JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop #2

Hi everyone,

Welcome to JustRite Stampers’ newest Wednesday feature: 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops #2! Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps! This week, it’s the Stamper’s Dream design team! So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting at the JustRite Inspiration blog!

There are so many lovely stamps that JustRite carries that its super fun to mix and match - so I decided to use a combination of stamps to create this Christmas card. I used the sentiment from the Nature Nested Sentiments & Verse and inserted it into the Baroque Nested Frames. I LOVE the clear block acrylic stamper that makes it super easy to mix it up! I paired it with the lovely cardinal from the BackYard Birds 3 1/4" stamp set.

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Bo Bunny

Stamps: All from JustRite stamps: sentiment from: Nature Nested Sentiments & Verse, and then matched with the Baroque Nested Frames, cardinal is from the BackYard Birds 3 1/4" stamp set.

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ladybug Red

Accessories: Spellbinders, Adirondacks Lettuce, Red Pepper dimensional pearls, ribbon from stash, glue dots, copics, sponge dauber, scalloped die cut from MFT and dimensional foam.

I adore the sweet birds in the BackYard Birds stamp set and love that it is versatile to be mixed with a Christmas sentiment - love that versatility!!! The little berries were made by rolling some red DP and the holly was freehand cut and dotted with my fave liquid pearls :) Please visit these designers' blogs to see what fabulous Christmas projects they have for you on the hop today:

JustRite Inspiration Blog

Michelle Rodgers

Amy Sheffer

Heidi Blankenship

Christine Fischer

Kazan Clark

Tosha Leyendekker

Laurie Schmidlin

Sankari Wegman

Cindy Lawrence

Kellie Fortin

Denise Marzec

Stephanie Kraft

Karen Giron

Kathy Jones

Leslie Miller

Caroline King

Angela Barkhouse

Michele Kovak

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Hoping the rest of your week is awesome!

Hugs,

Sankari :)

JustRite Stampers: Backyard Birds

Hi Everyone,

Hope that you all had a wonderful weekend! Today really was beautiful - such a gorgeous day being outside with nature and I got inspired to try something different :) The gorgeous stamp set called Backyard Birds from JustRite stampers has always intimidated me a bit because I am not sure how to color in the gorgeous birds - but after hanging outside all day today - I wanted to give it a try :)

All the birds are so sweet and lovely - its hard to pick which one you want to use - after playing ine-mini-mani-moe ;) I finally picked the sweet image of the lovely hummingbird enjoying the nectar of some yummy flowers. This reminds me of being up north at the cabin and watching the hummingbirds at the feeder while we ate breakfast. I stamped the image and colored the sweet little hummingbird a mixture of bright and dark greens and bit of a blue and the flowers I colored red to match the red nectar from the bird feeders.

The sentiment in this set comes from the circle border that is 3 1/4" so after I stamped it, I used my nesties to cut it out and curled it to give it a wave before adhering it on my card. I wanted to keep the colors mostly pink and green and added a wee bit liquid pearls :)) (just a wee bit :) Here is a closer look at the sentiment and image:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket (Pixilicious) and Prism cardstock

Stamps: Backyard Birds from JustRite Stampsers (3 1/4")

Ink: Memento Rosebud and Tuxedo black

Accessories: Spellbinders, white gel pen, glaze, copics, ribbons from stash, MFT scalloped die, pearls from Want2Scrap, simensionals and corner chomper

I really enjoyed playing with this gorgeous stamp set and can't wait to try my hand at coloring in the rest of these gorgeous backyard birds!!! Check out all the gorgeous birds in this lovely stamp set here! The sentiment "Find joy in the little things" is so true - I feel that this sentiment should be something that I have to remember every day - its so easy to get swept up in the busy schedules of life - but just enjoying even the littlest things - the wind against your cheeks, the feel of your little ones hand in yours, the silence of the morning coffee ritual --- all beautiful things!

Thank you so much for stopping by

and hope that you are enjoying all the little and big joys in life!

Hugs,

Sankari :)