Holiday Release Blog Blitz Begins
By Jeanne Jachna

Christmas, Jeanne Jachna


I’m so glad you stopped by!  Our Holiday Blog Blitz Begins today!!    What’s a blog blitz?  It’s a special event where we feature projects created with the newest products.  Our design team give you ideas to get your creativity kick started and we offer a prize on every post during the blitz. 

For most of us it’s never too soon to get started making our Holiday cards.  I love to share hand made cards with friends and family to show them how much I care.  I’m ok having too many cards to choose from, but I never want to get caught short when I’m busy with all the other holiday preparations.   The new Pine Needle Clearing is a beautiful die with lots of possibilities.  

I water colored a panel of watercolor paper with Peerless Watercolor in different shades of green and then cut it with the Pine Needle Clearing.  I adhered this panel to a clean white card base and added the Folk Merry Christmas greeting cut from gold in the center.

I wanted to hang some Crystal Ornaments from the pine boughs.  I cut the ornaments from gold foil paper.   The Crystal Ornaments are a single die, I cut them apart to  make three hanging from gold threads.  I inlaid colorful card stock in bright jewel colors.

Want to enter to win the new Pine Needle Clearing die??  

Let me fill you in on all the details ok?

The blog blitz runs from August 2-August 14, 2017. We’ll be giving away a prize on every post during this time.  To enter to win you need to leave a comment on EACH of the posts that you wish to enter.   To enter ALL the posts during the blog blitz you need to leave a comment on EACH ONE.   One person will be chosen at random from each of the posts during the blog blitz. Only one prize per person per blog blitz. We use random number generator to select winners from comments. You have until midnight US EST August 17 to leave a comment on each and every post that you want to enter. Winners will announced on this blog on August 18. Good Luck!  And LEAVE A COMMENT!! 🙂 

Supplies

1937 Pine Needle Clearing
1850 Crystal Ornaments
1897 Folk Merry Christmas

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127 Comments

  1. Love that pine needle clearing and how you coloured it too and the star ornaments look great in bright colours ,what a fab take on a festive tree love it, thanks for sharing.

  4. BEAUTIFUL card Jeanne!
    LOVE your cheery colours and shimmering gold, LOVE the combination of the crystal ornaments & sentiment against the pine needles clearing background – WOW!

  5. You are so clever!! I LOVE the cheerful colors and holiday feel!! You put me in the mood for Christmas … even though it is only August!! Awesome inspiration. Thank you!!

  6. What a beautiful card design, Jeanne! I love how you used watercolor on the Pine Needle Clearing die for a soft backdrop to complement the vibrant Crystal Ornaments dies! Bravo!

  7. This is a gorgeous, bright card! Love how
    the pine needles frame the shiny star
    ornaments.

  9. Your card is so pretty! Love those crystal ornaments. And they pair beautifully with the pine needle clearing die.

  10. Gorgeous card – love the pine needle opening as the background. The gold lettering and ornaments really make it shine !

  12. So beautiful…love your gorgeous tree and all those festive ornaments hanging on it.

  13. Wow…Stunning die cut pine needle frame for your Gorgeous die cut ornaments and sentiment. Pretty colors too. TFS Jeanne. Hugs
    I have the Merry Christmas die now from my last order..love the smaller size.

  14. Hi Jeanne, your card is stunning. That is a beautiful die in a beautiful green. Would love this one. The die cut ornaments are so dimensional. Love them too. What a great start to this blog blitz. Hugz

  17. I always look forward to seeing all the new holiday dies!!! This is a great start to the blog blitz!!!

  18. Love your watercolored background. The greens are so vibrant. The pine needle clearing die is definitely going on my wish list. I love layering with the large Memory Box dies.
    Great card.

  19. Your card is great! I love the ornaments together with the pine needle clearing dye.

  20. Love this – so happy and joyful. Thanks for showing a way to use the connected dies. What a set of awesome products this release.

  21. What a bright and happy card! I like the look of the gold foil with the bright watercolors. Thanks for sharing!

  23. YAY blog blitz time, love it! Your card is beautiful, Jeanne! The crystal ornaments are the perfect embellishment. The Pine Needle Clearing would be perfect for the Christmas cards I am designing now and gathering dies and materials for. I want my cards to be completed by the end of October so that I can concentrate on Christmas prep and shopping. I am figuring out Christmas gifts now, I want to get done early this year. Thank you for the creative inspiration today!
    Jacquelene L
    Canada

  26. Hi Jeanne, A lovely holiday card, the ‘pine needle clearing’ die could be used for any card too, I’m loving the hanging crystal ornaments too.
    Lots of love from Patricia xx

  31. Nice card, I wish the weather was cooler over here but it’s a blazing 99 degrees and humid! So your card reminds me that cooler weather will soon be here!

