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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LOVE this, Jess!!!
Love this one! Your penguin looks so real!
I love love love the background!!
I just love snowflake cards, this is perfect, great design, love the colors!
Oh my so beautiful love your card.
Love your background. The colors are delicious!
This penguin is too cute!!
beautiful little card.
I love that penguin! He’s what I would buy if I won for sure!
Love your little penguin and the background is gorgeous!
I love your card Jessica! That penguin is the cutest!
wonderful background for your cute little penguin!
I love the penguin, but those snowflakes are so beautiful! Awesome BG you created.
Love the colorful snowflake background for this cute penguin.
Love the cute little penguin and the colorful background you did. Thanks for sharing
I like your use of the mountains from the monthly kit.
I love the beautiful ombre background and the gorgeous snowflakes!
this card is just darling:)
That’s such a great card !
That penguin is SO cute, and I just love your blended background! It is so vibrant!!
Thank you so much for being part of my crafty comeback party – I appreciate it SO much!! ♥
What a beautiful Christmas card. Thanks for sharing…
Love the bright and colourful background.
Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Adorable !
I love this cutie penguin and then to make him bobble!!! Super cute!!!