Imaginsce & Clearsnap Holiday Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome back to Day 2 of our Holiday Blog Hop with Clearsnap.

We hope you enjoyed yesterday's projects as we've got some more to share with you.

Cristal Hobbs

Cristal used the Sparkle Fibers to add glitter and texture to her beautiful card.

Supplies: Clearsnap (Glitter, Fibers, Deisgn Adhesives), Imaginisce (Santa's Little Helper), Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive, Beacon Fabric-Tac

Lydia Jackson

Lydia used dragged the tip of the smooth applicator across the fabric of the button. What a wonderful 'candy-cane' effect she created!

Supplies: Imaginisce (Geek Is Chic, Santa's Little Helper), Core'dinations Colorcore cardstock, Clearsnap (Smooth, Glitter, Design Adhesives)

Michelle Unruh

Card#1

Michelle used an ink pad to 'paint' the color onto the stamped image. She also used the Glitter glue and Glitter to glitz up the tiny flowers.

Supplies: Product List: Bazzill Cardstock; Imaginisce papers and heart glam; Clear snap ink, glitter and glitter gloss; Glue Arts adhesive; Micron pen; Basic Grey rubon.

Card#2

Michelle cut the grass design using the Platin Cartridge, a hyrdrangea punch to add the small flowers and then adhered a layer of Glitter Glue & then sprinkled the Sparkle fibers overtop of the grass cut-out.

Supplies: Imaginisce (Hippity Hop papers, Glitter Glams), Bazzill Basic (Cardstock), Cricut (Plantin Schoolbook cartridge), Clearsnap (ink & fibers), Heidi Swapp (rub-ons), Ek Success (Corner rounder punch), Creative Memories (templates to cut the egg shape), Glue Arts (Glue Glider Adhesive)

Please join us again tomorrow for more holiday inspiration.

And don't forget about our giveaway. Click here for details.

We're going to keep the prize a secret until the day we announce the winner! (afterall, aren't all of you Christmas presents a surprise??!)

HIppity Hop - Day 1

We realize that it's the Holiday Season right now and with Christmas right around the corner it's been hard to think of spring and Easter but we're very excited to share with you a new release called Hippity Hop. The Design Team have been hard at work creating a plethora of fantastic projects that will be shared throughout the week.

Here's a look at the collection of papers.

HONEY BUNNY

HAPPY SPRING

DANCE IN THE RAIN

FLY A KITE

CHICK-A-DEE

SPRING SHOWERS

Today we're going to share a variety of projects from cards & layouts to home decor & mini albums.

Michelle Unruh

Cristal Hobbs

Cari Locken

Keely Yowler

Now we couldn't have a big release party full of great projects without giving you a chance to play with this new collection.

So, we're going to Giveaway ....

a full collection of Hippity Hop

to one of our lucky followers!!

All you have to do is leave a comment on every post this week (Mon-Thurs)

and you'll be entered to win.

Today we'd love for you to tell us one of your favorite things to do in the spring.

Please join us again tomorrow for more incredible Hippity Hop projects from our Design Team.

And don't forget that Friday is our 2012 Design Team Announcement!!

Christmas Inspiration - Home Decor

We hope that you've been enjoying the projects this past week from our Design Team. We just love the variety of creations that they have designed and hope you were inspired.

Today a few of the Design Team members have created some items that fit in the category of Home Decor, Hostess Gifts, Gift Wrapping, etc.

Erin Bassett

Gift Wrap Idea

Supplies: Bazzill; Patterned Paper & Chipboard sticker - Imaginisce Santa's Helper; Trim - Stampin'Up Twill; Stamps - Technique Tuesday, Stampin'Up; Digital Die-Cut Box & Scallop Cropping Circle - Silhouette Cameo; Ink - Quick Quotes Powder Puff

Cari Locken

Treat Bags/Stocking Stuffers

Supplies: Imaginisce (Santa's Little Helper paper & die-cuts), Divine Twine, Glue Arts (Glue Glider Pro Adhesive), paper crimper

Marielle LeBlanc

Napkin Place cards

Garland

Supplies: Imaginisce (Santa's Little Helper papers, i-top, xtra large punch & brad daddies), wood spools, wood beads & jute twine

Penny Smith

Gift Tag

Supplies: Imaginisce (Geek Is Chic papers, i-top tool and brad daddies), twine, office tag, red pen

Cristal Hobbs

Seasons Greetings Door Hanger

Supplies: Imaginisce (Santa's Little Helper, i-top 2.0 & XXL Brads, snowflakes), Bazzill XL Gems, Clear Scraps Acrylic Circle, Momenta Alphabet, Cricut Imaginisce - Winter Wonderland Cartridge, Offray Ribbon, Beacon Fabri-tac, Ranger (Stickles)

