First Christmas card of 2021

Well, since today is the 24th I decided to make a Christmas card. I have seen other bloggers who have made Christmas cards every month on the 24th, but I have never done that myself, but today I really felt like making one, so maybe I'll try to do that every month, it will definitely make it easier to get them mailed on time I hope 🤞. I made one that is super easy and very flat. Most of my cards has to be mailed, and it is just more likely they will get there in one piece if they are flat.

Materials used:

Maja Design – Christmas Season 6x6 paper pack + an ephemera card from the 12x12 collection

Distress Ink – Bundled Sage

Hot foil plate and die from China

Half pearls

Crochet cloth

During my Christmas vacation I wasn't very creative, but I did manage to crochet one more dish cloth, this time in red. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, the edges actually got pretty straight.

Layout of Rebecca

This LO I made quite some time ago, but for some reason I have never blogged about it. It is one of my favorites of the LO's I have made so far, I really love how it turned out:

Materials used:
Maja Design – Vintage Summer Basics, Vintage Romance, Vintage Frost Basic
Brown cardstock
Stencils from Dutch Doobadoo and Memory Box
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
Dusty Attic chipboard (Flowerbuds, Bookman ABC set, Leaves 2)
Liquid pears ballerina
Brown acrylic paint
Cosmic Shimmer Mist
China die (beYOUtiful)
From my stash: Lace, cheese cloth, embossing powder, white gesso and 1 half pearl 

Here are a few close-ups:

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!! Personally I hope that this year will be so much better than last year, but then again it doesn't take much, does it??? I think we are all looking forward to getting rid of this dreadful pandemic and hopefully 2021 will be the year where that happneds, even though we probably still has to be quite patient about seeing the end of it.

This year I have decided to make some creative new year resolutions, I think it might be a good idea to have some goals I want to reach this year:

1: I want to finish the Christmas Stocking I am making for my oldest daughter, I have been working on it for more than 6 years now, so I think it is time to finish it. I am planning on working on it, when she is at work, so she will be surprised when she gets it. This is how far I am with it:

2: I want to finish the  crochet blanket I am making for Rebecca. I am maybe done with 25% of the squares I am crochetting, at least they don't take so long per square.

3: I want to blog more often, so I am making it my goal to blog once a week. I just have to be better at planning my blog posts.

Last Christmas cards 2020

Just wanted to show the last of the Christmas cards for this year:

Materials used:

Paper pad from Bilka

Gold and black cardstock

Vellum

Sue Wilson die (trees)

Gummiapan die

Materials used:

White cardstock

Blue Glitter cardstock from Marianne Design

Sue Wilson die (text)

Spellbinders die (snowflake frame)

Materials used:

Old paper pad brand unknown (maybe Papermania)

Gold cardstock

Gittes Eget Design frames

China dies and hot plate

Spellbinders gold hot foil

Halfpearls

Materials used:

Hunkydory paper from magazine

Silver cardstock

Halfpearls

Simple and Basic die

Filled chocolates

Back in the beginning of November I found some cheap chocolate moulds in hard plastic in my local grocery store. They had 3 different kinds so I bought one of each and then I ordered some Callebaut chocolate from a store in Germany. And last weekend I decided it was time to try to make homemade filled chocolates. 

First I made all of the fillings, which took some time, and then it was finally time to start playing with the chocolate. When you make filled chocolates it's very important that the chocolate has the right temperature, and I was a little worried about that, since this was my first attempt, but it wasn't that difficult and my chocolates turned out great 😋. I ended up making just over 2.5 kg.

Recycled Christmas card

The image with the trees is actually from an old Christmas card, which I saved from getteing thrown in the trash can at work a few years ago. I immediately saw that I could use that for a new card, and I do have another piece left, for another card. It is a pretty simple card, but I really like how it turned out:

Materials used:

An old Christmas card

Silver and white cardstock

Gittes Eget Design dies

Marianne Design stamp

Black ink and halfpearls