Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round - " F " is for Figgy Pudding

   Welcome to our March challenge at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

 

This month our challenge is to create a project with something beginning with

 the letters E or F.

For my DT project, I used the letter "F" for Figgy Pudding.

Looks pretty delish, doesn't it?

This is  not a good pic, but it shows all the sparkle and shine beautifully.

Love this sentiment.  If features in a lot of my Christmas cards, together with this Holly penny stamp.

As I was making this card, I realised that I have never had Figgy Pudding and that I wasn't even quite sure what it was.  I know the Christmas carol, but not much about the actual pudding.  So I decided to visit my friend Google and investigate a little.  All I can say is that back in the day, many centuries ago, I would not have touched it, but after looking at a few modern day recipes, it sounds very yummy.  The one recipe I found has figs, dates and dark chocolate as it's 3 main ingredients. What's not to like, right? :-) I don't think I'm going to wait for Christmas to come around before trying this :-)

 I love figs! We have a fig tree in our back yard that gives us the most juiciest, sweetest, large figs I've ever seen, the purpley kind (Black Mission Figs).  Well at least it did until  this ice storm, Uri, hit us last week.  Spring will tell, I guess, because right now this fig tree is looking very sorry for itself, as is the rest of everything in our garden.  Anyway, during the month of July, I pig out on figs.  They are so delicious when freshly picked from the tree.  I even love them with ice cream :-)  We get such an abundance of figs that we make approximately 10 jars of jam every year.  Now bear in mind that this is just a small tree.  And this is even after fighting with the birds and the squirrels that seem to find our tree irresistible too!

Okay, so now that I feel like some figs, and there are none to be had, let me tell you what I used to make this card, instead.

Yvonne Creations - Holly Jolly Card Set

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Christmas Pudding 

Holographic card stock - 

Cuttlebug - Swiss Dot embossing folder

 Stampabilities - Holly stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 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.

I'm playing along at 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge

Till next time,

stay safe and well.

The Stockings were hung ...

Hello and welcome to November's challenge at 

 Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round

November Challenge ~ Stockings or other Winter Clothing

Prize: Please see the CCAYR blog for prize details.

This card was so easy and fun to put together. Since the image is so sweet and festive, I decided to use a fancy frame and not add any more embellishments that would take away from the image.

Here are the crafty ingredients I used to make this sweet Christmas card:

Card base - Recollections - 6.5" x 5" - white

Red and white card stock - The Paper Studio

Embossing folder - Swiss Dots - Cuttlebug

Decorative Frame - Spellbinders - Romantic Rectangles

Image - Hunkydory - Little Book of Snow is Falling

Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Stamped sentiment - Great Impression Stamps

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'd love for you to create a project and join in the fun by linking it to our blog at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round 

You have till the end of the month to link your projects.

Till next time,