Top Ten 2020 Crafts

2020 was the year that my crafting fell off a cliff. I just didn’t do much crafting at all… Let’s see what I actually did accomplish:

1. Big Sentiment Christmas - Hands-down my favorite Christmas card that I made this year!

2. Silver Falling Snowflakes - I also really loved this Christmas card that I made!

3. You’re All Heart - Just look at these gorgeous fun heart cards!

4. Week in the Life 2020 Project - I completed this year in the year and apparently early in the pandemic. Interesting project.

5. December Daily 2019 - Another project that I really love doing every year. Hoping to continue into 2021.

6. Abstract Slip - This was such a beautiful simple card using some of my favorite colors!

7. Week in the Life 2019 Project - I reached back into 2019 and got this one done. Still really love this project and will continue into 2021.

8. Merry and Bright DSP - One last Christmas card that I loved making!

9. March Memory Planner Pages - I got stuck about halfway through the year, but I did get a few months complete.

10. An Elegant Cake - One last pretty card for 2020.

Week in the Life 2020 - Saturday and Sunday

For 2020’s WITL, I wasn’t planning on doing it until late summer or so. But then I thought that documenting a week during the height of the pandemic and quarantining might be interesting. I ended up creating almost a time capsule for future years. For my base pages, I pulled paper from a variety of stashes, using the Days of the Week puffy stickers as my color guide For insert cards, I used some Week in the Life cards from Ali Edwards and lots of random cards from my stash. Today’s post features Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday

Sunday

Week in the Life 2020 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

For 2020’s WITL, I wasn’t planning on doing it until late summer or so. But then I thought that documenting a week during the height of the pandemic and quarantining might be interesting. I ended up creating almost a time capsule for future years. For my base pages, I pulled paper from a variety of stashes, using the Days of the Week puffy stickers as my color guide For insert cards, I used some Week in the Life cards from Ali Edwards and lots of random cards from my stash. Today’s post features Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week in the Life 2020 - Cover, Monday, and Tuesday

For 2020’s WITL, I wasn’t planning on doing it until late summer or so. But then I thought that documenting a week during the height of the pandemic and quarantining might be interesting. I ended up creating almost a time capsule for future years. For my base pages, I pulled paper from a variety of stashes, using the Days of the Week puffy stickers as my color guide For insert cards, I used some Week in the Life cards from Ali Edwards and lots of random cards from my stash. Today’s post features my cover page, Monday, and Tuesday.

Monday

Tuesday

Week in the Life 2019 - Saturday and Sunday

For this year's WITL, I kept pushing my week off until finally fall came and I picked September 16th - 22nd. I had a random album in my stash and used that. For my base pages, I pulled paper from a variety of stashes, but I did stick to brighter colors. For insert cards, I used some Week in the Life cards from Ali Edwards. I love the coordinating colors. Today’s post features my cover page, Monday, and Tuesday.

Saturday

Sunday

Week in the Life 2019 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

For this year's WITL, I kept pushing my week off until finally fall came and I picked September 16th - 22nd. I had a random album in my stash and used that. For my base pages, I pulled paper from a variety of stashes, but I did stick to brighter colors. For insert cards, I used some Week in the Life cards from Ali Edwards. I love the coordinating colors. Today’s post features my cover page, Monday, and Tuesday.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week in the Life 2019 - Cover, Monday, and Tuesday

For this year's WITL, I kept pushing my week off until finally fall came and I picked September 16th - 22nd. I had a random album in my stash and used that. For my base pages, I pulled paper from a variety of stashes, but I did stick to brighter colors. For insert cards, I used some Week in the Life cards from Ali Edwards. I love the coordinating colors. Today’s post features my cover page, Monday, and Tuesday.

Monday

Tuesday

Top Ten 2019 Crafts

This year was a strange one where I lost a bit of crafting mojo. Nevertheless, I did make some great crafts this past year. In no particular order, here are my 10 favorite craft projects of 2019!

1. Rococo Petals — Featuring one of the new 2019-2021 In Colors.

2. Watercolor Butterfly — Love the layering on this one!

3. Frosty Christmas - Love silver and navy together!

4. December Daily 2018 - Always love this project!

5. Floral CASE - Simple, but oh so pretty!

6. A Trio of Pumpkins - I don’t make very many Halloween cards, but I loved making this one!

7. Typewriter Wishes - Simple collage style card

8. Lots of Baubles - These cards took forever, but are so amazing!

9. Balmy Butterflies — Simple card, but oh so cute!

10. Happy to Have You - Something about a large sentiment that really gets me!

2019-2021 In Color Bookmarks

With the launch of every new Annual Catalog, I make In Color bookmarks for my customers. They are such a fun way to show off the new In Colors and create a handy tool. For this year’s bookmark, I wanted to feature the cardstock and the ink. So I turned to the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set to create these lovely butterflies. Simple and effective!

• Stamps: Butterfly Gala

• Ink: Terracotta Tile, Rococo Rose, Purple Posy, Seaside Spray, Pretty Peacock

• Cardstock: Terracotta Tile, Rococo Rose, Purple Posy, Seaside Spray, Pretty Peacock, Whisper White, Kraft

• Accessories:

• Tools: Butterfly Duet Punch

The 100 Day Project 2019 Update #3

I’m going to focus and trying to accomplish my already started projects!

#100daysofcompleting

Short list of projects to complete:

• Quentin’s 2018 PL album - currently in March

• Arthur’s 2017 PL Album

• Arthur’s 2018 PL Album

• Family 2019 PL Album - haven’t even started, but do have the supplies

• WITL 2019 kit

• Various half-down cards laying around

I’ll probably also throw in some card that I’ll make from start to finish throughout the 100 days. And there’s usually a surprise project that crops up. So I’m not going to restrict myself too much. I just want to work on one of my projects each day. The daily time could be 5 minutes or 2 hours, but the idea is to do something toward one of my craft projects. I’m going to do weekly (or biweekly) posts on here with my progress. And I’m going to try to document daily on instagram (@TFrances19).

Update #3: April 29th - May 12th

Well life sorta happened this past weeks and my stressors were off the charts. I only completed a few crafty things and apparently didn’t put any of them on Instagram.

• April Memory Planner pages

• 2 weeks of planner layouts