JustRite Inspiration

Flickr Winners 11-29 & Shabby Tea Room Sponsor!

Before we announce our weekly Flickr winners, we wanted to let you know that JustRite is sponsoring this week's The Shabby Tea Room Challenge!  This week's challenge is to make a shaped card -- you can find all the challenge details, including some fabulous JustRite inspiration from the Shabby Tea Room designers on their blog post HERE.  You have until December 5 to enter for the chance to win the JustRite prize package of your choice of TWO of our new Elizabeth Dulemba cling stamp sets PLUS our Mini Binder Box!  You don't have to use JustRite stamps for your challenge entry -- be sure to enter your creation on The Shabby Tea Room's blog post!

Now for our weekly Flickr winners . . . If you shared your JustRite artwork in our Flickr gallery, "JustRite Projects" last week -- if it was an entry for our JustRite Friday challenges or not -- your project will automatically be added to the weekly pool from which we'll choose three winners' projects to highlight here on our blog AND you'll receive a free JustRite stamp set of your choice!  So, just by sharing what you are already creating with your JustRite stamps, whether it's for one of our challenges or not, you can still be a winner!  You can find more details by visiting this blog post.

This week's winners are:

1 - My Sheri Cards (Sheri Holt) made this darling reindeer card, using our 1-3/16" Holiday Cheer stamp set.  This stamp set is one of those currently in our Super Sale section for $10, while suppplies last!

2 - diecutlady (Donna Polley) created this charming tag for a gift box, using our 1-5/8" Merry Little Christmas set.  Love how the candy patterned paper coordinates with the candy on the stamp/tag!

 

3 - Stampin Pam used our 2" square Hearts Come Home set to create this gorgeous Christmas card -- fabulous layout and details, Pam!

Congratulations, everyone -- thanks for all the wonderful submissions to our gallery this week!  Please email me with the stamp set of your choice, along with your mailing address and we'll get your stamps out to you!

Day 2 With Guest Designer, Selma Stevenson!

Today guest designer Selma Stevenson is back with us, to share this stunning creation:

 

An easel gift box she created with our Sparky and Friends cling stamp set!

Notes from Selma:

"The box used for this project is 3 inches square. On the top of the box I created a 3 inch square easel card. A piece of Webster’s Pages design paper was added to the bottom of the card. The snow people were stamped and colored with Copic markers. The edges were sponged with Tea Dye Distress ink. Each corner was punched so I could add gold cording around the edges. A slightly larger green piece of card stock was distressed and the design added to this piece."

 

"To hold the easel portion up, a gold button was attached with a glue dot then I added a pretty gold corded bow which was also attached with a glue dot. Three tiny jingle bells were added. Gold/white trim was added around the bottom of the lid. This little box will be great for a small gift or small tags!"

What a unique and delightful idea to add an easel card to the top of this gift box, Selma -- such a stunning combination and gift in itself that the recepient will treasure for years to come!  Please be sure to check back tomorrow for our final day with Selma and to see the gorgeous holiday cards she has created for you!

 
{Snow People Easel Box designed by Selma Stevenson} 
JustRite Stamps: CL-02025 Sparky and Friends Cling
Die & Punches:  Spellbinders Blossom Nestabilities; Corner Rounder
Paper:  Webster’s  Pages
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black;  Tim Holtz Tea Dye and Antique Linen Distress Inks
Copic Markers:  R29; RV11; RV23; R83; BV11;BV04; B97; B223; B00; G21; E00; C00; T3; 0
Accessories:  3x3 box; Twinklets Diamond Dust; Clear glitter; gold cording; gold trim; tiny bells;  gold decorative button

Please Welcome Guest Designer, Selma Stevenson!

This week we are delighted to share with you the beautiful artwork of Selma Stevenson!  Here's a little more about Selma:

"I love to stamp, learn new techniques and share my creations with others. I have enjoyed blogging and making new friends and have had the honor to serve on several design teams. I am always on the lookout for new products and stamps so I can create and share these with others. I am married and have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. My husband and I are retired."

