Holiday Blog Hop Time! with Imaginisce - Day 5

Welcome to the Imaginisce and Clearsnap 

Holiday Blog Hop 2011! 

We've brought our designers together to share holiday scrapbooking, gift, and decorating ideas with you all week long, featuring our newest products! Sit down with a cup of hot cocoa and soak in the inspiration as our designers spread the holiday cheer. 

And, a Holiday Blog Hop is not complete without gifts so we have a wonderful giveaway lined up for you! 

This fabulous and festive prize pack includes some of our newest products!!

• Smooch Accent Ink in Mocha
• *NEW* Smooch Glitz in Firecracker
• *NEW* Scentz Embossing Powder in Peppermint
• Rollagraph Jumbo Handle
• *NEW* Rollagraph Jumbo Wheel - Gift Galore
• Design Adhesives - Fly Away
• Designer Foils - Cherry Pie
• Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx in Honey
• *NEW* Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Ink Embossing Powder in Truffle
• Clearsnap Glitter in Winter Frost
• Clearsnap Glitter in Fools Gold

Visit our blogs each day this week to see new creations from our Designers. Each comment entered on one of the Holiday Blog Hop posts will enter you into the giveaway! Earn additional entries by following us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, our blog (click the Follow Button), and sharing about the Hop online. Just post a link or comment on any Holiday Blog Hop post telling us what you did and that will count as an additional entry. We'll be posting the winners on December 24, 2011. Thank you for hopping along with us!

Today, Mary Dawn Quirindongo and Jennifer Priest are sharing several wonderful holidays projects with you:

Mary Dawn here! I created a vintage style wall medallion to dress up your front door or hang over the mantle this holiday season:

Here's how to create one of your own: Cut six 6x12 inch strips of paper and score every 1/2 inch, cut 3 4x12 inch strips of a different pattern and score at every 1/4 inch using your Scor-Pal. Accordion fold each strip and adhere together with a strong wet glue or with Scor-Tape. Form into medallion and adhere to foam core circles with hot glue and a glue gun.

Cut book text into squares and stamp with the Jumbo Rollagraph Snow and  Top Boss Watermark Ink Cartridge.

Roll your stamped book text squares into cones and adhere with a quick drying liquid glue.  The tighter the paper cones are rolled, the more you will need for your project. 

Paint chipboard accents with acrylic paint and dry with a heat gun. 

Once the paint is dry add a layer of Studio G antique gold glitter glue. When the glitter glue is dry, add a coat of Smooch Glitz Goldrush.

Once all of my elements where complete, I adhered them together using hot glue. I built up the space in the center with layers of foam core. As a finishing tough I added glitter glue and Smooch Glitz Goldrush to the edges of the book text cones. Finally, I added a loop of extra wide taffeta ribbon to the back and covered the back with a cardstock circle. 

Clearsnap Products:

• Smooch Spritz Candle Glow
• Smooch Glitz Goldrush
• Jumbo Rollagraph Stamp Wheel Snow
• Jumbo Rollagraph Self-Inking Handle
• Watermark Ink Rollagraph Cartridge

Other Products:

• Imaginisce Paper
• Maya Road Chipboard Snowflakes
• Vintage Book Text
• Studio G by Hampton Art Glitter Glue
• Fiskars Threading Water Edge Punch
• Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive
• Hot Glue & Gun
• Scor-Tape
• We R Memory Keepers Magnetic Circle Cutter and Magnetic Mat
• Foam Core Board
• Tafetta Ribbon and Gold/Cream Cording 

Jennifer Priest created two sweet projects featuring our new ColorBox Scentz™  scented embossing powders and Imaginisce's Santa's Little Helper collection. 

Need a last minute stocking stuffer? This hot cocoa set features a tube of hot cocoa mix and a tube of Candy Cane Kisses, decorated for the season with Imaginisce's Santa's Little Helper collection.

Jennifer used the penguin embossed chipboard sticker from Imaginisce's Santa's Little Helper Collection to embellish the tubes. To create the texture on the penguin's cap, apply *new* EmbossGloss to the penguin's cap.

Then sprinkle with *new* ColorBox Scentz™ Scented Embossing Powder in Peppermint and heat set. This scented embossing powder really packs a punch of mint, perfectly festive for the holiday season. The scent lasts 2-3 weeks after embossing.

After heat setting, apply heat a second time to the embossing powder until it bubbles. This process of burning the powder creates a fluffly, puffed texture in the powder, giving the cap more definition and depth. Apply *new* Smooch Glitz™ in Firecracker to the berries on the Holly Diecut.


Clearsnap Products:

• EmbossGloss
• Smooch Glitz™ in Firecracker
• ColorBox Scentz™ Scented Embossing Powder in Peppermint
• ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink in Chestnut Roan

Other Supplies:

• Paper, Diecuts, Stickers by Imaginisce
• Twine by The Twinery
• Tubes by SRM Stickers
• Buttons, Ribbon, Tissue unknown source

Next, Jennifer created a layout about her son joining in on the family's tradition of baking cookies, breads, and candies for friends and family during the holidays. The Gingerbread Houses in this Imaginisce collection are perfect for any holiday themed page!

To carry the theme of baking, Jennifer created "cookies" for the page. She also used Smooch Spritz® to accent the embossed papers in the Santa's Little Helper Collection. Here's how:

Stamp several Christmas Trees from the Imaginisce Snag 'em Stamps collection onto kraft cardstock using Top Boss® Watermark Embossing Ink. Sprinkle with ColorBox Scentz™ Scented Embossing Powder in Snickerdoodle and heat set. The scent will permeate the paper and last for 2-3 weeks. Cut out the trees to look like cookies, inking the edges with a ColorBox Fluid Chalk Cat's Eye in Chestnut Roan to give them a golden brown look. Apply a coat of Smooch Glitz™ in Frost to the trees to give them a sugary glow.

Coat a chipboard diecut with Smooch Spritz® in Holly Berries. Apply to the page as a photo mat. Spray the layout randomly with Smooch Spritz® in Vanilla Shimmer. The intense sparkle of the mica-infused ink will stand out on the matte finished paper yet wipe away from embossed areas, creating interesting contrast on the page.

Clearsnap Products:

• Top Boss® Watermark Embossing Ink
• Smooch Spritz® in Holly Berries
• Smooch Spritz® in Vanilla Shimmer
• ColorBox Scentz™ Scented Embossing Powder in Snickerdoodle 
• ColorBox Fluid Chalk Cat's Eye in Chestnut Roan
• Smooch Glitz™ in Frost 

Other Supplies:

• Acrylic Stamp, Paper, Diecuts, Stickers by Imaginisce
• Kraft Cardstock by Bazzill
• Pen by American Crafts

Thanks for looking! Don't forget to follow us and leave your comments below. To continue on the hop, head on over to the Imaginisice Blog here: http://www.imaginisceblog.com/

One last thing---we have our FINAL winner for the 12 Days of Giveaways !!! 

Lisa Bankes-Lahiff

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Please email jennifer.priest@clearsnapinc.com with your mailing address to claim your prize. Congrats and thanks for playing along! 

We had a blast creating for this Hop and sharing the inspiration and ideas with you all week long. Wishing you the merriest of holiday seasons, from our hearts to you!