Ellen Hutson | 12 Tags of Christmas 2021 + Challenge + Giveaways

Hello, crafty friends! Have you been following along with Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas 2021 tradition? Every year from December 1st to 12th, there's inspiration on the blog by way of Brand Ambassador and Guest Designer projects to inspire your holiday tag making! This year, the tags are inspired by a different Christmas carol each day.

So far, I made two tags inspired by the Sneak Peek Day: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and Day 1: Christmas in a Coffee Shop. I had recently acquired a couple new sets and they were perfect for these two tags. Made This For You has so many great images, including a little Christmas tree and coffee up, plus I love the modern style of this set. I'm a huge fan of Christine Herrin, the illustrator behind this set, and her company Everyday Explorers Co. I apologize in advance if you head over there and end up spending a ton of money. LOL

After stamping the images in Bay Breeze and Mint To Be, I used the coordinating Made This For You Dies to cut out the images, popping them on sentiments stamped in Juniper Mist and Rockin' Red. I die cut those using the Tag Trio, also designed by Christine and layered them on glitter silver cardstock.

For the tree tag, I die cut the rectangular tag from Tag Trio and stamped details using the Painted Stripes stamp set and Rockin' Red and Mint To Be inks. Then I taped all of the Stitching Lines dies together and added texture to the remaining white part of the tag.

For the coffee tag, I die cut the rectangular tag from Tag Trio using Whirlypop cardstock and added texture using the A2 Piercing Plate. Then I stamped five hearts from Made This For You in Bay Breeze and Mint To Be and added those to the base of the tag as a wonky border.

I secured the round and rectangular tags together using denim ribbon from my stash and metallic silver string. I also added a crystal clear heart embellishment on the top of the coffee cup. Both tags are layered with a second die cut so they open up and a festive message can be written inside.

Link up your tags HERE for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Ellen Hutson! You can also win one of three $25 gift certificates by commenting on each featured post during the inspiration days!

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Last-Minute Gift Wrap feat. We R Memory Keepers

On Christmas morning, I realized I hadn't bought tins to hold baked goods for the neighbours! My We R Memory Keepers Gift Box Punch Board saved the day. I made the largest box I could, using My Mind's Eye 12" x 12" Sugar Plum Collection, which I was lucky to have hoarded. It's now retired so I've linked up to two other options below (Holly Jolly | Happy Days). I tied up the boxes with Stampin' Up! Nature's Twine. So quick and easy! The finished boxes were 4" x 4" and held two slices of cranberry streusel coffee cake and six cookies, two each of three varieties.

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{Technique Tuesday} November 2018 Release Countdown: Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of Technique Tuesday's November 2018 Release Countdown! The design team is featuring a variety of release products and you're sure to love them so be sure to head over to the Technique Tuesday blog for the full reveal and links to all of the amazing projects. All of the product links will go live on November 1, 2018 for your shopping pleasure.

Today, I'm showcasing the gorgeous Perfect Poinsettia stamp set and coordinating dies. This is obviously the must-have floral for the holidays! It also has the three best sentiments to customize your cards for friends who are picky about their greetings.

I heat embossed the image and watercoloured with distress inks (all colours are linked below). I dry embossed the white panel with a wood plank embossing folder and heat embossed the sentiment on that. Then I wrapped gold metallic string around it and popped up the poinsettia with foam tape. I used multi-medium matte to adhere the string to the panel and the flower. That made me nervous but I love how it looks, permanently curved! To finish, I added a few gold sequins.

Thanks so much for stopping by! See you tomorrow for Release Day!

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{Two Many Cards Video Series} Stampin' Up! Winner

 

Hey there! Thanks so much for tuning into my latest video for Two Many Cards along with Kalyn Kepner! We enjoyed showcasing Stampin' Up!'s Foxy Friends photopolymer stamp set and Fox Builder Punch for you all and loved reading every single one of your comments on our blogs and YouTube channels. In case you missed them, we would love it if you stopped by and joined in on the fun!

We used Random.org to choose the winner of the Foxy Friends photopolymer stamp set and Fox Builder Punch, and that lucky lady is shanners2762! The first box shows that the comment came from Emily's YouTube video and the second shows the comment that won. Congratulations, Ruth! Please check your inbox for an email from us to be set up with your prize.

Thanks so much for joining us. We will be back with the next installment in our video series on June 30th!

{Two Many Cards Video Series} featuring Stampin' Up! Foxy Friends + Giveaway!

Hi, everyone! Kalyn and I are back with our video series, Two Many Cards. If you missed our first four videos in this series, check out the original post HERE, which explains how and why we're sharing our own unique take on the same products. 

Today, we're featuring Stampin' Up! Foxy Friends and Fox Builder Punch. This is a fun, versatile set with 29 images that can make cards for every occasion, year-round! We're also featuring the Pinewood Planks Embossing Folder, Nature's Poem Cardstock Pack and Nature's Twine Pack. These products and their colours and textures all work so well with our featured products.

I love this set so much that once I got started, I got carried away and made three cards with three very different layouts. As you can see, the possibilities are endless with this stamp set, especially by changing colours and sentiments!

