Season's Greetings!

Dropping in to wish you all the very best... merry Christmas, happy Hannukah, and a peaceful, gentle, joyous festive season, however you celebrate it.

If you're looking for some seasonal playtime, there have been lots of lovely festive episodes over on my YouTube channel in recent weeks (not to mention another coming up this Saturday 27th featuring the layered PaperArtsy garland from the retrospective post).  I thought I'd drop a few links here, so that they're all in one place to be easily found... ending with today's Christmas Eve tag, with a very special guest star!

Put your feet up, wrap your fingers round a hot toddy or hot chocolate, and enjoy some Christmas creativity.  Just click on the episode titles to join in the fun...

Festive Berry Postcards 

Ten Minute Tags - Festive Greenery

Winter Candle Lanterns - two different methods

Ten Minute Tags - Very Merry Berry

Botanical Kraft Gift Tags

Winter Decorative Tapes

Ten Minute Tags - Christmas Eve Tag

If that doesn't keep you in the festive spirit, I don't know what will!  I hope there's some inspiration to be found here, however you celebrate and even if you don't.  Thank you all for your company on this creative journey - it simply wouldn't be the same without you.  Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...

Snow had fallen, snow on snow...
From In the Bleak Midwinter (1872) by Christina Rossetti

the wise trees

stand sleeping in the cold

From Winter Trees (1921) by William Carlos Williams

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

From A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823) by Clement Clarke Moore

My PaperArtsy Year

Hello all, and welcome.  December seems to be rushing away from me, so I'm just dropping in very quickly to let you know that I'm over on the PaperArtsy blog with a post celebrating and reflecting on the stamps and stencils I've created with them over the course of 2025.

As well as looking back at each of the three releases (three stamp sets and three stencils each time), I've created a special end-of-year project using a combination of the 2025 designs.

Head over to PaperArtsy to see how I managed to combine a spring release, a summer release and an autumn release to create this festive winter wreath!

I hope you'll enjoy this retrospective of my creative year with PaperArtsy.  I'm so proud of the work we've done together, and thrilled that so many of you have bought the stamps and stencils and have been making beautiful things with them.  Thank you for your incredible support along the way.

(I know it's a busy time of year, so do feel free to bookmark the post and enjoy it with your feet up once the main festivities are out of the way!)  Wishing you all the very best of the season, and happy crafting all!

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Brontë

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Vincent van Gogh

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso