Today's the day!  The start of the Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop begins at 9:00 am pacific time!  Break out those coffee/tea/cocoa stamps and dies and create winter/holiday projects to play along!  There's tons of amazing inspiration and camaraderie, not to mention PRIZES to be won by fabulous Super Sponsors such as Paper Sweeties!

Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop

  
For my card, I used several adorable Paper Sweeties goodies!  Emma is all decked out in her Take Life One Cup At a Time outfit and enjoying a cup of java.  Her festive Christmas tree was created by stamping/cutting pattern paper using the Merry and Bright stamps/dies.

STAMPlorations December CUTplorations Challenge

 

 Happy Holidays!  Today starts a new STAMPlorations CUTploration challenge -- I hope you'll join in the fun and maybe win a prize along the way!
 

For my card, I used the Holiday Words Plate die which I think is so festive and fun!  The pretty ornaments were created using Christmas Baubles #2 dies.  The dies made this card super easy to put together which is exactly what I need during these busy days!  

How will you interpret this month's challenge for a chance to win a STAMPlorations gift certificate?  If you need more inspiration, be sure to check out the rest of Design Teams' fabulous creations on the STAMPlorations blog!

      Guildlines:

• Players can link up as many projects as they want (1 project per blog post)
• Players must use at least 1 STAMPlorations product (stamp, stencil, die, or coloring page, or digi stamp)
• Prizes: $10 GC for the winner; $5 GC each to the 2 top picks
• If there are more than 25 entries: 1 player will be randomly drawn to win her choice of CUTplorations dies worth up to $15

 

Taheerah's Advent Calendar Extravaganza - Reverse Confetti

So excited to be participating in Taheerah's Advent Calendar Extravaganza!  What's behind the door today?  Reverse Confetti!!
My card is featuring the new FaLaLa Circle Confetti Cuts...and a few other awesome goodies!

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests – each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

 

For my first card, I chose several pretty patterns from the new Cheerful & Kind 6x6 paper pad.  I cut Lime Green and Cloud White cardstock with the Fa La La Circle die (and filled in the "f" letters with Baby Blue cardstock).  Taking the outer circle die from the set, I cut Baby Blue and then one of the pattern paper designs with the plain circle die.  The sweet winter hat is from the new Happy Winter set and coordinating dies.  For a couple final touches, I cut Avocado cardstock with the Holly die and White Cloud cardstock with the smaller Snowflake Trio die.

...and here's another design...

This color combo is one of my favorites!  The black/white pattern paper from Cheerful & Kind made the perfect 'snowy' backdrop. I took Aqua and Cloud White cardstock to die cut the Fa La La Circle adding a tab from Hang Ups Too dies cut from Brick cardstock.  Using the outer and plain circle dies, I cut Midnight cardstock and some glittery cardstock.  Isn't this little snowman from Cool Friend just the cutest?!!  To finish, I added Iced Aqua and Brick snowflakes cut from the Snowflake Trio dies and cut vellum for the Holly dies.

Hope you enjoyed all the Reverse Confetti projects today on Taheerah's Advent Calendar Extravaganza!

 

 

 

 

Paper Sweeties and Visions of Sugarplums

There are Visions of Sugarplums in the air...and in blogland!  Paper Sweeties is one of the sweet sponsors in Lori Hairston's super fun blog hop!  Come join the fun, inspiration and a chances to win a prize! 

 

For my card, I chose to use a trifold card base.  The girls, Emma (dressed in Tackle Life One Cup At a Time) and Madison (in Let It Snow), are all ready for some wintertime fun!  The darling mittens were cut from pattern paper using the Stitched Tags #2 dies and snowflakes are from the Merry Little Christmas set/dies.  The sentiment is from the Let It Snow set.

 

How do you win?  

1. Start by leaving a comment here that you would like to win. 

2. Visit all the other blog's (see list below) and leave comments by

     midnight, December 9th.

3. Lori will pick up your name from here, check all the other blogs

    and put your name in the  "hat"  as many times as you leave  

    comments.  Example:  Leave 14 comments = your name 14 

    times in the "hat".

4.  Prizes will be announced on Sunday, December 10th.

Lori

Bety

Debbie

Lisa

Mitra

DebbieDee

Greta

Tracey

Maria

Karen

Nancy

Jinny

Kathy

Mackie

Paper Sweeties December Challenge and Hop!

Welcome to December and a new Paper Sweeties Inspiration Challenge and 25 Days to Christmas Blog Hop! 

 

Our challenges are always Anything Goes and you don't need to use Paper Sweeties products -- all are welcome!  You can link your submission from the Paper Sweeties Blog or on our Facebook page.  There's a $100 gift certificate up for grabs for this month's winner!  Hope you'll join the fun!
 

Today also begins Paper Sweeties' 25 Days of Christmas Design Team Blog Hop!  Join us each day through Christmas for some awesome inspiration and eye candy!

December 1st: *December Challenge Posts*
December 2nd: Nancy Salkeld
December 3rd: Visions of Sugarplums Holiday Hop
December 4th: Karen Letchworth
December 5th: Lori Turner
December 6th: Maria Patrick
December 7th: Larissa Heskett
December 8th: Winter Coffee Lovers' Blog Hop
December 9th: Michelle Bala
December 10th: Kathy Schweinfurth
December 11th: Mackie Robertson
December 12th: Lori Turner
December 13th: *December Planner Posts*
December 14th: Maria Patrick
December 15th: Michele Henderson
December 16th: Nancy Salkeld
December 17th: Karen Letchworth
December 18th: Jinny Newlin
December 19th: Lilian Forsyth
December 20th: Debbie Marcinkiewicz
December 21st: Kathy Schweinfurth
December 22nd: Lisa Bzibziak
December 23rd:  Karen Letchworth
December 24th:  Lisa Bzibziak
December 25th:  Debbie Marcinkiewicz