After Christmas Crafting Series #1

Hi everyone,
I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday! Did anyone get anything crafty for Christmas? I buy my own crafting presents but I did get a year of cleaning from my parents so that is seriously the best present. My sister got me an air fryer and that thing has already changed my life!

I am spending my New Years Eve getting caught up on crafty projects and getting caught up on my DVR because it's full!

Today, I am sharing my new series which I am calling the After Christmas Crafting series. This series is all about using Christmas papers, stamps and products into the New Year before I finally put it all away. I hope that you enjoy the inspiration!

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 25

Merry Christmas!
I made it! I posted 25 Days in a row. I was looking back at my blog and I think that this is the 7th year that I have done my 25 Days of Christmas. I hope that everyone had a wonderful day whether you celebrate or not. My children were with their father so it was a bit bittersweet. I did speak to them and spent the morning at my parents house with my siblings and their spouses and children watching them open presents so that was fun. Tomorrow the kids come home and we will go back to the parents house and they will open their presents.

I was able to finish my video for the day as I worked on my favorite 10 crafty things of the year. I have really enjoyed posting this month and I hope to continue posting. I would love for you to subscribe here to my blog or to my YouTube channel as I have made a goal of getting readership up on both. My son is totally into stats and YouTube stats so he is helping me keep track of my stats. I never pay attention to that but he is all over it which is kind of funny.

Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win a 25.00 giftcard to the craft store of your choice. I would love to hear your favorite crafty thing of the year.

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 24

Hi everyone,
Merry Christmas Eve and welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas, Day 24, the late edition. It is 11:03pm right now and I just finished uploading my video so I made it! Today, is the start of a mini series on how to stretch your supplies holiday edition. It's how I make projects utilizing my holiday stash before I put it all away for the season!

Be sure to leave a comment on this post for a chance to win a 25.00 giftcard to a craft store of your choice. Thanks so much for watching today!

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 23

Hi everyone,
its the day before Christmas Eve. I hope that you are all finished with your shopping and that your Christmas cards are on there way to family and friends. Today, the kids and I are going to Beni Hana for lunch and then will probably spend the day watching some favorite Christmas movies. They are partial to Elf and Home Alone. Today, I am sharing some Christmas cards using Neat and Tangled's Yeti set. I feel like it was the year of the Yeti because everyone came out with a Yeti set but this one
is super cute.


Thanks so much for visiting today! Don't forget to leave a comment on this post and any other post from December for a chance to win a 25.00 gift certificate to a craft store of your choice.
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25 Days of Christmas - Day 22

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Day 22 of the 25 Days of Christmas. These last couple of days will be finishing up cards and projects. I hope to have my favorite things on Christmas Day. Just depends on how fast I get my Christmas mess cleaned up! Today is the first official day of vacation!!! Woo hoo. I am going to pick up the kids and we are going to see Jumanji and then to my parents house for a whole family pizza party. Today I am posting some quick and easy cards. These are all going to new homes! Thanks for watching and visiting. Don't forget to leave a comment to be in my drawing for a 25 gift certificate to any craft store that you would like!

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 21

Hi everyone,
 I am now on Day 21. Today's project is quick and easy cards. I just happened to have these card sets with mats, but you could easily make your own. I stamped a bunch of images and cut them out and then mixed and matched to make cards.

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 20

Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas Day 20. Wow only 5 more days to go. I hope that I have enough projects for 5 more days because I have run out of time to give out Christmas cards here at work. I have the cleaners coming to clean tomorrow so I have to pre-clean before they come and my bedroom is an unholy mess. For those that don't know, that's also where my craft room is. Be sure to leave a comment for a chance at the giveaway. You have until 12/30 to leave a comment on any post from December and to leave comments on my Youtube channel.


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25 Days of Christmas - Day 19

Hi everyone,

Welcome to Day 19 which is all about tags. Be sure to watch the video as I show you some shaped tag options using the Cricut.

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 18

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Day 18 of the 25 Days of Christmas! Be sure to leave a comment on this post and any of my countdown post for entries into my giveaway for a 25.00 gift certificate to a craft store of your choice. This is open to International. You must be a subscriber to my blog. For extra entries, leave comments on my YouTube channel for any video posted in December and be a subscriber.

Today's post is sharing a card inspired by Gloria, Spyrocks on YouTube. The cut is from Rob and Bob and I think it's a super cute cut!
Thanks so much for visiting today!

