New week, new year ...... fingers crossed!

Morning readers, 

Why fingers crossed? Well, kind of hoping for some improvements in 2021, I've not made any new year resolutions because that didn't work out in 2020 but ..... I wish you all a healthy 2021, stay safe peeps.

Of course, with the new year comes the urge to change things up a bit so ... I've changed the font and size of text on my blog - how do you like it? Does it look better? Is it easier to read? Do you prefer the more traditional Times New Roman? Or the smaller size? I'd be interested to hear your opinions - thank you for your comments.

I've a make to share with you today ....... YES, I know it's a Christmas project and we've just started a New Year but ... I got the stamp set for Christmas and wanted to use all of the images in the set before I put it away. I have indeed used all but the longer sentiment - maybe that will have to wait until I'm ready to start 2021 Christmas projects in earnest! These are pretty large tags but, when wrapping in 2020, I found most of the tags I had in my "stock" were scaled for smaller presents so - I'm ready for some big gifts in 2021 - now all I need to do is shop for some!

A single tag, to better show the detail

My batch of four mega tags, ready for 2021!!

Materials used:

• Good sized snippets of leftover card in white and Kraft .....  which I cut to the same sizes before gluing together and then die cutting using a Go Kreate tag die
• Paper Artsy image (from ZA33) and a very old Posh Impressions "TO" and "FROM" (2733B) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• StudioLight sentiment (from SL470) and Paper Artsy "Ho Ho Ho" (from ZA33) stamped using Versafine Clair tulip red ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour my images

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Dream Valley Challenges - challenge No. 238 - CHRISTMAS
2. Christmas with the Cuties - challenge No. 45 - HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS + (optional) BASED ON A CARD OR SONG ..... you could argue my tag is along the lines of "Santa Claus is coming to town"!!
3. NBUS - Jan challenge No. 22 - USE NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) ... I HAVE used the princess from this set but this really IS the first inking of the Santa character
4. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 523 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
5. Jingle Belles - January 1st challenge - SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW ... the OLD was the "to" and "from" stamp and the NEW was the Paper Artsy Santa character

And a non papercraft project to share now ..... I reached for my crochet hooks .... with a view to running up an infinity scarf. Well, part way through that project I put down my project in favour of a neck gaitor - figured it would be quicker and I wanted to wear it that day! ..... I DID!

Materials used:

• Size 4.5mm crochet hook
• 1 x 100g of Marriner Metro acrylic double knit - I'd say I used over half
• 70 chains followed by 15 rows of half treble (U.S. double crochet) and a row of slip stitch to make a firmer border - it took less than four hours.

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Love to Craft Challenge Blog - January challenge - ANYTHING GOES

I referred to this video although I used different wool, hooks and number of stitches and even skipped chunks so, arguably, I kind of made it up!!!