Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round ~ C, D is for ...

 Hello and welcome to this month's challenge at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

Our challenge this month is C, D is for ...

I made two cards for this challenge. One with C and one with D.

So for my first card ... C is for Christmas Cracker.

Crafty Ingredients:

Spellbinders - Christmas Cracker die set

Photo*Play - Dear Santa Paper Pad

Martha Stewart - Stars Border Punch

The Paper Studio - Cards & Envelope pack - 5.5" x 5.5"

Cardstocks - Stash Drawers

And for my second card ... D is for Dove.

Crafty Ingredients:

Hunkydory - Peaceful Dove die set

Hunkydory - Arched Window Nesting die set

The Paper Boutique - A Sprinkle of Winter Paper Kit

The Paper Boutique - A Sprinkle of Winter Coloured Card Collection

Creative Expressions - Christmas Sayings stamp set

The Paper Studio - Cards & Envelope pack - 6.5" x 5"

Cardstocks - Stash Drawers

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project,  and to come play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your project to our blog at  Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

I'm playing along at

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge

Hugs,

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge 273 ~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Snowman

   Hello crafting friends and welcome to our monthly challenge

 at Crafty Gals Corner! 

  The theme for our challenge this month is

~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Snowman ~

I made 38 of these Snowman treat boxes for hubby's work and for our family.

They were cut using a file from the Silhouette store, called 3D Decorative Snowman Box.

I was able to insert 9 pieces of different Christmas candy into each one.

The opening on the top was a little too large, but I made sure to put one of the truffle chocolates on the top, so the other candy didn't fall out.

Although simple enough to put together, gluing all the layers and making each snowman was a little time consuming, but I thought the result was worth while.

We would love to see you play along with us.  You have until noon, CST, on 10 of February 2026, to link your project to our challenge.

Wishing you all a very happy and crafty year ahead.

Crafty hugs,

Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round ~ A, B is for ...

    Welcome to this month's Christmas challenge at

 Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.  

This year, our challenges are going to follow the alphabet.  The possibilities are endless, so it's going to be easy peasy to join us every month. To make it even easier, I will list 3 ideas for each letter, but remember you can come up with your own ideas to join our challenges.

To kick off January's challenge we begin with

(A is for ... Angel, Advent, Apple Cider / B is for ... Bells, Bear, Baubles)

Since I always seem to be short of Christmas cards, I'm challenging myself to make one for each letter.  So here is my first card ... A is for Angel.

Crafty Ingredients:

Silhouette - Rocker Card

Pinterest - Angel Image

Marianne Design - Gems

Hunkydory - Gold cardstock

Other cardstocks were from my scraps drawer

And for my second card ... B is for Bear. 

Crafty Ingredients:

 Spellbinders - Streamline 3D Embossing Folder by Simon Hurley

Poppy Stamps - Nordic Skating Bear

Pinkfresh Studios - Holiday Express Trees

Cardz TV Stamps - Christmas Critter Captions

Hunkydory - Silver Cardstock

Martha Stewart Punches - Snowflakes

Envelope & Card Base - The Paper Studio Packs

Cardstocks bits and pieces from my scraps drawers.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project,  and to come play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your project to our blog at  Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year!

May it be filled with love, joy and good health!

Hugs,

Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round ~ Santa Claus is Coming to Town

    Hello and welcome to this month's Christmas challenge at

 Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.  

Our inspiration song for December's challenge is

 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅯 Santa Claus is Coming to Town 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅯. 

 This means that you can use any verse, phrase or word in the song to create your Christmas project.  Here are the lyrics of this song for your inspiration

~ Santa Claus is Coming to Town ~

You better watch out,

You better not cry,

Better not pout,

I'm telling you why:

Santa Claus is comin' to town.

He's making a list

And checking it twice,

Gonna find out

Who's naughty and nice.

Santa Claus is comin' to town.

He sees you when you're sleepin',

He knows when you're awake,

he knows if you've been bad or good,

So be good for goodness sake.

You better watch out,

You better not cry,

Better not pout,

I'm telling you why:

Santa Claus is comin' to town.

I'm making a few more advent cards and thought this one would be perfect for this challenge.

