Raise your hand if you're a busy mom who has more crafts on the must-try list than you'll ever have time to actually accomplish. Oh, you too? I love papercrafts, fabric crafts, home decor -- you name it, and I want to try it. This is where I share everything I squeeze in after the kids are in bed and the laundry's done!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Christmas Cuties
Our challenge for BBTB this week was to use this adorable stocking from Christmas Cheer in a non-traditional color (anything but red). Although I don't usually make layouts before I have pictures, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with this one! (Waiting for this baby has done this to me a lot!) My SIL is having a baby any day now, and we're so looking forward to having our two little babies at the same time. We'll be together at Christmas, and I thought this would be just perfect for some Christmas pictures of our two little lovies together. The only catch is, they don't know whether they're having a boy or a girl -- they're some of those crazy people who like to be surprised... ;) Luckily, this paper and layout have enough pink and blue that we could fit a baby boy in there if we HAVE to, hee hee!
Materials used:
Patterned Paper: Scenic Route
"Celebrate the Season" Stamp and Scallop Punch: Stampin' Up
Journaling Stamp: Autumn Leaves
Acrylic letters and heart: Heidi Swapp (I used acrylic paint to highlight the edges and sewed them to the page with pink embroidery floss)
"Christmas": Cricut Opposites Attract cartridge, sized and welded in CDS, in both chipboard and cardstock
Stocking: Cricut Christmas Cheer cartridge, cut at 4" and embossed with the Cuttlebug. Top and toe are covered in fun flock!
Snowflake: Cricut Christmas Cheer cartridge
Cardstock: DCWV
Here are some close ups of my favorite elements:
This is adorable!! I have got to get myself into the Christmas mode. I have such a hard time with doing that this early, but I've got to get there soon!
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love love love this layout Tomi, the colors and the letters are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteLove this! Beautiful! Hope you're feeling well!
ReplyDeletethis is so adorable!! thanks for sharing this! :)
ReplyDeleteWhen you sew on your pages...do you use just a regular sewing maching?
ReplyDeleteThanks, y'all. Joy, I do use a regular sewing machine when I stitch on cards and layouts. It works great, but it does dull the needles faster. HTH!
ReplyDeleteI love it!!!! You did a fabulous job!!!
ReplyDeleteTHis page is awesome!! I love these colors for Christmas! Your stitching and details are so amazing!
ReplyDeleteThis is just lovely !! i love the colours !! simply wonderful !!
ReplyDeleteLOVE THIS Tomi!! Consider the acrylic letters edged in the white acrylic paint TOTALLY lifted!! :) I will give you full credit! I love that look! Awesome take on the challenge!!
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome LO!! All the details are amazing! i love how you cuttebugged the stocking and the acrylic letter edged with paint came out so awesome!
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