December 2025 – Try It – Like It

Etch Your New Year’s Celebration

These etched champagne glasses were made with Etchall Crème — simple, elegant, and perfect for New Year’s!

What a fun way to celebrate the New Year! Creating a set of etched champagne glasses using Etchall Crème is a quick and easy project that adds an elegant, personalized touch to any celebration. The etching process is simple, yet the results look beautifully professional, making these glasses perfect for ringing in the new year, gifting to friends, or adding a little sparkle to your own festivities. It’s a small project with big impact and a great way to start the year with something handmade and special.

To begin any etching project you want to clean the glass surface with rubbing alcohol. This removes any dirt and grease from the surface.

Adhere your design to the class surface making sure there are no wrinkles or lifting around the area to etch.

Apply the etchall creme to the design area and let it rest for 15 minutes. Remove the creme placing it back into the container and wash the glass surface with soap and water. Remove and discard of the vinyl.

If you would like a copy of the design I created you can grab the SVG file for free in the store section here: [New Year]

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Watercolor Stenciling

This week’s tag features a dreamy watercolor background and layered details for added depth.

This week’s tag features a fun stenciling technique using watercolor paints that gently lifts the pattern from the surface rather than layering color on top. The result is a beautifully soft, almost dreamy background that has a look all its own. Unlike traditional stenciling methods that add bold texture or color, this technique creates subtle movement and visual interest while still keeping the design light and airy. It’s a wonderful way to add depth without overpowering your project, making it perfect for tags, cards, and mixed-media creations.

Video Tutorial:

Here is the finished tag with the ephemera pieces layered over the watercolor background. The watercolor technique creates a visually active base that beautifully echoes the imagery in the sentiment panel. The white border around the sentiment helps ground the design and gives the focal point a clean, finished look while allowing the background to remain soft and expressive.

To see how the button flower was made: https://youtu.be/Yo8CQwxA6pU

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New Years Trivia Card Game

A New Year’s Trivia card game to print for free and blog hop.

Put your guests to the test with these fun New Year’s Trivia Cards! Each card features a festive design on one side and a trivia question and answer on the other. There are 12 cards total, perfect for groups or family gatherings.

Simply print the design on one side of the paper and the questions and answers on the reverse—then cut them apart and start playing!

The PDF file is available here: [New Year Trivia PDF]

My go-to printer brand for years has been HP. I also use their ink supply service where I pay a monthly fee and they send me ink cartridges as needed. It comes out to be a lot less money this way. The HP Envy Inspire is a great-priced machine that will produce beautiful prints.

If you are looking for a great crafting-weight paper for printables, I have been using HP Project Paper. It is heavier than copier paper but not quite as heavy as cardstock. It is a great medium weight for layering, folding, and more!

Blog Hop

Make sure to visit and grab all the fun New Year’s–themed freebie printables shared in this hop! From coloring pages and puzzles to games and activity sheets, these creative printables are the perfect way to make heading into a new year a little more fun for everyone.

New Year’s Color by Number by The Benson Street
Daily 365 Affirmations Printable by Our Crafty Mom
New Year Banner by Laura’s Crafty Life
Happy New Year Mad Libs by The Crafty Blog Stalker
New Year’s Bingo by Artsy Fartsy Mama
New Year’s Trivia Card Game by Try It Like It Create It
Reading Tracker by Smiling Colors
New Year’s Dice Game by Kara Creates

New Year’s Ephemera

New Year crafting made easy—grab this week’s free page of festive ephemera!

This week’s freebie is a full page of New Year’s–themed ephemera, perfect for all of your paper crafting projects. The collection includes festive elements that can be printed, cut, and layered to add a celebratory touch to cards, tags, journals, scrapbooks, and planners. Whether you’re documenting memories from the past year or creating projects to welcome the new one, these pieces are designed to mix and match easily with your favorite supplies.

Grab the free PDF file: [newyear.pdf]

My go-to printer brand for years has been HP. I also use their ink supply service where I pay a monthly fee and they send me ink cartridges as needed. It comes out to be a lot less money this way and I don’t have to keep track because they do all the tracking for me. The HP Envy Inspire is a great-priced machine that will produce beautiful prints.

Create-it Link Party #426

Merry Christmas! Thank you for visiting and I look forward to your creative posts.

I wish you all the happiest holiday season and prosperous New Year. Thank you for being a part of Try it – Like it – Create it and sharing your creativity with me. I appreciate you all and I look forward to seeing more from you in the New Year.

Last week Crazy Little Love Birds shared an up-cycle craft with us – DIY Holiday Glass Candle Display follow the link to see how to create your own.

Weekly Features are now being shared in the Pinterest Create-it Link Party Board. You can see them all here: [Create-it Link Party on Pinterest]

On to the Party

This is a great opportunity to showcase your latest blog post, recipe, craft tutorial, or any other creative project you’ve been working on! We love seeing the incredible ideas from our community.

