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Winter Wonderland Blog Hop

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Its time for another monthly blog hop – and this time we are taking you on a winter wonderland tour.  Don’t worry – its a short tour so you won’t get frostbite!

While you visit, take note of each designer’s name and their special holiday treat in their blog post. Once you finish your garden tour, send an E-mail to custserv@papergardenprojects.com with the list of designers and their holiday treat.

Everyone who sends the correct list of designers and decorations will be entered in a random drawing to win a prize. You need to send an e-mail to the address above; please don’t leave your list as a comment. You have until midnight (EST) on Wednesday, November 24 to send your list.

For the prize? Any 4 digital stamp sets of your choice, including the new Christmas Foliage set.

Here is the garden tour guide list.   Feel free to bring some hot chocolate!

For my frosty project I decided to use the adorable Penny Black stamp” Sweet Snowman” to make a little treat box.  I also want to introduce you to the Purple Onion Treat Label stamps.  I’m so excited to use these for the holidays!!

 

I started with a 3″x3″ clear box. 

I stamped the snowman, colored him with copics and then cut out around him.  Here are the colors I used:

I made the cute label for the front using the  Sweet Treats label set stamped in pink ink.   Over the label I stamped “toffee” from the Home Made Treats set  (it has TONS of different labels for all the treats you can imagine).  Then I cut out the label with a circular die.

Using the patterned paper and cardstock from the Frosted Winter Paper kit, I cut the following pieces:

  1. A strip of striped paper 1″ x12″ as a band around the box.
  2. A square of striped paper 2 7/8″ by 2 7/8″ for the top of the box.
  3. A strip of blue cardstock 1″ wide and 8 1/2″ long.  I scored the strip 1 1/4″ from each end folded it in the center.  This will be the tab the supports the snowman.
  4. A scalloped circle for behing my circular label.
  5. A blue mat to fit behind my cut out snowman.

 Here are all my pieces:

To assemble the box, make a 1″ slit in the middle of the square and feed the folded blue cardstock strip through the slit.  Adhere the bends in the strip the the bottom of the patterned paper square.

Adhere the square to the top of the box.  Adhere the patterned paper strip around the box.  The strip will not quite make it all the way around the box – so position the gap so the Sweet Treat label covers the gap.

The last step is to adhere the image to the tab.  Place the image in front of the tab and the blue mat behind the tab and adhere them in place.  Then just fill the box with the toffee.  Pretty quick and easy!

So there is my winter project.  I’m Cathy and my treat is Apple Crisp.   Hop on over to Amber next to see what treats she has for you….  

And don’t forget to hop over to the store – Its our Super Simple Sale.  Everything in the store is 23% off!

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Purple Onion Designs + another digi freebie example

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Purple Onion Designs has these nifty “Word Blocks” for all kinds of occasions. I’m so excited because I can think of so many ways to use these. They can be a focal element of a card, or a background. I can even cut up the stamped image to create individual sentiments! I think they would be great for scrapbooks too.

You can see the new Purple Onion stamps here.

crocus

For my card, I used the Spring word block stamped on Prism kraft paper in Cloud White Versamagic ink.   I cut out the stamped panel and matted it.

For the flower image, I used the free Spring Flowers digi set (the crocus this time). I colored the flowers with Copic markers and used Antique Linen distress ink with a duster brush to ink the edges.

I matted the image with Spellbinders long rectangle dies – allowing the image to come “out of the box”. (To do the out of the box, I just layed the die on my image and traced the inner rectangle lightly with pencil. Then I just cut out the box, cutting around the flower).

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day.  Its another beautiful spring day here today and I really want to go play in my garden. But its such a muddy mess after all the rain. Maybe I’ll just start some seeds inside.

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