Whimsical Christmas and New Year's Blog Hop Dec. 28th and 29th

Welcome to the Whimsical Christmas and New Year’s Blog Hop!  You should have come from Jessica’s blog.  If you are starting here and wish to hop from the beginning of the hop, please visit Jessica’s blog. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy this blog hop that will include projects that are not the traditional holiday colors, but instead the beautiful colors that are another option. There were so many items that were such an inspiration for this hop at the stores this year.  Since this was a Seattle card and it is the emerald city, I should have used green, but I didn't have the same choices of papers in green, so I chose to use pink. I love the way this card turned out. It is beautiful in person.

I used two Impress Rubber stamps for this card. I stamped and embossed the Seattle skyline image, then for the colors I used various Copics and completed it with stickles. The corners were punched with an EK success corner punch.  I then placed it on top of the pink sparkle paper, which is Braun + Company glitter gift wrap, from Paper Source.  It is beautiful paper that I bought on a roll. It came in various colors and I had to get them all. LOL.  The sentiment stamp was stamped in pink and embossed. I distressed the edge with pink ink and placed it on the same pink glitter paper. The background paper is from a Recollection’s Christmas pack.  I used my distress tool for the edges. My BFF loved this tool, so I bought her one for Christmas. She was ecstatic about the gift. It is so fun to use, but a bit noisy. The ribbon is Celebrations from Michaels. It is all mounted on a piece of pink card stock.

  

The inside had to be done too. I used piece of the same paper for the top part of the card.  I added a piece of bright green card stock, and then added the same ribbon as on the front.  I punched snowflakes out of the same Recollections paper pack, with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch, but only used the center of the snowflake. I used an EK punch out of the pink glitter paper. The Happy Holiday and Ho Ho Ho are both K & Company. 

Your next stop on the hop is Barbara’s blog.   

I am offering blog candy of a set of Inkadinkado 15 circle and dots clear stamps, but you must participate with a comment for both days of the hop.  Don’t forget to come back again tomorrow for the New Year’s project.

A GPS map in case you get lost along the way.

1. Jessica 

2. Tami 

3. Barbara

4. Zenita 

5. Jackie

6. Alina

7. Ellen

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

 Tami

I have entered this card in the "Anything Goes" challenge at Little Scrap Pieces

Happy Witches Halloween 3 Day Blog Hop Day 2

 DAY 2 of 3

If you just came from Zentita's blog, then you are right where you are supposed to be. If you have happened upon my site, then great, but I am the last one on this hop and you have missed so much, so please start at the beginning on Angela's blog and make your way back to me.   So, time to start thinking about Halloween. It is one of my favorite holidays, because it is in my favorite season - Fall. I love the warm colors and all of the small kids who come trick or treating with their special cute costumes on.  Some of them are too scared to come to the front door because my husband does a good job of decorating the outside and making it a bit too scary for the little ones. I miss not being able to eat candy anymore, but then I guess that's good, since it doesn't add weight to me either.

This is a 3 day hop and we had a choice of putting up one project for all 3 days or 1 for each day. I have chosen to post 1 project for each day, so make sure to come back and see my 1st project below, if you missed it and the 3rd project tomorrow.

For my second day I am posting a Halloween card that I made today.  I had fun pulling out stamps and Halloween bling. I have so many stamps, OMW! How will I ever use them in a lifetime?  LOL. Well I'll give it a good try, since I plan on being around, for quite some time yet.

 This is just a basic card and on the front I didn't even use any stamps. I only cut paper. I had this one big piece of paper with this haunted house on it and a huge moon. I am sure that it would have made a good scrapbooking page, however, I saw it as a card. So I cut out the haunted mansion and punched out a circle for the moon with the bat. It had the sparkly trim on the bottom, so I cut a piece of that out too. I found some Martha Stewart paper that I had with glittery pumpkins, so added for of those on the bottom. Then I had some shiny ghost brads that I used for coming out of the chimneys. I will add some Halloween sentiment stamp on the inside for the recipient.

I am the last on the hop, but remember to start at the beginning again on Angela's blog for some new projects tomorrow. Hope you found some sweet treats along the way!
Don't miss it, since there are some very talented ladies in the lineup of the hop:

Angela 

Ruthie
Cher
Ashley 

Ellen

Rachael
Katie
Kathy
Julie
Patrica
Xochlit
Becky
Mandie
Nicole
Gina
Zenita
Tami