Pals December Blog Hop: Home for the Holidays!

Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month, the theme is Winter Wonderland. We hope to inspire you with our creations today! You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.

My Up North Stampin’ Gang Host Club just wrapped up after an 8-month run. We concluded with a Winter Sampler that can be displayed in our homes all winter long!

The sampler is 9″ by 9,” and fits beautifully into a white shadowbox frame of the same dimensions. Here are the basic measurements:

• Basic White cardstock:  9 x 9″   
• Misty Moonlight cardstock  8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
• Basic White cardstock:  8 1/4 x 8 1/4″
• Small squares of Pretty Peacock card stock:   2 3/8″ x 2 3/8″
• Small squares of Designer Series Paper: 2 1/4″ x 2 1/4″  (use any paper combination you’d like!)
• Pretty Peacock cardstock rectangles:   2 3/8″ x 4 7/8″  
• Rectangles of Designer Series Paper:  2 1/4″ x 4 3/4″  

The sampler is easy to assemble; after you choose your cardstock and DSP designs, it’s a matter of decorating each square or rectangle. I tried to use as many current products as possible, although a few items are retired in order to stick with my winter theme. Here’s what I did:

• The DSP is from the Sentimental Christmas and Winter Meadow sets.
• The skates and sled are from the Sophisticated Sled bundle, created with cardstock and silver foil, with Linen Thread added for dimensions.
• The snowman is inked with Misty Moonlight and Lost Lagoon (for his hat) and punched with the Snowman Builder Punch. I embossed the paper behind the snowman with the Snowflake Sky 3D embossing folder. The sparkly snowflakes are from the Frozen Edges dies, and the trees are from the Snowman Magic Bundle.
• The sentiment is heat embossed in white using a sentiment from the Frozen Edges bundle.
• The icicles on the bottom left are cut from the Frozen Edges dies in a retired sparkly shiny paper, and the bird is from the October Paper Pumpkin Winter Nests kit.
• The wreath is stamped in Pretty Peacock and colored in with Lost Lagoon and Blackberry Bliss Stampin’ Blends. The ribbon is retired, but of course, any ribbon is a good ribbon!
• I embellished the sampler with some Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

Samplers are so fun because there is no limit to the imagination and variations you can use. AND they make great gifts! I hope you enjoyed my project, and I wish ALL of you the Happiest of Holidays!

There’s more inspiration to show you, so use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Design Team. Please mark your calendars for our next blog hop next month, when our theme will be Sale-A-Bration Inspiration.

Until then, have fun in your craft space.

Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop

1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
2. Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja
3. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’
4. Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
5. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
6. Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
7. Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
8. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
9. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
10. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
11. Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
12. Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life

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