Here are two baby cards I created using Freshly Made Sketches. A friend asked me to make up some gender neutral baby cards for her to have on hand after seeing this card I made awhile ago. I really wanted to use this paper that I got in a Simon Says Stamp kit quite awhile ago, and although it does contain some rose gold and pink shades, I still find it to be gender neutral (plus I hope we're moving more away from the whole pink=girl, blue=boy stereotype!) ! At first I thought about overlapping my stars but I really wanted to showcase this sweet sentiment so I used a stitched circle to (hopefully) convey the moon with the stars. I am playing along with #MarchMeetTheMaker by Joanne Hawker on Instagram this month. Be sure to check it out - lots of great inspiration!

This week was a big first for me - I went in my first ever craft fair with my cards + tags! I have been working on a stash for awhile and was stoked to add a few more things with my favourite Christmas sentiment. I used this Freshly Made Sketches awesome layout to create this card and managed to make several. I love playing along with this challenge when I can to use their inspiring clean and simple sketches. They are having a DT call right now with this sketch and so I am entering in this card. I added a sprig of cedar and holly that I picked up from our beautiful local florist shop, MJs Floral, to make my pictures a little extra festive!


I also made up a few more tags.
Here is my table at the craft fair!

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When my friend, Nadine, asked for some Christmas cards I knew just the stamp set I wanted to incorporate. Nadine has an inspiring blog, Zero Waste Living in the Kootenays, that details her zero waste journey. She has been a huge influence in my plastic free journey and my goals to cut down on waste, plus she is an amazing friend that I am happy to have grown up with and now be living in the same town again! While she loves her coffee, and I love my tea, getting together for a walk or a chat indoors with some cozy beverages often leaves me inspired.


I am stoked to have another link up for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, too!

Here are some more tags that I made for my friend. She mentioned that she liked the Lawn Fawn raccoon and fox, so I set to incorporate them using the other side of the cozy Sweater Weather papers from My Mind's Eye. I also incorporated these awesome wooden slice tags that I found at the Farmer's Market awhile back. For the extra tag that I made for my stash I added an H to personalize it for my son, Harvey!


Christmas Tag Count: 42 + 1 = 43

One of my friends asked if I could make some tags for her and I have been itching to play with this paper so I thought it would be the perfect fit! It started snowing today, too! I combined a few different tag shapes on these so that I could write names on the front of them and use the cute little sayings, "your name is on the nice list" and "do not open until Dec 25" that came along with the Hero Arts sets.


I managed to make a couple extra of these to add to my own stash, too!

Christmas Tag Count: 40 + 2 = 42