Winter Wishes Blog Hop

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Introduction

*** The contest is now closed ***

Warm thoughts are unfolding, as we begin to enter a festive time of year. Eileen, Kim and The Teams have created a fun blog hop challenge to kick of the American Thanksgiving and Winter festivities.

To play along all you need to do is follow along and comment on every blog. If you play along and link up your own creation using Eileen and Emerald Creek products, you will get 2 bonus entries for the draw. Contest Closes on Sunday November 25th, with the Winner announced Cyber Monday!

Prize includes an Eileen Hull Journal Die and a $50.00 gift certificate to the Emerald Creek Shop.

Checkout the list of the other wonderful artists participating in this blog hop at the end of my tutorial.

Tutorial for my Fireside Wish Journal

I’m so excited to be part of the Emerald Creek and Eileen Hull Blog hop! What a wonderful group of talented artists throwing down all sorts of inspiration ✨

I am using one of my favorite Eileen Hull XL Journal Bigz Dies and loaded it up with a bunch of Emerald Creek embossing powders and stamps.

In the first photo, you see the products I used, including my all time fav, Fractured Ice, Bees Wax, Mirrored Platinum and Peppered Chantilly. Along with Emerald Creek Holly and Snowflakes rubbers stamps and of course Eileen’s Journal which is 4 1/2” x 8 1/2″. Find the Emerald Creek products HERE. Find the Eileen Hull Die HERE.

In this photo you see my journal front which is 2 pieces and you glue together along the dots – very easy peasy. Once I assembled the journal I painted it black. I then fussy cut the pine cones and glued them to the bottom.

I embossed the snowflakes using a Tim Holtz stencil with Peppered Chantilly. To get that snow flurries look, I embossed Fractured Ice, not once but twice, over the entire journal cover. Not only did it give me the flurried look, but the pine cones became decoupaged like ice had formed over them. I finally glued the lanterns (I highlighted in yellow the lantern fronts). I used Bees Wax embossing powder EP to get that glow.

This photo is a close up of two Sizzix dies. On the word “wish” I used Chantilly again. See how different the effects are when used as is here and also how it changes when Fractured Ice is applied over Chantilly getting that icy look. The snowflake die was embossed by my own blend of Emerald Creek embossing powders  Fairy Wings Blue, green and clear EP.

This photo shows how I used the Emerald Creek Holly rubber stamp as the cover piece for a lined journal insert I used as filler for the journal. I then took a wide assortment of holiday paper to complete my signature fills for the journal.

I hope you are inspired to create your own holiday wish journal.  If you want a chance of winning my Fireside Wish journal, head over to my Instagram page and on my Emerald Creek post leave a comment there with what your holiday wish is and make sure your are following me HERE.

Make sure to check out all the wonderful bloggers projects and have a wonderful holiday season!

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Blog Hop List

  1. Eileen Hull
  2. Kim Evans
  3. Gwen Lafleur
  4. Pam Bray
  5. Ann Barnes
  6. Lisa Hoel
  7. Jennalee Anderson
  8. Diana Hetherington
  9. Anne Redfern
  10. Elizabeth Robinson
  11. Susana Magenheimer
  12. Julia Aston



52 thoughts on “Winter Wishes Blog Hop”

  4. It is such a wonderful idea to create a ‘wish’ journal and yours is so beautiful with the gorgeous snowflakes and I love how you coloured the holly stamp, it looks amazing! xx

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  6. Gorgeous cover art and fab journal. Love all the texture. The pine cones look so real. A WISH journal – what a fun idea. So many possibilities for a creative imagination. Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃 ❤️❤️

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  13. I am so in awe of your talent. You captivated me in every detail. I was curious to see the book board in action. This was fabulous. Thank you so much for joining us on this hop.

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    1. WoW your comment has me overwhelmed huge thanks on the kindness and believing in me and my talent I will always be in your corner 💕❄️🍁

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  18. So nice! I have to get my hands on some of this emerald creek embossing powder! Thank you for sharing your talent!

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  20. Susana I just love your wish journal, that cover is a flurry of beauty. The pine cones look amazing decoupaged into the scene. So happy to see this wonderful make!

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  21. Susana, I love this wish journal! Not sure why my last comment didn’t show up, so I wanted to post again to let you know how wonderful that cover turned out. Fractured ice is always a favorite finish and it looks awesome with the snowflakes! The pine cones are gorgeous too,

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  23. Wowzers!!! Just FABULOUS work on this project, Susana!!!! I loved reading HOW you came about getting the effects you were going for, TOO! (I took some notes, too 📝) You really took the layers and details to new heights…very cool!!!

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