The 12 Kits of Occasions: December with Jessica

PHOTO BY KARA

Wow, another whole year has flown by and the 12 Kits of Occasions group is winding up this year's schedule. We are featuring Christmas this month which means we are already starting on our Christmas cards for Christmas 2014. It feels wonderful to know we no longer have the end of the year rush to get our cards completed.

Our fabulous hostess this month is Jessica, The Paper Parade. She has been super busy since October with the cutest little guy you have ever seen. Yet she managed to put together this amazing kit. It was chock full of whimsical images, papers and oodles of embellishments, and even included some stamps! I could have easily made a dozen cards! Thank you so much, Jessica. You even included several images from stamp sets that I had wanted to buy so it was fun to be able to try them out! And thanks to Kara who makes our wonderful collages that show the kit supplies for the month.

I started with a mini card using this gorgeous poinsettia and stamped with a stamp included in the kit.

Love Mama Elephant so these next two cards are favorites of mine.

I like to limit my comments because there is always so much to see and many blogs to visit but I have one very special announcement about next month. I am the hostess for January and decided to do a competition over on the 12 Kits blog for a Guest Designer. It was wonderful to see all the interest! Yesterday afternoon I drew a winner.  A big congrats to Michelle from Pretty Periwinkles! It will be such fun to send her a kit and hope she enjoys her happy mail as much as all of us do!

Be sure to visit the 12 Kits blog from here to find the list of participants in our hop and a list of supplies that were in Jessica's kit.  

Have a great day!

Sharron

Snowflakes in Pink & Gold!

I actually have a card to post!! I wanted to try out this gorgeous dove die that a very sweet friend sent me. And it also gave me a chance to try Kara's (KandRdesigns) two-tone snowflake technique. I used gold embossing powder and pink glitter. Just wish I could get better pictures of the gold. It has so much more sparkle in real life!

The base is WPlus9 Oatmeal cardstock (love the little flecks in the paper) and I also added some clear rhinestones for extra sparkle.

This is being entered in the following 'snow' challenges.

SWEET SNOWFLAKES

LET IT SNOW

LET IT SNOW

Thanks so much for dropping by,

Sharron

Supplies

Stamps: Folk Art Flurries (WPlus9)

Cardstock: Oatmeal (WPlus9)

Dies: Bird (Serendipity Stamps); Peace (Memory Box)

Additional: Pink Glitter Paper (LSS); Fine Pink Glitter (Stampendous); Gold Embossing Powder (Stampendous); Rhinestones (Queen and Co.)

25 Days of Christmas with Tracey McNeely

I was so excited when Tracey, In My Creative Opinion, asked if I would make a tag to be featured on one her 25 Days of Christmas Tags posts. Have you been following her blog with all the fabulous tags?I met Tracey through The 12 Kits of Occasions group. She is such a sweet blogging friend and I am constantly in awe of her amazing CAS style. This special tag feature will be running on her blog for 25 days. She even has a link to tags made in past years so there is soooo much inspiration! If you haven't already, be sure you take time to visit her blog!!

I never have enough tags so I took the opportunity to mass produce several while I was cutting and stamping. Love this stamp from Waltzingmouse that coordinates with Spellbinders Labels Five dies. To make things go faster, I cut out a bunch of circles that I then decorated with various stamps and dies! "To" and "From" is stamped on the back of each tag. My favorite is this little reindeer from PTI's Tiny Treats: Christmas. And all the wonderful sentiments are from Mama Elephant's Winter Wonderland.

Thanks so much for dropping by. And thanks again to Tracey for asking me to play along. 

Sharron

Supplies

Stamps: Let It Snow (Avery Elle); Winter Wonderland (Mama Elephant); Tiny Treat: Christmas (PTI); Little Box Labels (WMS)

Cardstock: White (WPlus9)

Dies: Spellbinders Labels Five; Christmas Bits (Lil' Inker Designs); Breezy Wreath (Poppy Stamps)

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Nautical Blue, Cottage Ivy, Love Letter, Rhubarb Stalk (Memento)

Additional: Ribbon (May Arts); Twine (Martha Stewart); Glitter Papers (LSS); Glitter (Stampin' Up); Copics; Pearl (Recollections)