OSAT September Blog Hop - Designer's Choice

Hello!  Hope you are having a wonderful week!  Since I was off work on Monday, it has been a short work week for me and of course, it doesn't get much better than that!  Well, except for vacation.... I need one of those soon!  I'm so happy that it's time for another One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop!   This is our biggest hop ever and we are so happy to have such talent included in our Hop!  If you've already been hopping along, you should have landed here from the Fabulous Renee's blog! Isn't she amazing!  Since this month's theme is Designer's Choice. and I recently received my Stampin' Up Holiday items, I couldn't resist trying out a some dies and stamps that I hadn't had a chance to play with yet! I have two cards to share with you using some of my new Holiday Catalog goodies!

My first card uses the Sleigh Ride Edgelit Dies and Jingle All the Way Stamp Set for the sentiment and the snow.  On this card I used Stampin' Up! Shimmery White Cardstock for the background.  I embossed the snow with White embossing powder and then sponged on Yellow, Tempting Turquoise, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo and just a touch of Night of Navy.  I used the thick Whisper White cardstock for my Village and Tree Hillside scenes.  I cut an extra Village slope so that I could cut off some of the houses to insert them in other places on my scene.  I used the Home for Christmas sentiment in Island Indigo under the bottom slope.  I mounted my scene on fun foam and then mounted that on a piece 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" Silver Glimmer Paper and that was then adhered to an A2 Bermuda Bay Cardbase.

My second card uses the same Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Jingle All the Way Stamp Set along with the Hearth and Home Framelits for the window die and Hardwood stamp for the background.  My top layer was Smoky Slate Cardstock that was stamped with the Hardwood Stamp with Smoky Slate Ink.  For the background scene inside the window I used the same method as my first card but only used one of the slopes.  Again, I cut two of the tree slopes so that I could cut off trees to add to the one slope that I used in my scene. After adhering the tree slope to the sponged background  I stamped the dog (love love love this dog!!) onto the slope.  I added a few dark brown spots on the dog so it would look more like my beagle! lol I then cut out the scene to fit inside my window die cut.   For the sentiment I used the same sentiment as the first card but stamped it in Island Indigo on Whisper White cardstock and hand cut a sloped banner.  I double scored right past the sentiment so it would fold and used my banner punch to banner cut the ends.  I sponged the edges of the banner in Island Indigo.   The Greenery at the top of the wall over the window is from Little B's Holiday Die Set.  I am really loving these sets and am now officially excited about making my Christmas cards this year!

I hope you enjoyed my cards.  Next up is the incredibly talented Diane Squires blog!  Just click the next button and you'll be there!

Here's the entire list of our talented Hoppers:

1. Eva 
2. Ginger
3. Martie 
4. Elizabeth Jeanne
5. Amanda Bodine 
6. Megan 
7. Wynne 
8. Lori Mueller 
9. Dena Rekow
10. Renee Ondrajka 
11. Tina Riddle - You are Here!
12. Diane Squires 
13. Maria Willis 
14. Raquelle Clifton 
15. Jeanna Bohanon  
16. Terri 
17. Kim Smith 
18. Maggie 
19. Marisa 
20. Holly 
21. Andrea P 
22. Andrea T. 

Here are the Stampin' Up! Products used on my two cards:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non-Stampin' Up Products Used:
White Fun Foam
Little B's Holiday Dies

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Blessings,
Tina