P. Kelly Smith
Welcome to Freebie Friday and our final day of Holiday Cards & More Week! (I know…all good things must come to an end.) We hope you’ve enjoyed a sneak peek of our latest volume of Holiday Cards & More and have been inspired to get started on your own holiday projects. (Yes, even in September!)
Today we’re hosting another fun blog hop featuring the 12 most-published designers in Holiday Cards & More. We have so many great gift boxes and bags in this issue, I challenged all 12 designers to recreate a new holiday project using one of three patterns. (I’m super excited because I haven’t even seen these new paper crafted goodies!)
Before we begin our blog hop, let’s take a look at the three projects that appear in Holiday Cards & More and were the inspiration for our 12 designers:
Leslie Webster's Pink Holiday Box can be found on p. 88.
Vanessa Menhorn's Poinsettia Gift Bag is on p. 99.
And Becky Olsen's Holiday Plaid Gift Box can be found on p. 104.
Aren’t these great holiday projects? My mind is spinning with all the fun little gifts you could put in them. If you’re interested in recreating them or adding you’re own special flair, you can download all of our HCM patterns HERE.
Ready to begin our exciting 12 Designers of Christmas Blog Hop? Like I mentioned earlier, each designer will be sharing a new holiday project and talking about their experience working on Holiday Cards & More, Volume 5.
- Teri Anderson
- Ashley Cannon Newell
- Betsy Veldman
- Latisha Yoast
- Maren Benedict
- Heidi Van Laar
- Jessica Witty
- Anabelle O’Malley
- Kim Kesti
- Sarah Martina Parker
- Windy Robinson
- Kimberly Crawford
By leaving a comment on each designer’s blog, Moxie Fab World and here, you not only increase your chances of winning a copy of Holiday Cards & More (each designer is giving away one!), but you also have 14 chances to win 12 holiday collections! Yep, Christmas is coming a little early for one lucky winner!
One lucky winner will take home these eight holiday collections, plus four more!
(Disclaimer: Even though there’s only 8 collections pictured above, the other four are on their merry way…looks like they were held up in customs at the North Pole!) A big thanks goes out to American Crafts, Anna Griffin, BasicGrey, Crate Paper, Imaginisce, K&Company, Lily Bee Design, Making Memories, My Little Shoebox, The Girls Paperie, Teresa Collins Designs and Webster’s Pages for donating all of this fabulous holiday product!
Like what you see? Begin your hop and then come back here and leave a comment telling me whose project inspired you the most. All comments (on all blogs) must be received by midnight (MDT) on Sunday, Sept. 19. The grand prize winner will be revealed right here on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Good luck and…
Happy Hoppin’!
Kelly
P.S. It’s time to announce the winner of Jessica’s Digitally Yours post!
Stephanie T. (Sept. 14, 2:42 p.m.)
Congrats, Stephanie! You’ve won a set of Copic Atyou Spica markers, plus a copy of Holiday Cards & More! I’ll be contacting you shortly to get your mailing address. Thanks to all who left comments!
This was such a great hop!! I really can’t pick out just one idea…I loved them all:) They were all very unique:)
great op. lots of inspiration. awsome prizes.
Wow, lots of great items. It would be wonderful to win this package! So much potential! Would work well with December Daily!
What a total bevy of delightful & fun eye candy this blog hop was — in spite of our 113.5 degrees right now at 4:10 PM in AZ, I am totally in the Christmas spirit, thanks to Paper Crafts Connection!!!
So much inspiration! Anabelle’s project inspired the most, because I love snowmen, and I love the blue paper for Christmas projects. I loved the banner and the pop of red, so many details, loved her gift bag!
WOW! I would say Christmas is coming early!
Thanks for the fun and inspiration.
Sandra
I was most inspired by Betsy Veldman and Anabelle O’Malley!
Thank you so much! This was such a great blog hop with wonderful inspiration. And being inspired to start holiday projects now is such a huge help! I think my favorite blog (and it’s REALLY hard to choose just one!) was Besty’s. I just love the colors she used on the box and on the ornaments. Perfect!
And thank you for the inspiration of the new Christmas lines. Not that I need enabling for Christmas supplies!
I just had the best time hopping around looking at holiday projects. Anything done by Betsy Veldman will be a favorite – I will ooh and aah, study the details and dream about creating something half as lovely. Thank you for the chance to win this special issue – my birthday is Tuesday so maybe I will get a fun gift!
what fun. thanks for so much inspiration – and chances for prizes.
This blog has me excited about getting some Christmas projects started!!
Oh they were all so cute! But my fave was Ashley’s. I loved the classic style and the berries were too cute!
Can I say – WOW! WOW! and WOW!!
This Blog Hop showcased AMAZING, TALENTED, and SUPER CREATIVE artist! This was soooo much fun and I added them all the blogs to my list of “favorites” on my laptop!!! Thanks so much for the inspiration and for the chance to win an INCREDIBLE prize package!!!! Fingers & toes crossed here in the NYC!!!!
Thanks for the blog hop…..I had fun looking at all the wonderful ideas……such talented ladies!!!!!
I am so looking forward to the holidays!
This has been a great hop! Thanks for all the fun and inspiration. All the designers knocked it out of the park with their wonderful projects. I especially liked Anabelle O’Malley’s snowman bag. The colors, chipboard snowman, noel banner – everything. Loved it!
All the projects are stunning but I just fell in love with Ashley Newell’s elegant gift box. Iris
Loved them all – really! but if i have to pick one it would be Latisha Yoast -love the colors, the clean lines, the embellishments – perfect!
Betsy’s box was lovely! Thanks for much for the blog hop and all the inspiration!
Oh my–so much eye candy! I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed viewing everyone’s projects…but the one I loved the most was Annabelle’s! The colors, the snowman, and the banner are all things I totally love and can totally see myself making! Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Great blog hop! So many beautiful designs! I would have to say that Windy’s gift bag inspired me the most. It was SO elegant.
They were all so amazing! I loved seeing all the beautiful gift bags.
I like Heidi Van Laar’s gift bag the best. Thanks so much for the chance to win this great prize!
ooo what a great Christmas gift for this year!! so many things can be done with…Thanks for the great giveaway and the blog is absolutely fabulous!
Wow! I can’t wait to start making christmas cards! I’m getting lots of ideas and would love to be the lucky winner!
I love making holiday cards, last yr I made 100 different ones. I know I am crazy to do this but I just had too. This giveaway would give me lots of inspiration.
I am so excited to get started on my Christmas cards & gifts…. so many ideas and so little time!
Wow! that is a lot of collections.
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