Santa's Hat Card

  I was visiting the amazingly talented Aphra Boyer's site here when I first spotted her Witches Hat card and just had to create something using it as my inspiration...so....I decided with the help of my crafty friend Tracy to make this Santa's Hat card.  I can't say that this would be one to mass produce as it took us around 8 hours to complete them, but I'm am just thrilled with how it turned out.  In fact I love it so much I may just keep this one for myself!

  I found the Poinsettia flower tutorial at Scrap A Little blog.  She has the greatest tutorials for all your handmade paper flowers.  I used Stampin' Up's Build a Brad to create the center of two of them and filled with Glossy Accents to creat an apoxy look.  The bits of tule were basted along one edge to gather them and then I used pinking shears to finish the visible edge.

  I used floral wire and pearl beads to make the snowman pin, and a cute little star button with the post cut off made the second pin.

  The word Joy was cut using my
Cricut and adheared with foam tape to add dimension.



Supplies:

Patterned Paper - BG: Blitzen, Ink - Tim Holtz, Brads - Stampin' Up, Glitter - Martha Stewart, Adhesive - Hot Glue & Elmers White glue & Foam tape, Cricut Cart - Winter Woodlands

Big Idea Festival & Pencil Lines Sketch Challenge

  I've been following along over at Big Picture Scrapbooking's Big Idea Festival, but have yet been able to complete any of the challenge projects.  Until today that is!  With Isabelle down for a nap, I dug in and worked as quickly as possible to create the latest challenge layout with the help of Pencil Lines and Anna Bowkis' latest sketch and Colour Combo's Galore's pallette.

  Anyways, this is the layout I came up with based on my response to the starting sentence provided: I Listen.... I listen to the birds chirping and the squirels chattering as I sip my first cup of coffee in the morning.  This is my favorite time of day as the children are still asleep and the world is quiet.  The photo is a little dark, but with all the smoke and haze from the forest fires, there is little natural light today.  I have yet to finish my journaling, but I wanted to get the layout posted as soon as possible and will finish up tonight when everyone's asleep.

  I liked the addition of a little yellow to this colour pallette to brighten up the more muted tones of the papers.  I painted the grungeboard first with a soft yellow acrylic paint and then sprayed the bird with glimmer mist, so it actually has a shimmer that wasn't picked up in the photo.

Supplies:


Patterned paper - DCWV: Mi Casa,    Cardstock - Bazzil Basics and Paper Reflections,   Ribbon - Stampin' Up,    Font - Hannah Montanah Cricut Cart,  Border - Story Book Cricut Cart,    Ink - Stampin' Up: Going Gray,    Stamp - Autumn Leaves: Swirls V:I,   Alphabet Stamps - Making Memories: {NOTE} WORTHY,    Button - K&Company: Wild Safron,   Chipboard - Tim Holtz: Grungeboard,   Glimmer Mist - Tattered Angels

Glimmer Mist Layout Inspired by Jana Eubank

  Jana Eubank an incredible designer for Tattered Angels created a layout that just blew me away using Glimmer Mist and a stensil.  I just had to create a layout using her page for inspiration, and here is what I came up with.

  I used my cricut and a whole punch to create my stensil instead of a purchased one.  I just loved the effect of outlining the finished shape as Jana did and so I scraplifted that as well.  Check out her blog From My Feathered Nest to see all her fabulous work as well as the origional layout.

  I used the Cricut to create most of my embellishment, and layered rubons with the diecut images and some chipboard images as well.  This is a much busier style of layout than my usual but I love the overall effect.  The only thing I wasn't crazy about was that the paper I used as the background was not overly thick and warped a bit from the moisture of the glimmer spray.  I tried drying under a stack of magazines, but this didn't seem to help.  Since I'm using the Creative Memory style book I had to adhere the page to another one so this helped a bit.

Rub-ons: Stampin Up,  Patterned Paper: Close To My Heart "Daydream",  Chipboard Accents: Basic Grey "Sugared",  Cardstock: Stampin Up & Unkown,  Glimmer Mist: Tattered Angels "Coffee Shop",  Cricut Cartridge: Storybook