Papercrafters Year in Review 2024 Blog Hop and Linky Party - Come Join Us!!!

Happy Monday and welcome!

Today a group of crafters and I are hosting a blog hop where we share our favorite creations of 2024, the Papercrafters Year in Review hop. We hope you'll hop along with us and you are invited to create your own Year in Review post and then link up with us. We would love to see YOUR favorite creations of 2024 too!! You can choose a monthly favorite, or a Top 10, Top 5, favorite Christmas cards of 2024 etc. - it's is all up to you. The most important thing to remember is, that these have to be selected from your own creations, not favorites you found online.

The linky tool is at the end of this post and you may also find it on most of the co-hosts blogs. It will stay open until January 5th 11:59pm Central time.

I am always excited to look back at my creations of the year as I do tend to forget what cards I made and I am always curious to see which one of my creations makes this list :) As it's always hard for me to choose, I usually select one favorite card per month and that is what I did this year too (or at least I tried to stick with one). I linked back to the original posts in case you want to find out more about each project.

January

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also January (it was a tie!!)

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Silhouette stamps seem to have been a favorite and I loved getting inky. Happy to still see some "cute" cards among my favorites although I feel like I haven't made as many this past year and they used to be my favorites to make once upon a time. I'm surprised to see a couple of cards with dies as focal points made my favorites list this year :)  Although have to admit I only made 4 cards in December so that month wasn't easy to choose, however I so love that cute die set!! Maybe I'll try it with a different color scheme next time. 

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Soooo, which one of my Top Picks of 2024 is your favorite? I would love to hear from you! If I had to choose from just these 13 cards, I would have to say February is my most favorite closely followed by January's winter scene. 

Below is this year's hop list or simply visit the linky tool for the direct links. We would absolutely love to have you hop along with us.

A Cut Above a.k.a Vicki of A Cut Above Challenge Blog

Debbie of Secret Stamper

Diane of Nellie's Nest

Ellie of Ellibelle's Corner

Helen of Made by Helen

Joanne of My Slices of Life

Rachel of Slow Down, Enjoy and Create

Vicki of He"artful Validations of Vicki

Remember, any papercrafter is invited to join in this linky party. Simply create your own Year in Review blog post,  then use the linky tool below to join in the fun. The linky tool remains open for 1 week (closing on January 5th at 11:59pm US Central time).

Year in Review 2023 - Blog Hop and a small Prize

Hello everyone! Hope you had a wonderful holiday spent with family. Ours was nice but once again some of us were sick on Christmas. My son tested positive for Covid a couple of days before Christmas and I started to feel a bit "off" on Christmas Eve, by Christmas Day I knew for sure it's Covid too and my husband also started to feel sick then. But we made the best of it and hopefully will all be recovered in a couple of days from now. Although my daughter somehow didn't get it (yet) and I'm hoping she won't this time around!! 

Today is the start of the 2023 Papercrafters' Year in Review hop where we get to share our own favorite creations of the year! There are a total of 10 papercraft bloggers taking part this year as co-hosts, many thanks to each one of you for joining me!

Btw. even if you didn't sign up as a host, you are still invited to take part as we are leaving the linky tool open for 1 week. So feel free to create your own year in review post and link up with us! I would love to see what your favorites were!! The linky tool is at the end of this post and you may also find it at some of the co-hosts blogs.

So let's get started with my list of favorites. As usual, I selected a favorite of each month to make my selection easier so here we go :)

I linked the main products used below for those of you interested, but you can always click on the link above each card to find out how it was made. It will take you to the original posts.

January:

A Frosty Farm Scene

Products Used: Snow Blanket, Nature's Gifts (Penny Black), Seasonal Tree, Winter Magic (Lavinia), Sheep digi (Mo Manning)

I just love the frosty feel about this card, may be one of my favorite creations ever...

February:

Smile. Dream. Love

Products Used:  Dream.Love, Pig - retired (Penny Black), Wonky Stitches die (Avery Elle), Cloud Stencil (MFT)

Another farm animal?? LOL. This one almost tied with this card. But I stuck with the little pig because I just LOVE its big smile :) Fun fact: This was my most viewed post in 2023.

March:

Perfect Pastels - Especially for You

Products Used: PSX stamp (K1695 - old), Stampers Anonymous stamp/stencil set

A beautiful bunch of tulips and love the "country" charm.

April

April Showers

Products Used: In Paris (Penny Black), Tiny Text (Stampers Anonymous) French Script (SU), Stampers Anonymous and Lavinia  Stencils

This one almost tied with another one too, but ultimately I decided on this one as I LOVE the quote.

May

Sending Froggy Smiles

Products Used: PB Frog Stickeroo, Sweet Wishes, butterflies die (Penny Black),  Flowers and Leaves Embossing Folder (Spellbinders)

I love how the white background draws the eye to the fun image panel and banners. And of course can't help but smile when I see this frog!

June

Summertime

Products Used: Bike (Hero Arts), Seashells (SU), Palm Tree (ProvoCraft) - all no longer available

Doesn't this card just scream coastal living? I just love how this scene came together with a mix of old stamps and dies. Those seashells and palm tree are well over 15 years old!! 

July

Girly Seventeen

Products Used:  Patisserie, Sprinkles and Smiles, Heart Die (Penny Black), Birthday Background Stamp (MFT),

I had made this one for my daughter's 17th birthday and am so pleased how it turned out. I think it's a perfect image for an older teen/young adult. 

August

Dreaming of Daisies

Stamp Used:  Daisy Dream (Penny Black)

Again, I am loving how the white background draws the eye to the beautiful daisies.

September

Seasonal Tree

Products Used: Seasonal Tree,  Creeping Vine (Lavinia),  Friendship Florals (Aall & Create)

Another clean white border to draw the eye in. And I love how this all came together with new and old stamps.

October

Shades of Autumn

Products Used:Seasonal Tree (Lavinia),  Flower Journey (Aall & Create), Baby, Mama, Papa boo (Stampressions no longer available)

Another mix of old and new stamps for a fun and a bit spooky scene. 

November

Let Heaven and Nature Sing

Products Used: Trilling Trio, Berry Bevy, Nature Sings, Christmas Story (all by Penny Black)

I am drawn to the colors on this card as well as the distressing even though I usually tend to love a crips white border. But somehow everything here seems to "work" together including the chunky glitter. Funny thing is, this card was originally supposed to be a CAS style then I messed up and it turned into this "shabby" card, making it a favorite of the year :)

December

Peaceful

Products used: Woodland (Aall and Create), Sled Bunny (Colorado Craft Company),  Berries die (Penny Black)

I love the combination of these new to me stamps from different companies. The Aall and Create trees seem so perfect for this cute Colorado Craft bunny in the snow. 

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I always love to have a look back at what I created and what I choose as favorites. From the look of these I can definitely say I love a varity of crafting styles which works out just fine as they are for a variety of people. While I haven't used my beloved Penny Black cuties as much, I'm happy a couple of them made an appearance here. I can definitely see that I love creating scenes on cards and it's interesting that Lavinia's Seasonal tree was included on 3 of these 12 cards. That's definitely a great "worker" stamp!!

Here is the list of all  co-hosts. Please stop by their blogs to see their favorites of the year.

1. Alicia - Golden Goddess Designs
2. Debbie  - Secrets to Stamping
3. Diane - Nellie's Nest
4. Ellie - Ellibelle's Corner (you are here)
5. Francesca - Percorsi di Fantasia
6. Helen - Made by Helen
7. Joanne - My Slices of Life
8. Kate - Cards a la Kate
9. Lillian - Lillian's Crafting Blog
10. Tee - The Paper Layer

 As a little "thank you" for visiting I am offering a little prize to one commenter. Please only leave one comment. The winner will be selected from the comments left using random.org. Anyone who comments will be entered, including other co-hosts. However, if you want to comment but don't want to be entered into the drawing, simply let me know in the comment and I will select another winner should your name be drawn. 

The prize is a $10 Gift Certificate to Whimsy Stamps (offered by me, not Whimsy Stamps). For those overseas, they do offer digital products as well so it will be a nice little price for anyone from anywhere in the world.

US $10.00

You have until Friday January 5th (8pm US central time) to leave a comment. 

The winner will be announced on Saturday January 6th with my Allsorts challenge post. It will be the winner's responsibility to contact me within 1 week.

Before linking up, please be sure to remember this is for papercrafts only (any kind!) and all other links will be removed.

Papercrafters Year in Review Hop - Who Wants to Join In??

Hello everyone, as I haven't done a "proper" post for this year's Papercrafters Year in Review sign up post (and instead had just included it with other posts), I thought I better prepare one before it's too late! We already have a few who signed up to take part but there is still room for a few more and still a bit of time so here is all the info you need:

Details:

• Create a blog post featuring YOUR OWN favorite creations of 2023 to be scheduled on your blogs for Friday December 29th 6am CST (12 noon UK time)
• I will provide the html code for the linky tool to each person signing up as a co-host. It would be great if you included this in your post on your own blogs but not neccessary as long as you post a list of each participant.
• Your blog followers are welcome to link up their own favorites during that time period should they decided to create their own "year in review" posts. The linky tool will be open for one week.
• You must have a blog to participate.
• This will be a blog hop, so please plan on visiting and commenting on each participant's "Year in Review 2023" post when time allows during hop week.
• This sign up is for any paper crafter with a blog. You don't have to have a papercraft only blog - as long as you have some favorite handmade cards or other papercrafts to share in your review post you are welcome to sign up. 
• Optional: You are welcome to offer a small prize to a winner selected from those who commented on your post (including other co-hosts) but that is totally up to you and it is absolutely not needed or expected to offer a prize in order to be a co-host. 
• The blog hop will run for one week (December 29th - January 4th)
• To get an idea of how it works you can click here to see last year's hop.
• As always, you may select any amount of favorites to share, this can be a top 10 or top 5 (etc.), maybe you are extremely proud of one of your creations you'd like ot highlight, or you can select a favorite of each month which is what I usually do to make the selection easier :)
  

I will close the sign-up linky tool on December 9th (may close sooner if enough sign up before that date), then I will message everyone with the hop list by December 15th so everyone will have plenty of time to prepare their posts even before Christmas should you want to work ahead on it. 

