Summer kick off blog hop!

Welcome to the Summer Kick-Off Blog Hope. We've assembled a great line-up of Blogs for you this week, each with a variety of different ideas to share with you! Some of the blogs change content daily, so you'll want to check in throughout the week for your chance to win prizes! The Twinery has provided a giveaway for one person who visits each blog! Here's all you have to do to qualify: Visit each blog and then send me one email telling me a topic that is currently or has recently been featured on each site. Not hard and it gives you a chance to really check out these great blogs! To enter send the email to practicalscrappers@gmail.com

Well it was last minute, but I hopped my way into the summer kick off blog hop!  I'm the last stop on the hop so if you came from Frosted Designs you are in the right place.  If you just stopped by my blog today and would like to do the hop from the start, head to Practical Scrappers.
Well being it is a summer blog hop, and I have a TON of summer pictures from lots of years past, I figured a layout of swimming would fit right into this hop!  And being I now have the embossing kits for the Silhouette on pre-order in my store www.amychomas.com I figured why not do an embossed summer layout!  If you don't own a Silhouette, I also have an embossing kit for the Cricut.
For these cute fishies and titles I used some of the new Echo Park downloads in the Silhouette store.  I laid the metal sheets colored side down, and made sure to flip my titles in Studio.  This is what my file looked like that I embossed. 

Here is what they look like embossed, then sanded lightly.  I simply cut around the oval shapes with scissors.

Here are the finished layouts.  The paper is Echo Park.  The journaling circle was done with the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder.

I'm part of 2 blog hops this weekend, so if you leave a comment after this post you will have a chance to win a Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder and 10  mini gel pens!  And check out yesterday's post for another chance to win! There are a few rules to follow! First, you don't need to be a follower, but why not?? I am often putting up new project ideas, tutorials and videos! Second, don't forget to leave me a way to contact you! Super important lol! And third, only one entry per person (I have to delete more then 1).    I will pick a winner at the end of the week.

Last, leave a comment after this post for the chance to win! It's that easy!

And also I've got a coupon code for my store for the blog hop! Use the code bloghop at checkout for www.amychomas.com to save 10% off the entire Chomas Creation's line including mini gel pen holders, mini gel pens, mini Sharpie holders, embossing kits and engraving tips all for the Cricut. We also have mini gel pen holders, mini gel pens, mini Sharpie holders for the Silhouette and the embossing kit on preorder for the Silhouette.

Here is the line up for the blog hop, make sure you've checked out each stop on the hop!

http://www.practicalscrappers.com/

http://papercraftstar.blogspot.com/

http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/

http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/

http://www.gettingcricky.com/

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/

http://amychomas.blogspot.com/ (you are here)

Like what you see? Leave a comment to let me know!