Day 3 Christmas in August Blog Hop!

All of this week, the Dream Team and the Woodware UK teams are celebrating the release of the new holiday designs from Dreamweaver Stencils. Of course, no celebration is complete without prizes...and there are some fabulous ones for those commenting on both sides of the "pond".

Each team will be providing the opportunity to win four prize packages of stencil designs, perfect for the holidays. Just leave your comments each day on each players' post as well as the Dream It Up! and Woodware UK blogs, and the Dreamweaver and Woodware Facebook pages. Two random commentors will be chosen from the batch of weekday posts, one each from the DW and WW Facebook pages, and from the big hop on Saturday...from each side of the pond!* That's a total of eight prize packages up for grabs! Here's what you could win:

Here's another wonderful new stencil that we've been having fun creating with this week, the darling new Mittens stencil (LJ923). It is so versatile and looks great in a wide variety of techniques. This one couldn't be easier, paper piecing.

LJ923 Mittens
Dry embossed with paper piecing over

First dry emboss the mittens on green cardstock (either with a stylus or thru a machine), sand the design lightly to enhance the outline. Lay the stencil over some decorative paper and use a black Micron pen to outline the hands of the mittens. Cut out the paper close to the black line, but do not cut off the black line. Adhere to the embossed image with a light coat of liquid glue. Trace the cuffs on white felt (I used adhesive backed felt so I traced it on the back of the felt, remember to turn your stencil to the back too), cut out the felt and adhere them to the cuff area of the mittens. A little green and white bakers twine completed the picture!

Don't forget to leave me some holiday cheer as you move on to the other players for today Wednesday, August 22nd:

  

Woodware UK
Dream It Up!
 Louise Healy (you're here!) 
Lee Kellogg
Jane Gill
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan
Pam Hornschu
Liz Martin

Remember to follow along with the challenges on the Dream It Up! and Woodware UK blogs for more prize opportunities, and more crafty inspiration, as well as "liking" DW and WW on Facebook.

 *Winners selected must be from USA/Canada/UK only.
Happy Creating,
Louise

Christmas in August

Welcome back to week two of the Dreamweaver Stencils Christmas in August challenge. It's never too early to design your Christmas or Holiday cards, of course, no matter how early I design mine, it seems I'm always making them in December! This week I created a card using the paper piecing technique, but by using decorative paper it was very quick and easy to make!

LG674 Oval Ornament - Paper piecing

• Start by choosing a decorative paper with a nice Christmas design that fits well in the Oval Ornament stencil (LG674). I used a piece of Authentique Paper from the Wonder collection. The sweet little poinsettia design is on one side, and the beautiful stripes are on the other side, so they match perfectly.
• Lay the ornament stencil over the part of the paper you want inside your ornament and trace around the inside edge of the stencil with a Black Micron Pen (I used an 02)
• Cut out the ornament from the decorative paper staying as close to the black line as possible without cutting away the black line
• Emboss the ornament stencil on cream or natural cardstock
• Leave the stencil in place and add color to the ornament cap and hook area by using a small stencil brush and gold or silver ink (I used Brilliance Galaxy Gold)
• Round the corners with a corner rounder
• Glue the decorative paper ornament over the embossed ornament
• Cut out another flower and layer it on the first to give it more dimension
• Mount ornament on a dark green layer, then the stripe paper, then another dark green
• Embellish with a bow at the top of the ornament and a gem in the center of the flower

Want to get into the holiday spirit a little early? Link your own Christmas in August creations to the Dream It Up! blog mr. linky, or email pics of your creations to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for an opportunity to win this wonderful newly released Heart Ornaments:

 Don't you just love this new design? There are several newly released stencils and products from CHA last month, which you can view for yourself HERE. During the week of August 20th - 25th, the Dream Team will be posting all week with a hop on Saturday to top it all...featuring all of these new fabulous designs...in collaboration with the Woodware UK team. Just a little hint...you may want to buy all of these new designs now, so you are ready and waiting for the inspiration that will come your way that week! Meanwhile, check out what the rest of the team has been creating this week:

Dream It Up! blog
Pam Hornschu
 Laura Drahozal
Cherylynn Moser
Wendy Jordan  

Terrece Siddoway

Kristi Van Doren

Georgia Sommers

Lee Kellogg

Liz Martin

Cyndi Bundy

Happy Creating,
Louise