Lydia Jackson

Door hanger

Supplies: Imaginisce (Santa's Little Helper, i-rock tool & Hot Rocks), Core'dinations Colorcore Cardstock, Glue Arts, October Afternoon (letters)

Tracey Taylor

Holiday Hairbands

Supplies: I-Top and medium snap daddies, hair bands, flowers from Garden Party line. Other items include: fabric, pearls and ribbon from craft supply store

Shemaine Smith

Wreath ornament

Supplies: Extra large and small iTop button daddies. Patterned paper peppermint stick. Misc plastic stars and some misc red twine. Shemaine used floral wire to tie all the button daddies and then hot glued the white plastic stars to the edges to hold the shape together. She finished the top with a punched vellum snowflake and red button.

Heather Leopard

Stocking Stuffers/Teachers gift

Supplies: Santa's Little Helper Pattern Paper, Cricut Imagine and Winter Frolic Cartridge, i-top 2.0, 29 mm brad, i-rock and glam rocks, Tootsie Roll wrapper, Toosie Rolls for the stuffing, misc. red thread, misc ribbon

Keely Yowler

Christmas Frame

Supplies: Patterned paper/diecut: Imaginisce "Santa's Little Helper" . Patterned paper: Imaginisce "Happy Harvest", XL I-Top Brads,, Ribbon: Offray, Glossy Accents: Ranger, Diecut cartridge: Cricut "A Child's Year"., 5x7" photo frame

We hope that you have enjoyed & been inspired by all of these incredible projects that our Design Team have shared with you over these past few days.

We'd love to see what you're working on and the projects that we've inspired you to create so please feel free to post on our Imaginisce Facebook page for us to see!

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Just a reminder about that Giveaway we're having.

Leave a comment here on the blog today telling us about your most treasured christmas ornament or decoration. You'll be entered to win.

To find out more about this giveaway check Monday's post HERE.

Advent Calendar Tutorial With PINKY and a GIVEAWAY!

Good morning my Imaginisce friends,

it is me Pinky with a step by step tutorial for my HOG THE BLOG day!

I really wanted to make a video but with a project so large

I decided a step by step tutorial would be much more affective.

This advent calendar will easily hold small candies, tags, or photos.

I am going to use this for photos, I have printed up 24 photos in

1X2 size for my boys and every day they will pull out another photo

and we can reminisce about the past year ending up on the last few days of

Christmas 2010.

I just thought it would be a great way to create family time every day.

We have several advent calendars in our home and this will make

another great treasure hunt! The entire project was made with

the Imaginisce- Santa's Little Helper line,

Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape,

Glue Arts Glue, tulle, and some glitter glue.

Step 1

Cut 24 2 1/4" X 3" from Peppermint Stick paper

for the pockets, cut 6 12"X 1" strips

from the Spot UV Peppermint Stick paper.

Step 2

Punch or use your die cut machine to create 24 1 3/4" labels

from the Holiday Hoopla Paper.

Step 3

On each die cut/punch stamp the numbers (or use chipboard) 1-24.

Step 4

Adhere strips to front of "pocket" and carefully trim off excess.

Be extra careful to lay pockets side by side to keep all striped even.

Step 5

Using Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape, add 2 tape dots in the middle of each strip.

Step 6

Carefully adhere each die cut.

Step 7

Using red glitter glue, trim out each die cut/punch, set aside to dry.

Without the glitter glue these sort of blend in.

Step 8

Here I laid out the pockets to get a general idea of where the would lay.

Step 9

Place glue strip on both sides and bottom, leaving the top open.

You could also sew or stitch these pockets on, but for this one I used adhesive.

Step 10

Adhere all 4 corners first, this will help you achieve even pockets.

Step 11

Adhere all pockets, here you can see I slipped a little

package of sweet-tarts into the day 1 pocket.

Step 12

Adhere both pieces to foam board or a thick long cardstock,

trim off excess. Punch holes and add tulle.

Fill with tags, notes, candies, or photos and ENJOY your hand made

Christmas Advent Calendar!!

Now to get your holiday started right I have a GIFT from me to YOU.

Last week I picked up an extra D-Stress Tool just for this Hog The Blog

because I love the holidays and love giving!!

Just FOLLOW this blog and leave a comment,

next week a RANDOM winner will be drawn for a brand new

Imaginisce D-Stress tool to help you kick off the holiday crafting season!

If you already have on then it would make an amazing gift for a friend.

Have a wonderful day. I hope you enjoyed my day to

HOG THE BLOG.

Pinky- Imaginisce Design Team

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Don't forget about our giveaway on Friday for posting a comment

on each day of our Blog Hop with Glue Arts.

For more details check our Monday - Wednesday posting this week.