Selma blogs at Selma's Stamping Corner -- please visit her there, to see more of her fabulous inspiration!

Selma will be sharing her artwork here on the JustRite Inspiration blog today through Wednesday . . .  here's her first stunning creation, a snow globe using our Sparky and Friends cling stamp set!

 

Notes from Selma:

"This was such a fun project to do (although a little difficult to photograph)! When I saw these little snow people, I wanted to create a snow globe. It was very easy. The globe is a 2.5 inch clear ornament. A 2.5 inch piece of acetate was cut out with a Circle Nestabilities die. The design was stamped on the acetate with black Stazon ink. The images were colored on the back of the acetate using Sharpie permanent markers. When you color on acetate the design is very transparent. In order to get an opaque design, I painted the entire back with Bic Wite Out Quick Dry Correction Fluid. I was really pleased with how well the design now shows up! After the correction fluid was completely dry, I rolled the acetate up, using tweezers, and pushed it through the neck of the opening. You need to be sure you are putting the top of the design in first. Some fake Christmas snow was added in the globe to create the effect of real snow below the snow people. Snowflakes were added to the outside of the globe. I used a crystal votive candle holder for my base. It was placed in a small holly Christmas wreath. A plaid bow was added to complete it."

Wow, I never would have thought to use a clear holiday ornament to make a snow globe, Selma -- absolutely fabulous!!  We hope you'll check back the rest of this week to see Selma's other wonderful projects!

We'll be back a little later today with our weekly Flickr winners!

 
{Snow Globe designed by Selma Stevenson} 
JustRite Stamps: CL-02025 Sparky and Friends Cling 
Dies: Spellbinders 2 ½ inch circle Nestabilities
Inks: Sharpie permanent markers, black Stazon ink
Accessories: 2 ½ inch clear Christmas ornament, piece of acetate, Bic Wite Out Quick Dry Correction Fluid, fake snow, snowflake stickers, base for globe

JustRite Friday Challenge 045 Winners!

Here are the winners of our JustRite Friday Challenge 045: Celebrate Good Times, sponsored by Flower Soft . . . 

 

This week's grand prize winner, receiving a huge $50 worth of Flower Soft prize package is:

Marge made this beautiful birthday celebration card, using our Just A Note stamp set, combined with some pretty flocked papers and Spellbinders oval Ribbon Tags Trio Two die:

 

Congratulations, Marge!

Three Honorable Mention winners, each receiving $20 Flower Soft prize packages are:

1 - Peggy put together these fabulous Thanksgiving table decorations, to celebrate her family's holiday get together.  She used our Autumn Blessings set for her Thanksgiving card and Brayton font to customize place cards for her her young sons -- they got to color their own place cards!  And check out that adorable turkey -- he's a clip decoration for the napkins or ends of silverware, to make a fun meal for the kids!  You can find a link on how to create the turkey clip by clicking on Peggy's name above, and can also see a cute coloring activity book Peggy made!

2 - E. Marie made this delightful little container that can be used for party or wedding favors! 

 

She used our 3-1/4" Plant A Little Love stamp to adorn the top of the box:

 

3 - Lynn made this adorable baby announcement (for her brand new granddaughter!) using our Celebrations Demi Phrases -- definitely an occasion worth celebrating!

 

Congratulations to all of our winners!  Please email me with your mailing address and Flower Soft will get your prize packages to you!

Just a reminder that this was our last Friday Challenge for this year.  We know you all will be busy with your families & friends celebrating the holidays and may not have as much time as you'd like to participate in challenges until after the new year, so we'll resume our challenges again on the first Friday of the new year, January 7.

However, we will still keep our Flickr gallery weekly winners (3 per week, announced on Mondays) going strong through the holidays, so you can still share all of your JustRite stamping projects with us, with the added bonus of possibly winning a JustRite stamp set of your choice!  You can read more about to be a Flickr gallery winner HERE.

