12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop! Day 10: Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet Explosion Box

Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop Day 10. This hop will take place November 24th through December 5th and the new postings each day will be posted by 8am eastern standard time. This hop will be full of wonderful ideas and inspiration to get you well on your way of creating all of those beautiful Christmas project. This is an awesome way to get a lot of your Christmas cards, and scrapbook layouts finished, home decorations completed and maybe even be inspired to create something using a new technique that you have never tried. There will be a new project posted each and every day by all the wonderful amazing ladies in this hop. Also each day we will have a guest designer or two for you to visit.

You should have arrived from Pam's blog if not you can start at Lisa's blog or the entire line up at the bottom of the page.

Warning there are lots of pictures today!  I spent a lot of time on the project and have been creating this in my mind since late summer when I created my first explosion box.

Triple bow using my Craft dee Bowz tool.

Another perfect bow with Anna Griffin gold satin ribbon.

The center.  I thought about finding a miniature nutcracker so I made it easy to lift up the center sentiment should I find the elusive "perfect" center piece.

It's hard to tell but I used Wink of Stella throughout especially striking is the gold on the Nutcracker's hat and uniform.

I put a little pearl bling in the center of the flourish on each "page".

The ballet shoes are stamped and embossed with Recollections Vintage Pink.

I embossed all the candies with a "sugary" sprinkle!

I used some Stampin Up stamps as well as, coordinating Graphic 

45 stamps.

This companion page is a Tim Holtz die cut with a Graphic 45 coordinating stamp embossed with Judikins black detail then colored it and a scalloped circle Spellbinders die cut layer.

This companion page is a Tim Holtz flourish die cut with a Recollections pearl die cut on top.

Amazingly this is not every page!  I do not have the partner page for the ballet shoes page.

And the "page" for this one is Mother Ginger of which I also did not get a good picture.

The final layer.

I hope you were able to stick with me through all those pictures!

Next up is Anna!

The entire line up:

1. Lisa ~ http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/
GUEST DESIGNER:  Jenny - http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

2. Scrappin Madge ~ www.thescrappinlounge.com

3. Beth McGee ~ http://thecraftyscrapyard.blogspot.com

4. Amy E. ~ http://www.scrapthissavethat.com/

5. Denise ~ www.craftconfectionery.com

6. Lucy ~ http://love2createitall.com

7. Cely ~ http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com

8. Pam - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/

9. Alicia ~ http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/

10. Anna- http://www.stampanna.com

11. An'Jenic- http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

12. Angela- http://www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com/

13. Heather- www.paper-junkie.blogspot.com

14. Jessica -http://craftinandstampin.blogspot.com/

15. Miranda - www.nanasscrapspot.com

16. La-Vie Borde-Perry ~ http://www.cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/

17. Sandy- http://www.scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com

18. Carla ~ http://racincrafts.blogspot.com

19. Lori ~ http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com

20. Ashley W ~ http://marinewifesscrappinlife.blogspot.com

21. Robin L. ~ http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com/

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2014/11/christmas-is-coming-at-tiots.html until 12/7

http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.com/2014/11/lots-of-embellishments-challenge.html until 12/3

http://scrapbookerphd.blogspot.com/2014/11/challenge-17-shaped-or-folded-cards.html until 12/7 3 of 3, C10

http://asonginyourart.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-song-in-your-heart-challenge-21.html until 12/9

http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2014/11/pile-it-on-48-sprinkle-it.html until 12/5

http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/woohoo-its-challenge-time-again-here-at.html until 1/3 (1 of 3)

http://gloriadesignschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/12/challenge-21-celebrate-season.html until 12/14

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/chnc-challenge-extra-for-december-2014.html until 12/31

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2014/11/himcr-176-freestyle.html until 12/5