Floral Christmas

I back with actual homemade cards! After months of wanting to make cards, but just not having the motivation or the space, I just didn’t do it. To send out Christmas cards this year, I need to make cards! I got some inspiration and started creating. Just in time to send out cards on time for this year’s Christmas.

This year’s batch of cards are a mix of current and retired Stampin’ Up supplies and some random finds from my stash. I did buy some new Christmas stamps, but I’m using a ton of things I already owned. Today’s card was very simple but classic. I made four different variations of this same design.

• Stamps:

• Ink: Just Jade; Poppy Parade

• Cardstock: Flowers for Every Season DSP; Just Jade; Poppy Parade; Whisper White

• Accessories: Gold Satin Ribbon; various enamel shapes

• Tools: Stitched Rectangle Dies

Sunday Haul #6

I took advantage of the Black Friday sales at my favorite planner sticker shop: Nerd’s the Word! She’s on vacation through the end of the year, but once she re-opens, I’ll be sure to check out the new offerings.

My Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper share came this past week! I love getting all the new papers. Can’t wait to stare at them for forever before actually using them.

Planner Spreads 2020 May-August

Another year, more planner spreads. I'm a huge fan of The Happy Planner by mambi and this will be my fifth year using the system. I just really love the customization with this planner. And I have a ton of great stickers to use! In this post, I highlight all my weekly spreads from May to August.

May - Kelly Kit from Fabulously Planned (May 4th-10th); Book Kit from Nerd’s the Word (May 11th-17th); Floral kit from Nerd’s the Word (May 18th-24th); Coffee Lover Kit from Fabulously Planned (May 25th-31st)

June - Spring Bloom Kit from Brianna Nicole Designz (June 1st-7th); Yellow Full Boxes from Nerd’s The Word (June 8th-14th); Random Mambi stickers (June 15th-21st); Bright Planner Kit from Charlotte’s Paper Company (June 22nd-28th); Random Mambi stickers (June 29th - July 5th)

July - Free butterflies kid from VictoriaThatcher (July 6th-12th); Random Mambi stickers (July 13th-19th); Retro Mini Kit from Plan-It Planet and random stickers (July 20th-26th); Cacti Kit from Nerd’s the Word (July 27th - August 2nd)

August - Cacti Kit from Formless Designs (August 3rd-9th); Office Supply Boxes from Nerd’s the Word, random stickers from Mambi and Brianna Nicole Designz (August 10th-16th); Space Boxes from Nerd’s the Word, random stickers from Plan-It Planet (August 17th-23rd); Enchanted Woods Kit from Nerd’s the Word (August 24th-30th)

December Crafting Goals

Almost 6 months have gone by since I updated this blog. Terrible… Life in quarantine got very busy and yet also triggered a depression episode. I’m feeling slightly better and hoping to get back into crafting. I’ve been spending my free time creating homeschool curriculum and reading. My last monthly goal post was from July, so let’s check in there.

• Make 5 greeting cards (some using Parisian Beauty) - Fail

• Send out July Birthday cards ✓

• Finish June Memory Planner Pages ✓

December’s Goals:

• Finishing making Christmas cards and send them out

• Finish organizing my new storage area (blog post to come!)

• Update and organize my master projects list

• Finish 1-2 months of Memory Planner pages

• Organize my planner supplies for 2021

2020 Craft Projects Master List Update #1

Something a little different for today. As I’m putting together my new craft/library room (tour once it’s done!), I’ve been trying to mentally organize all the projects that I have started and not finished or not even started at all. So I made a master list for myself! I will be checking in with this list every two months or so. And I’m sure I will be adding to do periodically. My goal is to get 75% of these projects finished by year’s end.

I’m so excited about the amount of progress that I have made in the past two months. I might actually be getting my crafting mojo back!