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 17

Hi everyone
Welcome to Day 17 of the 25 Days of Christmas. Today it was about Works in Progress or getting it done. I am finally getting my photo cards finished once and for all, I got my notebooks finished and wrapped. Then I make a snowflake Cricut card with some newly found stash. Be sure to leave a comment on this post and any of my countdown posts or videos on YouTube for a chance to win a 25.00 gift certificate to a craft store of your choice! The contest closes on 12/30.

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 16

Welcome to Day 16! It's crunch time. The first gift goes out on Tuesday with the majority of gifts for teachers and coaches, etc go out on Wednesday. Yikes! Today, I am sharing the teacher gifts and how I packaged them up with a little bit of handmade goodness. Be sure to leave a comment today to be in for my giveaway and for more entries visit my youtube channel and leave a comment on any or all videos from this month.

Thanks for visiting. Check back tomorrow for another countdown post.

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25 Days of Christmas Day 15

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Day 15. This going to be a quick post because it is past my bedtime. Today's project is a cute little Hello Kitty snowglobe card for Lily's teacher. You will also see me struggle with my ATG gun which now I am thinking it might be that vs the tape. I have had it forever and have abused it quite a bit. I think it may not be latching to hold onto the tape. Anyway, enjoy the video and be sure to leave comments on each of my countdown post and YouTube videos for a chance to win my giveaway.


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25 Days of Christmas - Day 14

Hi everyone, Welcome to Day 14. Today, I am talking about simple gifts and simple packaging. I would love to know how you all package up your gifts and what kind of gifts you give those people who help you everyday. Thanks for visiting today! Pin It Now!

25 Days of Christmas - Day 13

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Day 13 of the 25 Days of Christmas. Today, I am sharing a cute card made using the Creative Memories Holiday cartridge. It's a quick little video but I do have a bonus video on some blog candy so make sure that you watch that as well!

Here is the video on the giveaway:

Leaving a comment on this post gets you in to win but if you want more chances then visit my YouTube channel and comment on my videos and be a subscriber! Thanks for visiting. We are half way there.

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 12

Hi everyone,

Welcome to Day 12 of the 25 Days of Christmas. Today, I am using a new favorite Honey Bee Stamps Coffee Giftcard Dies. These are so cute and fun and what's really great is they can be done up for any occasion. I am still so far behind on making Christmas cards. I am just about done with my shopping and I only have a few packages to wrap!

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 11

Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas. I am participating today in the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop as well as the FCCB Challenge.

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #316-Christmas
Make a project or card about Christmas

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To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.



Here is my project for the week. Be sure to visit FCCB to join in the challenge!

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 10

Hi everyone,
I made it to Day 10 of my 25 Days of Christmas. Today's project are quick and easy Christmas gifts. While iron on t-shirts are super easy with your die cut cut machine and iron on vinyl, they have a wow factor too.

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 9

Hi everyone, Thanks so much for stopping by for Day 9 which I think is the most important day of the whole Christmas planning process and that is the photo card. I have done it both ways over the years, made my own and pre-purchased photo cards. The problem with the ones that you buy is that they are flat and are so hard to display. This year I decided to used the Sizzix Thinlits foldalongs Gingerbread house die by Jen Long. I think that it came out so cute. The video is a bit long but I do take you through making one of these cards.

I hope that you liked my project. Thanks so much for visiting!
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25 Days of Christmas - Day 8

Hi everyone,
Welcome to the 25 Days of Christmas, Day 8. Today is a quick post because its totally past my bedtime. It was a bit of a rough evening and I didn't get to the projects that I wanted to but no worries. I have my crazy Black Friday haul to share and it's not everything!
Some of these items will be showing up very soon in holiday projects so stay tuned!

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25 Days of Christmas - Day 7

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Day 7 of the my 25 Days counting down to Christmas. Today's project is another card. I am VERY behind on holiday card making. I probably only have a tenth of the cards that I need to make. I would estimate that I need to make about 50 cards minimum to get by and I probably only have about 12 cards made. Yikes. I better get on it.

Today's card uses the Cricut digital cartridge Cozy Christmas and it features traditional Disney images - think Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Pluto. I love this cartridge and hope to make a few more cards from it. The card today uses some glitter paper from Cricut which I will be honest I do not like!!! I made an assumption that this paper would be great to cut using my Cricut but it's absolutely horrible. Way too thick and I actually have to set it on poster board to get it to cut all the way through. The glitter doesn't shed which is nice but I cannot recommend this paper. It was a nightmare to work with. Unfortunately, I have whole think of it and so I will be trying to use it with my Christmas cards so that I can get it all used up!
Here is my project today:
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