SOC Christmas in July Blog Hop

 
Welcome to SOC's Christmas in July Blog Hop! I, along with some very talented crafters, are coming together to deck the halls by sharing Christmas themed projects! Of course Christmas is the season for giving, and this hop is no exception! There will be giveaways on various blogs throughout the hop! Plus, there will be an SOC blog hop gift awaiting one visitor!! To be eligible for that prize, you must comment on all the blogs by Sunday, July 28th at 11:00pm EST. From all who are eligible, one lucky reader will be randomly drawn. The winner will be posted on all the participating blogs on Wed, July 31st.

Dorothy here

Cyndi

Cheryl

Donna

Francine

Debra

Alice

Michelle

Classygirl

MJ

 





Double layout

 



1st layout

 

 2nd layout

 Close up of the title enhanced with Glossy Accents

 



Close up of the sentiment enhanced with Glossy Accents 

Close up of mats for 3 X 5 photos and the tree for journaling

 

 

 Close up of the embossed flocked tree and the stickled  star

Close up of the snow

 The papers used are DCWV Christmas Combo 2010 for the snowflake mat,  photo mats for 3 X 5 pictures, tree journaling space, and the large  trees. Other papers used are Sizzix Textures Handmade Paper for the tree trunks and Wausau for the snow. The red cardstock is AC Cardstock.

 

Using the Gypsy and Cricut Expression the following Cricut cartridges were used Paper Doll Dress Up(large trees), Joys of the Season(star and sentiment), George(photo mats), Create A Critter(journaling tree), Lacy Labels(mat behind Joy) and Teresa Collins December 25th(title).

 

The large trees were embossed with the Vagabond using the Sizzix Evergreen embossing folder.

 

Other items and tools used were the Perfect Tears(snow), WRMK(little white snowflakes), Stickles(star and flower), Colorbox Chalk Warm Red(mats), EK Success Chalk(snow), Stampendous Cotton Ball White Flock(large trees),  and Spellbinders Large Labels(behind title). And the adhesives used were Glossy Accents, ATG, GlueDots and Zig 2 Way.

 

 

Free as a Bird

This layout was made using many pieces of scrap cardstock. The window panes in the window are a piece of the cartridge packaging. The cut shapes of the photos were done with a Fiskars Template and Shapes Cutter tool that I had bought at least five years ago. This was the first time I have ever used it. And I found it quite easy to use with very little effort. The window and the oval cut bird in the tree are elevated with Pop Glue Dots.

Products used Cardstock (DCWV, AC Cardstock, The Paper Company); Paper (K & Company); Provo Craft (Gypsy, Cricut Expression, Serenade, Christmas, Graphically Speaking and Printing 101); Tools (Fiskars template and shape cutter)

National Scrapbooking Day

Saturday May 1st was National Scrapbooking Day. It was a day for all scrapbookers to celebrate by taking out their paper supplies and tools to make creations. There were parties and challenges to be a  participant. I was following My Pink Stamper on Facebook and her blog. Over the course of the day there were twelve challenges for us to do. I was able to do three of them.

The first challenge was to make a Mother's Day card. Since I have four daughter and a daughter-in-law who are all mothers, I decided to make a card for each of them. Here are three of the five cards I made.

I made an envelope, but it is too small for the card that measures 6 inches by 6 inches.

Challenge # 8 Love My Color. For this we were to make something in a Monochromatic color with a flower. I made a card with some of the pink paper left over from the Mother's Day cards that I used to test the border punch.

The finally challenge was named Critter-licious. We were to make a card, page or project using animal or critter. I chose to make a double layout of one of my kittens watching  a chipmunk.