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My Favorite Cards of 2015 with a New Year’s Giveaway!

31 Dec

Good morning and Happy New Year’s Eve!  I’m happy to be wrapping up my first full calendar year of crafty blogging and I thought it would be fun to revisit some of my favorite cards from 2015!

I decided to pick one card from each month and here they are!  You can click on the photo to be taken directly to the original post!

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

As I was looking over the cards I chose I was amused to find that 10 of my 12 favorites contained pink, 11 of the 12 cards featured some metallic element, and 11 of my 12 cards used some type of watercolor medium.  I definitely have my card-making preferences! 😉

GIVEAWAY:

And to celebrate the start of the new year I want to give one crafty friend a $25 gift certificate to one of my favorite online stores, Butterfly Reflections Ink!  To enter, please leave me a comment and let me know if any of these cards were favorites of yours this year!  Or did you have a different card in mind? 🙂  I’d love to know your thoughts!  Leave a comment before 11:59PM EST on January 7th and I’ll announce the winner on January 8th!

P.S. I’ll love you forever if you like and/or share my facebook page, All the Sparkle! 😉

Thanks so much for your crafty friendship and support this year!  I look forward to continuing the crafty journey in 2016!  Happy New Year!!

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  1. Lou Wittmer says

    December 31, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    Lovely! My fave was April’s.

    Reply
    • Gilda (McStamper) says

      December 31, 2015 at 10:01 pm

      I love the April card. Thanks for wonderful inspiration all year.

      Reply
  2. Melissa says

    January 1, 2016 at 6:04 am

    Pick just one is impossible so I’m picking two. January and December. You have such a great eye for color. Happy new year!!!

    Reply
  3. Celeste Goff says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:58 am

    Happy New Year! I love all of your cards but from this particular selection I love August! The watercolored background is fantastic and I love how you die cut and added a shaker element to the card!

    Reply
  4. Mary T says

    January 1, 2016 at 9:27 am

    i wish i could choose just one, but cannot decide between May and December….love the combination of colours in both.

    Reply
  5. Rebecca Yahrling says

    January 1, 2016 at 10:00 am

    Wow, what a very hard choice to make, I’m so torn between several … so I put those months on a piece of paper, folded it, and then chose one: July was the winner. LOL Well, shakers are my very favorite type of card and purple is my favorite color and I tend to use butterflies a lot … so I think this was the right choice. Happy New Year!

    Reply
  6. Makalah says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:04 am

    So nice to have found you on Instagram this year! All of these are fabulous, but the jellyfish card is so clever and the October Altenew card is amazingly stunning!

    Reply
  7. Linda E says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:12 am

    My favorite was the fireworks over the cityscapes–but maybe that’s because I was lucky enough to receive that card from you in the mail!!

    Reply
  8. Chriselle says

    January 1, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    January card is awesome…just love all the colors..?

    Reply
  9. Dawn~DesignsByDragonfly says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:53 pm

    What a wonderful collection. Thanks for sharing them. My favs are your July and October ones.
    Crafty hugs,
    Dawn
    DesignsByDragonfly.blogspot

    Reply
  10. Jennifer says

    January 1, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    The July butterfly card is my favourite, I just love the colors and the way the butterflies flow! Decembers card is a very close second! Really they are all spectacular!

    Reply
  11. Beth Swisher says

    January 1, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    I love the October card with the lovely sympathy sentiment. My mother died a year ago October. This card really speaks to me.
    Love your work.

    Reply
  12. shartl says

    January 1, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    They’re all just wonderful but the one for July really grabbed my heart. The combination of the fireworks background with those adorable little critters couldn’t be cuter

    Reply
  13. Shona Chambers says

    January 1, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    Your March card is the one I noticed first in Blogland of yours and its still my favourite. Love the colours and the gold glitter along the edges. Looking forward to seeing new spectacular projects in 2016!!

    Reply
  14. karenladd says

    January 1, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    Love love love your style, and the one that I noticed first was the butterfly card. The bright colors, label maker sentiment and swirly wire makes it so unique!

    Reply
  15. Shari says

    January 2, 2016 at 3:43 am

    Well, I was torn between April and July, but since Purple is my favorite color, and I LOVE butterflies. July is the winner for me. Although, there were quite a few I love. ???

    Reply
  16. Amanda says

    January 2, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    Love the sunset background on the November card

    Reply
  17. Christine Canfield says

    January 2, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    these are all so beautiful! we have very similar aesthetics.

    Reply
  18. Aileen says

    January 2, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    That was too hard a choice sorry. I had already earmarked these as favourites to try and attempt something like them: January, March, April, June, September, October and November. Love how you try so many different ideas and techniques, keep on inspiring me.

    Reply
  19. Jean Bullock says

    January 3, 2016 at 12:36 am

    All the cards look great. My favorites are January, April, May, July, August, and October!

    Reply
  20. kajcyika says

    January 3, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    My favourite from above is the last one, but it was a hard decision because all of your cards looks great!
    Have a great time and I can’t wait to see your creations from 2016! 🙂

    Reply
  21. Neha Sanwalka says

    January 4, 2016 at 12:48 am

    Oh wow.. such pretty cards 🙂 I love the July card the most.. its just so amazing 🙂

    Reply
  22. Helen Gullett says

    January 4, 2016 at 7:25 am

    Wow Jess.. They all are amazing cards! My favorites are your October and December cards 🙂

    Thanks for the inspirations in 2015!

    Reply
  23. Lisaerica says

    January 6, 2016 at 8:25 am

    Hey Jess, ok you know I love all your work so it’s hard to narrow down to just one card. My fav’s off your list are April, July, Oct, Dec. My own fav’s just to name a few are of coarse your golden roses and the peony trio cards. There’s so many more, from your night skies, stunning flowers to your amazing shakers your incredibly talented. I love when my inbox box says All the Sparkle. Two things are for sure, it’ll be beautiful and then I want to try and make it, lol.Thanks for sharing your work and always inspiring.

    Reply
  24. Miriam Leech says

    January 6, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Your cards are amazing! My favorite of the favorites is the I’m So Jelly Card-in-a-Box!!! Wow!!!

    Reply
  25. glow:) says

    January 7, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    hi jessica.. LOve your card display.. the bunny one has always been special to me:) “i happen to adore you” is subtle talk but says a lot… LoL… Love you and wish you another safe and happy 2016:) sendin smiles..
    not entered for prize.. i am still working on my thanks:) for an aWeSome and useful gift:)

    Reply
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