This year is coming to a close and I love looking back through my blog to highlight some of my crafty accomplishments and favourite projects from this past year. It was a big year of trying new techniques, creating on a design team, and trying my hand out at tutorial videos. Here's a month-to-month recap:
January
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| Making a Birthday Card with Harvey This is becoming a fun tradition each year to make my husband a birthday card with our son, Harvey. He loves coming into my craftroom with me and creating something together. It makes me so happy to spend this time with him, too. |
February
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| Rawr Means 'I Love You' in Dinosaur I made up a few different valentines this month using the dinosaurs and hearts. These are the two I made up for Harvey and Alex and I love how they turned out. You can find Harvey's valentines that we made together here and the valentines I made up for our nephews here. |
March
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| How Do You Spell Love? Winnie the Pooh stamp sets have been one of my most fun adventures this year - I just LOVE colouring them up! They also sold really well up at Fullfill in Kimberley and I had lots of requests for them :). |
April
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| Studio Katia Design Team One of the definite highlights of my year in crafting has to be being asked to be on the Studio Katia Design Team! I have been a fan of their products for years now and love that they are Canadian. I absolutely loved being on the team and it pushed me to try out some different techniques throughout the year, like this crayon resist for my first project. |
May
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| Quick Birthday Name Shakers Shaker cards quickly became something exciting to play around with while being on the Studio Katia Design Team. I LOVED digging through the assortment of embellishments that they sent me to find the perfect combination for different colour palettes and themes! |
June
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| Spring Roses Watercolour I love how this design turned out and I found some fun in creating up coordinating tags to go along with my projects! I've coloured up this image before several times and I enjoyed seeing how it would turn out with heat embossing in gold and colouring up with my Tombow markers! |
July
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| Dark Background Using the Daisy Bunch I enjoy switching things up to make a slimline card and have been wanting to try out a dark background for awhile. I did some masking here, coloured in the background with my Tombow markers, and added in some gold flecks with my Beam paints. |
August
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| Texture Paste with the Mandala Stencil I love making more than one card at once and was thrilled with how the mandala and texture paste looked on my ink blended backgrounds (I spent a LOT of time searching for just the right combo!). These colours remind me of lake days and the last few days of summer. |
September
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| Snowflake Shaker Card + Tags I love this delicate little snowflake die and was so happy to use it on a card and some tags for my Christmas stash! The shaker elements inside are so pretty, too! |
October
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| Happy 6th Birthday, Harvey This Game Day Collection was absolutely perfect for Harvey's birthday invitation, cupcake toppers, and card! I feel like it will be a great set to use for many upcoming friend birthdays, too. |
November
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| Dear Santa, Define Good. November is when my crafting really started to pick up again after a bit of a slump and I'd say I'm pretty proud of this card. It really was only a short time ago that I would never even attempt colouring this much on a card and I think my colouring has come a long way! I absolutely love the Frosty Flakes stencil too and thought the way it turned out with the distress mica stain was so perfect for the look I was trying to achieve! |
December
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| let it snow. let it snow. let it snow. Ironically, we haven't had much snow this winter, yet, but I love the technique I used on this card to mask, ink blend, and use some subtle highlights with markers (colour instead of watercolouring) and twinkles with some white paint. |
The video tutorials I created this year were a BIG highlight and accomplishment for me this year. I absolutely loved creating them and learned a lot. I sure hope I can find the time to create more in the new year! Here is a playlist looking back at the videos I created this year:
That wraps up my highlights of the year from each month! I cannot wait to see what crafty adventures come my way next year! Cheers to 2024 :)
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