Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop ~ Sounds of the Season

Hello and welcome to my blog!  I'm excited to be joining the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop today.  I love being a part of these fun Blog Hops with other stampers sharing what we love and create!  Links to all the other blog posts for this hop are near the end of this post! - be sure to check them out! Hopefully you will be as inspired as I always am seeing what everyone else creates for this month's challenge.

This month's creative theme for this blog hop is Sounds of the Season ~ the sounds of the season that warm your heart.  Favorite tunes or carols that make you smile at this time of year.  I love that I was able to use one of my favorite current stamp sets, Shepherd's Care, to illustrate one of my favorite Christmas songs, Silent Night. 

I stamped the main image with Pebbled Path ink and that was perfect.  Then, I used versamark to stamp the stars.  After heat embossing with Gold Emboss Powder, I used a Blending Brush to add Night of Navy for the night sky. 

I always want to decorate the inside of cards.  After much (too much) contemplation, I decided the sentiment really says it all and nothing else was needed for the inside of this one. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today!  Be sure to hop along to the other posts by clicking the 'Next Blog' box at the end of each post.  (You can also click one of the names listed.)

 

Angie McKenzie  ●  Annette Ball  ●  Judith Patterson

Jan Musselman  ●  Mo Rootes  ●  Leonie Stuart

 Aurélie Fabre  ●  Tricia Butts  ●  Karen Henderson

Happy Stamping!

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Stampin' Up! Hot Air Balloon ~ Sketch Saturday

 

Hello & welcome!  Today's card was created for Sketch Saturday's Challenge #766.  This is the first day of the challenge and you have two weeks to play along.  The optional twist for this challenge is to make a tag, or use a tag on your card. This time I DID REMEMBER to check the optional twist before creating my card, but REALLY wanted to use my Hot Air Balloon stamps. 

It just occurred to me, as I sit here typing up this blog post, that I should have used a small tag for the sentiment at the top!  

I used the coordinating Hot Air Balloon Dies to cut the balloons, and my Paper Snips (scissors) to cut around the sentiments.  After too much overthinking, I decided to adhere the sentiments with Liquid Glue and the balloons with Stampin' Dimensionals.  

I hope you play along with this last Sketch Saturday Challenge of 2024! Please share your creativity with us over on the official Sketch Saturday Blog.  

Happy Stamping!

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