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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I think the colors in your card are beautiful. Non traditional is so cool.
Lovely card, and I like your non-traditional approach that makes use of stamps we may already have in our stash!
Very delightful card! Thanks for the inspiration
I just love your card and style!!
Creative color choice.
This is a good example of combining different shades and hues of the same color. This is beautiful.
Great card! Love that colour combination.
Wow! such a pretty card 🙂 and i love the use of pinks, makes it so bright and wonderful
cheers
Preety
This is my 3rd year and it gives me great joy to participate. Thank you . Your card is beautiful.
What fun colors you chose. Love it! Thank you.
What a gorgeous card!! I just love that you’ve used flowers for your design!! I think this will certainly bring a smile to someone! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful card!! Love that colour combination 🙂
Beautiful card – love your color choices.
Love the colors. Really cute card!
I love this Wplus9 set and you’ve used some great colours in your card.
I LOVE this. Such fun Wplus9 products that you used.
Beautiful card with beautiful colors!
Beautiful design and the gold and pink tones are lovely together. I always get the pink poinsettia over the red .
So pretty! Love the colors and the fact that you prove you can create a beautiful but fairly easy card! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the golden greeting over the free stamped background. I love using a variety of smaller stamps to make backgrounds so this is right up my alley!
The colors on this are a BIG HIT! Way to think outside of the ‘red and green box’!
Loving this blog hop and all the talent here! Love the joy that the Kind Heart Card drive will be bringing to all those folks this year. It really warms my heart to be participating in such a great cause! Way to go SSS for such a generous prize! Thanks for sharing and the inspiration to use other colors at the holidays!
How freaking cute!!! I love the colors!
How girly! Great card!
Awesome card! It makes me think of the tropics. Hmmm, a tropical island could be a fun place to spend the holidays!
nice card with bright and beautiful colors.