2025 Cards

January 1, 2026CraftyK Leave a comment

My annual card gallery is here! Check out every card created in 2025 by month of creation. The end of 2024 brought on just shy of two dozen new cards. Each year I strive to improve, learn and try new techniques and create some beautiful cards. 2025 saw twice as many with 49 new cards created. I started up my Ko-Fi shop at the end of 2024 where you may find some of the cards below listed for sale.

I set out the year to grow in the card making space. This meant posting about it and at the very least making at least one card per month.

For 2026 I plan to release a post each month with the cards made the previous month. There may be a little more info about how they were made, but I still strive to keep my musings short. I feel that you shouldn’t have to wait all year before seeing all the cards created.

Use these as inspiration for your own cards!

Most of my supplies are second-hand, so I’m not always able to point to where you can buy more.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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2024 Cards

January 1, 2025January 1, 2025CraftyK Leave a comment

If you don’t want to read the nuances about the cards I created in 2024, this is where you can see them all by month of creation. After the surge of cards made in December 2023, I hope these cards don’t disappoint. I’m also hoping you see an increase in quality and creativity.

Use these as inspiration for your own cards!

February

May

June

September

October

November

December

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2023 Cards

January 1, 2024CraftyK Leave a comment

If you don’t want to read the nuances about the cards I created in 2023, this is where you can see them all by month of creation. Regardless of life circumstances I was determined to get some cards made.

Hope this provides some inspiration for your own cards!

March

May

June

July

August

September

December

2022 Cards

January 1, 2023February 23, 2023CraftyK Leave a comment

If you don’t want to read the nuances about the cards I created in 2022, this is where you can see them all by month of creation. Regardless of life circumstances I was determined to get some cards made.

Hope this provides some inspiration for your own cards!

February

May

June

July

September

October

December

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2021 Cards

January 1, 2022August 11, 2022CraftyK Leave a comment

If you don’t want to read the nuances about the cards I created in 2021, this is where you can see them all by month of creation. Due to continued life circumstances there are very few cards created. You can also use this to get some inspiration for your own cards!

May

July

August

October

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Joy cross stitch card

May 23, 2021CraftyK Leave a comment

If you look below you will see that I stitched this card a while back. It’s taken a while to get up the energy to assemble the card.

This pattern came from a 1988 kit I inherited from one of my mom’s friends. She has a ton of crafting things and cross stitch isn’t as easy for her any more so I have been able to take some of the kits and magazines to keep using them.

I’m usually not much for Christmas, but I’m still in the process of moving so my options are more limited with what projects I can work on. This project took a little bit of time as it’s small. The gold filament was also a challenge to work with. You don’t want sweaty hands with it that’s for sure!

This kit came with everything except the tape to hold the card together. Luckily I have double sided tape on hand from all my previous cards. The card has 3 panels, you put the cross stitch into the middle and fold a panel over to hide it. They also provide a card to go behind the cross stitch to help with stability.

Like usual I struggled with getting the pattern tight, you can see there it gaps from paper a bit. If I did this one again I would also cut down the fabric a little closer to the design. It was a bit close to the edges making the inside crinkle up a bit.

Overall a pretty easy project, just took a long time to put it together. Originally I was going to raffle off the card and send it to whoever won. Then I realized that it is a bit too early for Christmas. I can’t even claim Christmas in July yet!

Stitching

Started: March 19

Finished: April 20

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2020 Cards

January 1, 2021May 5, 2022CraftyK Leave a comment

If you don’t want to read the nuances about the cards I created in 2020, this is where you can see them all by month of creation. Due to life circumstances there are very few cards created. You can also use this to get some inspiration for your own cards!

May

July

August

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Palm Tree Island

July 6, 2019June 28, 2019CraftyK Leave a comment

This card is for my husband. And yes, I took it to work and had it mailed back to the house. The best part, we get to keep one of the scratch n’ sniff stamps I bought.

I sort of tried to hide the making of this one. He’s not really a suspicious person, so I think he’ll be surprised. I’m posting this late so he doesn’t see the Twitter post before he gets to open it.

For this one I needed to start while out of town, so there’s no “beginning” photo like I have done for the rest of these. Not that those photos were very exciting. Also in my rush to get done I didn’t take a photo pre-backstitching.

Overall this was a pretty simple card. I did have some trouble with the birds. One didn’t fully stay anchored. So right before I used the interfacing fabric I pulled it tight and ironed it in place. Should stay in place now.

The pattern called for yellow variegated thread for the sun, beach, and border. This was interesting to remember to work one stitch at a time. I’m so used to rows and rows.

I knew I wanted to cut out the pattern and use foam tape to hold it to the card, but the paper for the card was harder to decide on. I ended up finding some silver dollar wallpaper border sample that worked really well. I had a couple of color options and went with the lighter one so the stitching could really stand out.

Stitching

Started: June 21st
Finished: June 26th

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Color the Rainbow

January 31, 2019January 28, 2019CraftyK Leave a comment

I may have gotten a little over confident on this one. I thought it would be extremely simple to finish in just a couple of days. Instead it took me around 2 weeks.

Most of the delay was my fault. I was studying for an exam and had to put cross stitching to the side for a couple weeks. The exam was out of town so while I was away I also wasn’t working on this.

Once I got back I realized just how close to deadline I was. I’ve been working frantically through my last weekend before it needed to be sent trying to finish. I even worked on it while walking on the treadmill (didn’t go the greatest, but got me just a little closer).

I did finish late Sunday night getting everything assembled, photographed, and in the mail. This card is staying in town and actually not going all that far. I’m sure it will have a journey around town to get to its final destination though.

This card is for a cousin of mine. When I saw this pattern it made me think of her. She is a teacher, but I think it was more the bright colors that drew me in.

I wanted those colors to really stand out so I chose a grey paper as my frame. I’m still not great at getting the work stretched correctly while mounting (you’ll notice it looks a little bubbled) though I did make many more attempts with this one.

I used my Cricut to cut the frame and write Happy Birthday! along the bottom. Overall I think this card turned out quite nice.

Pattern from dailycrossstitch.com.

Stitching

Started: January 13th
Finished: January 27th

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2019 Cards

January 3, 2019September 6, 2021CraftyK Leave a comment

If you don’t want to read the nuances about the cards I created in 2019, this is where you can see them all by month of creation. It can also be a place to get some inspiration for your own cards!