 

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 12!

Welcome to the final week of JustRite Stampers’  Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops!  We have been showcasing our entire Christmas Collection of stamps during these hops and ALL of those JustRite Original stamps are currently on sale at 25% off now through November 29, with free shipping within the U.S. on consumer orders over $50!  You can view all of those Holiday Sale stamp sets HERE. 

If you would like to go back through all of the hops and see all of the gorgeous Christmas inspiration from the past 11 weeks, you can do so by clicking on our 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops category on the lower right sidebar of our blog (<=or click on that linked text!).  All of the designers’ projects are hyperlinked directly to their blog posts that have full details of how they created the project, so you won’t have to search for them!

Don’t forget that we also have some Christmas stamps in our newly released CLING line of stamp sets, too -- you can find all of our cling stamp sets HERE.  This week, the designers joining the JustRite design team are the 2 Sketches 4 You designers!  JustRite is sponsoring this week’s 2S4Y #66 sketch challenge.  You can find the fabulous sketch inspiration AND details about the JustRite prize package, by visiting their blog post HERE.

My project for today's hop is a customized holiday card (that loosely follows the 2S4Y sketch!) and matching envelope:

 

I used the Holiday Demi Phrase "Wishing You Joy & Peace" on a 1-5/8" round stamper to start the customized greeting on my holiday card.  Then finished the greeting with our family name, using Times New Roman 15-point Font in the outer border of the stamper:

 

Next, I stamped the poinsettia from our 2" square Hearts Come Home stamp set, cut it out and popped it up on foam tape in the center of the greeting.  The return address for the envelope was created with a 2" clear square stamper and Times New Roman 15-point Font on the outer border, and another poinsettia stamp, so the whole ensemble would coordinate!

 

I'll keep this stamper set up with our address all year, and just change out the center image or monogram initial seasonally!

Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous JustRite Christmas inspiration they have for you on the hop today!  The 2 Sketches 4 You blog has a LOT of inspiration for you, from their designers, as well as new holiday inspiration on each of their individual blogs linked below!

JustRite Inspiration Blog 
2 Sketches 4 You
Debbie Olson
Kazan Clark
Laura Davis
Barb Schram
Angie Tieman
Heidi Blankenship
Courtney Baker
Michele Kovack
Julie Lacey
Sankari Wegman
Laurie Willison
Stephanie Kraft
Mona Pendleton
Angela Barkhouse
Regina Mangum

We would like to extend very happy Thanksgiving greetings to all of our U.S. friends tomorrow!  We'll be back on Friday to announce the winners of our JustRite Friday Challenge -- you still have until Friday morning at 9am Central to enter your submission for our LAST Friday Challenge for this year!

 
{Customized Christmas card designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stamps: JB-08785 Holiday Demi Phrases, JB-08105 Times New Roman 15-Point Font, JB-09500 Clear Stamper 1-5/8", JB-09780 Hearts Come Home, JB-09508 Clear Stamper 2" Square,
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities-Lg die 3 & Petite Scalloped Circle Nestabilities-Sm die 3, Classic Scalloped Border Petites; EK Success 1-1/4" square punch
Paper: The Girls' Paperie Tinsel & Twig-Deck the Halls & Festive Brocade, Neenah Natural White, PTI Pure Poppy cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black & Banboo Leaves 
Copic Markers: JustRite Red Quad & Yellow Green Quad
Accessories: Ranger Star Dust Stickles, foam tape

Black Friday Sales All Week!

Want to get an early start on your holiday shopping?  Why wait until Black Friday --take advantage of these super $10 or less deals NOW in the Super Sale section of our store, only while supplies last.  We have very limited quantities of some of the items in this section of the website, so shop early for the best assortment.  Reminder that all the JustRite Original Christmas sets are also on sale for at least 25% off plus all US Consumer orders over $50.00 will also receive free shipping through Nov 29th.

Here's a little inspiration with each of these on-sale stamp sets (please click on each designer's name to be taken to their blog post with full details):

Trompe Script 95-Point Lowercase - designed by Kathy Jones:

Times New Roman 95-Point Lowercase - designed by Sharon Harnist:

Brayton Uppercase Font Set (95, 50 & 25-point) - designed by Sharon Harnist:

Witch Way to the Treats (1-3/16") - designed by Sharon Harnist:

Just A Little Caffeine (1-5/8") - designed by Barb Schram:

1-3/16" Stamper with 3 Bonus Damask Centers and 60-point Times New Roman font - designed by Kathy Jones:

What's Cookin' (1-5/8") - designed by Sharon Harnist: 

Something Sweet (2-3/8") - designed by Debbie Olson:

Preserves Borders & Centers (2-3/8") - designed by Debbie Olson:

Homemade Treats (2-3/8") - designed by Becca Feeken:

Recipe Borders & Centers (1-3/8") - designed by Sharon Harnist:

Birthday Wishes (2-3/8") - designed by Kathy Jones:

Christmas Joy (small oval) - designed by Debbie Olson:

Damask 1-Letter Borders (1-5/8") - designed by Michele Kovack:

Holiday Cheer (1-3/16") - designed by Sharon Harnist:

Small Letter & Number Set (Times New Roman 6-point) - designed by Sharon Harnist:

Medium/Large Numbers Set (95 & 50-point) - designed by Debbie Olson:

Horizontal Wood Stamper Set of 2 -

Vertical Stamper Set of 2 -

Have fun shopping!!

  

Flickr Winners 11-22

Here are our weekly Flickr winners.  If you shared your JustRite artwork in our Flickr gallery, "JustRite Projects" last week -- if it was an entry for our JustRite Friday challenges or not -- your project will automatically be added to the weekly pool from which we'll choose three winners' projects to highlight here on our blog AND you'll receive a free JustRite stamp set of your choice!  So, just by sharing what you are already creating with your JustRite stamps, whether it's for one of our challenges or not, you can still be a winner!  You can find more details by visiting this blog post.

This week's winners are:

1 - Pattie G. used our Friendship Nested Sentiments combined with our Give Thanks Nested Frames to create this beautiful Autumn friendship/Thanksgiving card!  Pattie also used our 2" square Applique set to stamp the background of her card -- wonderful combination, Pattie!

2 - sunshinestgurl (Tanya Phillips) made this gorgeous Thanksgiving card, using our large oval Autumn Blessings set.  Tanya just inked and used a portion of the sentiment center that is included with this set, to make her "Give Thanks" greeting.  Love the pretty letterpress technique you used for your background, Tanya!

3 - Deb Felts is getting her Christmas cards ready, and used our 3-1/4" round Groovy Snowman set for this sweet Americana/quilt themed card.  Deb also used our Christmas Nested Sentiments for her "I Believe" greeting:

Congratulations, everyone -- thanks for all the wonderful submissions to our gallery this week!  Please email me with the stamp set of your choice, along with your mailing address and we'll get your stamps out to you!

JustRite Friday Challenge 045: Celebrate Good Times, Sponsored by Flower Soft!

This week's Friday Challenge will be our last one for this year.  We know you all will be busy with your families & friends celebrating the holidays and may not have as much time as you'd like to participate in challenges until after the new year, so we'll resume our challenges again on the first Friday of the new year, January 7.

However, we will still keep our Flickr gallery weekly winners (3 per week, announced on Mondays) going strong through the holidays, so you can still share all of your JustRite stamping projects with us, with the added bonus of possibly winning a JustRite stamp set of your choice!  You can read more about to be a Flickr gallery winner HERE.

In the meantime, we hope you'll enjoy this week's Friday Challenge #045 to Celebrate Good Times, sponsored by Flower Soft!  Your challenge is to make a wedding, holiday or other celebration project such as:

- Wedding card, gift or scrapbook page
- Other holiday celebrations such as Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year's
- Birthday celebration

Here is a BUNCH of fabulous inspiration from the JustRite design team as well as the Flower Soft design team, all using JustRite Stamps and Flower Soft products!  You can always see more fabulous work from the Flower Soft designers, by visiting their company blog.  Please click through to each designer's blog listed below (their highlighted/hyperlinked name) to find full details on how they created their stunning projects!

Flower Soft Designers:

Gini Cagle used our Wedding Nested Sentiments and Gold Diamond Range Flower Soft for her elegant wedding card:

 

Dina Kowal used our Wedding Nested Sentiments combined with My Garden flowers accented with Gold Diamond Range Flower Soft for her beautiful wedding card:

 

Deb Felts also used our Wedding Nested Sentiments for her gorgeous wedding card, accented with another Flower Soft product, Silver Peel Off Stickers framing the sentiment:

 

Cibele Glazer used our Wedding Nested Sentiments for her fabulous wedding card:

 

Jeanne Streiff has two samples. Here, she combined our Wedding Nested Sentiments with Baroque Nested Frames, accented with Gold Diamond Range Flower Soft flower centers:

 

And here Jeanne used our Romantic Sentiments, flanked by beautiful strips of Silver Diamond Range Flower Soft and silver zig-zag Peel Offs:

 

Linda Beeson combined our pretty Mr. & Mrs. sentiment from our Wedding Nested Sentiments with Baroque Nested Frames and surrounded it with borders from our Whimsical Christmas set, to resemble wedding rings!  The rings are accented with Silver Diamond Range Flower Soft:

 

Vicki Garrett also used our Wedding Nested Sentiments, accenting the bottom of her pretty wedding card with Gold Peel Off Stickers from Flower Soft:

 

Debbie Seyer also created two projects.  For this darling Santa notecard & gift box combo, she used the Santa stamp image in From Our House and Polar White Diamond Range Flower Soft for Santa's white fir trim:

 

And for this holiday card, Debbie used the snowman from our Vintage Christmas stamp set and Polar White Diamond Range Flower Soft:

 

JustRite Designers:

Kathy Jones used our Wedding Nested Sentiments and Silver Diamond Range Flower Soft for her elegant wedding card:

 
Angela Barkhouse created her wedding scrapbook page with our Romantic Sentiments and Baroque Nested Frames stamps accented with hearts of Silver Diamond Range Flower Soft:

 

Stephanie Kraft designed her own background paper using My Garden flowers, accented with Gold and Silver Diamond Range Flower Soft, for this engagement photo scrapbook page of her niece.  The "Always & Forever" sentiment from our Wedding Nested Sentiments is the perfect accent:

 

Michele Kovack also used our Wedding Nested Sentiments and Silver Diamond Range Flower Soft for her bubbly wedding card:

Barb Schram made this stunning Christmas ornament, using our our Christmas Nested Sentiments and Gold Diamond Range Flower Soft:

 
 
And a few more JustRite designers will be adding their projects to the links below over the weekend, so please check back for those additional samples!

As we said, this week's challenge sponsor are the fabulous folks at Flower Soft!  You can find out more about Flower Soft's product and video tutorials on how to use it at Flower Soft TV and see their full line of products at their website, including their newly introduced Ultra Fine and Diamond Range Gold & Silver! 

 

This week's grand prize winner will receive a huge $50 worth of Flower Soft prize package and 3 Honorable Mention winners will each receive $20 Flower Soft prize packages!

CHALLENGE  RULES:
You will need to use JustRite products for your project and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website.  You may make and enter as many different projects as you'd like for our challenges.  (Please see our blog post HERE for important information about our gallery on Flickr, how to upload to it, and another opportunity to win some JustRite products!).

You will then need to link to your project back here on our blog post, using the linking system on this challenge post.  Please make certain your link is directly to your project, not just your general blog home page or overall photo gallery, so we can find it easily.  (Links that  are spam, commercial in content, or are not linked properly/directly to your project will be deleted).  If you choose to upload your project to www.Splitcoaststampers.com OR our Flickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example: JRC_045  <== that's an underscore between the letters and numbers) in the keyword section of the Splitcoast project upload page or the tag section of the Flickr gallery.

You will have until next Friday, November 26 at 9am Central to make your project and enter a link to it below.  Then the winners will be chosen and announced a little later that day here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog.  Please allow up to 4 weeks for delivery of your prizes.  By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as our company website gallery (with designer credit given and your blog post or gallery linked) or any possible advertising. 

We can't wait to see your celebration challenge samples!  Take note that we've extended this week's deadline for submissions to next FRIDAY morning, November 26 at 9am CDT since we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving next Thursday in the US!

Links:

JustRite Friday Challenge 044 Winners

Here are the winners of our JustRite Friday Challenge #044 Color, Sponsored by Spellbinders!  Our grand prize winner, receiving this set of dies (Snowflake Frameabilities & Lg Deckled Rectangle Mega Nestabilities):

 

Is Mary Jo with this beautiful holiday nutcracker card:

 

Mary Jo used our Vintage Christmas nutcracker 3-1/4" center and Christmas Nested Sentiments, combined with a beautiful patterned paper that has all of the challenge colors in it!  Love this rustic holiday look, Mary Jo!

3 Honorable Mentions, each receiving one of these die templates (Cross Shapeabilities, Snowflake Wonder, Big Scalloped Borderabilities Petites):

 

Are:

1 - Lynn found a fabulous downloadable vintage photo image that she highlighted a portion of with a frame she made with our Autumn Blessings "Thankful for the little things" large oval sentiment.  What a very clever Thanksgiving card, Lynn!

 

2 - scrappymama (Peggy) created this amazing 3D birdcage, accented with a 2-3/8" center from our Something Sweet set:

 

3 - Tessa created this fantastic customized Thanksgiving card, using our 2" Celebrations Demi Phrases (Happy Thanksgiving), combined with our Times New Roman 25-point font to spell out her family name!  What a great way to customize your holiday cards!

 

Congratulations to all the winners!  Please email me with your mailing address and we will get your dies to you!  Many thanks to all of you that played along -- We will be back a little later today with another JustRite Friday Challenge! 

A few special notes:
- Be sure to check out Day 2 of Spellbinders Holiday Hoppin'.  You can find the list of today's participating bloggers at the Spellbinders blog, including our very own Kellie Fortin with a JustRite project!  
- Be sure to enter for your chance to win the huge Spellbinders & Partner Company grand prizes on Kellie's blog and you also have until Saturday morning at 8am Central to enter for your chance to win here on the JustRite's blog post right below this one!

Black Friday Pre-Sales!
- Autumn CLING stamp sets A Day in the Country & Hangin' Around are now on sale 25% off!
- Some fabulous $10 buys have added to our Super Sale section just in time for holiday gift making and gift giving!  Some deals as low as $3 -- Only while supplies last!
- Don't forget about our Holiday Sale section -- 25% off all JustRite Original ribbed stamp sets!
- More Black Friday sale info coming on Monday! 

Spellbinders Holiday Hoppin'!

Welcome to the first day of the Spellbinders™ Paper Arts Holiday Hoppin’ Blog Hop!  Spellbinders, along with JustRite Stampers are showcasing their newest products just in time for your Holiday crafting and gift giving.  Lots of creative ideas are in store, as well as prizes galore!  Each participating company has generously donated towards the prize package listed on the Spellbinders Blog.  A total of two identical prize packages, one for each day, November 18 and 19 will be given away!  To enter, just leave a comment on a participating blog!  Comments in the first 48 hours of the post are eligible.  One commenter each day will be randomly selected as the winner.  Winners will be announced on November 22, on the Spellbinders Blog!

