Totallyawake4-life: October 2026

Friday, October 2, 2026

Fun Fold Friday - Slatted W fold

Welcome to another edition of Fun Fold Friday - today I am playing with the Slatted W fold I saw on Pinterest from Get Crafty with Sally

I’m getting inky with the Whispering Pines DSP, Everyday Arches and Nested Essential dies, Fabulous Sayings stamp set, blend marker and rhinestones.

Card measurements:

1x Pretty Peacock Card base 81/2” x 51/2” scored at 21/8”, 41/4” and 63/8”
4x White Cardstock 2” x 53/8”
4x DSP 17/8” x 51/4”
2x Pretty Peacock cardstock 11/2” x 73/4” score 13/4, 37/8” and 6”
4x White Cardstock 2” x 13/8”
4x DSP 1 7/8” x 1 1/4”
1x Pretty Peacock 33/8” x 45/8” die cut with the 3rd largest arch
1x DSP 31/8 x 43/8” die cut with the 4th largest arch
Scraps of Pretty Peacock and White cardstock layered for the sentiment of choice - I used a rectangle die from the Nested Essentials die.

Love this Whispering Woods paper - it does all the hard work with this card. Bonus is that it’s the fundraising product for this round so $4 of all paper sold goes to different charities around the world.

Quick process video for the visual learners:

Stunning views of the pretty paper!

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Thursday, October 1, 2026

Wake Up & Create Thursday #TA4L022

Welcome to another edition of Wake Up & Create here on the blog: .

It’s a little mix of Throwback Thursday with an image or sketch inspiration to use to inspire you to shop your stash and combine some old favourites with new goodies in a new way and than share to inspire others to do the same with their stash! Today’s challenge is a fun photo and palette inspiration #TA4L022

My final design was inspired by a couple other challenges: Festive Friday has a National Farmers Day challenge perfect for my Darling Donkey photo insp. #FF0219

Krafts Chicks Challenge another masculine vibes card.

I’m getting inky with the retired Darling Donkey and Fabulous Sayings stamp sets paired with the Nesting Essentials dies and Tree Ring 3D embossing folder, some burlap and twine ribbon, Moody palette gems and Crumb Cake and Petal Pink blends for colouring my donkey. Plus an action wobbler!

Love the textures in the embossing and interactive wobbler that lets the donkey kick up its heals in gratitude - perfect masculine vibes thank you card!

Would love for you to join the fun and play along with the #TA4L022 challenge. When you’re done add your link below to share with us all!