I used the Advent Calendar die from Hunkydory.  The image is from the Advent Calendar Paper Pack.  These are awesome as they include the card fronts, the window reveal backing papers, and matching card inserts. Each paper pack has enough papers to make 12 cards.

Here is a close up.  It's super cute.  A little Advent Calendar in the form of a Christmas card 😊  Using the window reveal sheet behind each card front, makes it so that you can open a little window each day to display a fun and festive image.  I didn't want to open these little windows, but if you want to take a look at another card I made, you can follow this link.  There you will be able to see some of the cute images behind each little window.  Each backing sheet matches the advent card front.

I made this card to be an easel card.  On the matching insert sheet, I stamped a sentiment using a stamp from the Christmas Sayings stamp set from Creative Expressions.  The little stopper for the easel element was cut using punches from StampinUp and the little Merry Christmas greeting is a stamp from the Tiny Tidings stamp set from Cardz TV.

Each image paper is 6" x 6".  I trimmed them down to 5.5" x 5.5" as I wanted a small  gold border around it.  I then adhered it all to a 6" x 6" red card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project,  and come play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your project to our blog at  Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Safe travels to all who will be on the road, rail, air or water!

40th Anniversary Card

Hello everyone.  Today hubby and I celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary.  It's been 40 years of love, memories and adventures.  Yes, there have been some trials, but together we got thru them. 😀

Here is the card I made for him.

Using a card base from Hunkydory's Foiled Pattern Rocker Cards was a big plus in putting this card together.  I also like that this card base is close to ruby red in colour.  It's traditionally the colour for a 40th Anniversary.

Here you can see the foiled pattern better.  Isn't it pretty?  The bubbly glasses and most other decorative elements are all from a Spellbinders die set called A Special Toast.  The Number Pins are dies from Marianne Design, as are the tiny pearls.

The Happy Anniversary greeting was computer generated and cut using StampinUp punches. Cardstocks used are all from my scraps drawers.

And that is it for today.  I'll share a little about my surprise weekend away in my next post.😀

Hugs,

Crafty Gals Corner #272 ~ 'Tis the Season

  Hello crafting friends and welcome to this month's challenge

 at Crafty Gals Corner! 

  The theme for our challenge this month is

~ 'Tis the Season ~

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 

(listed in alphabetical order)

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Prize ~ 2 Digital Images

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Fred, She Said Digital Designs

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate

Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-colored images, Papers, Sets, Fred's Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files.  Have some fun with Fred!

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Since Christmas is just around the corner, I made a couple of projects for this challenge.  Starting with my first one, I used Snoozing Santa from Dr. Digi's House of Stamps and created this card.

I used a Google image for the background and a Silhouette image for the Christmas Tree.  The coat rack was created using the Santa's Coat & Rack die from Cottage Cutz.

On the inside, I created the sentiment using the Merry Christmas w/Shadow die, also from Cottage Cutz.

And for my second project, using the pre-coloured Christmas Poinsettia Lantern digi from Fred She Said, I created these tags.

I used the Silhouette to print and cut the images and to create the extra layer of poinsettias that I pop dotted for a little dimension.

I created the back of the tags on the Silhouette and used it to print and cut them.

That is it for today.  I'd like to remind you that Crafty Gals Corner will be taking our Winter Break during December, so we get to spend more time with our families to celebrate the Holidays.  We will be back in January with fresh inspiration for you.

We would love to see you play along with us.  You have until noon, CST, on 11 January 2026, to link your project to our challenge. Remember that although we're on a break, prize winners will still be picked and will be announced in January.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring you all that makes you smile!!!

Crafty hugs,

Halloween Cuckoo Clock

 Hello friends and welcome back!

 Today I'm sharing the Halloween card I made for hubby. 👻

I love cuckoo clocks but don't do very well with the constant tick tock of the pendulum.  I just can't stand repetitive noises, it drives me crazy! 😀  So you can imagine that this Cuckoo Cottage release by Spellbinders is just up my alley, all the beauty of a cuckoo clock but none of the noise 😊 And what you can't see, from these still pics, is that the pendulum moves to and fro, just like a regular cuckoo clock.  I really love the way it came out!

