Rose Blossoms Blog Hop

Welcome to the Rose Blossoms Blog Hop. We are highlighting our favorite C and D sized stamps sets to help you do your "Deal of the Decade" shopping. When you get done hopping come back and read about additional specials for those who shop with me this December.

If you have come from lovely Barbara's Blog ... Welcome. If you're just getting started you'll find a whole circle of Rose Blossoms with beautiful art for you to see. All you have to do is look through my blog. Then toward the end you will see who is next. Keep hopping all the way through like this until you come back to me. Enjoy!! Here's what I'll be working with.

Can we start with a little straight up honesty? There's NO WAY to have a favorite stamp set. NONE.  With that said we can move on. I'm highlighting this amazing stamp set that you can add to your collection for only $10. And the main sentiment in this set could just be my favorite ... for now.

We really should always strive to be the best version of ourselves and not try to be anyone else. I love that God says we are "fearfully and wonderfully made". That goes perfectly with this sentiment. I kept the front of this card simple because I wanted the inside of the card to be a great big surprise.

What do you think?? That beautiful butterfly really doesn't need much BUT I stamped and inked and cut more Cricut shapes because I wanted to go all out to contrast the simplicity of the front. (by the way ... this is a white card and I had a dickens of a time setting the WB on my camera to capture it accurately. At least it came out pinkish which goes with the color scheme)

Here are a couple of other things I put together while I had these items out on my desk.

I love stamp sets that have a nice selection of sentiments to go along with the images. These sentiments cover a broad range of card making needs. 

NOW you can move on to the oh so talented Brenda Rose to see what she has made with this month's Stamp Of the Month. When you take advantage of the Deal of the Decade you will qualify for the SOTM for only $5. Make sure you take a good look at her amazing artwork.

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HERE ARE SPECIALS YOU WILL RECEIVE FROM ONLY ME WHEN YOU SHOP ON MY WEBSITE IN DECEMBER. I looooooove to give things away when I can. I hope you'll participate. I will be getting the free things into your hands in January so don't add them to your order.

1 - Order $100 or more and you will receive a FREE paper pack of your choice from me.

2 - Order $50 or more and receive a FREE M-sized stamp set of your choice from me.

3 - Every order placed in December qualifies for a drawing that I'm holding in early January. I'll be giving away 2 FREE ink pads (your choice of color) and 2 rolls of shimmer trim (your choice of color). Plus I have a special surprise coupon for a discount on a future purchase.

You will receive one ticket in the drawing for every $10 in product.

Artfully Sent Blog Hop

Thank You for stopping to see the Artfully Sent Blog Hop by the Rose Blossoms. This is a fun hop with a handful of bloggers that are sure to give you some creative inspiration. You have either started here or come from Tweetscraps with Morgan Vogt. Make sure you go around the whole circle!!

Our goal is to make something for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas using the latest CTMH Cricut cartridge. I made one card for each. AND in order to make sure that I wouldn't duplicate another one of the projects in this hop I steered away from the actual keys that are specifically for those things.

I used what I like to call the "Sock Monkey" key!! It's also known as "F". The main thing that this key is used for is baby cards BUT there are no rules when it comes to creativity.

 Here's a 10 minute Christmas card!! Really, it was that fast! I cut out the liner for the pop up card at 8.5 inches and real dial size. Then I folded it in half. There's a little cardstock attached behind the stockings. A Picture My Life card creates the sentiment and then it's just a piece of bakers twine, some bling and those adorable little enamel stars to finish it off. 

Now let's look at the Thanksgiving card ... NOT a ten minute card but worth every second.

This card is from the same key. It's the folded over version of the sleeve card. So ... in some of the circles I added gold bling gems and circles from the Pathfinding Assortment, in some I stamped and in some I added patterned papers. The whole thing is covered with patterned paper from behind. I personally love the result ... like I said, worth every second.

Now you get to hop on over to Lynn's blog. I can guarantee that you'll see something wonderful.

Artfully Sent Practice Round

Please mark your calendar for a tremendous Artfully Sent blog hop that I'll be participating in this coming Sunday. AND in the meantime here's a little preview.

THIS card will NOT be part of the hop. It's a reject. Hopefully someone in the hop will show you a much better version of what happens when the Artfully Sent cartridge meets the ShinHan Touch Twin markers, the Thankful Heart stamp set and a variety of other embellishments. In fact, I'm positive that I got carried away with this. BUT it's fun to show you what happens when I try too hard! LOL!!!