{"id":1804,"date":"2011-07-20T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2011-07-20T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T01:41:08","slug":"christmas-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>It is such a cold and wet winter&#8217;s day here&#8230;longing for some sunshine! So with that in mind, I have created a Christmas card!<\/p>\n<p>I love to use stamp sets in a way that they are not intended for, and this is just one example. I have used the HA Playful animals set to create this card and the sentiment is from the Teeny Trees Waltzing Mouse set.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the stamp set I used&#8230;see the tiny little branch of leaves and the little star&#8230;that is what I used!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1807 aligncenter\" title=\"CL155\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/files\/2011\/07\/CL155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1805 aligncenter\" title=\"Christmas wreath\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/files\/2011\/07\/DSC03802.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC03802.jpg 463w, https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC03802-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I drew a circle with pencil first and then I just stamped the little branch around the circle in 2 different shades of green. Added the stars in red, a bow and some pearls and I was done!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1806 aligncenter\" title=\"Christmas Wreath - close up\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/files\/2011\/07\/DSC03808.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am entering this into the current <a href=\"http:\/\/scrapbookboutiquenews.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/new-challenge-has-started.html\">Scrapbook Boutique Challenge<\/a> where the theme is Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Supplies:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stamps: Hero Arts Playful Animals stamp set (CL155), Waltzing Mouse &#8216;Teeny Trees&#8217; stamp set<br \/>\nInk: Versafine Ink \u2013 Onyx Black, Versacolor cubes &#8211; Bamboo, Green Tea, Distress Ink &#8211; Barn Door<br \/>\nCard: Regal Craft Card (white textured square &#8211; cut to size), X-Press It blending card, Regal Craft Card &#8211; Eucalyptus<br \/>\nOther Supplies: Spellbinder&#8217;s Nesties &#8211; Labels 2, Cuttlebug, foam dimensionals, Glossy Accents (to adhere bow), thin red ribbon, red saddle stitch ribbon, Martha Steward score board, Kaisercraft pearls &#8211; snow, pewter, cream<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-472\" title=\"Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/files\/2010\/10\/Signature.gif\" alt=\"Marion\" width=\"89\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, It is such a cold and wet winter&#8217;s day here&#8230;longing for some sunshine! So with that in mind, I have created a Christmas card! I love to use stamp sets in a way that they are not intended for, and this is just one example. I have used the HA Playful animals set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,32,60,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-christmas-cards","category-hero-arts","category-stamping","category-waltzingmouse-stamps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11TjY-t6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}