Christmas Tag Exchange

Hey there,

Thanks for stopping by!  I have a great post for you today- it is my creation for a gift tag exchange I try to participate in every year.  It is SO much fun.

So, instead of having a cookie exchange, which is so yummy, one of my favourite crafty friends has a Christmas Gift Tag Exchange.  She limits it to 12 ladies, each lady makes 12 of the SAME tags and then you exchange tags.  You end up with 12 different and beautiful gift tags.  It is so much fun to see what everyone comes up with!

I used the Santa's Sleigh Thinlits to decorate my tag. 

It's a little hard to see it, but I sponged some white craft ink onto the branches of the tree and added some Wink of Stella - so pretty in real life.  

Here is the table full-o-tags!

Awesome right!  As you can see there are few other really fun treats for us who participated - my friend has many talents beyond papercrafting.  

  Here is a final shot of all the tags I created - I made a few extra to keep for the presents I will be wrapping. 

 Happy stampin'

Tammy

December Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Happy December!

Welcome this the December Blogging Friends Blog Hop.  This month's theme is Christmas, Hanukah or New Year's.  I chose to share a Christmas project.

Are you getting ready for the BIG day?  I am getting there.  Still lots to do, but one thing is for sure, I have many of my crafting projects complete to start spreading the Christmas Cheer!

One of my most favourite things to create are treat holders!  I love to give them away to my customers, to my card class attendees, my garbage man, my postal worker, co-workers, teachers, almost everyone who I want to wish a bit of Christmas Cheer and that I am thankful for all year long.

This year I knew I wanted to use that super cute little test tub that was featured in the Holiday catalogue. (pssst if you love it too, you may want to stock up, the holiday catalogue is ending January 3)  

I also wanted to incorporate some hot chocolate.  So I searched the internet and found a GREAT tutorial from Frenciestamps!  You can see her blog post and video tutorial here. 

I CASE'd her creation, but changed the sizing to accommodate the packet of hot chocolate that I had.  I also changed the colours to match the DSP and cardstock I had on-hand.  Here is my version of it...

I really liked how it turned out.  I used the Merry Cafe stampset for the greeting on the front of the card as well as the cute little holly.  The cup, lit, coffee cup wrap and cute little heart tab are all created from the Coffee Cups framelit set. 

The inside message is from the stamp set Snowflake Sentiments.  I love the tiny little snowflakes that come with the Merry Cafe stampset, so just had to add them!

So I have 24 of them all ready to go and start spreading the cheer!

 Don't miss any of the hop and make sure you see all of the wonderful creations.  You can do that by following and clicking on the list below or by clicking the 'continue' button below.  Happy Hoppin'

Be sure to keep checking back for all of my Christmas creations.

Happy stampin'

Tammy

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Libby Fens

Anne Power -returning next month

Mary Blocher 

Danica Ferrante -returning next month

Jessica Mink

Jodi Skrip Horsley

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa -returning next month

Mary Ann Rossite

Tammy Gill - You are here

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber

Nikki Debbie Daigneau

Fall Blogging Friends Blog Hop

Hello to all my stampin' friends,

So happy you stopped by today.  As you know, today is November 1st, and that means I get to hop around with my Bloggin' Friends for a Thankfull / Fall Blog Hop.

If this is your first time to my blog, you should know that I LOVE fall!  I love the colours that we experience here in Canada, the cool, but not cold temperatures and the holidays that take place - Thanksgiving and Halloween!   Because we have already had our Thanksgiving (we celebrate it in October) I chose to focus on just plain old fall and Stampin'UP has some awesome products will fall in mind.  

My project is made with the wonderful bundle Quilted Christmas!  I just love this bundle and I wanted to show that it can be used for much more than Christmas, although that is fun too! I used Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso and Whisper White to give the feeling of fall.  Here is my card....

This card is a part of my upcoming Christmas Quilted Bundle Card class where we will make 3 all occasions cards (this one I made a get well card) and 4 of the same Christmas cards all using the Christmas Quilted Bundle.  All attendee who purchase the bundle will attend the class for free and one of those lucky people will win a prize of the Quilted Christmas DSP, Embossing Folder and Embellishments.

Crystal Komara 

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher

Jessica Mink

Leanne Dillon Johnson 

Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Rossiter 

Tammy Gill - You are here

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber 

Nikki Debbie Daigneau