Club Scrap Holiday Blog Hop

Thank you so much for visiting my blog

after you have seen Trica's awesome project

at The efficient Crafter.

If you loose your way, you can always go to

the Club Scrap Blog,where you find

all the participants for the hop.

I choose the Homemade Holiday paper collection
to use for my projects.

Sharing with you today I have a 

scrap page, a light project and a 

Hanukkah card with a technique tip!

Ijust had to have the Homemade Holiday paper

and unmounted stamps. I have been having so muh fun

with my grandson in the kitchen, so this paper is

just perfect to use for my weekly scrap pages.

You find the Holiday colection papers and stamps HERE.

I am abig fan of the keepcalm sentiments

and so this one was perfect and so true.

Cooking and baking is a wonderfulway

of keeping the kids busy and calm.

I used the gingerbread man stamp on

shrink plastic. Colored with pencil and made a hole

before shrinking to add as an embellishemnt to the picture.

And this is just the cutest project to do. On the

Lakes blog hop I had an easellight card and while i was

searching for some more ideas I came acros this wonderful

idea at Splitcoaststampers, where you can find

 the complete tutorial and download the template.

Here is the video tutoral, so you don't have to search.

I used a sheetof Homemade Holidays paper

to print the template on the backside and 

used stamps from Gnome for the Holidays

to decorate this paper lantern.

Again I stamped some of the cookie images on

shrinkplastic and used them for embellishemnts.

(don't forget topunch the hole before you heat it!

The roof is not fastned so you can easily add

the battery-powered tea light inside.

As today is also the first day of Hanukkah

(this Jewish Holiday lasts for 8 days),

I have made a card with the Homemade

 Holiday Collection paper in combination with 

the Hanukkah stamps from 2006.

Yes, time for a new set....hopefully next year.

Here is the finished Hanukkah card

with a wonderful easy background technique

that makes the background sparkle.

For this you need the cheapest bleach,

a plastic container,

kitchen towel

goldden glimmer mist

and your rubber stamps.

Fod the kitchen towel in a way that you have 4layers

and put this in the plastic container. This is going to

be your stamp pad. Pour some bleach on it

and add glimmermist spray for the sparkle.

Use your stamp on this stamp pad for

stamping on dark paper for the best result.

Sometimes you have to try a few pieces.

You do not see the effect right away. it needs

alittle time for the best effect and to be dry!

After using your stamp, clean it by holding

it under the tap with running water a minute

and dry it off. I have used bleach more often

for stamping and it hasn't affected my stampsat all.

Well this was it for today.

You need more inspiration?

Hop on  to the so talented Wendy

and see what she has come up for you:

Made by Wendy Bellino

You are so lucky this month for

Club Scrap has another Blog Hop planned

to end this year well! 

Happy Holidays,