Stretch Your Holiday Style with a Stamping Challenge!

It's Fah-ri-day! Woot!

I'm glad it's Friday but sad that it's the last day of Holiday Cards & More Week, friends. How 'bout you?

We've tried on 5 different styles this week and today's style--while it doesn't really count as a "style" per se--is definitely a stylish technique. There are 119 holiday projects with a stamped element on them (maybe more, my eyes started getting bleary on about page 129 of my counting.) From sentiments to backgrounds to focal points, you can stamp your way right into the holidays!

If you're an avid stamper, a casual dally-er, or a beginning stamper straight off the turnip truck, now's your chance to enter our challenge. Take these super stamped cards as your inspiration:

Wishes for Your Christmas Card by Dawn McVey, p. 67

Moxie Fab Alert: Now this would definitely qualify as an advanced stamping project. Check out the intricate background Dawn has created entirely with stamps! This is moxie fabeautiful!

Think Snow Card by Maren Benedict, p. 32

Moxie Fab Alert: I love how Maren has created this snowy background by overstamping the snowflakes in different values of color. And speaking of color--isn't this palette different? I super like!

Fa La La Card by Angie Hagist, p. 30

Moxie Fab Alert: This owl in his Christmas finery is off-the-charts cute! Fa-La-La indeed!

Ready to start stamping? Great! Here's how to enter the challenge:

1. Create a stamped holiday card, gift wrap, ornament, home decor item, or paper crafted gift. Your project can have one stamped element or many, just be sure that something on your project is stamped.


2. Upload a photo of your project to your blog, come back here and post the URL to your project (not your blog) in the Mr. Linky box below. Post a link to the Moxie Fab World in your blog's text to encourage your readers to see the other projects that have been linked.
   
   
3. If you don't have a blog, go to this Flickr gallery, upload your photo, and post the URL to your project (not the group) in the Mr. Linky box below.


4. Just for fun, upload your project to the World Card Making Day Website by clicking here. Your holiday card will become part of the worldwide celebration of the joy of making handmade cards just in time for the holiday card making season! Not only that, but it will also become eligible to win a few contests we've got up our sleeves!
   
   
5. Accomplish this task by midnight MDT on Monday, September 7 (that's Labor Day). 2 winning entries will be showcased on this blog on Wednesday, September 9 and will receive these four stamp sets from Papertrey Ink:

Sign Language, Made of Snow, Believe, and Snowflake Serenade

Once you've done all that, submit your stamped holiday card to our Stamp It! Cards call for submission currently going on by clicking here. Then, stamp up some more stampy creations for other holidays and occasions and submit those too! :)

Phew! What a week! I hope you've had fun exploring styles and applying them to your holiday projects, friends. For more, Holiday Cards & More, Volume 4, is waiting with ways to inspire you--and everyone on your list!

But wait! There is one last way to extend your fun in Holiday Cards & More Week, friends. Kelly has a Freebie Friday on Paper Crafts Connection that you won't want to miss, so pay her a visit and leave her a comment to win something---well, moxie fab!

Warm with holiday cheer,

~Cath

PS I seriously CAN'T WAIT to see what you come up with in this and the other four challenges! Have fun!