December ATC Swap: Festive / Silver

 I thought I would use one of my retreat backgrounds for the December ATC swap over on Clarity Crafts Mini Makes and ATCs as sections look quite wintery.  The prompt is Festive and the colour, silver.

WOYWW 862/82: A Musical Week Ahead

 Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

My desk this week was taken at the start of the workshop with Tilly Tea Dance on Saturday.  I had the most fabulous time as always and it was good to catch up with Twiglet briefly at the end too.

This was the result, which I think is my best one yet.  Back there in the new year for a flower vase project.

I had the most lovely and unexpected card from Shaz in Oz (left) and a beautiful applique card from Jo too.  I don't expect to get cards as I don't send many - I tend to donate to charity instead of paying hefty postage prices.  I will be placing a Christmas card on my desk on Christmas Eve which will be my card to all my wonderful WOYWW friends and I suggest perhaps we all do that.

My advent jigsaw is growing.  Mum has one too so we are going to swap for next year.

It's a heavy musical week ahead.  We had our last rehearsal yesterday for the joint u3a recorder and orchestra concert next Tuesday afternoon and I also have the SRP (Society of Recorder Players) meet up on Saturday.

Wishing Neet a steady improvement and hoping she is out of hospital before Christmas.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

Robin Christmas Tree

 I have a lovely blue Christmas jumper which has a tree on the front created from embroidered robins, holly and snowflakes.  I decided to see if I could create a similar card and this is the result.

December PTC: I'm Dreaming of a white Christmas / Silver

I thought I would use black parchment for the December PTC swap over on Clarity Crafts Mini Makes and ATCs as it would show up whitework for snow and silver glitter really well.  The prompt is I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas and the colour, silver.

Big Blooms Holly - Mini Make

 Even though the A4 square sets of Barbara's Big Blooms stamps have larger stamps, they come with masks and can still be used to make smaller cards.  Here I used the Silhouette Holly Leaf stamps and masks on a 4" x 4" card blank.  I also went with less conventional colours.

Calendar Page Round Up for 2025

 For 2026 I have both the Clarity inky calendar blank and the Groovi calendar blank and I am looking forward to filling both of them as the year progresses. For 2025 I worked in the Funky Fossil blank calendar, as Clarity didn't have them back then.  Here is a round up of all my calendar pages for 2025.  Links to each project are below the photos.

The only time I worked directly onto the calendar page using a Clarity stencil (see HERE).

Happy Christmas Holly

I had a play with the November Clarity New Design Club stencil, but only used the top section to create a pattern on a 5" x 5" white card blank.