To make this clock I used the following materials:

Spellbinders - Cuckoo Cottage die set

Spellbinders - Halloween Tick Tock die set

Kat Scrappiness - Happy Halloween w/shadow

Google - Background

GinaK. Designs - couloured cardstocks

Hunkydory - silver cardstock for the chains

I love this Halloween die from Kat Scrappiness.  Love that it layers and love the font - so perfectly creepy for Halloween 👻  I made this into a 5" x 7" card so there was some of the background visible around the cuckoo clock.  Hubby also likes cuckoo clocks so I kinda knew that he was going to like this card, and he did!

That is all for today.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Crafty hugs,

Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round ~ Run, Run Rudolph

   Hello and welcome to this month's Christmas challenge at

 Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.  

Our inspiration song for November's challenge is 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅯 Run, Run Rudolph 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅯.  This means that you can use any verse, phrase or word in the song to create your Christmas project.  Here are the lyrics of this song for your inspiration

~ Run, Run Rudolph ~ 

Out of all the reindeers you know you are the mastermind

Run, run Rudolph, Randolph ain't too far behind

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's gotta make it to town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph 'cause I'm reelin' like a merry-go-round

Said Santa to a boy child, "What have you been longin' for?"

"All I want for Christmas is a rock 'n' roll 'lectric guitar"

And then away went Rudolph whizzin' like a shootin' star

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's has to make it in town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph, reelin' like a merry-go-round

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's gotta make it to town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph, I'm reelin' like a merry-go-round

Said Santa to a girl child, "What would please you most to get?"

"A little baby doll that can cry, sleep, drink and wet"

And then away went Rudolph, whizzin' like a Saber jet

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's gotta make it to town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph I'm reelin' like a merry-go-round

I've been trying to work on my stitching again, so for this challenge I went with this lovely layered image of Santa and Rudolph.

Stitch pattern is from Stitch & Do kit number 220.

Decoupage image is from the Holly Jolly Christmas cutting sheet from Yvonne Creations. I used 1 mm foam squares to adhere the different layers to each other. I find that using the 1 mm size adds dimension but very little bulk which is important for me as most of my cards get mailed overseas.

On the inside I added the greeting and a few more of the decorative stars from the same sticker sheet I used in the front of the card to add a little sparkle and shine.

And that was it.  I do find stitching very relaxing so this card was a joy to make.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project,  and come play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your project to our blog at  Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

Crafty hugs,

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #271 ~ Fill in the Blank - Spooky .....

  Hello crafting friends and welcome to this month's challenge

 at Crafty Gals Corner! 

  The theme for our challenge this month is

~ Fill in the blank -  Spooky _____ ~

(anything that is Spooky to you - can be cute 👻or not 💀)

  Our sponsors for this challenge are: 

(listed in alphabetical order)

     

Colour of Love

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

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Last Minute Manda

Prize ~ 3 Sets of Digis

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Using the very cute Lottie - Witch Costume digi stamp set from Last Minute Manda, I created this zigzag card. 

 For the base of the card, I used the Circle Zigzag Card Shape, from Studio Light Essentials (SL-ES-CD124).  The cardstock is from my scrap stash.  The patterned paper was printed and cut using a Silhouette file called Halloween Candy.  I used copic markers, gel pens, and wink of stella clear pen to colour in the images and add a little bit of sparkle here and there.

I created a little greeting mat on the back.  I used the Cardz TV stamp set called Happy Days to stamp the sentiment.

This card measures 5.5" x 8" when displayed but folds down to 5.5" x 3.75" for mailing, so if will fit in A2 envelope.

Did you notice that my card shows you the steps of how to make magical candy!

1.  First you read the recipe.

2. Gather the ingredients.

3. Add that special touch of magic.

4. Stir it well and let it bubble till done! 

Simple enough, right? 😂

Well, before I get any goofier, I'll say cheers for now.  I hope you enjoyed your visit and that you'll come back soon.  I would love to you see you play along with us.  You have until noon, CST, on 11 November 2025, to link your project to our challenge.

Crafty hugs,