margery's gift had a cute wrapping paper bow on it:

Jean opened it, and discovered a pair of adorable pom pom penguins Margery had made inside:

Jana opened the gifts I had made, which included two crochet pot holders, a crocheted and beaded Christmas tree, and a handmade snow globe:

Agnes opened Jana's gift, which was an adorable work in progress Santa suit bag:

 Here's the finished bag:

This was so much fun!!!  Really love the creativity and love everyone put into their creations, and it is always so good to get to have time with these lovely friends!!!!  

- Michelle