Holly Jolly July

 It's the most wonderful time of the summer...Christmas in July!

The July-December catalog is here and FULL of some many festive products to meet all of your fall and holiday creative needs!

I love to hoard collect DSP...I know I'm not alone in this!  I fell in love with the Celebrate Everything DSP as soon as I saw it.  The patterns and colors leave you with endless creative possibilities.

I paired this bright and cheerful pattern up with Christmas to Remember and Christmas Season stamp sets and coordinating dies.  I wasn't sure about the Polished Pink sentiment with the Granny Apple Green, Shaded Spruce and Poppy Parade greenery, but I quickly discovered a fun new holiday color combo!  A few Basic Black splatters in the background, a bit of Parakeet Party Metallic Woven Ribbon and a few Iridescent Rhinestones finished the card off.

This sweet and simple layout came from the latest Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.  They never let me down when I needed a little help getting started on a project!

I am officially on summer break for the next 7 weeks, so I hope to be back more frequently with some fun projects to share with all of you!

Happy Stamping!

Products Used:

Painted with Love & Joy ~ #TGIFC332

It's Friday and time for an all new TGIF Challenges!  We are jumping into fall with a beautiful color challenge!

These colors have a warm and toasty fall feel to them, but they will also work for some of your favorite Christmas stamp sets as well!  I couldn't wait to ink up the Christmas Season and Christmas to Remember stamp sets in these beautiful colors.

I love all of the sentiments from Christmas to Remember and chose one of my favorites to be the focal point of the card.  I stamped and die-cut the sentiment and started adding bits and pieces and layers from there! Some pinecones, holly and sprigs of greenery were tucked behind the sentiment, as well as a bit of the beautiful Cherry Cobbler & Gold Ribbon.

I love the Painted Christmas DSP, but the colors in the paper didn't quite match up with this weeks color challenge.  So...I created my own DSP with a mix of Christmas Season stamps!  Any one else love to create your own DSP when you can't find one that will work with a project?!?!

I hope you have had a wonderful week and have some fun weekend plans ahead...especially if you get to enjoy a longer holiday weekend!  I know my family plans on making the most of our last weekend before school starts for the year.  Here's to a healthy and in person school year!

Happy Stamping!

Products Used:

Wrapped up in the Christmas Season ~ #TGIFC326

Once again, we have arrived at Friday and another all new TGIF Challenges!  This week we have a fun technique challenge for you...Decorated Envelopes!

I don't know about you, but I am not the best at dressing up my envelopes.  This is something that I need to change, especially for cards that are being tucked in with a gift!

I am still working my way through my Mini Catalog pre-order goodies, so you get more Christmas in July today.  The Painted Christmas Suite was an absolute MUST have for me...I love everything about it!  I used some of the Painted Christmas DSP to decorate the envelope flap as well as the pretty label for the front.  I tucked in a pinecone, some sprigs of pine branches and some holly berries behind a sweet and simple Merry Christmas sentiment from the Christmas to Remember stamp set.  Oh, and a few Gold Holly Leaves too...can't forget those!  

Of course I had to have a card to go inside this beautiful envelope.  I CASE'd one of the samples in the Mini Catalog to create a simple, yet special card.  I love this sentiment, also from the Christmas to Remember Stamp set.

Christmas may still be months away, but I can't wait to give this to a dear friend when the season is here!  

I am going to make it a goal to make more of an effort to decorate more of my envelopes, even if it's just the flap!  This is a great way to use up some DSP, especially if you are a collector like I am!

Be sure to share your decorated envelopes with us this week!  We always love to see what you are creating!

Happy Stamping!

Products Used:

Mini Catalog: Stamps sets - Christmas Season, Christmas to Remember, Paper - Painted Christmas DSP, Other Supplies:  Gold Holly Leaves