Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

The Hemingway House

I'm stepping away from Christmas with this next layout for a minute.  The Georgie pack is designed for baby photos but as there are no babies in my life at the moment, I can definitely use the papers for other thing; they are very neutral prints.   Mike's shirt in these photos, from the Hemingway House tour in Key West, just match so well with the Juniper in the Georgie paper pack!  

I used the new Artistry Cricut to cut the typewriter and the title.  I stapled a double row of the slate twine to the two corners.  I added some stamping using a retired stamp set with a script print on it, even though its a little hard to see in these pictures. 

Penguin Tags

And we tune back into Christmas - with a few gift tags using the Season's Greetings stamp set.

 

From Daisy White cardstock cut 3" tags, Art Philosophy, page 49, Tag, shift,<L>. 

From Cranberry cardstock cut 3.25" tags, Art Philosophy, page 60.

(Tip: When using Art Philosophy cartridge, you can use another cartridges overlay to find a key faster by using the alphabet.)

Place the white tag over the red tag and mark the placement of the stars.  Cover the marked strip with gold foil.

 

Stamp the penguin using black pigment ink, clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Color with Shin-han markers Vivid Green and Carmine.

Stamp the snowflakes in Glacier.  You can place all three stamps on one block for faster stamping.

 

On the back, I used To: and Fr: from the Christmas Post stamp set, and the border from Santa Claus stamp set.  The twine is some from my stash.

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

White Pines extra pages

The Holiday Expressions catalog is coming to close!  Take a final look and see if there is anything you don't want to miss.  This is a layout I did with the White Pines Workshop on the Go, after I completed the two DLO's in the kit.  (That's actually chocolate, not black as my mats.)  I used the Festive trees hostess stamp set.  I cut the shape from the Art Philosophy cartridge, then cut the top off and added it to the bottom for a different look.

So, Christy, what do you think?