Dec 20, 2025

Magic Winter Scene for Allsorts Challenge

It's time for another challenge at Allsorts this time Lynn is hosting with her optional theme of "Create a Scene". This is our last challenge of the year and you have until December 31st to join us. There will be 2 winners selected from the entries and prizes come from Lavinia Stamps.


I used some of my older (but favorite) Lavinia stamps to create a scene inside a circle. The negative of a circle die cut was used as a mask for the scene along with a torn paper mask for a snowy ground. The bunnies are Pipin on the left and the one on the right is part of the Whimsical Hares set. For the tree I chose Fairy Fir Tree small. I also used Lavinia's Field Grass and Winter Magic for the wording stamped on the background. For some added interest I used a gold Posca pen for some spatter. 




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PS: If you haven't already then I hope you'll check out the December "I spy with my little eye" challenge where everyone is invited to share their "Year in Review - Favorites of 2025" this month. I hope you'll join in and share yours! The linky tool will be open until mid-January.


As this may be my last post of the year, I would like to sign off by wishing all my blogging friends, followers and readers a 

Merry Christmas 

and

Happy New Year!





Dec 17, 2025

I spy with my little eye ............A Crafty Year in Review 2025 Linkup: Your Favorite Creations of the Year

Hello everyone and welcome to the monthly "I spy with my little eye" post! That said, this month we are doing things a little bit different as instead of a traditional challenge, there is a .........

"Crafty Year in Review" linkup: Favorite Creations of the year!

and everyone is invited to link up their own favorites of the year 2025. I hope you will join in, have a look back at your creations and create a post featuring your favorites. There is a linky tool at the end of this post where you can share your "Favorites" post. 

You  have  until January 18th. The Top Picks from the last "I spy with my little eye" challenge (November Challenge) will be announced on January 20th when a new challenge will be posted.

I usually choose a favorite of each month but you can do a Top 5, Top 10, Top 3 or maybe there is just one single project you are especially loving. The choice is yours and the only rule is that the favorites have to be your own work posted in 2025.


Here are mine, some months were easier to choose than others. (There were some ties too!!) I've included links to the original blog posts for all details for those interested.


January

Original post

February

March

April

May

Also May

June

July
none

August

Also August
Original post

September

October

November

December


By looking at my Top Picks I can see that I really love making my own backgrounds with stencils, stamps and ink whereas my designer paper stash hasn't been touched much and only one card from my Top Picks includes designer paper.  Every year I like to challenge myself to use up patterned papers but it's just not happening!! Oh well...




I thought it would also be fun to see which post received the most views last year...


Most visited blog post of 2025:

This was a card made with (then) newly released stamps so I can see why it was a popular post, although it didn't make my personal top picks list.

And that would be it for today. I hope you will link up your own Crafty Year in Review post below. Would absolutely love to come check out to see what made your "favorites" list!




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