Including Pixels and Paper for this month's challenge.
This month we have a vintage Christmas photo for your inspiration, so we would love to see your project based on an aspect of Christmas shown here. You have until midnight, 5th January to submit your creation, so we hope that this gives you plenty of time to enjoy the festive season with family and friends and hopefully finding some crafty time for yourself.
Pop over to:http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/ to see what the team has produced for this.
This is my DT piece for the challenge. I focused on the stockings and used this concept as a centrepiece for my layout. This was done with iris folding.
On the background I've also stamped a Christmas ornament topper (Chocolate Baroque stamps) with versamark, then heat embossed it and added braid so that it looked like they were hanging.
The inspiration photo also reminded me of my childhood when many of the decorations for the house and the tree were handmade. I remember making strings of bells from milk bottle caps, washed, turned inside out and moulded into bell shapes over a lemon juicer. We also made paper chains from cut up cards and crepe paper.
For this memory, I chose to make the ornaments from stamped foil paper, (Chocolate Baroque stamps) and again heat embossed the design. This gave them the look of some of the gorgeous decorations that were always packed away carefully each year. The idea of stamping and cutting out the ornaments was the result of a play day at Julie's at: http://timetocreate-handmadetreasure.blogspot.com.au/
Some close-ups of the ornaments. Sorry about the blueness of the background. In trying to get the detail of the ornaments to stand out more, the background was brightened a wee bit too much. The photo below is more of the real colour. Sentiments are Words from Darkroom Door.
The photo of our son taken in 1990 was framed with foil paper, smooshed with 3D Stamping Paint. Journalling has been done on tags popped into the folds of the stocking.
On the base I've placed a strip of "Merry Christmas" words in various languages (Graphic 45). I played with some soft metallic silver Pan Pastels and 3D Stamping Paint on this strip.
Thank you for visiting and please pop on over to Pixels and Paper to have a peep. We'd really love it if you decided to have a play with us.
Cheers, Di
The folded stocking looks fabulous, and I love those sparkly baubles!
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This is gorgeous! The iris fold stocking is amazing and your ornaments are so pretty too!
ReplyDeleteJust a wee bit jealous of your play date with Julie... :)
Some fantastic work here Diane. It's so good to see the iris folding used in particular. Jenny x
ReplyDeleteDi what a lovely reminder of a special time in your life. How quickly our children and some of the magic that is Christmas is gone. It is always my pleasure to have you come visit.
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