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Merry Christmas everyone! We've had a lovely time (in spite of me having vertigo today and being sick this morning!) I cooked Christmas dinner for 15 of my family yesterday, and were joined later by more of my family, and today there were 16 of us with Scott's family visiting. Just thought I'd show you the Christmas cards I made this year. Happy to say I made ALL my cards this year, and started early enough that I had time to really enjoy it. I made probably about 20 more than shown here, in another couple of designs. Most of the designs here are not my own, but are adaptations of ones I've seen around the internet, so I can't claim any credit for them. Some of the products used:    

 I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by Chalkola Chalk Markers, asking if I'd like to try some out. Would I like to try out pens??!! Yes please!!  They arrived really quickly via Amazon, and I was sent two packs - the pack of 10 neon 'Party Colours'  and the pack of 8 'Earthy Colours' . (Check out a 20% discount code further on in this post, which Chalkola have given me to pass on to you, if you are interested.)  Between the two packs there is a really lovely range of colours: The markers come in see-through plastic cases. There is a white marker in each pack, but the rest are different. Straight out of the pack, the marker tips are not loaded with ink.  Here's my biggest tip for these markers: Remove the tip while it is still un loaded with ink. The nib has a bullet tip at one end and a chisel tip at the other. Turn the nib around and put it back in the marker, so that the chisel tip is sticking out. To get the nib to fill with ink, you need to shake the ma