"8 Months til Christmas" Blog Hop

Welcome to our monthly countdown to Christmas.  If you arrived from my talented bff, Shari, then you are in the correct place.  If you just happened to stop by my blog today, you may want to go there so you don't miss a single one of these incredible stops.  I will have a list at the end of my post in case you need to find your way. 

Each month on the 25th a group of talented ladies and myself share two Christmas projects to get you inspired to get a head start on your own Christmas projects.  I have a confession to make for today ~ it is 11:40 and our posts are supposed to go live at midnight EST.  Yep, not gonna happen.  I do not know why I procrastinated so baldy this month but I do have two cards to show you using our current theme ~ animals.  The pictures aren't that great as I took them late at night with artificial lighting.  And the inside of the cards still needs to be done.  Oh well, there is always tomorrow...or more accurately, later today now!

My first card is similar to a card I created last month.  I have a great niece and 2 great nephews that I thought would love these bear cards so I am going to make 3 different types to give to them.  Here is my second one, a Santa bear:

RECIPE:

Card stock ~ Recollections

Patterned Paper ~ DCWV Christmas Stack

Cricut Cartridges ~ Teddy Bear Parade

~ Wild Card

~ Accent Essentials

Sentiment ~ Michaels $1.50 bin

Bic Markers

Punch ~ Fiskars

Colorbox Chalk Ink ~ Lipstick Red

~ Warm Green

Stickles ~ Diamond

Stampendous Crystal Snow

My second card uses an image from House Mouse.  I guess some people would not call a mouse an animal but a rodent but they are in the mammal family so they fit the bill.

RECIPE:

Card stock ~ Bazzill and Recollections

Patterned Paper ~ MME Merry

Image ~ House Mouse "Foot Loose and Fancy Free"

Copic markers

Spellbinders ~ Nestabilities Labels Nine

Sentiment ~ Michaels $1.50 bin

Stampendous Embossing Powder ~ Opaque White

Colorbox chalk ~ Pastel Pink

Glossy Accents

Sakura White Gel Pen

Sakura Clear Glaze Pen

Jewels ~ Imaginescence

Ribbon ~ "Use It Up" inventory

Here is where I would usually have a close up of the image but not tonight ~ I may add it later today but the Copic colours I used were ~ B00, B01, C5, C7, E13, E15, E17, E40, E42, E43, G03, G05, G07, R20, R22, RV32, RV34, YG93, YG95, YG97, W1, W3, W5

Our hop order is:

Shari

Heather (You are HERE!)

Mary

Sara

Kerry

Tara

Sally

Sandy

Thank you so much for coming by today.  I hope you have enjoyed my Christmas projects as well as those of my talented DT sisters.  I promise I will be more organized next month :)

Now off to bed for me.  See you in the morning.

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