Good morning! Today we are hopping to celebrate all things fall and winter – and to rev up your holiday cardmaking motors! We are also joining Lea Lawson during her month-long Crafty Comeback Party. Lea is an amazing designer, and we are thrilled to support her! Tune into her blog every day this month – she began the party on October 7, and there have been many beautiful cards and fabulous giveaways along the way! To make this party extra fun, we invited along the fabulously talented team at A Blog Named Hero and I’m proud to represent both teams! 😉
We will be giving away a $25 gift certificate, randomly chosen from all of the comments left at every stop along the blog hop. For the most chances to win leave a comment on all the hop stops by by Friday, November 10th at 11:59pm PT, and the winner will be announced on Lea Lawson’s blog on Sunday, November 12th!
Here’s what I created:
I love that adorable little penguin from our holiday release! All that fabulous dimension and texture is simply created by layered stamping with different inks! I started by stamping him with soft granite, charcoal, and intense black ink and then die-cut him with the coordinating die. I also stamped his cute little bowtie with versamark and heat-embossed him with silver embossing powder. Next I blended picked raspberry, salty ocean, and wilted violet distress ink onto a piece of white cardstock and let it dry completely. Then I stamped the Hand Drawn Snowflakes cling stamp with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I die-cut the snowy mountains using one of the dies from the October My Monthly Hero kit and stamped the sentiment from Color Layering Penguin and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. Finally I adhered the mountains to the background and adhered the penguin with an action wobbler! So now he can shiver while waiting for those Warm Winter Wishes!! 😉
And that’s it! I hope this gives you some holiday inspiration! Don’t forget to hop along with Hero Arts and A Blog Named Hero for a chance to win a $25 gift card to Hero arts! Here’s the hop list:
- Hero Arts
- Lea Lawson
- Ilina Crouse
- Jana Millen
- Jessica Frost-Ballas
- Lisa Stein
- Coralynn Murray
- Donna Idlet
- Emily Midgett
- Kelly Szafron
- Kimberly Rendino
- Melissa Chipperfield
- Michelle Lupton
- Swapna Patil
- Tracy Freeman
- Libby Hickson
Thanks so much for visiting and happy hopping! I hope you have a wonderful day!
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You’ve used one of my favorite, cutest stamp of the baby penguin. What I find I really, really like is how the disproportionately large snowflakes look superb with the small baby penguin. Great job.
Wow, this is just great! That adorable penguin, those vibrant colors – love it all!
Love the embossed
background and the
colors!
Carla from Utah
Beautiful
OMG! This sooo adorable!!
Another beautiful card from you! Would definitely buy this stamp set if I win. Thanks for sharing.
That background is just stunning!! Beautiful work!
I love the design and the idea of the action wobbler. I have some to put to use in my cards. Thanks for sharing!
Love the gorgeous background and that sweet penguin!
This is so cute! Putting the penguin on the wobbler was a great touch. Thanks!
Lovely card! Your background is great and that penguin is so cute!
That penguin is so adorable! Gorgeous card!!
Stunning card, love the background and the adorable penguin
Absolutely LOVE this card! The colors are perfect and the adorable penguin always makes me smile.
That penguin is so darn CUTE!
Lovely creation!! Colorful 🙂
Your penguin is darling and I love the background. Very inspiring.
The color layering on the penguin makes him look so real. He fits perfectly on the beautiful snowflake background. Terrific card!
I love the background so much! That cling stamp is gorgeous and I really like the colors of distress ink you used over it!! So pretty!
This is such a great card! I love the background and the penguin is adorable 🙂
Beautiful ink blending!
Wow…. It’s gorgeous!
What a great card!! The background you made is stunning!!! The colors are so beautiful and really allow the snowflakes and (darling!!) penguin to “shine” in the design!! Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us. It is always fun to see what you will make!
Oh, so cute! I love the white mountains with the snowflake background you created.
love the card the colors are beautiful thank you for sharing