Happy 2025! FMS667

 

This little party animal joins me in wishing you all a very Happy 2025!  Looks like he has already started the New Year's celebration since all he has left is the olive! My celebration was much more low key.  After a busy two weeks of family get togethers for birthdays and holiday fun my New Year's Eve was spent by the fireplace watching the ball drop in Times Square from the comfort of my living room!

Thought I would also share with you the wonderful hand made cards I received this month. Crafty friends are terrific and oh so talented!

Cecile is starting our year off with a wonderful sketch!  Hope you join us at Freshly Made Sketches!

Stamp Set: Happy New Year (Colorado Craft Co.)

Ink: Memento, Copics

Die and DSP: SU!

The Flakes Are Flying! FMS666

 

                    

And just like that my holiday cards are done! A final scattering of snowflakes on my last batch of cards and that's it until next year! I found a fancy piece of vellum in my stash that looks like it has snow scattered across it and it layered beautifully on some gold foil.

I will be taking a bit of a break until the new year.....although I don't know how much "break" will be involved.  So much happening in the next three weeks!  Looking forward to sneaking in some quiet moments to enjoy the holiday spirit. Wishing you all a peaceful holiday season and a very Happy New Year!

I flipped Jen Brum's slim line sketch to scatter my snowflakes down the side of the sketch. Hope you join us at Freshly Made Sketches!

Stamp Set: One of A Kind (SU!)

Merry Bookmas! TTTC#262

 

A stack of books, a snowstorm and a cozy fire sounds good to me this time of year!  This is such a cute die/stencil set from Waffle Flower but I don't think I have scratched the surface of ways to use it. I just used some distress inks and strips of paper behind the cut outs to define the books.  If life slows down around here in the next week or two (ha!) I will play with this set some more as I have several book loving friends! But meanwhile it worked for the Tic Tac Toe Board - right across the middle!

Stencil/Die Set: Merry Bookmas (Waffle Flower)

Distress Inks: Twisted Citron, Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade

Snowflake Embossing Die (SU!)

The Holiday Season....FMS665

 

And just like that winter and the holiday season arrived in a hurry here!  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving snowstorm and a terrific feast at my daughter's house. Miss Emma set a delightful table and we had a houseful of people.... and pups!

I have been busy finishing tags, cards and wrapping in my craft room so when I saw Kim's sketch this week I knew I could sift through the mess on my desk and come up with something quickly - which I did! I always start crafting with a clean put together desk except for the holidays......chaos reigns in my craft room from all the holiday prep!  It will all be put back together by the New Year!

Hope you have fun with Kim's sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!  Join us!