The Stamps Of Life & Clearsnap Holiday Blog Hop!

stamps: The Stamps Of Life set trees4Christmas

ink:  Stephanie Barnard for Clearsnap inks in Chocolate and Strawberry

paper: Basic Grey

accessories: circle punches and baker's twine from The Twinery

The Stamps of Life and Clearsnap are having a blog hop featuring The Stamps of Life stamps and Clearsnap inks and other fun products. Be sure you comment on all the stops along the hop because prizes will be randomly chosen among the comments!

The Stamps of Life will be giving away a prize to 3 lucky people – one stamp set (of the winner’s choice) per winner.

Clearsnap will be giving away an assortment of Stephanie Barnard Colorbox Premium Dye inks.

Clearsnap - http://clearsnap.blogspot.com

The Stamps of Life - http://stephaniebarnard.blogspot.com/

Jeanne Streiff - http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/?p=17629

Sabrina Alery - http://sabrinaalery.blogspot.com/

Judy Rozema - http://jarfullofjoy.blogspot.com/

Megan Aaron - http://thoughtsoftraveling.blogspot.com/

Deb Felts - http://withastampandasong.blogspot.com/

Diana Gonzalez - http://www.arteypoemas.com/

Vicki Garrett –  http://summerthymestudio.blogspot.com/

Denise Hahn - http://inmyblueroom.blogspot.com/

Kim Pargeter - http://stampinriley.blogspot.com/

Suzanne Austin - http://whatsinalousyananut.blogspot.com/

Joana Studer - http://joanastamps.blogspot.com/

Tami Sanders - http://tamisanders.com/

Emily Niehaus - http://emmielouwho.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Priest - http://hydrangeahippo.com

Kim Howard - http://basementstamper.blogspot.com/

TSOL: Folksy Tree....

Hi, there!  Today I have a card to share using the trees4Christmas set from The Stamps Of Life.  I created a little wintery scene by paper piecing the tree and stamping the stars in white in the background.  The paper is from Simple Stories and Authentique.  I also added some glitter to my snow mound and around the base of the tree.  I added a burlap bow at the top with a cookie cutter charm (I believe I purchased those at Hobby Lobby a couple of years ago).
My house is decorated, so hoping to get some projects done today in my studio!  I did not stamp or do a single thing over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Kind of nice to just hang out!  I wanted to share a photo of my family at Thanksgiving below.  I love how this photo turned out.  I stood on top of my parent's kitchen island to take it.  You can see every single person except for my niece who was in a high chair back in the corner.  Not too shabby!

Thanks for stopping by!
Emily

Peace, Love, Noel...

Hello!  Can you believe that Christmas is just 43 days away? I know I can't! I need to get busy on some shopping.  I used a The Stamps Of Life set for this card called trees4Christmas.  I stamped the tree in green and then used a copic marker to color in the circle ornaments.  I used some new Trendy Tape to anchor my tree and stamped the sentiments in black below the washi tape.  The card didn't seem balanced so I added some baker's twine to the left side.

This is for the CAS-ual Friday's challenge 78-create a card with something torn on it (my washi tape is torn!)
This also works for Make It Monday.
Southern Girls challenge-Christmas project

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

TSOL: Trees4Christmas

So excited for this new Christmas set from The Stamps Of Life.  It is called Trees4Christmas.  I am such a sucker for holiday stamps.  I can not resist even though I have too many, as it is.  I couldn't wait to paper piece this tree.  I went for a country/folksy feel on the card above.  My snow mound is maybe a bit to big on the right.  Maybe wishful thinking for lots of snow this year?  My boys never even wore their snow boots or pants last year! Just dustings of snow for us, so I know they are wishing for some big snows this year, too!
I created the star background just stamping the star from this set repeatedly in white ink.

Here is another card using a different tree from this set.  I added some glitter to the star and some red glitter over the dots on the tree.  I mimicked the dots on the strip of patterned paper at the bottom and used some yellow baker's twine to tie in the yellow in the star.

There are some great circular sentiment in this set, too.  I will be showing a card using one of those later in the week.

Thanks for stopping by, and hope you all are having a wonderful holiday weekend!

Emily