Project Life

• 2018 Arthur Album

• 2019 Family Album

  • Create albums in Photos ✓

  • Sort photos into albums ✓

  • Pick photos to print ✓

  • Print January-March

  • Journal January-March

  • Print April-June

  • Journal April-June

  • Print July-September

  • Journal July-September

  • Print October-November

  • Journal October-November

• 2019 Quentin Album

  • Buy album

• 2019 Arthur Album

  • Buy album

• 2020 Family Album

• 2020 Quentin Album

  • Buy album

• 2020 Arthur Album

  • Buy album

• 2019 December Daily Album ✓

• 2019 Week in the Life Album ✓

• 2020 December Daily Album

  • Base Pages/Kit

  • Buy Album

• 2020 Week in the Life Album ✓

  • Choose week do document ✓

  • Document Week ✓

    • Print Ali Edwards Pages to help ✓

  • Print Photos ✓

Memory Planner

• April ✓

• May ✓

• June

• July

• August

• September

• October

• November

• December

Reading Retreat

• Invitations

• Itineraries

• Thank you cards

• Name tags

• Extras

Greeting Cards

• Complete Extra Kits

• Inventory of made cards

• List of Stamp Sets

• 30 BFC/OBM/Friend Cards - 1/10

• 10 Birthday Cards - 2/10

• Card challenges?

• 30 Days of Christmas Cards project

Arthur and Quentin Birthday Party - Knights of the Roundtable

• Decide on look for theme

• Create potential shopping list

• Research crafts to make

Miscellaneous

• Organize supplies

• Decide on storage units

• Learn how to use plotter cutter

• Organize planner supplies

• Go through pens and markers

July Crafting Goals

A recap of last month’s goals:

• Furniture for the Craft Side - Fail. Ikea is still having supply and delivery issues.

• Send out June birthday and pick-me-up cards ✓

• Finish May Memory Planner Pages ✓

• January-March Family 2019 Project Life Spreads - Fail. I need to get back on this.

• Make 5 greeting cards - Fail. I made three cards. Need to get back to this.

• WITL 2020 Album ✓

July’s Goals:

• Make 5 greeting cards (some using Parisian Beauty)

• Send out July Birthday cards

• Finish June Memory Planner Pages

Sunday Haul #5

Another part of my Zulily order arrived. I’m still (not) patiently waiting for my other four items…

My Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper share came this past week! I love getting all the new papers. Can’t wait to stare at them for forever before actually using them.

Abstract Slip

There’s something perfect about a clean and simple card. For this card, I used washi tape to create a mask for my stamped flowers. A simple sentiment, some layered cardstock, and a few rhinestones complete the card.

• Stamps: Abstract Impressions

• Ink: Gorgeous Grape; Highland Heather

• Cardstock: Champagne Foil Sheets; Highland Heather; Whisper White

• Accessories: Champagne Rhinestones

• Tools:

An Elegant Cake

Finally pulled out the Happy Birthday to You Stamp set again and made a pretty and shiny card.

• Stamps: Happy Birthday to You

• Ink: Pretty Peacock; Smoky Slate; Calypso Coral; Highland Heather; Old Olive

• Cardstock: Perennial Essence DSP (retired); Champagne Foil Sheet; Pretty Peacock; Whisper White

• Accessories: Champagne Rhinestones

• Tools: Stitched Rectangular Shapes

You're All Heart

I actually made some cards this week! What!?!?!?!

I finally, finally pulled out and used the Modern Heart Stamp Set (after it’s been retired of course). I love this great geometric heart. Such possibilities! For these cards, I dug through my random DSP scraps to find some fun color combos and patterns and chose two to make cards from. I ended up pulling out a ton of retired colors for the first card. I actually really loved the more subdued color palette on the first card. To finish I added a simple sentiment and some great accessories.

For the second card, I chose a much brighter color palette. It’s very colorful in person!

• Stamps: Modern Heart

• Ink: Granny Apple Green; Soft Sea Foam; Coastal Cabana; Regal Rose; Pineapple Punch; Gorgeous Grape; Highland Heather; Yoyo Yellow; Melon Mambo; Night of Navy; Not Quite Navy; Tangerine Tango; Ruby Red; Pool Party; Hello Honey

• Cardstock: How Sweet It Is DSP; Melon Mambo; Smoky Slate; Basic Gray; Whisper White

• Accessories: Bermuda Bay Sequins; Black Rhinestones; Basic Gray Ribbon; Coastal Cabana/Granny Apple Green Ribbon

• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits