COLORING DOWN THE LINES!

Hello! Happy Hoppin! This week is "blues" week at 

Coloring Down the Lines!!! 

Although I went rogue! It's a blue Christmas here!!!

Welcome to the hoppers from Helen's blog. Be sure to head on over to 

Lizzy's blog after this one! Then keep going!!

Here's my creation this week!:

Here's the Inspiration Photo:

And of course the Stampin' Up! colors:

These colors definitely do not say Christmas to me, but I really wanted to make a Christmas card! lol No, not pushing the season! Just wanted to play with some of my goodies!!! I guess it's never too early to plan Christmas cards!

So it's a pretty card. Didn't exactly turn out the way I planned, but I still like it! I've been dying to use my Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack! It's so pretty!!! But it's vellum! Here I embossed with the lovely 

Softly Falling Embossing Folder!  I love how the vellum looks embossed! Very distressed like! But I wanted a background under it, so I pulled out my trusty Lovely as a Tree stamp set & stamped away. Problem is it's hard to see here! I wanted it to "pop" a bit more! Not dark enough I guess! Look closely though. It's there!

The "joy" sentiment is from Your Presents! I have used this particular stamp set often!!!  I love the simplicity of the font-simple yet elegant without being too fancy!!

So hope you like my first real Christmas card of the season! Maybe more to follow! lol

Happy sTampin'!!!

ICS BLOG HOP INTRODUCING THE HOLIDAY CATALOG

Well here we are in September already! Where did the summer go? Well fortunately for us here in New England the summer weather continues! It's been hot & beautiful.  Could use a bit of rain, but so  not complaining about the extra pool time!  I hate everything about the winter! lol

So this month on the 

Inspire Create Share Blog Hop 

we are featuring creations from the new Holiday Catalog! And it's a good one!!!!! I couldn't decide where to start! lol

So here's my creation this month:

 I'm in love with this Woodland Textured Embossing Folder!  I can see so many uses for it! All seasons!!! Here I tried to make it look like white birch trees-like the ones in my yard! With snow falling! Although that part nearly killed me! lol! Anyway, I love how the trees came out here!

The sentiment is stamped from the beautiful Flurry of Wishes stamp set.  I love those snowflakes! Just couldn't get into them just yet! lol

I really wanted to feature some of the fun paper here. The large gift is from the amazing Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum. It's so cool!!!  The gold is simply our Gold Foil Card Stock. But the sentiment is also stamped on a vellum-Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack. It's a sweet little 6x6 stack with some beautiful golds & black in it! Very versatile!

The ribbon is the new 1/8" Striped Ribbon. You get 2 colors in 1 

pack-Real Red & Garden Green. And if you look very closely, you can see the cool Gold Cording Trim on the red package!

So now go visit Megan's blog & enjoy her creation! She's new to our hop so we welcome her warmly! I bet she'd love to hear a comment or two. Just click on the link below or on her name. We also welcome Anna & Diane! Don't miss their first posts on the hop!!!

Then keep going & visit all the other talented ladies on this blog until you get back to this one!  Enjoy!

Happy Stampin'!