This is my second post for today! For the 25 Days of Christmas Tags blog hop and giveaway, please scroll down or click here! And don’t forget to comment on my Winnie & Walter Leading Lady posts here and here for a chance to win a $30 gift card to Winnie & Walter and on the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero post here for a chance to win the November kit!
Good morning! I am thrilled and honored to participate in a blog hop to celebrate the 7th annual Caring Hearts Card Drive! The purpose of this card drive is to collect handmade holiday cards for the elderly that live in nursing homes around the world. Since 2010 we have been bringing joy to many nursing homes throughout the US, Canada, and Australia. And this year, we are branching out to the UK! What better way to share our love of card-making than to bring joy to others, right? We hope you’ll join us in supporting the card drive. Details on how to participate in the card drive can be found at Vera’s and Jennifer’s blogs!
Today is also World Kindness Day so we thought it would be fun to put together a big blog hop to bring awareness to the card drive, share some crafty inspiration to get your mojo going for card drive, and give away quite the shopping spree to one lucky commenter! You’ll find a list of all the hoppers plus details on the giveaway at the end of my post!
I wanted to share a card that could be easily mass-produced in a variety of color schemes. I chose to go slightly non-traditional with corals, pinks, reds, and golds. I absolutely adore the sentiment from WPlus9’s Be Merry stamp set. To create my card I stamped the sentiment with versamark using my MISTI and then heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. I stamped the flowers from Be Merry Florals using a variety of inks from Hero Arts and WPlus9 (Sweet Gelato is one of my most favorite colors EVER!) ;). Finally I used copics to color the sentiment and match the ink colors.
I’m looking forward to making different variations of this card…I think blues and silver will be really pretty, too!
So what’s a hop without a giveaway, right? Simon Says Stamp has generously offered a $150 gift card for this hop. That’s one heck of a shopping spree!! All you need to do is visit and leave a comment on each blog. The winner will be randomly selected from one blog and will be announced on Vera’s blog on Friday, November 18th. You have until midnight, Thursday, November 17th, 2016 to leave your comments. The more comments you leave, the better your chances!!
You should have arrived from Ruby and Wendy is your next stop! The full hop list can be found below:
- Vera Yates
- Jennifer McGuire
- Laura Bassen
- Shari Carroll
- Debby Hughes
- Heather Ruwe
- Julie Ebersole
- May Sukyong Park
- Yana Smakula
- Ruby Ianigro
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You Are Here!
- Wendy Ramlakhan
- Kathy Racoosin
- Amy Lee
- Simon Says Stamp
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day! If this is your first time visiting my blog I hope you’ll come back! 😉 Happy Hopping!
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Purple and silver ; ) Your card is beautiful. I too believe it would look great in a variety of colors. Thank you for sharing =)
Sweet cards!! I love the flowers!!
Love the gold with the pinks!
Wonderful colors and design- this card will stand out in a stack of traditional cards!!
Very festive with these colors.
Beautiful card, love the vibrant colors, so festive!
Love your bright, festive colors! A very Merry card.
So lovely and cheerful with all those flowers.
This has been a terrific blog hop (for such a worthy cause), thank-you to the coordinators for making this card drive possible!
Love your bright and cheery card! Thanks for sharing
Such a cheery Christmas card! Certainly delightful to receive.
Really sweet look you created with the different shades of pink. love the coloring of the sentiment area.
Love the colors…makes me think of a tropical, warm locale for the holidays.
I love seeing Christmas cards in non traditional colors! Makes me think outside the box. So beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Nice card! Love the colors!
Beautiful card.
What beautiful colors!
Boy, did you think out of the box with your colors! Sometimes I want to do a card that just has Christmas colors and then sometimes I want to use yellow and orange and celery green. I love it! Some of the cards I’ve done look Christmasy by the pictures I printed or stamped but not by the colors I used. That’s just me and I see that’s just you too! Your right, it could be done in a number of different colors and hey, those really don’t seem to me like Christmas flowers, so why couldn’t you do that and write Happy Birthday instead of Merry Christmas? If I had this stamp set I would and they could be massed produced very easily. Love it! I hope everyone loves our cards and that I get a chance to win something. It would certainly make my Christmas complete.
I LOVE love love that colour combination! Great alternative to just red and green for xmas
Can relate to your card rather than the winters cards most people make as I live in Hawaii. Thanks.
lovely! I’m from Argentina and there we don’t have snow at Christmas! it is great to see a more “summer” Christmas card! thank you!
love the colors!!
Those are the colours I’m planning to use for my cards this year! Who says a Christmas card needs to be red and green with baubles and Christmas trees!
Your card looks so happy – just like the season!
Pretty, pretty, pretty. Thanks for sharing your creativity.