Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Last one of 2024

Last card of 2024, this has certainly been an eventful year and not one I want to repeat. But enough of the dwelling on the past we have a new year to look forward to, although I have learned my lesson and I’m not saying I hope  it’s better than last year as then it feels like it has to be worse to prove me wrong, I’m looking at you 2020 lol.

This card is uber busy and I seemed to throw everything at it, hopefully Kay liked it, so “Happy Birthday, Kay “



Monday, 30 December 2024

Not a Christmas card

Now this might look like a Christmas card but I can assure you it isn’t. I got this image as a newsletter freebie and knew immediately who it would be for, I have a friend who is obsessed with penguins so this seemed perfect. 



Sunday, 29 December 2024

Buzzing by

Sorry for the blurry photo, it was in the post before I realised. Another of the actual lotv stamps I bought and looking at it I think I should make more as I love the clean and simple look.

Just one more thing to say and that’s “Happy Birthday, Kathleen” 


 

Saturday, 28 December 2024

Florida Flamingos

Last Christmas cards of 2024, I still have one to show but that won’t be for a while as it’s on my camera which is hidden in my craftroom lol.

These were some of the first ones I made too, I went with flamingos as they were mostly going to Florida friends. I do love that the clearly besotted sets have a background image included, makes it so easy to design the layout.












Friday, 27 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Purple Penguin

I went with a tried and tested design but changed up the colours for this one, I even coloured in the penguin, this is an actual stamp from lotv and I might have bought their amazing bundle that included every single digital stamp….guess the theme for 2025 lol.



Thursday, 26 December 2024

Snowball Fight?

Another variation on a theme and using a stamptember mama elephant set I had to have and this is the first time it’s been used, another variation on a theme lol.

I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas Day, got lots of presents, ate lots of lovely food and spent time with your loved ones.




Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Merry Christmas

Well the day has finally arrived, as I’m writing this post I still have too much to do, I’m not sure why every inch of my home needs to be sparkling clean when as soon as the guests arrive it will be trashed lol, but it does, also in future I should refrain from relocating my craftroom in December. 

I wanted to wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and to thank you all for blogging with me again this year.

Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Christmas Eve

Omg the big day is nearly here, I hope you are all ready and you are just relaxing knowing it’s all done, me I will be probably running round like a headless chicken lol.

I don’t know if anyone else has felt like it this year but the Christmas spirit was decidedly lacking for me, I am normally a huge Christmas fan but this year it felt like work and I hope next year is back to normal.

I suppose it didn’t help that I am moving my craftroom to a bigger room and my stuff seems to be everywhere except the room I need it in. It’s been a process so far and I can’t wait for it to be finished so I can show the pictures



Monday, 23 December 2024

Christmas Adam

As Adam came before Eve so Christmas Adam comes before Christmas Eve. I can’t believe it’s the 23rd already, where has this month gone. 

I said it was a variation on a theme and a dinosaur definitely is different to a dog lol. I used the clearly besotted flamingo background and coloured it to look like mountains rather than snow.



Sunday, 22 December 2024

Here comes Santa Paws

We are now getting to the individual card designs and there is always a variation on a theme, this one features a daschund from MFT and he pairs perfectly with an older clearly besotted set.



Saturday, 21 December 2024

Big Birthday Number 19 - the final one of 2024

What an absolute bumper year of big birthdays, I don’t think I’ve ever made this many before or will again for 10 years lol.

I had to finish on an old favourite although this is a new colour scheme for me, it’s the first time I’ve used navy and I really like it.

My cousin has two tone hair that’s why I’ve coloured it blond and dark in case you thought it was a hat lol.



Friday, 20 December 2024

Jingle all the way

This card was made the same time as yesterday’s so you will be able to see the theme lol. I think maybe three reindeer was excessive but I couldn’t help myself lol. Please let me know why I fussy cut these deer as I had the matching dies!



Thursday, 19 December 2024

Merry little Christmas

A completely different card than I was going for but I like it and it’s simple too. Sometimes over complicating things doesn’t make it better. 



Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Miscellaneous

This is the final set of cards and they are an eclectic mix from lots of different companies, when I was making these ones I was looking for specific images or themes, this is definitely something I will do again although I might leave it a few years 













Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Striped Christmas - MFT

Two cards from Stacey Yacula at MFT, these are an older set but this gives them a new lease of life. 




Monday, 16 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Jumpers

 Another day another set of striped cards, I think this might be my favourite set so far. Not sure why I didn’t think to do other colours of stripes but maybe soon lol.




Sunday, 15 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Elves

This set is from Sugar Pea Designs and I really want to colour them now, there is another design but it was to fiddly to fussy cut so that is next year. 




Saturday, 14 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Gnomes

Yet another Mangocraft set and this time there are some circle sentiments, and before you guess yes I stamped them incorrectly and had to compromise and I really like it lol.





Friday, 13 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Mugs

Another set of Mangocraft stamps and another fiddly design lol, I did use the sentiments from the stamp set this time as I have managed to loose the merry Christmas stamp








Thursday, 12 December 2024

Sweater Weather - Big 6 Final Version

I really like the colours on this one, reminds me of denim. I did have fun creating these and now I suppose I need to start planning next year!!!


 

Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Stockings

I discovered a stamp company called Mangocraft in the summer and I like their designs a lot but they are fiddly to colour so this design worked perfectly. I even had the dies for these designs, which is so unusual. 






Monday, 9 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Cat and a Couple

Now I know these cards don’t seem to be from the same stamp set and they aren’t lol but they are from the same company and I spotted them when putting away the penguin set. Both seemed perfect for the recipients and I hope they like them




Sunday, 8 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Penguins

As I was putting away the Santa stamp set I spotted this set of penguins by the same company so of course they needed a complete set of cards lol.







Saturday, 7 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Snowman

These images were in the same stamp set as the Santa so it seemed a shame to not use them as well, after making these few cards I went into full on batch mode and made all my posting cards using this design, I will be showing them over the next few days as they all look a little different.






Friday, 6 December 2024

Striped Christmas - Santa

I watched a video by Carissa Wiley and she made some cards using cardstock stripes and a black and white image and I thought they looked stunning, very elegant and understated.

If you’ve been here for a while you will know my penchant for stripes so it seemed like a match made in heaven lol.

I even had a similar stamp set to the one she used so I made these few cards and as you will see over the next several days I couldn’t stop making them lol.