Waltzingmouse Sept. Release Blog Waltz ~ A Christmas Cottage

It's day four of the Waltzingmouse Sneak peeks, and we're having a blog waltz featuring the new set A Cottage Christmas. It includes the sweetest little Christmas cottage, along with a darling snowman, some charming trees, brilliant snowflakes, and gorgeous sentiments! What a delight it is to work with this set. If you arrived here from Anya's blog, you're on the right track. If not, you'll want to start at the beginning with Claire. She's leading our Waltz today. :) The four sets we've been peeking are now available too. So after the hop, head on over to Waltzingmouse Stamps to see the complete sets!!

Okay, now for my project...

My goodness, it's been like a gazillion years since I've made a gift bag topper. Okay, so I may have exaggerated a bit, but it's been at least 6 or more. I used to see them all the time. So, since lace and punches are so in right now, I thought it would be fun to make one again, with lace trim, using an Alesa Baker template that I have had forever! The images I used that are from this set are: The cottage (of course), the tree trio, the Snowman on the tag, the sentiment in the top left which reads: "From our House to Yours", and the flakes behind the cottage, and on the top of the topper. I combined these images with some images from the set Very Vintage Christmas: the topper border, and the "to" and "from" sentiments.

I used a Viva Decor Ice White Gel pen with some white opaque ultrafine glitter for the snow.




I stamped the decorative border along the topper, with Versamark, embossed it with black ep, and colored it with Tombows. Incidentally, all the images are colored with Tombows.

Isn't that BoBunny Santa Brad cute? I thought it was a fun addition to the bow.

Here's a close up of the top so you can see the snowflakes.

Before I go, I want to let you know that you have a chance to win a Waltzingmouse Stamp Set of your choice. All you have to do is leave a comment on as many of the blogs, along the Blog Waltz, that you can, by Sept. 22. A Winner will be chosen from one of the design team member's blogs and will be announced on Sept. 23 on Claire's blog.

That's it from me today. Next along the hop is the fabulously talented Becca.
Thanks for visiting!!
Happy Stamping!

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Stamps: A Cottage Christmas, Very Vintage Christmas Paper: Black and Kraft (PTI), Watercolor, and Christmas (Lost & Found MME) Ink: Versamark, Onyx Black (Versafine), Latte (a muse), Vintage Photo (Ranger Distress) Accessories: Tombow Markers, Labels 15, Standard Circle, and Picot Edge Circle dies (Spellbinders), lace (Vintage), Ice White Gel Pen (Viva Decor), Ultrafine Opaque White Glitter, Black Burlap String, Santa Brad (Bo Bunny Noel Icandy), Seam Binding Ribbon (MemrieMare), Border Punch (Martha Stewart), Dimensional Tape (Scotch), Gift Bag Topper Template (Alesa Baker)