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!




Dec 12, 2025

Christmas Caroling

Hello everyone, hope you're doing well. We 're expeciting more snow and then very low temperatures overnight and probably lasting for a few days. Winter has just begun but I have to admit I am so over it already!!!

There are lots of Christmas challenges in blogland and I'm sharing a card I made using one of my most favorite Christmas stamps, an oldie by PSX (G1879). 


I first stamped the carolers onto Neenah 80lb cardstock then again onto a post it note to make a simple mask. Then I used the negative of a circle die cut to ink the circle using Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink. A "torn paper" mask was used for some snowbanks at the bottom. And I used a Posca pen to flick some flurries onto the background. The tiny stamped snowflakes are by Lavinia Stamps as is the sentiment. I used some matching cardstock by Stampin Up for the card base. Coloring was done with my Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. For some sparkle I added Stickles glitter to each of the snowflake centers.

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I am sharing with these challenges:

Thanks for visiting and hope you're having a wonderful weekend!

PS: Coming soon (Wednesday December 17th)
"I Spy With My Little Eye........A Crafty Year in Review: Favorites of 2025". I hope you'll  link up yours too :)



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