Year in Review 2021 - My Favorite Creations: Blog Hop and a Prize; Plus 5 Most Viewed Posts of 2021

Hello and welcome! 

Every year towards the end of the year I like to take a look back through the blog to see what I have created over the year and choose some of my personal favorites to share. This year I was wondering if anyone else would like to collaborate and share their own, and so we got a group of 6 papercrafters together for this fun End of Year collaboration!

This year's co-hosts are:

Debbie - Blog: Secrets to Stamping

Ellie - Blog: Ellibelle's Corner

Helene - Blog: Mummylade

Kate - Blog: Small Bits of Paper

Maria Giselle - Blog: Maria Giselle's Creative Cuts

Misty - Blog: A Card a Day

I hope you get a chance to visit the co-host's posts as well to check out their favorites of 2021. Not all co-hosts may have shared their year in review post yet, as the linky will be open for a week and co-hosts are welcome to publish their posts within this time. By the way, if you would like to join us with your own "year in review" post, simply create one with your own favorite crafty creations and then link up with us! (Linky tool is at the end of the post.) 

PS: Some of the co-hosts may be sharing some blog candy too, I am not sure, but there is a little prize to be won from my blog and a winner will be selected from the comments left. (Not the linky tool). 

Choosing favorites is really not so easy, but to make it easier on myself I like to choose one from each month so here they are:

By the way, if you want to read more about each creation, you just have to click on the link above or the card directly and that will lead you to the original post with all the info. I did include the main products used here for those of you interested. Some of those may be affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small commission if you purchase through links as always at no cost to you.

January

Products used:

Critter Party by PB // So Very Much Sentiment Set //  Avery Elle Heart Frame Die

February: 

Products Used:

Power Poppy digi stamp // Sprinkles and Smiles Sentiment Set //  Snippets Sentiment Set

March

Products Used:

January Hero Arts stamp kit  (sold out) // Butterfly Basics Stampin Up

April

Products Used:

A Touch of Ink by Stampin Up //  Blooming Sentiments 

May

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Penny Black Jazzy Cats // Circle Explosion Stencil 

June

Products Used:

Lavinia Stamps - Fairytale, Three Dancing Fairies, Miniature Stars, Spiral of Spells

July

Products Used:

PSX Stamps found at a Thrift Store // TH Stencil // Altenew Stencil

August

Products Used:

Jazzy Cats // Old Whiff of Joy Music Note Stamp

September

Products Used:

Smile All Day,  Dancing Daisies,  Friendship (all by Penny Black)

Script Border (retired by Whimsy Stamps)

October

Products Used:

Penny Black Gather Around and Dear Santa

November

Products Used:

Mo Manning Clara and retired Whimsy Stamps sentiment

December

Products Used:

Lavinia Stamps (Pan, Pipin, Snow Falls, Fern Leaves, Fairy Fir Tree Small)

Various styles, as you can see. Still loving my "cute" style stamps, and in the more recent years have discovered Lavinia stamps. Making scenic cards doesn't come easy to me but I so love how they turn out and so I will continue making then in an effort to get better at it. 

Top 5 Most Viewed Blog Posts of 2021

I thought it would also be fun to include the Top 5 Most Viewed Card Posts of 2021 in this post. This means the 5 most visited blog posts by my blog visitors. Here they are counting down:

No. 5 Original Post from May 2021 

No. 4 Original Post Here from June 2021

No. 3 Original Post from February 2021

No. 2: Original Post from May 2021 

No.1: Original Post also from May 2021 

I'm linking up with these blogs:

The Card Concept - Favorite Card of 2021 (It is so hard - practically impossible for me to choose just one, so I usually choose one per month)

Dare to Share // Inspire Me Monday //  Link Up Potpourri //  Random-osity Good, Random, Fun // You're The Star Blog Hop Link Party @Stonecottage Adventures // Anything Goes with Your Hosts @ My Random Musings // Jenerally Informed The Happy Now  Thursday Favorite Things // Little Things Thursday // Encouraging Heart and Home @ Slices of Life

Comment to win:

Now for the prize giveaway, I decided to give away a digi prize of 2 digi stamps from Rachelle Anne Miller. The winner will receive a gift code from me and will select their own 2 digis.

A winner will be selected from the comments left on this post. You will have until Friday January 8th 12pm US central time (6pm GMT) to comment. The winner will be announced in my Saturday post on January 9th and will have a week from that date to claim the prize.

*Not sponsored by Rachelle Anne Miller. Gift Code will be purchased and supplied by me. 

Thank you so much for visiting!

Wishing all my blog followers and visitors a Happy and Healthy New Year! 

The linky tool below is for all co-hosts to link up their own posts (my post is scheduled so I will link up ASAP)  and all other papercrafters who would like to join us with their own "year in review" post. 

The linky tool will remain open for one week - until January 4th.

If you would like to be entered into the prize drawing, don't forget to leave a comment.