  35. Oh Jeanne. I am seriously in love with this card. It’s so pretty, bright and cheerful – and so unlike most ‘usual’ Christmas cards I see. I LOVE it. ❤️❤️❤️

  37. Love this card, so pretty and love how you used the dies for this card. So pretty!

  42. Gorgeous card! Love the pretty ornaments and the pine border! Lovely combination of dies to create this holiday card!

  46. Fabulous watercolors – loving this brightness and the added sequins are always a great touch lovely job Jeanne! TFS and for the hop!

  50. WHAT A GORGEOUS CARD! Those Crystal Ornaments are WONDERFULLY done in the gold! AND the water color is WONDERFUL with this! Makes it look dreamy! SUPER JOB,Jeanne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉

  53. I love your bright and cheery holiday card and the look of stained glass on the ornaments! Beautiful job!

  54. Oh, the possibilities with using the pine needle frame! I think I’ll have to add it to my huge MB stash!

  55. Such an eye-catching card! I love the way you watercolored the pine needle clearing die cut. Beautifully done!

  57. SQUEAL!! SO EXCITED for the Blog Blitz and for ALL of the NEW AMAZING Products and DT Inspiration!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)

  59. Love the pine needle clearing die! Can be used for many types of cards. Your ornaments just sparkle against this background.

  61. The Pine Needle Clearing die makes a great frame. I love how you did the coloring and especially hanging the Crystal Ornaments. The ornaments remind me of the Moravian Star that my family hung over the front doorway at Christmas time.

  65. Love love love!!! What a beautiful die and so lovely with your watercolored paper and sparkling ornaments!!
    <3 J
    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

  72. Beautiful, Jeanne! I was wondering how to use the Pine Clearing die. I really love how you added the “little” stars – along with the fun colors, they make the ornaments pop!

  75. Digging the modern holiday color twist – not sure I would have thought of using the limey green for the boughs!

  79. What a stunner of a card Jeanne, oh my goodness.
    The Pine Needle Clearing die is wonderful and the Crystal Ornaments are as well. (I see a lot of potential with those beautiful ornaments.)

  82. Fabulous release and your card is so wonderful. Love the gold and bright colors.

  83. Your card is so festive and pretty. I’ve already started my Christmas cards so I can enjoy all the new dies! Your card is an example of a good inspiration! Thank you!!

  84. What amazing crystal stars! They’ll work for more than just holiday cards. Thanks for the opportunity to win. Poppy Stamps and Memory Box are beautiful products!

  85. I think the stars would look great painted with Finetec gold paint so black paper after being embossed with gold

  86. Very nice. Curious, when you say you inlaid the jewel colors on the ornaments…did you put on individual pieces?
    I especially like the coloring of the background.

  87. I’ve started back at card making and would love to be able to use the pine needle clearing die on my cards…

  90. It really is time to get thinking about Christmas. Thanks for the inspiration.

  91. What a fun colorful card. Love the Pine Clearing Die. Makes for a really neat frame!

  94. What a cheerful holiday card. I love the colors that you used. The Pine Needle Clearing die is wonderful!

  95. So much fun to do Christmas cards in July and all the new dies are so tempting!

  96. I love the ornaments done in gold foil card. They remind me of the ones my grandmother had.

  97. Absolutely beautiful! I love your colors and the extra gold shine. Thank you for sharing.

  99. Love the ornaments. But the pine bough leaves a lot of openings for some fun cards and use of extra accessories and decoration! All of which is pretty, elegant and simple looking. Potentially a lot of fun with these dies!!!

  100. I love what you did with the ornaments. I actually think I like it better than having them in a bunch.

  105. Such a beautiful card! I love the pine needle branch background that frames the sentiment and three delightful ornaments!! Those dies are wonderful, and I love how you integrated everything into the design!! Thanks so much for sharing!! 🙂

  106. I love what you did with the ornaments. I think I like them better cut apart than as a bundle

  109. What a beautiful holiday card, and lovely pine needle frame. The ornaments look like stained glass!

  114. This is so beautiful Jeanne. I love that you could even trim away some of the Crystal Ornaments to make stars in other sizes. The Pine Needle clearing frames it up beautifully!

  126. Super card! The Pine Needle Clearing die is so cool. I agree there is loads of potential there.

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