Featuring Kelly Purkey Shop │ Around the Table

One of my favorite parts of the holidays is the entertaining. I love having people over for any occasion be it baking parties, cocktail parties, movie parties, or pretty much just about any type of party. I'm always ready and willing to host it. I think that comes from us having so many family members that live far away, my friends become my family so I love hosting them whenever I can.

This past Christmas we were lucky enough to have family in town for Christmas which is super rare. Our favorite way to celebrate Christmas Eve is to have a huge cocktail and appetizer night so that's what we did.

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Luckily for me Kelly designed the perfect stamp set that ties in to my favorite entertaining appetizer these days, cheeseboards or cheese plates. I love a good grazing opportunity and have really dug right into the cheeseboard trend and all that that entails. For this spread I used the Around the Table stamp set, the Warm and Cozy kit and the base papers are from the We Are F(r)amily Travelers Notebook kit.

I knew the focal point of this layout was going to be the cheese plate masterpiece stamp and of course the cheese stamps. I used the platter that was part of the turkey stamp and then just stamped and fussy cut out the cheeses and the wine bottles. They layered perfectly on top of the platter and the plaid card base from the Warm and Cozy kit was the perfect focal point for the stamped cluster.

I used some Tim Holtz Flip Frame pockets to create the flip up and printed my photos to size. I love the interactive aspect and it allowed for three photos to accompany the story. There is one on the back too.

The journaling was printed on vellum with some more stamping up top in the available space. I love the little houses and the different greenery stamps on the Warm and Cozy stamp set. There are so many options on what you can make besides the simple greenery bough I made. 

I look forward to many more holiday entertaining opportunities this season and can't wait to used these stamps some more. 

Don't forget that there are digital files for the kits and stamp sets in the shop too if you want to print off just a few of the cards and stamps or create your own cards that way.