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(Please note:  If you are viewing this prior to December 20th, all the links may not yet be active.  The hop is scheduled to go live on the 20th of the month.)  Welcome everyone to the December Tour de Freaks!  Can you believe it is ALMOST CHRISTMAS?  Nope…I can’t either!  Hope you all have a few minutes to spare to do the Freaky Hop with us!  If you are going forward through the hop you have arrived here from the amazingly talent Wendy Weixler and her Wickedly Wonderful Creations blog.  Her stuff always AMAZES me!

Before I start…YES THIS IS ALL STAMPIN’! UP! This is a HYBRID piece using images from My Digital Studo.

Okay…not that that is out of the way…a funny story.  My friend Connie was telling me how she was making “Charger Plates” for the people who work for her husband for Christmas (she always makes them such wonderful gifts) and she said…”I’m making them Charger Plates”.  And I said…oh…I bet they’ll like that.  I am NOT in any way shape or form a decorator.  I’m a little geeky maybe but NOT a decorator (Martha S would have a heart attack in my home!)  To me a charger plate is something you use to CHARGE THINGS…hence the name CHARGER PLATE!!!  Then I see people sending out pictures of their ‘charger plates’ and I couldn’t figure out, based on what I was see in the photo…how the heck they were used to charge things.  DUH!!!  Oh well…hope I gave you a chuckle on this!

So I’m sharing with you two charger plates for my items this time.  First up…PINK SNOWFLAKES!!!  Nothing says winter fun to me like PINK SNOWFLAKES (okay…you might have guessed that from my blog banner too!)  As I said in my first line this is a hybrid piece.  The pink (Pretty in Pink and lightened Primrose Petal) snowflakes are images from MDS that I blew up, printed off, cut and added along with snowflakes from the Snow Flurry Die.  The let it snow was also designed in MDS added a snowflake for the “O”.  For the scallopy looking insert I just traced around a decorative plate that was sitting on my desk (you would not BELIEVE what is all sitting on my desk!)  Oh…and that ribbon…okay…LITTLE SNEAK PEEK here…it is GORGEOUS new ribbon from the Spring Mini!  But Mary…were did you get that large silver brad.  THAT’S not SU!   Yes it is…it is an Incolor Printed Brad that I embossed with silver embossing powder!  This is just so fun and sparkly in real life!

And now for my second Charger Plate that doesn’t charge anything!  Last week Create with Connie and Mary’s Thursday Challenge was a color challenge to use just Very Vanilla and Gold Glimmer.  I used the card I made for that challenge as the inspiration for this.  This is one of those…it looks sooooo much better in real life things!  The trees and the greeting are both gold embossed.  Yes…I did cut out all those trees.  I love to cut things out…it just makes me happy!  Again I used that plate that was sitting on my desk as the base of the design.  I ripped strips of Very Vanilla and Champagne Glimmer for the ‘snow’.  Oh..that ‘bow’…well, it is a template in My Digital Studio and that gold brad…yep…same as the silver one above only this is embossed with the gold embossing powder.

I hope you have enjoyed my totally non-functional ‘charger plates’!!!  Now it’s time to hop on over to my friend Connie Babbert at Inkspired Treasures and check out our totally fabulous projects!

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!

Welcome everyone to the November Tour de Freaks where that very special group of Control Freak Swaps share with everyone some unique ideas!  This month our theme is Chirstmas…HELLO…how can you resist that!  If you are going forward through the hop, you arrived here from my friend Connie Babbert’s blog – Inkspired Treasures.  Weren’t her project just ADORABLE?   And just so ‘Christmasy’!

And now for my projects.  I decided to share two small 3D projects with you.  The first is a fun little treat bag (filled with Candy Canes) that I made awhile back but decided to wait until the Christmas Freak hop to share with everyone.

I LOVED the glassine bags that came in the Ghoulish Ghouls kit…LOVED them!  So I took one and ran it through Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder.  I CAREFULLY opened the bag and filled with little candy canes.  But Mary…you say….are some of those items RETIRED???  What are you doing using RETIRED stuff on a Tour de Freaks post.  Well, it’s like this…none of it is retired!  ALL the decorations on this bag are found in the Snowflake Season Simply Scrappin’ Layout Kit!  Yep…the red scrolling thingy, the tags, the pretty silver glimmer snowflake, the ivory satin ribbon and yep…the little clothespin!  WOOO HOOOO…nothing retired!  I just love how these items look on a little bag!

And now for my second little 3D item.  I was out looking around that big box M store and saw these CUTE little heart shaped ornaments and I said to myself “wouldn’t those be just DANG CUTE with the bottom embossed and a snowflake one them?”  So I came home and embossed the bottom of the ornament with white embossing powder (it sort of looks like snow in real life!).  Next I did the medium snowflake from the Snow Flurry Die in Silver Glimmer, the small snowflake in Whisper White, put them together with a Silver brad and added to the ornament using Glue Dots.  I tied a bow in the White Organza Ribbon, attached to the top of the ornament using Whisper White Baker’s Twine and then tied that into a hanger.  This is definitely one where the picture just does NOT do it justice…AT ALL!!!!

So that’s my little Christmas projects that i have to share with all of you!  Hope you enjoyed them!  Now it’s time to move on to Judy DiScipio’s – Judy Stamps site and be AMAZED by her delightful projects!

Until next time…HAPPY STAMPIN’!