#dailyart2025: Nearly Finished

 With only the last half of December to complete, my #dailyart2025 will be at an end.  I have been following the prompts over on 365 days of drawing prompts and other art, working in Petite watercolour journals from Clarity Crafts all year.  Here are my responses for the first half of the month.

I imagined he was peeping from his hole!

The largest room should be where I spend the most time!

I love the colours of autumn leaves.

This will be our third Christmas without him.

I used to love these ice lollies.

Conkers!

Some of the countries I have visited - need to add Spain and Switzerland.

Snowman Gift Tags

 I was determined to use all my Clarity New Design Club offerings before the end of the year.  I am renewing both the clubs I have been part of this year and adding the Groovi club to the list for 2026.  I decided to make a couple of gift tags using the December stamp offering - this adorable snowman and accessories.

Rainbow Dogs Birthday

 I had a birthday card to make for a dog lover recently so I couldn't resist using the dogs from the miniature cats & dogs stamp set by Clarity Crafts and my favourite rainbow colours.

Frohe Weihnachten

I was asked to do a Make and Take for the local Anglo German Club and this is what I came up with.  As Clarity don't do German sentiments, I used an old stamp that I had.

It's All About Santa

 The prompt over on Try it On Tuesday is 'It's All About Santa' so I thought this card using one of the stamp sets from Linda Williams' third Christmas Compendium collection would be perfect.

Stamp the large Santa from the Christmas Compendium stamp set of the same name onto Clarity stencil card in Versamark ink and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

Die cut the topper using the 3.5” nested circle die and a mat from gold card using the corresponding picot die.

Colour the image using Ecoline and Kuretake pens picked up off a glass mat with a watercolour brush pen (Scarlet, Pale Pink, Bright Yellow, Green, Light Blue). Mat up the topper.

Add the topper to the front of a 6” x 6” white card blank.

Add Noel and Santa sentiments around the image in Versamark ink and heat emboss as before.

To finish, colour the sentiments using Ecoline and Kuretake pens picked up off a glass mat with a watercolour brush pen (Scarlet, Green).

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.

Good Job Mr Painter

 #1 son and his girlfriend recently took a break from decorating after nearly 12 months of work on their house.  This is the card I made for them to celebrate.

WOYWW 861/81: Doesn't Time Fly?

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. 

Who can believe that it is December already and Christmas Eve in three weeks!

My desk photo was taken on Monday afternoon showing off the latest Clarity goodies to arrive.  I did make a sneaky order or two during the Gray Friday sale weekend too.  They have already been used (look out for my blog on Friday).

My advent jigsaw is going well.

Mum's cats (the 3 P's).

I followed an online tutorial for this one.

Couldn't resist this one! Last page of journal #7.

I will see Twiglet at the weekend as I am attending a needle felting class with Tilly Tea Dance on Saturday. I might take a desk photo there for a change.  I have used my retirement theatre voucher now, as I have booked to see the Fawlty Towers stage show next February.  Went to Costco with Mum and Sister last Friday - totally manic but fun too.

Continuing to send Neet well wishes and healing hugs and hoping she manages to escape the hospital soon.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.