Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to my Friends and fellow Crafters! I can't believe a whole month has gone by since my last post. I was so busy enjoying the holiday season and didn't want to  pressure myself this year, that my poor blog was neglected. We had a wonderful Christmas here in NJ and I hope everyone had the happiest, healthiest holidays where you are too! I was crafting when I wasn't doing the decorating, cleaning, cooking, baking, chauffeuring, and the shopping, so I am going to share some of this seasons newest creations that I have been working on this week and over the weekend.
Here are my Lili Of The Valley cards:

Here's another Lili Of the Valley, how I love these stamps!

And finally, one of my favorites. I used the Cricut New Testament cartridge and my Imagine for the sentiments. This is a wonderful cartridge.

I also used my Imagine and Santa's Village for a couple of cards.

How cute is this snowman? How about those mats? I finally picked up some Bazzill Basics Dotted Swiss paper. I found it on clearance in Michael's for $6.00 in December. Nice! I used the new Cricut Circle Cartridge Paper Trimmings for the mats.

I'm pretty sure the mat is from Elegant Edges, I ran it through the vagabond using a Tim Holtz folder.
I am proud that I used only items from my stash and I kept the designs similar so that I was able to create more cards than I usually do.

I have a couple of resolutions for my crafting along with my personal resolutions. I hope to use more of what I have and spend less on supplies that I already own. I still have a couple of pieces of the K&Company Berry Sweet stack that I need to use up. I broke my resolve to not buy paper until I had used that stack all up, but considering I started my challenge in March and didn't buy any paper until December, that's not too bad. Another resolution? I want to get my craft room organized. It was cleaned over the holiday, so it went from this:

To this:

Notice the stack of paper on the table? All Christmas paper....I didn't buy any paper this year until the day when Michael's had the $7.99 stack sale. I only bought a package of paper, so I managed some sort of self-restraint. LOL! Inside the box under that stack? More paper and a bunch of stickers, rub-ons, and other assorted Christmas embellies. As part of my crafting resolutions, I would like to make a couple of Christmas cards and layouts during this year and use some of it up. Finally, I am also resolving to finish projects that have been started and abandoned.

Thanks for the wonderful comments I have received over this past year and for stopping by my blog! I pray we all have a wonderful year of good health, happiness, prosperity, and lots of  laughter! May all our trials be light and our homes filled with good times!

Happy Crafting!

Colleen