Cutters Creek Holiday Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Holiday Blog Hop! We want you to hop along with us and play for some awesome Blog Candy. The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to provide some inspiration to help you get your holiday crafting underway! Our Design Team has come up with some fabulous projects and we have a little bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas, and home décor items. So we invite you to hop along with us and get your creative juices flowing! If you came from Fran's blog then you are at the right place. If you just happened to pop and would like to start from the beginning then please head to the Cutters Creek DT Blog to start with Chris's wonderful project.

I have two projects for you today. My first project is a Fall/Thanksgiving Wreath. All of my leaves were cut using my eBosser and the Cheery Lynn Dimensional Large Leaves Die Set. I love this die set, you get 4 different leaf styles and sizes as well as an acorn die. For my wreath, I used all the leaves, and inked them with Distress Inks in fall colors. (I used Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed, and Spice Marmalade, and Ripe Persimmon.  I then sprayed my leaves and acorns with some Gold Glitter Dust.I used some acorns that I found at my local LSS for added dimension. I adhered my leaves to a grape vine wreath that I picked up at my local craft store.with my hot glue gun as well as the acorns. Finally I cut my sentiment With Gratitude from the Phrases Cricut Cartridge at 3". If you need this cartridge Kim at Cutter's Creek can order it for you. I added some ribbon to hang my wreath.

For my second project, I went with a Christmas theme.

I found what was called a floating frame at my local craft store. The frame was already black but because it was on clearance there were a few nicks in it. I took some Black Soot Distress Ink and a sponge dabber and sponged the ink over the outside of the frame and covering the nicks. After letting it dry I sprayed the frame with some Silver Glitter Dust. If you don't have any of this product yet, get some, it is a must have for your holiday crafting, so easy to use and adds so much sparkle and shine.

The frame is 4" X 6". For my image I cut the Santa1 from the Quilted Christmas Cricut Cartridge using the Silhouette creative feature, at 3 1/2" out of red and white vinyl. I then cut the Believe banner at 1" from the Creative Memories Tis the Season cartridge. I used red, white and green vinyl for the banner. I cut two snowflakes from the same cartridge and used both the negative and the positives of the image on the back of my glass and sprayed it with Silver Glitter Dust  and Iridescent Glitter Dust. The glitter dust gives the glass a frosted sparkly look. Finally I used a Sizzix Snowflake die (Which Kim can likely order for you) and cut two snowflakes from the Tim Holtz Mirrored Paper and adhered them to opposite corners of my frame.

What is a blog hop without some blog candy?


I have the following blog candy I am giving away. To enter please leave a comment with a way to contact you by Monday October 29th at 6:00pm PDT. I will draw a winner using Random.org on Monday evening and post the winners name here. You don't have to be a follower to enter but I would love it if would like to follow me.

Don't forget about the awesome blog candy that Cutter's Creek is giving away. To win that blog candy you need to leave a comment on each blog as you hop along.

Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way:

Cutters Creek Blog (Chris) - http://www.cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://kreativekim.blogspot.com/
Pebbles - http://sheissocrafty.blogspot.com/

Tee - http://tee-myspot.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://www.ourmadhouseof4.blogspot.com/
Lori - http://savingmine.blogspot.com/

Laura - http://www.scrapaddict4life.blogspot.com/

Fran - http://scallopsandswirls.blogspot.com/
Deanna - http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Thanks for hopping with us and we hope you enjoyed the hop and got many wonderful ideas!