KinderStampO Design Team "Holiday Cheer" Blog Hop

Welcome to the KinderStampO Design Team "Holiday Cheer" Blog Hop...
I am so excited to be a member of this extremely talented design team! Being on the design team for Jess is giving me a wonderful new insight to some extremely creative ladies. I am blown away by the talent on this team and can't wait for all of you to see their gorgeous creations. I feel a bit inadequate on this team of talent.

 I love to craft and those that know me know how my craftiness, my photobugness all rolled together into scrapbooking in the 90s and eventually led to me owning my own scrapbook store, Cat's Creations Scrapbooks in Mineral Wells, Texas.  I love the fact that there are soooo many wonderful people in this industry. I have grown to love my customers as they become a part of our scrapbook family.  I know when their kids are sick, when they have problems at work, when life is bringing them down and when life is up.  The store is a place for the ladies to hang out, vent, express their opinions and just be themselves while they are creating.  Laughter abounds and that is what I really love, all the laughter from everyone as they create.  It is such a great sound.

For the bloghop, I made a tag giftcard holder. The giftcard holder is actually made of a fattened toilet paper roll (thanks Sandy Trefger for the inspiration).  My tag is made of chipboard and covered with Bo Bunny paper. I added a silver snowflake ornament with a doily folded in with a rose ribbon for the center.  I laced the doily with red sparkly ribbon.  I also added these cool metal pieces that I painted with copics.  The greenery is made from cotton rope pieces that are frayed and then I added a red ball for each one's center. The gift card goes in behind the greenery.

The back side of the tag just can't be left undone don't you know.  I added one of the new glassine bags that I embossed with the Tim Holtz embossing folder and added distress ink to the 25.  I wrapped it with the red sparkly ribbon and then put a sentiment card inside.  You can see the silver snowflake sticking out from the front.  I also made the gift card holder and the metal poinsettia piece hang off the edge of the tag. I added the red to the back of the poinsettia piece where you can see it.  I love to have things sticking off the edge and over the top.  Makes the piece so much more interesting.

I have some blog candy for our first design team blog hop:

This is the new Doodlebug Valentine collection.

To be eligible for the blog candy, you need to follow this blog, leave a comment, and become a friend of Cat's Creations Scrapbooks on Facebook. 

Jess is promoting her online store and has a Holiday Gift for You....
10% off all items from the store.  Use Coupon Code: holidaycheer
www.KinderStampO.luulla.com giveaway

--A stocking valued at over $100 worth of KinderStampO products --
                                                      
How to enter to win

• Leave a comment here
• Become a friend of KinderStampO on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/KinderStampO/106885809342683
• Follow the KinderStampO storehttp://www.luulla.com/store/kinderstampo
• Follow the KinderStampO blog www.KinderStampO.com

Your next stop is Elisa Kammerdiener http://www.perpetualstew.blogspot.com
Here is the full list just in case you get lost along the way...
KinderStampO http://www.kinderstampo.com
Suzi Mac http://wwwsuzies.blogspot.co.uk
Cat Beaty http://catscreationsscrapbooks.blogspot.com
Elisa Kammerdiener http://www.perpetualstew.blogspot.com
Limor Webber http://chicscrapbookdesigns.blogspot.ca/
Raffaela Perego http://miomondodiscrap.blogspot.nl