Favourites of 2024

Last year in this post, I said that 2023 has been horrible for me and my family. This year, we lost my father, so this year has been the most challenging ever for my family. I've also been struggling with my mobility with an injury combined with severe arthritis in my knee. 

This year, I continued with the coordination of A Blog Named Hero, and the Global Team for Hero Arts. I continued on the design teams for Paper Rose,  Colorado Craft Company, and Spellbinders. I was a guest of Mary Gunn on Craft Roulette twice this year, which is always heaps of FUNN! I also continued as a moderator of Jennifer McGuire's Share Handmade Kindness group on Facebook. 

Each year, I start planning my annual Case me a Christmas Card in August - I usually have all of the guests locked in and about 1/3 of my cards made by the end of August. This year, I began in June so I wouldn't have to cancel like I did in 2023. My father passed away in the first week of July, so nothing got done that month, but I was determined not to cancel again, and I ended up having more guests this year than ever before. Thank you to all of my wonderful and generous guests!

Of the cards that I made this year, these are some of my favourites:

A big thank you to these brands that I have used and loved this year, for their generosity in allowing affiliate sales!

 

 

 

 

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It's your birthday from Alex Syberia

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 After all the Christmas card making, I'm now on a birthday card making kick! I'm starting with this gorgeous stamp set from Alex Syberia.

 

 

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Perfect Pansies best wishes for Paper Rose

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 Now that Christmas crafting is over for a little while, I need to stock up on birthday cards. I like having cards like this that can do double duty as a birthday card or as a generic best wishes card.

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Case me a Christmas Card with Laura Bassen

Today is the last day of Case me a Christmas Card for 2024 - a Christmas Card blog series!

For more background info on the who, what, where, when, how and why of this series, please visit my first post for this year HERE!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Laura Bassen. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :) 

 And I made a video!

This is the card I Cased: 

Using Ardyth's LIMES technique: 

List:  floral, rainbow, raised panel with ink blending, white border, pastes, stencil, holographic die cut sentiment layered on vellum, sequins

Include: floral, rainbow,  white border, pastes,  holographic die cut sentiment layered on vellum, sequins

Modify: raised panel with die cut dot pattern, layered stencil, droplet embellishments

Exclude: pastes

Spin: Christmas!

Laura also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE and she also made a video HERE!

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