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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Your card is so different and happy. Wonderful ideas.
Lovely colors and design! I love the sentiment and how quick and fun it would be to make this card! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring!!!
A very untraditional card – but it works! Makes me smile.
I really like the sentiment (and colors) too!
This is a pretty card. I love the sentiment 🙂
Your card is very merry & bright. Love it. This is a wonderful cause.
Love the non traditional colours, Jessica! Your card is so bright and cheerful – sure to brighten someone’s day.
I LOVE your non traditional coloured pink card! I get so tired of all the shops full of green and red. Such a cheery sunny card!
So pretty – love the bright colors!
Such a pretty card!
Lovely colors and design! Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Very pretty! Fantastic color combo and beautiful flowers!
So pretty. Luv the non-traditional colors you used.
I love the style of this card and the pretty colors are just gorgeous! And the card design is so perefct for any occasion!
Very pretty card. I am glad you included the closeup so we could see how great the gold heat embossing is. Well done.
This is a neat color combo to use for Christmas.
SO very Cheerful Jess! Great idea for mass production:) Thanks!
I love your card!!! The colors are so non traditional. I love it!
I love the non-traditional color scheme! It makes me think of spending the holidays in a tropical location!!
What a pretty card. TFS
I love that you have used non traditional Christmas colours!
Such a nice card Jess, I love your creations!
Such a different Christmas card! I love it!
What a lovely bright card, Jess.
Fun non-traditional colors and easy-to-mass-produce idea. Perfect for a card drive. Thanks for sharing, Jess!