Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round ~ The Christmas Song

   Hello and welcome to this month's Christmas challenge at

 Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.   Deanne, our team leader, has come up with awesome challenges for 2025.  It's all going to be about Christmas Songs and Christmas Carols.  

To kick off the year, our inspiration song for January's challenge is The Christmas Song.  That 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 to inspire you ...

~ The Christmas Song ~

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

Jack Frost nipping at your nose

Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir

Folks dressed up like Eskimos

Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe

Helps to make the season bright

Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow

Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know that Santa's on his way

He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh

And every mother's child is gonna spy

To see if reindeer really know how to fly

And so I'm offering this simple phrase

To kids from one to ninety-two

Although it's been said many times, many ways

Merry Christmas to you

And so I'm offering this simple phrase

To kids from one to ninety-two

Although it's been said many times, many ways

Merry Christmas, have a Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you

For my card, I chose 🎵 Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ... 🎵 

These are the dies I used to create my card:

Marianne Design - Acorns & Chestnuts

Marianne Design - Stargate

Spellbinders - Christmas Cocktails

Image is from Google

Greeting is from the Noel Christmas Ornaments stamp set from JustRite Stamps.

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.

Happy New Year! May 2025 bring you all that makes smile!

CCAYR ~ Seven Swans a Swimming

 Hello crafting friends and welcome to this month's challenge  at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.  On our "The 12 days of Christmas" challenges, this month we have Seven Swans a Swimming. 

This is July's inspiration pic.

Our challenge this month is to have Seven of something or Mostly White.

Using a Lever Card fold, I created this card.

Materials used to make this card:

Lever fold - Silhouette

3D Layered Picture - Hearty Crafts

Text Banners - Marianne Design Dies

Embossing folder - Let it Snow - Embossalicious

Greeting stamp -  Deck the Halls stamp set from JustRite Stamps

Sentiment - Merry & Bright stamp set from JustRite Stamps

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project that falls within our challenge theme, 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,

CCAYR ~ Six Geese a Laying

 Hello crafting friends and welcome to this month's challenge  at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.  On our "The 12 days of Christmas" challenges, this month we have Six Geese a Laying. 

This is June's inspiration pic.

Our challenge this month is to have Six of something or a Farm Animal.

While looking through my dies for a farm animal, I came upon this very cute die from Cottage Cutz, and so and idea was formed and a card was made.  Meet my farm dog family ...

All the other elements on the card were cut using Silhouette designs. On the front the greeting is a stamp from the Deck the Halls stamp set from JustRite Stamps.  On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from Great Impression Stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project that falls within our challenge theme, 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 #214 ~ 'Tis the Season

   Hello crafting friends and welcome back to another fun challenge starting

 today at Crafty Gals Corner!  

Challenge # 214 ~ 'Tis the Season!

Our wonderful sponsors for this challenge are ...

(listed in alphabetical order)

The Paper Shelter
Prize: 3 Digital Stamps

We Are 3

Prize: Images and Paper Pack used by the DT

It's always so stressful when I'm doing my last minute Christmas present wrapping and run out of tags.  It happens to me every year.  So much so that this year, I decided that I was going to have plenty of tags on hand.  If you are one of my followers, then you know that I have been making Christmas tags thru out the year, but just to make sure I have enough, I decided to make another 24 when I saw these adorable Christmas images from one of our new sponsors, We Are 3.  Take a look ...

For these tags, I used the Christmas Fun Printables and 3 of the papers from the Victorian Christmas Paper Pack.  For the shapes, I used a Silhouette design file.

They were easy to make and look absolutely adorable.  Here are few close up pics,

On the back, the stamped greeting is from the Star of Light stamp set from StampinUp! and the To and From are from the Poinsettia Stamps & Die set by JustRite Stamps.

And now I'm almost 100% certain that I will have enough tags this year.  Now to find the time to do some wrapping before that night before Christmas rush :-)

While writing my Christmas cards, I realised that my stash is pretty low, so using an image called My Christmas Snowball from the Paper Shelter, I made this Easel card.

This lovely image comes pre-coloured, uncoloured, and has the coloured background too.

I used all the pre-coloured features. In addition I used a snowflake embossing folder to do the front of the card. Love this lil cutie :-)

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked my tags and ease card, and feel inspired to get crafty and come play along with us. You have until 12:00 pm, CST,

on 12 January 2021, to link your project to our challenge.

Stay safe and healthy!

Hugs,

February Challenge at CCAYR

Hello and welcome back friends!!!

To help you start your crafty month on a good note, we have a fun challenge

at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round hosted by the Gingerbread Gals.

February Challenge ~ Carols / Songs

Prize ~  please visit the CCAYR blog

Using the Angels Rejoice stamp from Stampevie, I created this window card. I can't remember the last time I used this stamp, but I really enjoy creating the scene on this card with it. It's one of the many items I have in my craft room that although I haven't use in a long time, I just cannot part with.  I guess that is why I have so much stuff in my crafty room!  I don't like clutter at all, but I can't seem to do a good de-stashing of my crafty supplies either.  Maybe because it is all neatly packed, it doesn't feel cluttered at all, so no reason to get rid of it, right? :-) Besides, you know the minute you get rid of something, that within the next couple of days you're going to wish you hadn't, so why set yourself up for regrets?  :-) That is my story, and I'm sticking to it! :-)

Crafty Ingredients:

Card base - Recollections 6.5" x 5" - white

Card design - Silhouette - design #76672

Embossing Folder - Bricked - Sizzix

Image - Angels Rejoice - Stampavie Stamps

Sentiment stamps - Noel Christmas Ornaments - JustRite Stamps

Toffee Crunch & Summer Sky Memento Inks

Copic Markers

Now it's your turn to join in the fun.

You have till the end of the month to link your project to our challenge.

Looking forward to seeing your festive creations.

Till next time, happy crafting!

Hugs,

Challenge # 110 at Crafty Gals Corner ~ Use your Favourite Things

Hello crafting friends.
It's Wednesday, so time for another challenge at Crafty Gals Corner!

Challenge #110 ~  Use Your Favourite Things!

Our sponsors for this challenge are:

Miss Daisy Stamps
Prize: 4 Digital Images (1 from each artist)

Rick St. Dennis
Prize: 2 Digital Images

Odd Ball Stamps
Prize: 3 Digital Images

I used a beautiful image from Miss Daisy stamps called Inspirational Cross to make this Easter card.

Crafty Ingredients:

Card base - Silhouette # 56175

Card size - 6.5" x 5"

Card stocks - Bazzill & Gina K.

Stencil - My Favorite Things

Greeting Stamp - JustRite - Easter Blessing

Used copic markers to colour image

Chunky glitter to represent "sugar"

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you will make a project and join in the fun.  You have till noon, CST, on Tuesday, 21 February 2017.  For more inspiration, please visit our blog and see what my Teamies made for you. Also, take a minute or two and visit our wonderful sponsors.