Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to the Christmas in July Blog Hop. This hop is brought to you by the same group of Close To My Heart Makers who bring you the Stamp Of The Month Blog Hop on the first of each month. Today we are featuring Christmas themed creations using CTMH products.

Christmas in July Blog Hop

We have almost 15 CTMH Makers sharing their creations on this hop. If you just happened upon my post, clicking the link to the next blog (often found near the bottom of the page) will take you through the entire Christmas in July Blog Hop.

You should have arrived here from ***My Heartfelt Sentiments***. If you get lost along the way, Melinda Everitt keeps a list of all participants on her blog at If You Bling It.

For today's hop I created a gift bag and a card (click on any photo for larger image).

gift bag (front)

gift bag (back)

The gift bag is up-cycled. I received the bag from the vet when I picked up an order of diet food for my cat Rocky. It was too nice and sturdy a bag to just put in the recycling so I decided to dress it up. I used the hide contour, duplicate and weld features in Cricut® Design Space to create a 9" x 7" frame. I cut "tis the season" with the phrase set to a height of 2.27" (I also covered the cut with Red Shimmer Brush). Rather than look in the Artistry Handbook, I browsed the shapes in Design Space and accidentally selected the wrong one to coordinate with the stamp from Miracle of Christmas. I think it was a happy accident, because I used it anyway, and while it is a little large for the stamped image, the border really lets the stamped image shine near the printed White Pines paper. I accidentally scraped the dot for the "i" into the recycle bin, so I used Christmas Red Stickles™ Glitter Glue in its place.

I also created this card:

card created with White Pines and Miracle of Christmas

I used Glacier cardstock for the background and random stamped the snowflake using Glacier ink. I cut three tags from French Vanilla cardstock using the Artistry collection and stamped using Espresso, Candy Apple and Avocado inks. I used a stamp platform to stamp the sentiment twice using Espresso ink to make it nice and dark. I used a Zip Strip to create a border and a Journaling Pen to draw the wire the ornament is hanging on.

I hope you like the creations I shared today. Before you go to see what fabulous item ***Alyson Mayo*** is sharing with us today, the supplies I used to create my project are listed below.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart except where noted:

• My Acrylix™ Stamp Sets: Miracle of Christmas (CC72114; this was item D1656 when released a few years ago)
• Patterned Paper: White Pines (CC7219) or White Pines + Sticker Sheet (CC72110)
  
• Cardstock: White Pines Coordinating CS (CC72111) or Glacier (X5978), Candy Apple (X6038), Toffee (X5950), Espresso (X5951), French Vanilla (X6046)
  
• Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pads: Avocado (Z6523), Candy Apple (Z6509), Espresso (Z2829), Glacier (Z2841)
  
• White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack (X254)
• Stickles™ Glitter Glue: Christmas Red (Z3555)
• Black Journaling Pen (.03) (Z3516)
• Red Shimmer Brush (Z4223)
  
• Cricut® Maker™ (HB1076)
• Cricut® Collections - if you do not have a Consultant, please shop for the digital collections via my Cricut® Affiliate Link, otherwise ask your Consultant for their affiliate link
• Cricut® Artbooking
• Cricut® Artistry
• Cricut® Complete Creativity
• shapes:
• Artbooking - Scalloped Three Frame (#M46784)
  
• Complete Creativity - Tis the Season Single Page
• Artistry - Banner Tag (#M4145C4) - height set to 1¾"
• Artistry - Tag (#M4145B2) - height set to 1¾"
• Supplies not from Close To My Heart: Cricut® Design Space, Tim Holtz Stamp Platform, paper bag
  

If you are not working with a CTMH Maker, you may purchase the supplies I used at my eCommerce website.

I enjoy reading your comments, so if you have a few moments, please let me know what you think of my creations. I hope you are enjoying all of the projects created for the Christmas in July Blog Hop. Thank you for hopping with us!

So you do not have to scroll back up, the next stop on the hop is ***Alyson Mayo***.