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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 58

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dani Dziama’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

I needed a cute card for exercise instructor at work and I had made some cute tags earlier in the week so I kinda made the tag bigger and turned it into this cute card 🙂

This card came together quickly and easily and it features one of the deer images from the Home for Christmas DSP.  Soooo love this paper!  The base is Very Vanilla with a centerpiece built on a piece of Mint Macaron die cut with the Lots of Labels Thinlits set.  Snowflake images from Jolly Christmas were stamped in Mint Macaron on the label.  A bit of doily, a pretty vellum strip, enamel dots and gold thread added lots of glitz to the finished card.  The sentiment is from Oh, What Fun, I love this set so much and have been using the sentiments on nearly every holiday creation this week!

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Home for Christmas

Home for Christmas Stampin' Up

Home for Christmas

I hope you enjoy our hop today and are inspired to make something pretty!  Happy Holidays!

I am heading to Breckenridge in the morning to enjoy a week there with family…we have so much fun playing in the snow and enjoying the season 🙂

Don’t forget the Year End Sale going on now!  Check out my specials page for all of the sale items.  Our December Daily Online Class is available, don’t feel like it is too late to start!  Honestly, I have not actually put one page together yet, that is going to have to happen after the holidays….I’ve just been too busy making memories to record them!  But I have my photos and when I have a few minutes in late December or early January, I will have a wonderful book full of this year’s special moments 🙂  See my class link for more information!

Thanks for letting me share, have a great week filled with inspiration and beauty!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

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Wonderland

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mondaymontage banner revised Oct 13

Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 57

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the wonderful Dara Gloden’s blog.  I am sure we all have something special to share today!

It’s been cold and snowy all Thanksgiving weekend here in Colorado.  It’s really beautiful!  I have enjoyed looking at the snowy wonderland out my windows and I was inspired to make yet another project with the Wonderland Stamp Set this week! This time I used non-traditional colors in blue tones, I think this adds to the snowy effect.

The trees are stamped several times in Island Indigo Classic Ink, Soft Sky Classic Ink and Whisper White Craft Ink.  Lot’s of sparkle is added with Two-Way Glue and Dazzling Diamonds.  The sentiment if from the Jolly Christmas Stamp Set.  Final touches include some Vanilla Seam Binding, a snowflake and a pearl.  Super simple and elegant.

A friend of mine climbed the Manitou Incline today and sent this pic from the top….it looks snowy and peaceful, just like my card 🙂  Isn’t that an amazing view?  Colorado at it’s very best.

Manitou Incline

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I hope these images give you a glimpse of lovely Colorado today and inspire you to make something pretty!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks for letting me share, have a great week filled with inspiration and beauty!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dara Gloden and the rest of the hop!

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Peaceful Wreath

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I played with the Peaceful Wreath Stamp Set and Wonderful Wreath Framelits today.  My idea was to change it up to not so traditional Christmas colors and I love how the card came out!  This card looks lots more complicated than it actually was to make, lotsa wow factor!  Nothing about it is perfectly placed, it is a lovely, random mess of pretty 🙂

The base of the card front is watercolor paper cut slightly smaller than usual:  3 3/4 x 4 3/4.  The large bough image from the set is white embossed randomly on the watercolor paper and then watercolored in Mint Macaron and Mossy Meadow ink.  No effort was made to “stay in the lines”, just random watercoloring on and around the images.  The wreath image was white embossed on vellum and then cut out with the wreath thinlit die.  A star banner (from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlit die set) was cut out of Mint Macaron.

The sentiment banner is stamped on Whisper White card stock, the “Peace” is offset from “to the world” on the banner so the banner fits under the right side of the wreath.  Sparkly embellishments are Mint Macaron and Silver Foil stars punched with the Confetti Stars Border Punch and rhinestones randomly scattered around the rest of the elements.

I thought the card needed a pop of another color and the Blossom Accent in Watermelon Wonder worked perfectly for that.  There is a little halo of Silver Thread added under the blossom for a tiny extra detail.  The finished card front is adhered to a Mint Macaron base.

I’m only in Florida for a few more days, this has been once again a wonderful time of creativity unleashed in so many ways!  My cup is (almost) full.

I hope you love this card as much as I do and it inspires you to make something lovely today!

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