Christmas in July

Yes these are Christmas projects, ever since I got the hostess stamp set The More the Merrier I've wanted to make a card with these cute snowmen so I thought why not. Before I made this Christmas card and gift tag box I was searching around for a sketch to use and found Karen's blog The Sweetest Thing. Karen is a very talented lady who not only has wonderful projects on her blog, does her Sweet Sunday sketch challenges but also creates watermarks. So of course I had her create one for me and I couldn't be happier with it, I love it!

Thanks Karen!

The snowman card above measures 4 1/4" x 4 1/4"

with a Chocolate Chip card base. The Old Olive panel was stamped with snowflakes from the hostess stamp set Christmas Punch and the Merry Christmas is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set. After coloring the snowmen with my aqua brush and ink I used a little Dazzling Diamonds on them to make them sparkle.

This Christmas tag box was created with the SU Sizzix Matchbox die, stacking three of them together and adhering them with Tacky Tape. The Old Olive sleeves for the boxes were stamped with the jumbo wheel Sparkling and wrapped with a piece of Real Red card stock that was 9 1/2" x 1 1/2" and then a Chocolate Chip ribbon. At one end of the boxes I added Real Red circles and green square rhinestone brads. For the tag on top of the box I stamped off the Christmas tree in Old Olive from the stamp set Holiday Blitz and stamped the Merry Christmas in Chocolate Chip on top of it, I used the large oval and scallop oval punches to finish it off. Inside each box is different Christmas tags stamped using the hostess stamp set Christmas Punch.

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