Welcome to the “Let’s Party!” blog hop for my Stamp BOX!
This is where our blog hop starts. Take the time to leave some love on each design team members’ blog post and you could be be picked to WIN a myStampBOX stamp set of your very own! You have until Friday December 11th at 6pm EST to leave your comments for a chance to win. The blog hop winner will be announced on the myStampBOX blog on Monday December 14th.
Here is our blog sequence for this hop:
mSB Blog/Bettina
Virginie
Trace
Nathalie
Liz
Jolene
Ellen
Tracey
Tina
Marci
Leica
Kim
Gudrun
Elisa
Ally
And now I welcome you to my SNOW-themed party.
We love to invite friends over in January and February, when parties are scarce and everyone is grateful for a reason to leave their houses. We play games in the snow, go sledding and then come in for some hot food and drinks.
To go with the snow theme, I used white and light blue colours only. First, the decoration (to be laid onto the table or the buffet, window sills, etc.) – white snowflakes. We need lots of these to scatter them around… For this entire project I am using the “Let it snow…” stamp set.
I use white craft foam, heat it with the heat gun and press the snowflake stamps into the foam. They are cut out carefully. Some of the smaller ones I am using on the invitations.
The invitation is a half letter-sized piece of white cardstock. I cut 4 panels of light blue card stock from one sheet, slightly smaller than the card. Three of the snowflakes are repeatedly stamped with VersaMark followed by the “Let it Snow…” sentiment. Everything gets embossed with white embossing powder. As a little detail I add one of the mini craft foam snow flakes.
I make little treat bags for the guests to take home after the party. Small bags filled with hot chocolate powder for the next cold day outside. The topper is done like the card, different snowflakes stamped with VersaMark, then embossed, stapled to the bag and ready to hand out.
For the buffet I prepare little cards with information about the food or the name of the food (esp. cheeses). Just attach a tooth pick to the back of the card and push it in the cheese. You can also decorate menus this way. For the word “Brie” I use the “Rustic Outlines” alphabet set. Everything is embossed as well. Place cards round off my themed decoration, again I use different snow flake stamps to keep it individual.
One last look at the whole ensemble. I hope you are inspired to try a wintery theme for your next party, too. Let it snow…
Now on to Virginie’s blog to see more fun ideas for other kinds of parties!
Don’t forget to leave a comment on each blog (including this one) to be eligible for our blog hop prize! Good luck and enjoy the journey!
lovely!
I totally forgot about heat embossing foam with stamping! I’ll be pulling that stuff out to play again. Thanks for the beautiful set!
love the stamping on fun foam technique! Beautiful projects!!!
so cute
Im done! WOW the blog hop is so amazing and inspirational. I love all the projects and cards. Congrats to you all!
such pretty colouring.. and fab detailing… awesome idea.
Wonderful!!
I love that stamp set and your creations are so awesome!
I’ve hopped to everyone’s except Trace’s – I didn’t see her post for the MSB blog hop.
i am done…and in awe of all the fabulous ideas for xmas and birthdays…. thanks for sharing and great blog hop
These are beautiful!
That is way cool! hopping along…
Fun ideas…esp. the cheese marker.
Love the idea of this! And love blog hops. Gives me a great incentive to visit more blogs and see some wonderful projects!
Love the theme and the embossed snowflakes! Great idea to time your parties in the dreary, cold months!!
Absolutely stunning Bettina!!!
fantastic snowflakes
These are simply adorable, Bettina. LOVE this stamp set.
What a beautiful coordinates!!
Love the embossed snowflakes!
Love the pale blue & white combo. It is so delicate looking. craft foam stamping is such a good idea!
Very pretty!
This is the first ever blog hop blog post I have ever made
I LOVE the idea and I really think your foam stamped snowflakes are gorgeous. So soft. The color palette is perfect.
Great hop! Thanks for the inspiration!
Ohhhhhhhhhh I so love this idea with the craft foam… Something I haven’t done before… Now I need to go buy me some… hehe
Great idea with the craft foam! Thanks for the inspiration.
Love the beautiful blue and white deorations…The foam snowflake is a great idea!
great time hopping enjoyed all the different places I’ve been tonight some great designers out there.
mn36 and MaryAnn are one and the same -I signed in differently on some blogs sites but I hopped them all!
Hmmm……. Snowflakes are my favourite! A neat way to do it!
This is a great idea!
This is a great idea, i am going to have to have a party in Febuary! Thanks
These are beautiful, I love that light blue with the white. Very elegent.
Whew, I just finished hopping, and boy, are my legs tired. Kidding! Great inspiration on all these blogs – thank you for all your hard work!
very niceand cool idea with the foam.
super cute idea with the craft foam love it!
what a cool idea!
Some beautiful work. I just went through all the blogs, and wow! what a great bunch of talent here!!!!
So cute!! I love the fun foam snowflakes!!
I made it all the way around!! You have some stunning projects on display this season! And some extremely talented DT members!!
Lovely snowflakes! I love them! Thanks for sharing!
I just visited Trace’s blog and it completes my hopping. Thanks for the fun
the ladies have done a wonderful job with all the creations, fantastic:-)
Wow! It is beautiful! Awesome job! Love the snowflakes!
love the snowflakes. Super cute!
Love the snowflakes !!!!
Let the fun begin….hop hop…
What a great project you made
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Inky Hugs,
catherine
catlevy@eastlink.ca
amazing, beautiful, inspiring! that frosty blue w/the white is sooooo gorgeous!
Beautiful