Sunday 15 November 2015

Frosty Festivities Blog Hop 2015

Greetings blog hoppers!



Welcome to the fabulous Frosty Festivities blog hop...Jennifer Grace is giving away a prize pack of a Lawn Fawn stamp set and more (see below) - enter to win by commenting on all the blogs in the Frosty Festivities 2015 hop. The giveaway closes on Sunday the 6th of December at 10pm GMT, and is open internationally.... good luck.


I love Christmas!  I get excited every year and even though the children are now teenagers, we still have an elf, we still have advent calendars and stockings! I love all the colours, the sparkle and fun that the holidays bring....all of which is reflected in the Christmas Scrapbook supplies brought out each year.

Do you document the festive period in a particular way?  Do you take part in December Daily or Journal Your Christmas or just do your own thing? I haven't always managed to finish my journals in the past but I  love looking back at the completed pages. Not all of the Christmas ranges go with my colours or style and some won't even fit in the album as they need to be fairly flat. Making a few of my own embellishments definitely works well.

For the past few years, I have organised a Christmas Embellishment swop with my team on UKS.  This year 7 of us joined in with the remit to give 2 sets of themed embellishments to each person. We sent them out early as one of our members is celebrating Christmas in the USA and is leaving this month. So I have been feeling Christmassy for a couple of weeks now.  Armed with a few ideas from a French Scrapping magazine of Sheena's, some sizzix dies, my imagination and a Christmas film  to watch, I created these...



I chose this colour-way as a couple of people had stated they were using more turquoise and silver colours this year, whereas I am always a traditionalist with my red, green kraft and gold!I wrapped them up with a handmade Christmas card and some chocolate coins and sent them off around the country and these are a selection of the goodies I received (minus the chocolate treat I was sent that got eaten fairly quickly!)...



I feel really lucky to have such creative and generous teamies and these embellishments will go a long way to filling my Christmas album this year

I made a spare set of the 3 pocket page cards with 2 of the metallic tag embellishments, so I will post these off to someone chosen by random. If you would like to receive a set (maybe including some chocolate coins!) please mention it in your comment and I will pick a name at the end of the week.

Here's the Frosty Festivities 2015 blog hop list for you, it's in alphabetical order, 

Clare B - http://clarebrowndesign.com/

Hope you have enjoyed perusing my blog today, next up is the talented Scrappy Jacky found here If you get lost just head over to Jennifer Grace Creates.....have fun xxx

25 comments:

  1. What a fab idea, you have loads of lovely things to be creative with :)

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  2. Oh, how fun!!! Love your embellishments and I'm sure your swapmates were tickled to receive them. I esp love the shimmery ones.

    How lovely of you to offer a little set of them as a RAK!! I would love my name to be tossed in the hat for a chance to win your little set. Is it open world-wide? I am in USA, so I might not be eligible. Thanks for the chance to win!!
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

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  3. Loved your project and the colors you chose. I enjoy seeing color combinations that people use-always inspires me to do something different.

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  4. Looks like a really fun swap! Love your fun pocket page cards!

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  5. Sounds like a great idea this swap! Would love to be in it to win the 3 pocket pages! Thanks for offering! x

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  6. I love your cards,p and can't wait to put them to good use

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  7. Your makes are lovely - and I am sure will be well used. Nice to see you posting :).

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  8. What a fabulous idea, and a great way to get inspired for your Christmas makes - especially if you are so to get xmas Christmas crafting like me .....LOL.
    Thank you for sharing

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  9. I'm really looking forward to putting all those goodies /i received to good use, love our swaps :)

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  10. a lovely swap - someone will love your makes x

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  11. what gorgeous diecuts and the colours are fabulous too! Loving your swap stash... all very very inspiring to scrap with!

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  12. The frames are so cute and would enhance any Christmas page (or card).Lucky you receiving all those delightful embellishments.

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  13. What a fabulous and fun idea! I love what you created and I enjoyed seeing the goodies you received! I might have to organize something like this next year! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  14. Your little diecuts look gorgeous. Love the colours. I'm sure you will enjoy your swap stash too.......it looks wonderful.

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  15. Lovely stash...lovely goodies you sent away.... makes me feel like getting stuck in & doing a few die cuts etc myself. So thank you for the inspiration!!!! Hopping along......

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  16. loving all your dies and that stash looks wonderful...happy crafting!

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  17. What a great swapping idea......and I love the 'winter' die cuts.

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  18. Instant success for a December project, and only a small part of the work! Brilliant : ) Would love a little happy mail if you are doing international, but if not? No worries!

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  19. This is beautiful!!! I really love the colors on here!

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  20. All the swap embellies look fabulous Ruth.
    Think I need to take part next year xxx

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  21. what a lovely swap and idea. Enjoying the hop , everyone's creations are all so different
    Mary

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  22. What a wonderful haul of embellishments you scored - and what a great idea to swap them!

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  23. Oh my gosh, your creations are so cute! And great prizes! Thanks and God bless! ILuvTheEucharist @ aol.com

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  24. So much sharing and generosity flowing. Thank you for sharing this giveaway.

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  25. I like the more unusual colour scheme you use, and I really like how the word 'joy' stands out in blue against the green! A Christmas embellishment swap is a great idea! Thank you so much for taking part in my blog hop, it was lovely to have your blog as a part of the event. x

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