The Crat's Meow Christmas Blog Hop!

Welcome - it's our monthly blog hop at The Craft's Meow!!  Our theme this month is Christmas - we want to show you all the many ways you can use our stamps to make some stunning Christmas cards.  If you came here from Larissa's blog, then you're on the right track.  If you just happened to stumble upon my blog and want to start at the beginning of our hop, please go to The Craft's Meow Blog for a list of participating blogs along with their links.  Once you get started, you'll be directed from one blog to the next.

My first card is inspired by a photo on the cover of a magazine:

This one uses the little round peppermint drop and the holly leaves from our Santa's Little Helper set, and my sentiment comes from  Karen's Holiday Foundations.

For me, it isn't Christmas without a bit of snow, so here's my next card for you:

I wanted to try and replicate a favorite, but now discontinued Christmas design paper.  The original had a background of music and words, with blues and greys and silvers, but I decided, because of the inks I own, to make it aqua and kraft and white.  My card features Nina's beautiful Vintage Snowflakes set. 

I started with a piece of Basic Grey solid paper, flecked with beige, and stamped the music and sentiment (Inside Christmas).  Next I overstamped Nina's snowflakes in aquas and embossed white.  I went around the embossing with some tumbled glass distress ink to make it stand out more and edged my panel with broken china distress ink before attaching it to my kraft card base.  My sentiment is from Clare's Christmas Lantern.  To finish I added some snowflake dies and aqua and brown pearls.

Since I used older stamps for the first two cards, I made another with a brand new set, Holiday Poinsettia, also designed by Nina.  Poinsettias were never favorites of mine UNTIL they started coming out in colors other than red.  So for this card I used some BoBunny dotted papers to paper-piece a pink poinsettia:

The background music paper is from Webster's Pages, and the postmark and sentiment are also from this same set.  I added some gold pearls to the flower center.

We wanted you to know that Lisa is having a 3-day sale beginning today on all Fall stamp sets!!  They'll be 20% off Nov. 4, 5, and 6 only - the code is Fall20 at checkout!!

Now, hop on along to Nina's blog.  And don't forget to leave a comment at The Craft's Meow Blog before 8:00 PM Pacific time on Wednesday, Nov. 6, for a chance to win a $15.00 gift certificate to The Craft's Meow store!