Papertrey Ink December Blog Hop

Happy Boxing Day!

I hope you all had a great Christmas!

We celebrated yesterday as a family & had Cameron's mom & some friends from church over for supper.

We'll celebrate with the rest of his family on Saturday and with my mom on Tuesday.

I love that the Christmas season is more than just one day....

This evening, I'm squeaking in at the last minute to play along with the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.

This month's challenge is to use gold & silver together.

I made a few projects for the hop....
and I'm posting so late because it took me most of the day to finish them.

First up, a Valentine's card using World Map & my Headline Alphabet dies.

I stamped the World Map stamp in Versamark and then heat embossed it in silver & gold.

The sentiment (Lawn Fawn) was stamped in Versamark on a Get a Handle on It diecut in seafoam white.

Next, I made a layout...

I was collecting the tags and ribbons after the unwrapping on Christmas morning and decided that

the tag that I made for Sage was too pretty to throw away.

So, I decided to use it on a layout.

I used some Teresa Collins and Simple Stories patterned paper, as well as some PTI dies.

And, I have some ornaments to share that I made using the PTI Tinsel & Tags kit.

For the challenge, on the ornaments that I made for my immediate family,

I stamped the tree trunks and deer in gold and heat embossed the pine trees in silver.

Here's a close up of the first one (sorry the photos are so poor -- I had to take them this evening!)

 

Here are the rest of the ones for my husband & kids...

And here are the ones I made for my SIL's family & my MIL.

And lastly, Sage made her Secret Santa gift this evening, using the PTI blog hop challenge.
We filled a jar with hot chocolate mix & mini marshmallows
and made a snow globe topper (using the Tinsel & Tags kit).

She stamped the tree trunks and deer in gold and we heat embossed the roof & snowman in silver.

Before you go, I just wanted to mention that this is my 1999th post.
Isn't that cool?

And in order to celebrate my 2000th post tomorrow,
I'm doing some...

That's right -- I've got three fabulous prizes to give-away,
so you'll want to come back tomorrow to enter to win. :)

Thanks for looking!