Well, what a year 2025 turned out to be! Such a busy year, filled with all sorts of ups and downs, and so much creative fun. I enjoyed another year working with Stamping Bella, which I am so grateful to be able to do. I have also enjoyed participating in the design teams for Sweet November Stamps* and Spellbinders* throughout the year. In October I joined the AALL & Create GDT, which has also been an absolute creative delight!

There have been so many wonderful products from all of those companies, and so many other favourites besides. Looking through my cards from the year it was hard to pick out just one favourite for each month, but I pushed myself, and you will find them below along with the links to the original posts for each card. After the cards I will also share some of my personal favourite products that I purchased or was gifted this year.

Favourite Cards of 2025

January: Narcissus & Snowdrop Fairy Card & Membership Video

Lots of favourites on this card, but in particular my love for the postage collage style, and colouring tiny scenes in those postage stamp die cuts.

February: Graceful Magnolias Card & Membership Video

Early in 2025 I really enjoyed working with some of the lovely Kelly Taylor’s stamp sets from Picket Fence Studios. I love colouring floral images, there’s lots of repetition and it always brings such a sense of calm.

March: TGF Pumpkin Spice Season Anya Card & Membership Video

A little TGF cutie! The Greeting Farm are one of my first and enduring stamping loves.

April: Spellbinders April Club of the Month – Send & Seal Card

A stamped pattern always makes me smile, and this stamp set from Spellbinders was simple to colour, but looks really fun and effective.

May: Sweet November Stamps Love to Sea You Digi Release Card

MerMay is one of my favourite events in the stamping calendar, and Sweet November Stamps’ joyous celebration of all things mermaid is a delight to participate in!

June: Wicked Show Poster Card featuring Spellbinders Dies

Die cutting has been a really fun playground for me in 2025, and this card was so much fun to create using one of Spellbinders’ die sets as a base, and adding in some hand cut elements.

July: Uptown Girl loves to Perform Stitched Card & Copic Video

During the heat of summer I discovered a love for stitching, thanks to Spellbinders’ stitching dies, which gave me a nice crafty outlet when my craft room was far too hot to work in!

August: Tiny Townie Wonderland White Rabbit Keyhole Scene Card

Sometimes when you see a die set you know exactly what you want to do with it! This card was the product of one of those occasions.

September: Sweet November Stamps Zoe the Zombie Shaker Card & Copic Video

One of my favourite things about autumn is Halloween, and all of the amazing products that come out. This card combines some fun products from Sweet November Stamps and Spellbinders. I also LOVE colouring zombie skin, so this cutie was fun to do.

October: AALL & Create Spooky but Mostly Harmless Halloween Card

One of my first cards for AALL & Create. More zombie fun!

November: Sweet November Stamps Postage Pals Santa & Reindeer Card and Copic Video

More postage collage fun, with one of the awesome Postage Pals stamp sets from Sweet November, and that favourite Waffle Flower die.

December: Pinkfresh Studio Poinsettia Frame Shaker Card & Copic Video

I’m not sure why it took so long, but this one combined my love for foiling with my love for colouring, and I adore the results!

Favourite Products of 2025

You can probably guess a few of my favourite products from some of the cards shared above! I’m going to include products that I have enjoyed in 2025, regardless of whether they were released in 2025. I’m not going to include specific stamps in this list. Stamps are always on my favourites list, because I love to stamp and colour above all else, and if I listed my favourite stamps from the past year, we would be here for quite a while.

That said, I do have a few favourite themes in stamps from this year, so let’s start with those.

Stamps

Sweet November Stamps* have released some brilliant Postage Pals clear stamp sets this year, which coordinate beautifully with a continuing favourite product of mine. I have also loved their Birthstone Dragons series. Plus of course, a shout out for the Arthur in His Dino Costume digital stamp*, inspired by my sweet boy.

At Stamping Bella we released the wonderful new Whimsabella stamp line this year, and it has brought so much stamping joy. It’s a collection I know Emily would have absolutely adored, which makes it even more special.

Dies

My renewed love for die cutting that started in 2024 has carried on this year! I have of course been enjoying playing with all sorts of dies from Spellbinders*, but I have a few favourites from various companies that have shown up on many of my cards this year.

Top of the list has to be Waffle Flower Postage Collage. I mostly use the A7 die, but I still love all of the Postage Collage products.

Spellbinders Everlasting Circles*
Mama Elephant Stacked Circles
Spellbinders Essential Arches*
Spellbinders Make a Wish Label Arches*
Spellbinders Perfect Touch Arches*
Mama Elephant All Tied Up
AALL & Create Hexalove
AALL & Create Intricatags

A special shout out for AALL & Create here. I love how their dies are packaged in sturdy cardboard envelopes. To store the dies I simply pop them on a piece of magnetic sheet, inside the original packaging. They also have some fantastic designs, and I am obsessed with their tag dies.

Embossing Folders

Another rediscovered love. Well, I’m not sure I ever fell in love with embossing folders before this year. I used them years ago, but the range of designs wasn’t quite as appealing. Companies like Spellbinders* have come out with some incredible designs in standard embossing folders and 3D embossing folders*, and I love incorporating them in my card designs now.

BetterPress and Glimmer Hot Foil

I’m putting both the BetterPress LetterPress system* and Glimmer Hot Foil system* together, because while I do enjoy BetterPress LetterPress, I mostly use my press plates in the Glimmer with foil. They foil so beautifully, and I am obsessed with foiling. I love a foiled sentiment in particular.

I’m sure all of these will continue to be favourites on my craft desk throughout the coming year too, and I look forward to seeing what joins them!

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