December Memories 2025 FREE tutorial
Hello and welcome! I'm joining in again this year on the fun of posting each day of December in my already completed and hand-stitched mini album where I will follow the prompts from Elizabeth Craft Designs and make pretty pages and add one photo per day. I created a video tutorial on my YouTube channel absolutely FREE this year so you can make one too and maybe join in the fun. Or just use the tutorial to make any type of themed album you like! That video is linked right here on my blog. I used fabric to cover my album, but in the video I also show how to do it with paper, as an option. Click this link to get the PDF of the piercing and stitching templates mentioned in the video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10cyineKH3kviqt-Z9W0IpvZa1eB7L0xJ/view?usp=drive_link Here are the prompts for 2025, then check out the rules in order to be in the drawing for one of two $100 gift certificates from Elizabeth Craft Designs.
RULES...
Get ready for a whole month of creativity, inspiration, and festive fun! Every day in December, there’s a brand-new prompt to spark your imagination — whether you love art journaling, card making, or memory keeping, there’s a challenge for you.  Three Creative Challenges — One Prompt List!  December to Remember  December Memories  Craftsmas 2025 For all your ECD projects — cards, tags, 3D florals, and more — tag your makes with #Craftsmas2025 How to Enter & Win! Create 15 or more projects using the prompt list for your chosen challenge. Share them in the Elizabeth Craft Designs Family Group on Facebook, and don’t forget to include the correct hashtag(s)!  Prizes! Two winners will be randomly selected from each challenge — each will receive a $/€100 Gift Certificate! Winners will be announced on the 1st of January 2026  Get ready to celebrate a month filled with crafting, creativity, and community. We can’t wait to see your projects starting December 1st — let’s make this a December to remember! 
 
Grungy Junk Journal Collage and Clusters
I've started a new grungy junk journal for 2025 and have been having lots of fun making things to fill it up. I decided on a soft cover journal for this one and have a Junk Journal Playlist on my channel to make it easy for you to navigate if you're interested specifically in this type of craft. You can find that Playlist here. You'll find lots of videos there sharing different junk journals I've made and all the goodies you can fill it with like hidden paperclips, clusters, postal ephemera, altered playing cards, specimen cards to name a few. So what is a Junk Journal and what's it for? Basically a junk journal is made from materials you might otherwise throw away. Think of envelopes, receipts, paper bags, shopping tags, old book pages, and so much more. Some, like me, take it even further and take pages from old song books, ledgers, dictionaries and various patterned papers in my stash that are just sitting there waiting to be used. It just feels good to use things I have rather than them ending up in the trash heap. As far as the purpose of a junk journal, that's completely up to you. Some use it as a base for photos and memory keeping, others use them as journals/diaries, a handwritten recipe book, and sometimes they're just pretty books to flip through and adore. The images and textures are so satisfying in these journals! Speaking of texture, I love to sew in my journal! I recently did a video sharing the things I like to sew into mine. You'll see that in the playlist when you go there. Overall, I feel like the process of making a junk journal is therapeutic. I'm creating, I'm touching things, experimenting, stamping, coffee staining, crumpling paper, working with vellum, stitching... What could be more fun and satisfying? Also, there are SO MANY creators out there making fabulous journals and videos. Be sure to comb YouTube and you'll be delighted by what you find. Some of my personal favorites are the following, but there are so many more I love. I'd love to hear WHO you like too! Also, I'd love to know if your are a junk journaler? If so, do you always have an end-goal, a purpose? I'd love to hear!
Nik The Booksmith Paper Terrace Pink Monarch Prints 49 Dragonflies ShanoukiArt Luise Heinzl Arty Maze 
Fall Foliage New England Crafting Cruise!
Here we are just barely into 2025 and I've already secured a fantastic new crafting cruise booked for 2026. It's a Fall New England cruise, so what could be better? Let's take a look at the details here directly from Crafters Therapy Cruise, who I work with exclusively every year.
CRAFTERS THERAPY CRUISE Fall Foliage Crafting Cruise with Annette Green
Royal Caribbean - Independence of the Seas October 15 - 24, 2026 9-Night Crafting Cruise Roundtrip from Cape Liberty, NJ
Ports of Call: Cape Liberty, NJ • Boston, MA • Portland, ME • Halifax, Nova Scotia • Saint John, NB and Bay of Fundy (3 sea days for crafting)
Crafters Group Cruise Rates: Ocean View (Window): $1696.20 Balcony: $2046.20 Spacious Balcony: $2176.20 (Other cabin categories including non-crafting cabins upon request)
Prices are per person based on double occupancy. Price includes cabin, port fees, taxes and pre-paid gratuities.
$500 per cabin deposit refundable on all group booked cabins up to final payment.
Crafters Group Fee - $250 per crafter Non-crafter group fee - $100 per person
(Group fees less $50 service charge refundable until final payment)
Contact Donna Fortuna with Crafters Therapy Cruise at CraftersTherapyCruise14@gmail.com or call 941-284-1272
Important note: There is another crafting group on this same cruise affiliated with another company, so take care to book with Crafters Therapy Cruise so you are crafting with ME. My cruises fill VERY quickly, so don't delay if you're interested. I hope to see you then!
Cruise Recap and my Next Cruise to Alaska
I've just returned from my Eastern Caribbean cruise with Crafters Therapy Cruises where I taught classes on the sea days with crafters and fans of Elizabeth Craft Designs as well as 49 and Market. I've got a new video up of a fun little recap of what my experience was like on the new Icon of the Seas with Royal Caribbean which you can watch right here in this post below or on my YouTube channel. We had a fabulous time and I met some new crafters and reconnected with old friends, and I'm already looking forward to my next cruise in 2025 to Alaska! Here are the details for that... CRAFTERS THERAPY CRUISE 2025 ALASKA CRUISE Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas May 12 - 19, 2025 7-night crafting cruise roundtrip from Seattle, Washington Itinerary: Seattle, WA to Sitka, Alaska Skagway, Alaska Endicott Arms and Dawes Glacier, Juneau, Alaska Victoria, British Columbia back to Seattle SPACE IS LIMITED AND FILLS FAST FOR THIS ONE Cabins start at $1470.82 for Oceanview $1941.82 for Balcony Prices are per person based on double occupancy and include: cabin, port fees, taxes and pre-gratuities. Special Guest Instructor (ME!) Annette Green Group Fee of $200 per person Don't delay. Get your deposit in now to hold your space. This cruise sells out quickly. Contact Donna at CraftersTherapyCruise14@gmail.com or 941-284-1272
And here's the video recap of my recent cruise...
Super easy DIY magnetic die stand
Have you ever found yourself crafting away on a project laying a few dies around on your table and they get mixed up, lost, or stuck under something? I have it happen all the time! So I decided to fix this problem once and for all. I looked online for some sort of magnetic stand to store my "working" dies that I could easily grab from and pop them back on to. Sure enough, they're out there, but WOW are they pricey. So, I thought, why not make my own to suit my needs and how I craft? So I set to work, turned on the camera, and made a little tutorial. You will not believe how easy it is! I love how it turned out and started using it immediately after my video and just can't get over why I didn't make one sooner. It's fantastic! Here's the short video if you'd like to check it out. Maybe you'll try it too? I hope so. And if you do, make sure to snap a photo and tag me on social media. I'd love to see!
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