Happy New Year, 2018!

It's the start of a brand new year! Hope everyone had  safe and enjoyable New Years Eve and New Years Day holidays. I made refrigerator magnet calendars again this year for sharing at our annual New Years Day family reunion.

It's the Year of the Dog this year, so I created a cutting file for a Shiba Inu calendar in Make the Cut design program. Yes, it does look like a "fox" as hubby will insist, but then Shiba Inus do resemble foxes...anyway, my sister in law who owns a Shiba, assured me it was a Shiba, and not a fox...end of discussion! I actually had 60 these done early in August last year, for sharing with my craft club and in time to donate to my mom's Senior Citizen fundraising craft fair.

To give out with the calendars, I boxed Furikake Crispex snack mix into take out style boxes and made Year of the Dog tags for them.

Paper piecing cutting file for this little puppy (which hubby swears is a CAT) and the kanji for "dog" was also created in Make the Cut design program. I really like the look of this "cattish" dog and am contemplating using him on my thank you cards this year too.

The greeting on the flip side was done as a Print and Cut file, and the tag itself was cut using a stitched tag die from Lawn Fawn. These were fun and easy to put together..my favorite kind of project!