The Joy of Sets Christmas 2017 Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the very first Joy of Sets Blog Hop - I am so excited to be taking part and joining this fabulous group of crafters from all around the World.  If you are starting here, welcome and thank you for joining us or, if you are following the hop thank you too!  Thanks to Fiona Whitehead and Lea Denton for organising us all!

The brief for our first hop is to make a Christmas card, something we all need lots of at this time of year!

I decided to use a bundle called Hearts Come Home for my projects, its one of my favourites in the Autumn / Winter catalogue.  I love white space on cards and one of my favourite colours is Pool Party so, I thought I would indulge myself and make some cards for me for a change!

My card is relatively quick and simple - you could quite easily create a batch of these in a variety of colours in no time at all.

I die cut a row of houses from some thick whisper white cardstock and placed some silver foil scraps behind each house and then carefully trimmed away the excess.

I wrapped some Pool Party ribbon around the panel and then adhered it to my card front using Stampin' Dimensionals.

I made a coil of silver metallic thread and stuck to the ribbon with a Mini Glue Dot, twisting in the middle to form a figure of eight.  I placed a tiny heart cut from Pool Party on top to hide the glue dot.

Here is another completed card and envelope, this time with another die in the set featuring a church.  The envelope has been stamped using a background image from Pretty Pines.

A simple sentiment and another tiny heart finish off the card.

Thanks for looking at my blog today - I would you to leave me a comment below if you enjoyed this project.  

I really enjoyed this project, it a good way to use up those scraps of silver foil we all hoard!  I will be making a pile of them in lots of my favourite colours for myself this Christmas - who says Christmas cards have to be red and green?

Don't forget to click on the links below for more fabulous Christmas card inspiration.

I made another project with this set that I will share with you later this week. Its rather special, here is a sneaky peak - come back soon so you don't miss anything!

Happy Christmas crafting, thanks again to Fiona and Lea for sorting out our first hop!

Susan xx

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