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

Magic of Christmas Blog Hop

Welcome to the Magic of Christmas Blog Hop!  You should have come from Jamie's blog.  If you are starting here and wish to hop from the beginning of the hop, please visit Ashley’s blog.  This is a blog of Christmas Magic.  Hopefully, you’ll pick up some great ideas for your own Christmas gift giving this season.  You don’t want to miss a project so, grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy!

Here is my project:

 The house is from Stampin' Up. It is covered with Christmas paper and the edges are done with K&Company

I put battery operated lights on the inside, which light up behind the cellophane windows.

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

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

1.     Ashley

2.     Nicolette

3.     Lisa

4.     Jamie

5.     Tami

6.     Gina

7.     Angela

8.     Janet

9.     Zenita

10.   Janet

11.   Mindy

12.   Libby

13.   Robin

14.   Tanya

15.   Vicki

16.   Liz

17.   Kristy

Merry Christmas,

 Tami

Secret Sister Blog Hop Dec. 5th

Merry Christmas and thank you for stopping by our hop today as we reveal the wonderful projects we have made for our "Secret Sisters". With blog hopping and crafting, we have all become sisters. What was done -- those of us were interested we given a "Secret Sister"  to craft something special. Not only do we have a Secret Sister but we also gave some "hints" as to Our Favorite Things. How special is that. Now, ssshhhhhh, please don't tell our Secret Sisters as it hasn't been revealed yet as to who has who while you hop along with us!!!!

If you have arrived from Susan's blog then you are on the right path to Secret Sisters but if you just happened upon my blog, please start at the beginning on Jearise's blog as we don't want you to miss one special gift!!!!

In case, you get lost along the way and need a GPS here's the complete lineup! Don't make any wrong turns.

1. Jearise
2. Lynne 
3. Susan
4. Tami 
5. CallyAnn 
6. Janet Smith
7. Inga Klaus 
8. Sherry Brown
9. Rhonda Helm 

 For my secret sister, I made a mini album. There is plenty of room to add pictures and journaling. Each page has a tag that is inserted and pulls out. It has one side for a picture and the journaling on the other side.  I used a Memory Box stamp for the journal tags. The papers are an array of printed papers. I went to the cabinet and pulled out every piece of purple paper that I could find for the album. For the tags, I had to resort to some pinks too, because I didn't have enough solid purple paper choices. On each page I added some bling, buttons, K&Company stickers, and ribbon. I added ribbon to all of the tags and also to the 3 rings. The cover is a one page of chipboard, which I cut in half and covered with paper. I used a 1/2 circle punch to punch the hole so the tags could be pulled out.

The font of the mini album with all of the ribbons on the rings.

 Cover up close. I put a fairy and dream sticker on the cover. I added a button , to appear like a knob, but it isn't. I also added a purple gem in the O of  LOVE. The love was already on the paper that I chose.

This is the back cover. I used an EK punch for my label.

The tags, side for the picture.

The tags, the side for journaling. I stamped the Memory Box journal stamp and embossed each tag. Then I cut around the stamp edge.

Now, your next stop along the way is CallyAnn

I do have some wonderful blog candy to share with you. I will send you 24 Christmas paper tags that I have cut with my die cutter for you to use on your Christmas gifts. Please leave me a way to contact you.

Merry Christmas!

love and hugs 

13 Days of Halloween Blog Hop Day 7

 

DAY 7

Welcome to the 13 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  This hop is scheduled from Oct. 19 at 8:00 am through Oct.31 at 11:00 pm (central time).  It's that time of year when the nights are all spooky and creatures are known to wander the forests.  So sit for a spell with a nice cup of hot apple cider and check out all the great projects.

If you just happened upon this hop, then welcome, but make sure to go back to the beginning and start at Lisa's blog.

We're so excited to be doing this hop and we have a fabulous lineup with some very talented ladies. There will be lots of fun projects, along with some great blog candy, and a great grand prize for this hop.

The hop is a 13 day hop with only 13 blogs to visit so you will have plenty of time to make it through the whole hop lineup 13 times.  Check out each blog and see what blog candy you can win at the individual stops.  Please come back all 13 days to see great projects.

Here is the complete lineup:
Lisa
Pam
Janet
Doris
Kristen
Nicolette
Jearise
Tami
Amy
Brynn
Scraps to Treasures
CallyAnn
Gill 

The other day I called up my BFF and asked her if she wanted to go shopping. Well of course she did. LOL We had a plan to go to the Hobby lobby. I had not been to this store in quite a few years, since it is not close by.  It's about 45  minutes to an hour away, but of course we were going on a a Friday, after work, and it was raining like crazy. I even printed out 40% off coupons for each of us and we left for our big craft store shopping trip. However, when we got to the store, it was closed. Not just closed due to hours, but not there anymore closed! Wow were we disappointed. Well I knew of another store in the same town, although on the opposite side of town, so we decided to not be defeated and drove to that store - Artco. We were in heaven!  We shopped till we dropped. I think we were there for at least 3 hours!  We had a great time finding all kinds of things to add to our stash.  One thing that I found was this Mouse House October stamp of the month stamp that I used today for my card.

 

My project for today is a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card. The card is made from orange textured card stock. A piece of K&Comapnay  paper was cut and added to the front. I added a bat trim from the same package of K&Company Halloween paper. I stamped the House Mouse stamp in black and embossed it. I used Copics to color it.   I used Stampin' Up pens to color the sentiment on the insde.  I used white cardstock, rounded the corners, then distressed the edges with Tim Holtz lilac distressing ink for both the image and the sentiment. Then I put it on a piece of purple cardstock behind both.  I specifically bought these two stamps, so that I could make this card for my other BFF, who has a collection of Mouse House stamps. I know she will love it and appreciate it.

 

Now on to AMY blog to see another great project!