Be sure to see all of tomorrow’s Holiday Hoppin’ blogs for inspiring projects and another chance to win!  Please visit all of today’s Holiday Hoppin’ blogs:

Latisha Yoast
Judy Hayes
Kazan Clark
Ashley Cannon Newell
Holly Simoni
Debbie Olson
Heidi Blankenship
Sherry Cheever
Linda Duke
Laurie Schmidlin
Cheryl Marie Walker
Jill Jacobsen
Jennifer Priest
Christina Klauer
Jodi Sanford
Leslie Miller
Mimi Leinbach
Robyn O’Crowley
Sharon Harnist  <==You are here!
Liz Hicks
Sarah Hamer
Christie Bryant
Wendy Sue Anderson
Anary Baumgarth
Jenifer Dove
Gina Krupsky

Today I am using Spellbinders S4-285 Nested Mittens die templates – they coordinate perfectly with the mitten stamp images in JustRite Stampers’ Sparky & Friends and Sparky the Snowman CLING stamp sets!  I made a magnetic Holiday Countdown Calendar, that will stick to the fridge (or hang on the wall, if you prefer), to help the kiddos count down the days until Christmas!

 
 
JustRite's largest mitten stamp (at the top of my calendar) from our Sparky the Snowman stamp set, coordinates perfectly with Spellbinders middle sized open mitten die.  I stamped it with Rich Cocoa ink, colored the top knitted wristband with Copic markers, and paper pieced the middle section:

 
 
I cut out the stamped mitten and then layered it onto patterned paper that was die cut with the mitten die.  The snowflake stamp on the mitten was hand-stitched with red thread:

 

The December month sign was made with JustRite's Calendar stamp set and snowflakes from Sparky The Snowman cling stamp set.  It was die cut with JustRite's Custom Die Set, Nested Sentiment Dies, co-branded by Spellbinders!

Sparky The Snowman was stamped and colored with JustRite's custom selection of Copic markers.  To keep track of the date, I stamped JustRite's smaller mitten stamp from Sparky & Friends cling stamp set, omitting the center sentiment and adding a small snowflake from the same set.  I hand cut the mitten stamp and then layered patterned paper behind it that was die cut with Spellbinders smallest open mitten die.

You can either adhere a strong magnet to the back of the small mitten, so it can be moved from date to date OR if you will hang the calendar, you can use repositionable adhesive so the mitten can be moved.  The Merry Christmas and Jingle Bells sentiments are both stamps from the Sparky & Friends stamp set.

 

The calendar is a free download I created and is available HERE.  It was computer printed onto lightweight 8.5" x 11" ivory cardstock (so the magnetic mitten will be still be able to hold through it) and then decorated at the top and bottom with patterned papers die cut with Spellbinders Snowflake Border die.  Magnets can be placed on the back of the cardstock so it will hang on the fridge.

I hope you'll enjoy making one of these countdown calendars for yourself, friends or family this holiday season!

Simply leave a comment on this blog post to be eligible to win the Spellbinders Holiday Hoppin’ prize package!  One winner will be chosen from all the comments on all the blogs participating today.  Comments made in the first 48 hours of this post will be eligible to win.  Winners’ names will be published on the Spellbinders Blog on November 22, and they will have 48 hours to reply to Spellbinders to claim the prizes.

Thanks for hoppin’ by today!

 
{Countdown Calendar designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stamps: CL-02025 Sparky & Friends, CL-02020 Sparky the Snowman, JB-08735 Calendar Borders & Centers
Dies: Spellbinders co-branded JustRite Custom Dies JB-08955 Nested Sentiment dies, Spellbinders Nested Mittens dies & Snowflake Borderabilities,
Paper: Basic Grey Jovial, Neenah Natural White, Copic X-Press It Blender Card (white for snowman)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink
Copic Markers:
Accessories: 2010 December Countdown Calendar Download, red pom-pom trim, Ranger Star Dust Stickles & Ink Blending Tool, foam tape