{"id":6751,"date":"2013-11-01T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T09:00:21","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/?p=6751","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hello. It&#8217;s time for another month long challenge at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annabellestamps.blogspot.com.au\/\">AnnaBelle Stamps&#8230;.<\/a> and it&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Can you believe it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I certainly can&#8217;t even get into Christmas mode as this week my family and I are moving, so I am up to my eyeballs in boxes and packing and to top it off I have a cold too! I will actually be taking a bit of a blogging break while we move &#8211; so things will be a little quiet here for a while. But the good news is that I hope to get a crafty space in our new house and not in the corner of our dining room!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6752\" alt=\"ac173\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ac173.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ac173.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ac173-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not your traditional Christmas colours, but I had fun experimenting. I white heat embossed the wreath onto\u00a0 blue card stock, then water coloured the leaves with Distress markers and a watercolour brush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6753\" alt=\"Merry Christmas Wreath\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2298-001.jpg\" width=\"529\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2298-001.jpg 529w, https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2298-001-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6754\" alt=\"Merry Christmas Wreath - detail\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2302.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2302.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2302-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class='et-learn-more clearfix'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='heading-more'>Supplies<span class='et_learnmore_arrow'><span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='learn-more-content'><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stamps:<\/span> AnnaBelle Stamps Holly branch stamp set, AnnaBelle Stamps Christmas Scene Baubles stamp set (sentiment and bows)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ink:<\/span> Versamark ink, Distress markers &#8211; Peeled Paint, Barn Door<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Card:<\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Hero Arts Folded Note cards &#8211; Snow and Powder\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Other Supplies:<\/span> AnnaBelle Stamps white embossing powder, anti-static bag, heat tool, foam dimensionals, AnnaBelle Stamps Cherry Sprinkles 3mm and 4mm, Glossy Accents (to adhere sprinkles)<\/p><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Be sure to check out the rest of the Belles&#8217; projects &#8211; their links are on my side bar.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be back after the move! Wish me luck \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Signature\" alt=\"Marion\" src=\"http:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/files\/2010\/10\/Signature.gif\" width=\"89\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 1em;\"><strong>About our challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We post our challenges the first Friday of each month at 8:00pm AEST (AEDT during Daylight Savings).<\/li>\n<li>Each challenge runs until 24 hours prior to the next challenge.<\/li>\n<li>All entries <strong>MUST<\/strong> include AnnaBelle Stamps as the main focal image, this can include our digi range which can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annabellestamps.blogspot.com.au\/p\/monthly-freebies.html\">here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>One <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">random<\/span> winner will be the lucky recipient of a $20.00 AnnaBelle Stamps Discount Coupon! This opens the challenge up for everyone to play along with and to have a chance at the prize.<\/li>\n<li>We will feature our Top 3 picks and announce the winner prior to the next challenge going live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 1em;\"><strong>How To Play Along:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copy and save our challenge banner and include it and a link back to the ABS blog in your post.<\/li>\n<li>For those without a blog you can still play along! Simply upload your card to a image sharing site like Flickr and include a link to the challenge in your description.<\/li>\n<li>Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog.<\/li>\n<li>Please don&#8217;t link to postings made prior to the date of our current challenge. 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I certainly can&#8217;t even get into Christmas mode as this week my family and I are moving, so I am up to my eyeballs in boxes and packing and to top [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14,17,25,32,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annabelle-stamps","category-christmas-cards","category-copic-markers","category-embossing","category-hero-arts","category-stamping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11TjY-1KT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","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=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mademarion.vagg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}