Visions of Sugarplums - A Christmas Card from Me to You

Welcome back too Day 3 of Visions of Sugarplums and today's last Blog Hop <3

Then we are on the third and last day of Visions of Sugarplums <3
I hope you have enjoy these two last days with Christmas inspiration, free tutorials, images and GIVEAWAYs. ARE you ready for the last Blog Hop??? 
Sadly I am, I dont whant this to end ;-)


Today is also the last chance to be in the draw of MY GIVEAWAY that I have in my blog.

My LOVELY sponsor is:

<3 Live and Love Crafts <3

Live & Love Crafts Specializing in Vintage & Shabby Chic Craft Supplies.

They also have the Lovely paper sheets from Maja Design <3

They has been so wonderful that they sponsord one 

£20 Gift Voucher to a lucky winner <3 

  

If you leave a cooment in all of my 3 blog posts, all three days,

  I draw a lucky winner who gets the Gift Voucher from Live & Love Crafts <3

 I'll be very grateful if you follow my blog and / or Email too <3

 

  December 10th I let MR Random select a winner 

and I publish the winner here in my blog <3

 If you want to leave a comment in my two first blogpost, you can find them here:
Candy Cane Christmas Tag
Little Blue Gift Box

  

The Blog Hop takes place over three days, three days with a lot of fun, inspiration, challenge and several GIVEAWAYS <3 

And this is day number three <3

I'm number 7 in today's Blog Hop, if you want to start from the beginning, 

you can do that HERE <3

 


My last contribution to you is one Christmas card in brown tones and som history aboute the first Christmas Card <3

In the past few days the weather has been very unnstable with a storm, alot of wind, rain, snow, thunder and lightning. Therefore it was very difficult for me to take the pictures of the card. But I hope you like it <3

If you click on the picture, you will see it more clearly <3  


  

This card is made with gorgeous paper from Maja Design.
The collecton I have used is Gammaldag Jul <3

 All the layers on the card is from a dies set from Go Kreate called Frilly #7 and inked with Distress Ink Ground Espresso.

If you look at the picture are all the layers covered with True Snow and Glitter. 

 

  
The large paper flowers, is a Tim Holtz dies and called Tattered Poinsettia. These flowers are fastened with a button in the middle, I have inked them with Distress Ground Espress and covered them with True Snow and glitter. 

In between two of the flowers I have made a brown bow. 

  


God Jul is a die from kaBoks, which means Merry Christmas in English.

  

 
 If you turn the card, I have made one minor card at the back. If you open up the bow, you can write a cozy Christmas Greeting to someone you LOVE <3

I am very found of sending Christmas Cards. This is a tradition that unfortunately slowly disappearing. Year after year media takes more and more over, People send Christmas Greeting in a SnapChat, text messages and facebook. 

I want to encourage you all that made your own cards, to send homemade cards in the mail <3 Think about how much joy you can spread, just in one homemade card <3 

I know that if I got homemade Christmas Card in my mail, I'll be thrilled <3

  


Did you know that Christmas Cards is an old tradition that started in England?
It was an English man who designed the first Christmas Card with the text "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You" in 1843, hes named was John Calcott Horsley. But the big mass production started in the US in 1875 by a German man, named Louis Prang.

The world's first modern Christmas Card, Printed in 1943 in London

Christmas Card of Children dancing around a tree with real candles. Printed by Prang & Co (Boston), Americas first company specializing in printing of Christmas Cards. This card is from around 1880. 

Visions of Sugarplums is all abute the days before Christmas, So I hope that you had some fun the last three days <3 

Lori is the hostess for this yers Visions of Sugarplums, and she brings with her many great sponsors with great prizes <3

<3 Lawn Fawn <3
 $25.00 Gift Certificate

<3 The Funkie Junkie Boutique <3

$25.00 Gift Certificate

<3 The Cutting Cafe <3

3 Sets of Choice to a Winner

<3 Moonlighting & Co <3

1 Set of Choice to Three Winners

<3 PPinky Dolls <3 

1 Digital Stamp Image of Choice

<3 Baers Design Studio <3 

1 Set of Choice to Three Winners

<3 CanvasPop <3 

one 16x20 canvas of your favorite photo

<3 ChouxChoux Paper Art <3 

Mega Giveaway of Christmas Crafting Goodies

  On Sunday, Desember 13th, Lori will randomly chose and announced all the WINNERS. 
 
We are total of 12 bloggers who are in this year Visions of Sugarplums and to be in the draw for these great GIVEAWAYS, you MUST comment in every blog, all three days <3
The more comments you leave, the bigger are the chance to win. 

 

Canvas Pop (one of the sponsors) has another great giveaway going on right now - you could WIN YOUR CHRISTMAS!  Enter by December 11th.

WIN YOUR CHRISTMAS giveaway HERE.

 

These are the blogs that you need to jump true, on the last and the third day of
Visions of Sugarplums <3

<3 Lisa Minkler <3 

<3 Mitra Pratt <3

<3 Tracey Kelly <3

<3 Maria Patrick <3

<3 Char Cundy <3

<3 Karon Hughes <3

You was here <3

 

<3 Silje Kristin Aunan <3

You are here <3

<3 Debbie Fisher <3

Your next jump <3

 <3 Sherry Nilson <3

<3 Jeanne Jachna <3

<3 Lori Hairston <3

You have just been sent to me from Karon Hughes blog, 
And I'll send you on to Debbie Fisher
on your next jump :-) 

But before you leave my blog, I want to tell you abute the 
Challenge Lori have in her blog <3

Lori is having a Challenge in her own blog, where the theme is Winter and / or Christmas.

You can participate in the challenge with a Card, LO, a Box or with other types of projects, as long you follow the theme. 

The prize is 25$ at Lawn Fawn, the winner will be drawn by a little help from MR Random and the competition runs until December 20th

Good Luck <3 

Thank You. Thank You so Much for jumping in to my blog these three days <3

I hope you have enjoyed this years Visions of Sugarplums <3

Now it only remains for me to wish you all a Merry Christmas 
with your friends and famely <3


Christmas Greeting 
from
Silje Kristin 

Dette prosjektet er sent inn til disse utfordringene:

This card has been entered into following challenges:

A Snow Flakes Promise
# 11 Christmas / Winter

Anything But Cute Challenge 
# 8 You got Happy Mail 

Crafting With Dragonflies 
# 49 Anything Christmas 

Really Reasonable Ribbon 
# 131 Shimmer and Sparkle 

Sparkles Christmas Challenge 
# 59 Die Cuts for Christmas 

The Corrosive Challenge Blog 
# 239 Merry Christmas 

The Ribbon Girls 
# Anything Goes 

ChouxChoux Paper Art 
 # Winter / Christmas