Christmas in July Blog Hop

My first blog hop ever! Scrap Our Stash is hosting a Christmas in July blog hop. The thought of Christmas and July has already made me cringe, since we are more than half way done with the year. Less than five months to plan for Christmas, and in between we have Halloween and Turkey Day. Notice all the holiday gear in the craft stores? However, the incessant amount of crafting and blog browsing has kept me indoors from all the heat and humidity. So I shouldn't complain too much ;)

Have you enjoyed all that you have seen thus far? If you did not hop over here from Tere's wonderful blog, then you must start at the very beginning.

I have three cards to share with you today. They are pretty straight-forward, but I hope you feel inspired by some of them.





Stamps: Multi Step Christmas Lights (Kitchen Sink Stamps)
Paper: Basic Card Stock (Gina K)
Ink: Various Momentos (Tsukineko)
Embellishments: Gems, Ribbon, Silver Thread

These cards were actually made at the Stamping Around workshop a while back so I didn't have a chance to write down all the card deets. It was through Julie Masse that I learned about these Kitchen Sink Stamps. These stamps are a little different because they require multi stamping steps to stamp one image to give it that depth (more close-ups my flickr page). These stamps are actually made by stamping a bunch of monochromatic colors in a given order to give each Christmas light bulb its depth. A great alternative to not color... And Kitchen Sink Stamps are wonderful, since they always have a recipe sheet handy.

I hope these inspire you to get on the Christmas creations bandwagon...After all, isn't Christmas one of the greatest magical holiday of all?

Now, off you go to visit Monica (Scrappy77).

PS: If you haven't found the secret word, look for a word that stands out in this post ;) Happy Scavenger Hunt...You have until Sunday July 25, 9pm Eastern time to piece to phrase together and leave a comment on Scrap Our Stash