February 10, 2017

With the name Traveler, this card might have been better suited to Brody. But I’m hoping that Kevin may have a chance to travel to some exotic places again this year as he follows the water polo circuit.
February 15, 2017

I’m sorry that Todd’s card is late this year but my virtual card will arrive on time. I wasn’t paying attention to my calendar and, in my mind, his birthday was at the end of the month.
I’m often playing in my scraps and it was fun to pull bits at random from the bin to make this card.
February 14, 2017



Hearts Aflutter was the very first block in The Splendid Sampler series. It came out on February 14th last year and I saved it to used this year. Lots of Love, also from the Splendid Sampler series, followed closely behind on February 21st. Although not part of The Splendid Sampler series, the block for Kathryn finished at the same size. I saw a photograph on-line and knew how to break it down to make it the size I wanted it to be.

This card was another find online. It is English paper-pieced so I had to give it a try.
January 18, 2017
Since the Thomas’s will be heading to Disneyland later this winter I wanted to make something Disney-ish as a card. I had lots of Disney Princess patterns but I had to pull this Pinocchio pattern from a Christmas in Disneyland booklet. It was the least Christmassy pattern I could find (and I left half of it off).