Hello and welcome to the CardMaker Magazine and Sunny Studio stamps blog hop. You should have arrived from Gini Williams Cagle’s blog. If you happen to get lost along the way, you can find the blog hop order and links below.

For today’s blog hop, we are all getting into the Christmas spirit – and let’s face it, it is only about 7 weeks away. I used the adorable Snow Kissed stamp set, along with the Birthday Smiles stamp set to create this cute little scene.

Giveaway:

Sunny Studio Stamps is kindly giving away two stamp sets to two lucky winners over on the Sunny Studios Blog. Use the Rafflecopter to enter. Mendi is also having a 20% off sale. Just use the code word “CARDMAKER” (valid until Saturday the 14th of November, Noon PST).

 

Blog Hop order

CardMaker
Melissa Bowden
Chitra Nair
Audrey Tokach
Mendi Yoshikawa
Heidi Criswell
Stacy Morgan
Elise Constable
Gini Williams Cagle
Marion Vagg  <——– You are here
Jennie Harper
Sunny Studio Blog

Your next stop on the hop is Jennie Harper. Thanks for visiting.

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Hello! I’m back with a sneak peek of a cute kitty cat Christmas card that I have over on the Simplicity at its Best blog. To see the whole card with instructions, you will need to head here.

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Hello again! Three posts in three days is such a rarity for me! But I do have some fun Christmas tags using some new Penny Black  products that I hope you will like.

A couple of week’s ago, I made this card which uses the same technique as the tags below. I stamped a whole lot of images from the Penny Black Tiny Treasures stamp set onto water colour, and then loosely water coloured around the images to create a fun and whimsical effect. To add some extra sparkle, I coloured in all the white images with a clear Wink of Stella glitter brush pen. They are really sparkly and shimmery in real life, but was hard to capture in the photos.

The sentiments are from the Holiday Snippets stamp set, which has just about every Christmas greeting you will ever need!

Penny Black products used:
Tiny Treasures Stamp set 30-268
Holiday Snippets Stamp set 30-30
Tagged die set 51-007

I can’t believe it is almost November! Yikes. Christmas will be here before we know it. How is your Christmas card/tag making going?

Until next time,

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I’m back with another card for Jane’s Doodles and I just had to create a card using the adorable mice from the Winter Wishes stamp set. At the moment the stamp set has sold out, but you can pre-order it as they will be arriving in the store next week.

I created my own mask and used distress inks to make some snow banks. The mice and the tree are coloured with Copic Markers.

It is hard to tell, but I spritzed the blue background with some Perfect Pearls and it has a lovely shimmer to it. These mice look like they are singing Christmas (or is that Christmouse?) carols. Such cute little critters!

Short and sweet from me today.

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Hello! Today is the release blog hop for Jane’s Doodles Stamps and we are also welcoming three new DT members. You should have arrived from Ange’s awesome blog.

You are going to love the latest release as it is one very stinkin’ cute stamp set indeed! Check it out.

Winter Wishes

First up is a fun card using most of the critters in the set. I created my own window with a craft knife and a cutting board.

And because I think all the characters in this set are cute, I couldn’t leave the snowman out – so I gave him a card all to himself, drinking a hot cup of chocolate with marshmallows! Both cards use sentiments from another Christmas set called Warm Wishes.

GIVEAWAY:
Want to win some prizes? Jane is generously giving two stamps of your choice from the store to one lucky winner. Just leave a comment on all the blogs along the hop for your chance to win.

Blog Hop order:
Jane
Ange
Marion <—– You are here
Milka
Carisa
Tracy (Guest Designer)
Vesna (new Design Team member)
Neha (new Design Team member)
Vika (new Design Team member)
Jane’s Doodles

Thanks so much for stopping by. Your next stop on the hop is Milka.

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It’s starting to feel a little bit like Christmas on my blog today, with these fun tags using some Jane’s Doodles stamps. Christmas will be here before we know it, so I am getting in nice and early! These were really quick and easy to make – I think I may need to make some more experimenting with other colours.

It’s a little hard to tell, but the scarves are sparkling with some clear Wink of Stella. I love that pen!

You can head to Jane’s blog here to check out my post, and while you are there check out lots of other inspiration from the design team.

Thanks for stopping by,

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