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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Jessica, this is adorable! I want to copy so many things you do! Or maybe not copy exactly, but use your techniques and do similar things!
So awesome that little guy jumping around in all that beauty!
I love that penguin.. love the background colors and flakes too
That penguin is adorable and your card showcased him perfectly!
So inspired, Jess!!! Love the wobbler penguin! The sky behind him is just gorgeous, as usual!
This snowflake background stamp is just beautiful! Love your card.
totally adorable …
The snowflake background is gorgeous!
Cute card! Love penguins
The snowflakes look beautiful against that background. Pity we can’t see the penguin wobble, that was a great idea.
This card is so pretty, and I love the colors!
Love your colorful background!!
Adorablw and I love the background.
Adorable! Love penguins in general and this stamp is just so dang cute! I really love that he wobbles.
This is such a cute card. I love that you added the wobbler on the penguin.
Great card. I love the colors that make the snowflakes just pop. The wobbler is a fun touch. Thank you for sharing.
What a great card! Thanks for sharing!
This little penguin is so cute. Love your colorful snowflake background.
Love your cute penguin and colorful snowflake background.
Love that the penguin is on a wobbler. That’s so much fun. Your colours are amazing and I love the stars.
Love the colorful background.
Jess, what a great card! Love the colors. Good work.
Super sweet card, love that background!
I just love how your background turned out!
Penguin is real “cool”, especially with that background