Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Good Morning! I am very excited to once again be joining Taheera Atchia on her annual Advent blog hop.

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

Here is my card for today:

I created the background of this card with the Avery Elle Ikat additions stamp set using Simon says stamp fog gray and Hero Arts soft pool ink. The gold accents and sentiment were heat embossed with some glitter EP from Reflections. The sentiment is from Avery Elle's 'comfort and joy' stamp set.  I mounted the stamped panel onto a birchwood scalloped matt and a soft stone card base. I love the idea of making Christmas cards out of non Christmas stamps. :)
It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Avery Elle so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2017 to enter.Don’t forget Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas! 

Thank you so much for stopping by. Enjoy the rest of the hop. :)
Natasha

Muse: Christmas Visions

Hello!
I am very excited to be the Muse this month over on the Muse: Christmas Visions blog.

For my inspiration card I created a cute scene using a stamp set from Avery Elle called, 'Caroling Critters'. I started with some cracked pistachio distress ink to do some ink blending for the background. I then used the 'Wonkey stitched elle-ments' die to cut out the panel. My images were die cut, stamped and heat embossed onto some Bristol paper and coloured with Zig clean colour markers. I used an MFT die to cut the snow drift out and stamped the sentiment on it before popping it onto the base with some foam tape. Once I had all the images adhered in place, I attached it to a card base with some silver glitter paper to add some shine.

Thank you so much for visiting today and I hope you are inspired to play along.  Hop on over to the Muse:Christmas Visions blog to find out how to play along.

Natasha :)