"5 Months til Christmas" Blog Hop

Good morning and welcome again to the next installment of our countdown to Christmas.  Five months today is Christmas and if your summer has been as hot and humid as ours has been it is hard to imagine the snow and ice of winter months.  But it will be here before you know it....and this year I will be prepared. 

A little bit of info about our hop if you are new.....on the 25th of each month a group of my fellow crafters and I make 2 Christmas cards, one using a die cut machine and one using a stamped image and a colouring medium.  To get the most out of our hop, you need to start at the beginning at Sally's blog.  If you just arrived from Kerry's blog  you are in the right place.  I will have the entire order of the hop at the end of this post and we have 2 new girls joining us this month so let's welcome Sara and Tara B. with some love while you are hopping.

I have my coloured card first.  It looks very much like cards I have posted last Christmas but I wanted to reproduce this card to send to a few relatives this year.

RECIPE:

Card Stock ~ Bazzill and Recollections

Patterned Paper ~ Creative Memories

Image ~ Kraftin' Kimmie "O Holy Night"

Copic markers

Sentiment ~ Kraftin' Kimmie "Nativity Sentiments"

Colorbox Chalk ~ Creamy brown

Button and Twine ~ "Use it Up" inventory

My second card is a new die cut creation.  While I was making it in the 100 degree weather I was hoping it would make me feel cool.....not really.....but the card is cool!! It is more of a "Winter" card than a Christmas card but I do have some people in my life that I like to give a card to at holiday time who do not actually celebrate Christmas.

RECIPE:

Card stock ~ Recollections

Patterned Paper ~ Three Bugs in a Rug

Cricut Cartridges ~ Elegant Edges

~ Snow Friends 2009-2010

Sentiment ~ CARDZ TV Stamps "Good Friends"

Cuttlebug ~ Snowflakes Embossing Folder

Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch

Colorbox Chalk ~ Creamy Brown

Action Wobble

Stickles ~ Cotton Candy

~ Baby Blue

Various brads, button, jewels, twine from

"Use it Up" inventory

**I would like to enter the snowman card into the challenge at CARDZ TV to use a snowman or snowflake from any Cricut cartridge**

Thanks for coming by to visit me today.   Be sure to come back and visit soon as I will have 2 days of baby shower crafts for you to see.  Your next stop is Sara's blog. 

Until next time,

keep crafting and "Merry Christmas"

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}, Heather

 

BLOG HOP ORDER:

1.) Sally: http://sallyastill.blogspot.co.uk/
2.) Tara: http://tarashomemadehappiness.blogspot.com/
3.) Shari: http://sharispinkpalace.blogspot.com/
4.) Georgiana: http://carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com/
5.) Tara B: http://craftindesertdivas.blogspot.com/
6.) Mary: http://www.maryshappyplace.com/
7.) Kerry: http://mommakcrafts.blogspot.com/
8.) Heather: http://princesspaperprojects.blogspot.com/  
9.) Sara: http://sarashobbyistapartment.blogspot.com/