IBS & WorldWin Christmas Blog Hop

Hello!  Thank you for joining us in this Holiday blog hop. Inspired By Stamping and WorldWin Papers has teamed up to offer you over 15 inspiring Christmas projects to jump start your holiday season. We hope that you’ll find just the right inspiration for your next Christmas themed project.

Christmas season is all about gift giving, and this hop is no exception. We have planned a very sweet giveaway for a lucky winner:

GIVEAWAY PRIZE: $50 Gift certificate from Inspired By Stamping and $50 WorldWin Paper Pack  

To be eligible for the giveaway, please visit each blog in the list, grabbing the “letter” code as you go. Once you’ve landed on our last blog, which is the Inspired by Stamping blog, you will leave a comment with the secret phrase created by putting together all of those letters that you collect from each blog.

My letter is "I".

Winners of the giveaway will be announced on October 23rd on both the WorldWin Papers and Inspired by Stamping blogs. The designers have worked hard to produce all of these fantastic creations, and we would like to invite you to leave some comments on their individual blogs as well.

So what are you waiting for…let the hopping begin!

You should have arrived here from Gloria's blog.  If you'd like to begin 

at the beginning of the hop, head over to WorldWin's blog.

WorldWin was very generous to us, sending so many different papers to try.  One of the first things that caught my eye is this Kromekote® Brushed Silver Foil Mirror Finish cardstock.  It became the fabulous base for my Christmas card, decorated to look like a present.  It positively gleams!  I have never used anything so all-out glamorous (paper-wise) before.

The gift "tag" on this faux Christmas was made with December 25th Labels from Inspired By Stamping.  I stamped it twice:  first on a piece of Petallics® Wine Cup Smooth & Sparkly Cardstock.  What a pretty color, like a glass of claret-colored wine.  And the sparkle is AMAZING!  Then I stamped it once again on a piece of Worldwin® Cardstock in White, colored it and paper-pieced it.  I used some shimmery Smooch inks to amp up the sparkle.

I love blue and silver paired with snowflakes.  On the next card, the base is Original Colormates® Deep Belgium Blue, topped with a piece of  Petallics® Silver Ore.

I heat-embossed a label from December 25th Labels onto Original Colormates® Dark Spring Green and used a Copic marker to color in the ornaments so they'd match my blue base.

The snowflakes were punched using Petallics® Snow Willow, and the glittery Silver Metallic Tape adds more sparkle.  Sparkle is key where snowflakes are involved!

The next card is perhaps my fave of this trio.

I stamped a zigzag pattern from Background Basics II on a piece of Worldwin® Cardstock Packs Kraft cardstock and layered it onto a Worldwin® Cardstock Packs Ivory base.  I added a strip of Gold Glitter Tape on top of that.

The medallion was made from a strip of Original Colormates® Deep Berry Red the old-fashioned way, scoring every 1/4" and then folding.  I punched a circle of Petallics® Wine Cup to secure on top with craft glue.  The sentiment from Elegant Christmas Sentiments was trimmed and added, along with holly leaves punched from Original Colormates® Deep Emerald Isle and a few red gem 'berries'.  The banners from Whimsical Banners received a touch of gold glitter glue along their tops.

A HUGE thank you to everyone at WorldWin for sharing their amazing products and talents with us for this blog hop.

Your next stop is Grace Tolman's blog.  Good luck on the hop...I hope you win some goodies!!  Thanks for coming by.  :-)