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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So pretty, I love the bright and cheery colours. Great card!
Beautiful card, I love that it is non-traditional colors, just beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Well that sentiment goes perfectly on your oh so merry & bright card & colors!! Awesome cheerful card!!
Love your card colors!
Very pretty card, thank you for sharing.
cute!
Pretty card. I think the blue and silver would look great too.
Jessica, Happy World Kindness Day! your card is so sweet))
Very pretty
Such a happy card, love the colors.
Love the flowers on the card! It made me smile. Love the stamp set too, I had not seen it yet.
What a beautiful, happy holiday card. Love the colors you used. I am again participating in this years card drive. Such a special cause for me. A big thank you to Simon Says for their support and generous giveaway.
Very pretty and bright! Thanks, Denise
Love love the colors. Those are my kind of Christmas colors!!!!
I bet this is super easy to mass produce.Thank you much for sharing it.Its wonderful.
Great card—and a great cause to make cards for.
Hi Jessica
I certainly have made a number of cards for the drive. I have already posted them off to the lady who is collecting them in Canada. I work with seniors and know only too well what a lonely time Christmas can be for them. I love cards that be mass produced at Christmas, TFS. Hugs, Cheryl
Very pretty card, thanks for sharing. I thought I just took a quick visit to Hawaii.
I love the flowers on your card, so pretty.
Bright and beautiful card, Jessica! Love that sentiment. Happy World Kindness day and thanks for promoting Caring Hearts Card Drive!
Love seeing pink on a holiday card!
great card I like your use of nontradisonal colours
It’s always great to see how people put their own stamp on things–enjoyed seeing your bright, tropical take on a holiday greeting. Reminds me of different shades of poinsettia too.
Wow!!! I LOVE your Bright and BEAUTIFUL card!!!!
Beautiful card. Great embossing. I just got the Wagner and love it.