But it's "NOT" Christmas Blog Hop

Don't you just love a die that does double duty?  We thought so!  Today we're are having a blog hop to show you how the dies in The Charming Christmas Collection can be used year round; after all, it's not Christmas.  No worries, Christmas is coming and we'll press A Charming Christmas back into service this year but in the meantime, please join us for some year-round inspiration and a giveaway at the bottom of the post.

It's Not Christmas but About A Charming Christmas

Becca designed A Charming Christmas with lovely romantic frames and shapes and with charms.  Leave the charms in the package and you have a lovely 'everyday' die that is begging to be used all year round.  Hop around with us as we reintroduce you to the non-Christmas side of A Charming Christmas.

****The die I'm showing today is the Sentimental Christmas and Die Set.

I decided to go a completely different way with my card and use a paper from Kaisercraft with gorgeous aqua and purple shades and combine it with aqua foil and silver.   For my Christmas die i cut it out of the purple cardstock and cut a shadow in aqua to match the matting in the layers under the foiled plate.  Then i cut out that gorgeous scrolled pieced and carefully glued that in place.  The thank you sentiment is from Elegant Occasion Sentiments and i used silver foil on it to match the matting and placed it in the center of the piece.  Then i added lots of flowers that you would see in a fairy garden and attached those at the bottom under the sentiment. 

I hope that all of you have had a chance to try using some of the glimmer foils.  It really beautiful and is a fun and easy way to create cards.  I love that you can mix so many of these with your existing dies and since there are so many color choices in the foils it makes it that much for fun to play with.   

Supplies:

Sentimental Christmas Stamp and Die Set A Charming Christmas Collection by Becca Feeken

Elegant Occasion Sentiments Glorious Glimmer Hot Foil Classic Plates by Becca Feeken

Glimmer Hot Foil 4 Rolls - Metallic Gold & Silver Variety Pack

Elegant Oval Glorious Glimmer Hot Foil Classic Plates by Becca Feeken

Paper: Kaisercraft Fairies paper collection
Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Thank you for having a special look at the versatility of the dies in The Charming Christmas Collection.  As a part of our hop we're giving away an Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month from a previous month - based on availability. 

Leave a comment on each blog by May 24th at midnight and on May 25th, Becca will randomly pick and publish the winner.  We encourage all of our international friends to participate!  The randomly selected names will be announced on the Amazing Paper Grace Blog.  (All giveaways for this hop are managed by and the responsibility of Amazing Paper Grace).

If your name is selected, simply claim it within 2 weeks of the announcement by sending your address through the form under the Contact Tab on the Amazing Paper Grace Blog.  There won’t be a reply back but if you leave your choice, we’ll get it, I promise.   The dies will be mailed out from Amazing Paper Grace.

Here is our trail of inspiration for our Not for Christmas Blog Hop:

Visit Joanna   – joannakrog.blogspot.com
Visit Kate       -   craft2owls.blogspot.com
Visit Teresa   –  victorianpaperqueen.blogspot.com
Visit Melissa  – keepsakesbymelissa.blogspot.com
Visit Judy       -  judyhayesdesign.blogspot.com
Visit Ewelina -  elinaart.blogspot.com
Visit Becca     – amazingpapergrace.com/blog

I know you will be happy to hear that indeed there are new Christmas Amazing Paper Grace dies coming and coming soon!  Yes, we begin in Summer because Christmas will be here before you know it!  In the meantime, there is much more inspiration in store today and for the weeks to come.  Just pop down the list of Creative Team Members to see more!