To keep things fun and organized, we have a few simple rules to ensure the party runs smoothly. Happy sharing!

Here are a few simple rules:

Link to a specific post, not your homepage.
Link up something YOU made/wrote/created.
Giveaways, other link parties, or business links are not accepted.
Don’t link and run. Try to visit at least one link and show them some love. You may make a new friend.

Creative Paint Markers

Colorful circles and Sharpie paint marker layers give this week’s tag a millefiori glass–inspired look.

This week’s tag features playful, colorful circles and layered decorations drawn with Sharpie paint markers. The finished design has a look reminiscent of millefiori glass. I added bakers twine from the Dollar Tree to the top of the tag.

While metallic details can be difficult to capture in photos; they do show better in the video below, this close-up shows some of the hand-drawn details.

Video Tutorial:

There’s something calming about this drawing technique—simply sitting down and creating shapes without a plan or expectation can be wonderfully therapeutic.

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Journaling Cards

I hope you find these year end journaling card useful to document your memories.

This week’s free printable is a set of journaling cards designed to help you document memories from the past year. Use all of the cards or just a few—each one can be written on both the front and back. Add them to your journal, tuck them into a special envelope, or simply use them as a quiet way to reflect on your memories.

Grab the free PDF file: [journaling cards.pdf]

My go-to printer brand for years has been HP. I also use their ink supply service where I pay a monthly fee and they send me ink cartridges as needed. It comes out to be a lot less money this way and I don’t have to keep track because they do all the tracking for me. The HP Envy Inspire is a great-priced machine that will produce beautiful prints.

Chocolate Helps SVG and Hop

Grab this FREE “Life happens, Chocolate helps” SVG file and let the world know exactly how you feel about chocolate.

Did you know? Chocolate contains PEA, a natural compound that enhances dopamine activity and creates feelings similar to being in love. Even better, dark chocolate helps lower cortisol, the stress hormone. In other words, chocolate really does help when life happens! Grab the free “Live happens, Chocolate helps” SVG file to let the world know how you feel about chocolate.

This post is part of a Free SVG Hop featuring Thanksgiving (funny/puns) themed designs. My contribution is a playful design that says “I Came In Like A Butterball”.

You can grab the free SVG file in the store section of this site here: [chocolate svg]

Not sure what Cricut tools you need or should use? Check out this post – What tools to Buy.

Need to know about the different vinyl products available? You can learn all about it at About Cricut Vinyl.

Are you confused about the different colors of mats? This article will clear it all up for you. Which Mat Do I Use?

SVG Hop Images:

My fellow SVG creators are joining me in a fun year end hop featuring Chocolate-themed SVGs! Each design is free to download and perfect for adding a special touch to your projects. Explore the variety below and get inspired!

Creator	Design
Artsy-Fartsy Mama	I’m Nicer After Chocolate
Gina C. Creates	Hugs and Chocolate Kisses
Harper N Co	You Had Me at Chocolate
Hello Creative Family	Chocolate Is My Love Langauge
Kiy’s Craftroom	Fall in Chocolate
Sunshine and Munchkins	Things I Love About Chocolate
The Quiet Grove	Choco-holic
The Scrap Shoppe	Carpe Chocolātam
Try It – Like It – Create It	Life happens, chocolate helps

Create-it Link Party #425

Link up your creations this week with Create-it Link Party.

Last week Steph Creates Things shared a tutorial to make this DIY wood decorative star. I was drawn to the decoupage image and its placement on the wooden star making a very graphically modern background to the added decorative elements.

Weekly Features are now being shared in the Pinterest Create-it Link Party Board. You can see them all here: [Create-it Link Party on Pinterest]

On to the Party

To keep things fun and organized, we have a few simple rules to ensure the party runs smoothly. Happy sharing!

Here are a few simple rules:

Link to a specific post, not your homepage.
Link up something YOU made/wrote/created.
Giveaways, other link parties, or business links are not accepted.
Don’t link and run. Try to visit at least one link and show them some love. You may make a new friend.

Hello There Tag

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how coordinating colors and gel stick techniques come together to create a beautifully textured, welcoming tag.

This week’s tag features Gel Sticks from KingArt used in two fun and creative ways: blending and stenciling. By first smoothing the gel color into a soft blended base and then layering additional pigment through a stencil, you can build a vibrant, multi-dimensional background with very little effort. These techniques work beautifully together to create a rich, colorful foundation for any tag or mixed-media project.

All of these elements work in harmony to create a warm, inviting tag. The sentiment piece set the tone, and I pulled coordinating colors to build a visually textured background that complements the design.

Video Tutorial:

In the close up image above you can see the depth added with the foam tape as well as a better look at the background colors blending together.

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