Welcome to Day 6 of the
Coredinations, May Arts, and Petaloo
"Holiday Inspiration" Week!
Our lucky winner is:
Congratulations Margie and please email Cheryl@Petaloo.com with your shipping address to claim your prize...
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Lately I have been making a lot of wallhangings. I love to create them and I love to give them away.
The colors I got to work with were perfect for traditional christmas projects but I so felt like giving it a monochromatic twist I ended up with 2 wallhangings that will make great christmas gifts.
First is in blue and my son Noah. The story behind it is grandma always buys him the most beautiful shirts and .. very unlike his sister.. he LOVES clothes. He really makes a point of getting his picture taken in his "favorite shirt" of the moment. I thought it would also be a great way to say 'thank you" to grandma.
I cut the core'dinations cardstock in smaller pieces and embossed them. I distressed the edges and sanded the bottom layer. The top layer is also distressed but now I used distress ink to add a little extra. I really loved the blue and white May Arts ribbon.
It so resembled his shirt. Then I used the color me crazy flowers. I sooo love to play around with those. I stamped these with a small square pattern so it also resembles the shirt design. I tied buttons down as flower centers using May Arts Sheer blue ribbon
and white ribbon.
Supplylist for "My Favorite shirt":
Petaloo Color me Crazy Core'dinations:
Marine Blue #1554-307
Blue Bell #1553-306
Snowflake White #1553-300
Paper:Core'dinations:
Marine Blue GX- BB 030
Bluebell GX-BB010
Snowflake GX- FB010
The second wall hanging is "Floor". Floor has been friends with Amber from the day she was born. Love to see these girls still together.
More Embossing with the coredination papers this time different patterns. I distressed the red paper and inked the white paper (with red distress inks)
I decided to leave the Color me Crazy's as they were because even without "extra's" they are simply gorgeous and they match the core'dinations paper just perfectly. I used a white ribbon at the bottom of the photo with a subtile glitter.
Thanks for stopping by...
Mireille
Petaloo Color me Crazy Core'dinations
Snowflake White #1553-300
Poinsettia Red #1553-321
Scarlet #1553-322
Poinsettia - GX- CR030
Snowflake- GX-FB010
White Glitter
Great projects today. The flowers are great on their own but your stamping on the blue ones adds a new twist to them.
Posted by: Debbie C | 10/24/2011 at 04:05 AM
Beautiful work! Your embossed backgrounds are stunning
Posted by: Lisa Valentine | 10/24/2011 at 03:19 AM
I find it so hard to do "boy" or "men" layouts. But you rocked it out of the park! Awesome LO's!
Posted by: Barbara Staradumsky | 10/23/2011 at 06:33 AM
You did a great job with the monochromatic look!
Posted by: Janet Zeppa | 10/23/2011 at 04:53 AM
Both layouts are so pretty! Love that embossed cardstock, and I especially love the blue layout with all the buttons, flowers, and bows!
Posted by: Cynthia B. | 10/22/2011 at 08:38 PM
Beautiful layouts. The blues are amazing. Love all the textures with the distress. Great bling detail. The reds are wonderful. great textures an dlayering. thank you for sharing.
Posted by: Kim H | 10/22/2011 at 08:04 PM
Gorgeous and clever layouts!
Posted by: Janet L. | 10/22/2011 at 06:39 PM
Fabulous layouts! The colors are amazing! So pleased that Petaloo matches the Core'dinations cardstock, and then May Arts has such fabulous colors to tie in also! Yummy!
DeniseB
Posted by: Denise Bryant | 10/22/2011 at 05:16 PM
I am usually not much on mono layouts but I think you have changed my mind. These are gorgeous! I especially love the blue with all the layers of floral, buttons and ribbons, soooo pretty!
Posted by: Kim M | 10/22/2011 at 04:51 PM
What amazing layouts!
Posted by: Anita A | 10/22/2011 at 11:04 AM