Hopping Through The Holidays Blog Hop

Welcome to the "Hopping Through The Holidays" Blog Hop. Come hop along with the design team members of Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs November 19th and 20th. You will see some awesome projects using both Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs paper piecing patterns. We’re super excited to be doing this hop together! Our design team members will be showcasing their amazing creations they have created exspecially for this hop. This hop will feature projects for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our intentions of doing this hop is to show each and everyone of you all the wonderful projects you can create using Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs paper piecings. We hope to give you some great ideas and inspiration through out this amazing blog hop.

Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs are offering an AMAZING couple of grand prizes also. Creative Kuts will be awarding one lucky winner a $100.00 Cash for their grand prize. Scrapping Bug Designs will be offering one lucky winner a $100.00 in free files. How about that?? Isn’t that awesome!!

To be eligible to win these wonderful grand prizes you MUST:

1) Go through the entire blog hop (both days) and leave a comment on EVERYONE'S post.

2) Become a FOLLOWER of everyone's blog (both days).

3) Visit Creative Kuts Store (you will need to do this to meet the last requirement)

4) Visit Scrapping Bug Designs Store (you will need to do this to meet the last requirement)

5.) At the end of each day you will end at Creative Kuts and Scrapping Bug Designs blogs. You will need to leave them a comment stating you have made it through the entire hop and you will also need to leave in your comment what is your favorite pattern set in their store.

Be sure to hop through the entire hop both days to be eligible for the grand prizes, as well as all the other blog candy throughout! We hope you all enjoy this hop and find a lot of great ideas, inspiration, and most of all have loads of fun!!

Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way.

1.Linn Cloninger ~ http://www.linnsscrapshack.blogspot.com  

2.Jane McKinney~ http://janettarosedesigns.blogspot.com  

3.Cynthia Franco-Guerrero ~ http://luv2scrap-luv2scrap.blogspot.com    

4.Pam Pease  ~ http://www.geezypeaseypapercrafting.blogspot.com  

5.Julie Warren ~ http://www.juliescreativepieces.blogspot.com/  

6.Lisa Graves ~ http://www.bljgraves.blogspot.com   

7.Bonnie Guess~http://scrap-n-away.blogspot.com  

8.Paula Wells ~ http://www.owlbescrappin.com  

9. Eva Laney ~ http://evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com  

10.Linda - http://linda-scrappinwmn.blogspot.com/  

11.Gina Long ~ http://c90designs.blogspot.com 

12.Denise~ http://wolffdesigns.blogspot.com/ 

13.Lynne ~ http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/   

14. Scrapping Bug Designs Blog ~ http://scrappingbugdesigns.blogspot.com 

15.Creative Kuts Blog ~ http://www.creativekuts.blogspot.com

If you came here from Denise, then you are on the right path, if not please follow the links above as I don't want you to miss out on any of the prizes or the projects!

My project for your enjoyment is a card which I made for my first granddaughter - I used Creative Kuts Waiting Patiently Girl. Now, what may seem strange is my background paper is from DCWV Immortal Love with the red pinstripe but it just looked sew festive! The holly border is a Martha Stewart punch. Now I had a scrap of the light bulb paper and with a little bit of Glossy Accents it gives the bulbs a little sparkle and dimension! I always add a little bit of texture and shading with my Prisma pencils to my paper piecings and find it also gives some dimension. For my final bit of bling and dimension is I put 2 black rhinestones for the buttons on the back of the sleeper and 2 silver pearls for the curtain rod ends. For the little girl, I'm calling her Lily, I put puff dots to make it look like she's trying to pull herself up further to see Santa.

Now, the verse that I put on the inside of my card is something that I feel with the holiday season - "The magic of Christmas as seen in the eyes of a child. May you find that magic this holiday season". I used the Martha Stewart corner ivy punch for just the one corner and shaded the holly leaves with 3 tiny baby little rhinestones for the berries.

Two holes punched at the top with a iridescent ribbon bow at the top just finishes my card!

Thank you ever sew much for stopping and hopping by - your next stop on the hop is Scrapping Bug Designs Blog!

God Bless

Hugs and Love

Lynne