RCS Christmas in July Blog Hop!

Just because there's not snow on the ground, doesn't mean Christmas can't be celebrated a few months early! Happy Christmas in July, everyone, and welcome to Red Carpet Studio's Christmas in July blog hop!

If you're unfamiliar with Red Carpet Studio, we're a challenge blog that challenges crafters to create projects inspired by movies! Right now we offer alternating weekly card and layout challenges, but starting in September we'll be opening up our challenges to any types of projects that fit our theme, as well as extending the duration of the challenges to biweekly to give you awesome crafters more time to create and play along! We're also having a design team call!

Now onto my project..

I decided to try something I've see a lot of lately in blogland.  I masked off a strip and sponged and stamped on top and below.  I used Sage Shadow (retired), Soft Suede and Perfect Plum by SU! for ink colours.  I used a new stamp set of snowflakes I found at Michaels by Hero Arts (LP209).  I made the lighter shades by stamping off some of the ink first before stamping on my card.  I stamped the sentiment (Hero Arts, Joy to All set) in Perfect Plum in the area I masked off.  I added a white bow and some fun sequins I found at the Dollarama.  They kind of looked like snowflakes to me.  They are white with an iridescence to them but they look quite purple here.  I mounted this panel to my card base with foam dots.  I quite like the look and may try some more cards this way.

I hope you will join us for the hop and a chance to win some great prizes!

***UPDATE***  I'm going to link this up at Moxie Fab World and their Holiday Cards challenge.  It's a challenge to celebrate the new Holiday Cards and More magazine by PaperCrafts.  :-)

 

And of course we have some wonderful sponsors giving away gifts to those who are a follower of Red Carpet Studio (either through Google Reader or Blog Lovin') and comment on EVERY stop of the hop!

Miriam's Crafting Supplies

$5 Gift Certificate

Designs on Cloud 9

$10 Gift Certificate

Eureka Stamps

5 Digis of Winner's Choice

Winners will be randomly chosen and announced on Tuesday July 23rd along with the winners of our Action Wobble challenge!

Your next stop is Dawn's blog.

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Tonya

Robin

Kim

Dawn

Rochelle

Darcy

Chas

Stephanie

Anneliese

Happy Hopping!