I used cats as my feature animal because I have so many cat lovers in my life and I could always use more cat cards in my stash. This first one uses a traditional layout of repeating images. 

I used inks that coordinated with the colours in the Nature's Poem Cardstock Pack to stamp nine cat heads. Then I arranged them on a panel embossed with the Pinewood Planks Embossing Folder, and embellished with twine from the Nature's Twine Pack.

The idea for my second card spun off from the three extra heads that were stamped for the first card. I added bodies and tails to create a little trio of kitties. Then I stamped some cute, tiny mushrooms to finish the scene.

You can see how tilting the heads and adding the legs in the front makes a difference in the look and personality of the cats.

Both the sentiments from the first two cards are from a Paper Smooches stamp set called Many Thanks and the flag tag die is from My Favorite Things' Blueprints 29.

My third card doesn't have a sentiment but makes an impact without one because of the details on the cat and the pearl embellishments I added to the laurels. I used the spotted head, bibbed torso and white-tipped tail to make this lone kitty unique.

Since this panel is flat and the card base is the palest of the three cards, all the white space and pearls on the laurels really makes the kitty pop.

I really enjoyed playing with these beautiful products! Stampin' Up! was one of my first loves when I started stamping more than a decade ago.

GIVEAWAY
We’re giving away one Foxy Friends Photopolymer Stamp Set and Fox Builder Punch, with one lucky winner chosen randomly from Kalyn’s video or Emily’s video. You must be a subscriber to both our channels! 

Be sure to leave some love for both of us to increase your chances of winning! Comments will close at 11:59pm EST on June 21st. The winner will be announced on both our blogs and YouTube channels on June 23rd. Be sure to check back then.

Please head over to Kalyn’s blog and YouTube channel to see her take on Foxy Friends! Thanks so much for watching!

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4th Annual Season's Givings Blog Hop + Giveaways!!!

Happy New Year and welcome to the Season's Givings Blog Hop! Latisha Yoast started this annual hop three years ago to celebrate the spirit of giving over the holidays and I'm thrilled to be part of it again this year. Every single company or designer on the list below has a giveaway! All you need to do is visit their blogs and leave a comment. Grab your favourite beverage, a snack or two, and start hopping!

Using the MISTI stamping tool, I was able to make a gift card set in no time at all! I cut all the white panels, positioned the facing pandas and sentiment on the inside cover, inked them up and stamped them all in the exact same position. So cool!

This set was for friends who just had a baby and I thought some thank you cards would be really handy! Of course, I had to impose my love of pandas on them. ;) I used a rainbow of card bases so they can choose based on the recipient's tastes.

Here's the full list of hop participants:

Lawn Fawn

Scrapbook Cards & Today Magazine

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Reverse Confetti

Technique Tuesday

CAS-ual Friday Stamps

Verve Stamps

Donna Salazar

Richard Garay

AdTech

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Inchie Arts

Avocado Arts

OHscrap (Bossy Joscie)

Rubbermoon Stamps

Latina Crafter

A Jillian Vance Design

JustNick

Your Everyday Stamps

Latisha Yoast

AJ Otto

Kimberly Crawford

Julia Stainton

Laurie Willison

Teri Anderson

Jennifer Gallacher

Vera Yates

Wanda Guess

Nichol Magouirk

Kelly Klapstein

Anabelle O’Malley

Kim Watson

Chari Moss

Laura Bassen

Lydia Fiedler

Lisa Adametz

Alice Wertz

Daniela Dobson

Jenn Shurkus

Lori Craig

Amy Tsuruta

Lisa Henke

Margie Higuchi

Lee Murphy

Lori Tecler

Dina Kowal

Loretta Lock

Darsie Bruno

Marcie Sharp

Veronica Zalis

Barbara Anders

Maria Levine

Dana Joy

Melody Rupple

Keri Sereika

Asia King

Jennifer Ingle

Yvonne Van de Grijp

Beth Pingry

Erica Houghton

Mary-Ann Maldonado

Piali Biswas

Ashley Newell

Nicole Maki

Julee Tilman

Leigh Penner

Christina Griffiths

Lindsay Amrhein

Laura Williams

Debbie Seyer

Christine Emberson

Kerry Urbatch

Linda Lucas

Tosha Leyendekker

Giovana Smith

Bunny Vance

Stacey Schafer

Lee Ann Barrett

Ruby Naz

Julie Dinn

Jill Hawkins

Christiana Reulling

Jodi Collins

Gracie Chavez

Michelle Woerner

Tania Willis

Karisse Schilling

Lori McAree

Ashley Harris

☞  Emily Leiphart  ☜

Heidi Blankenship

Coralynn Murray

Tenia Nelson

Pretty Philosophie

Jillian Vance

Misti Oblander

Ceal Pritchett

☞  Giveaway Details  ☜

For my giveaway, you have until 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, January 8, 2016 to leave a comment for your chance to win the following products. I will announce the winner via Random.org on my blog the weekend of January 9-10th. Please remember to check back here to see if you're the lucky winner!

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I hope you all have an amazing New Year filled with love, happiness and crafty goodness. Thanks so much for stopping by!

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