So excited to share my Festive Feast projects with you! Before I start, I wanted to share the Add Ons that I bought for this kit:
Basic Grey Pyrus Woolies
Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type Alphabet Stickers, Brown
Jillibean Soup Alphabeans, Tart Table
Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli journal sprouts
Lily Bee Design Catching Fall cardstock stickers
I don't often do a 2 pager, but I really wanted the pictures to be big enough to compare the difference between the girls last year and this year. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the apples, and a Fiskars (red cardstock) and Martha Stewart (brown woodgrain paper).
To create the apple border along the bottom, I cut strips of red cardstock and then punched the apples at a fairly regular interval (I warn you that I do a lot by sight and not by measuring). The smart thing to do would have been to then punch along the edges of the cardstock. But of course I didn't do decide to do that until I already had the background paper on there. I applied foam squares to the back of the red cardstock, and then attached strips of the striped paper. I interspersed somed of the Jillibean Sprouts to break up the stripes in a few spots. I like the shadow effect it created.
When I saw the "book" paper, I knew that I wanted to document all of the books that the girls love and make us read over and over these days. I snapped a few shots and created the photo collage in Photoshop. The woodgrain paper in this one is actually the packaging for the Imaginisce dimensional stickers, because I knew I was going to use that WHOLE sheet of the woodgrain paper. To create the "ribbon" strip (with the thread through it), I just took a strip of paper, ran it under the facet, and then folded and shaped it while it was still wet. I left it overnight to dry, and then just stitched it on.
Ahhhh, I think this one is my favorite this month. I used the stickers to make the banner, and then cut the title from the Lily Bee paper using my Slice (Animal Crackers card). I just love these pictures of us from last fall, and I love the out takes as much if not more than the "good" one. I loved the sentiment on the Lily Bee sticker, so I included it and used it design wise to anchor my journaling. Lots of stitching on this one. I'm so glad I finally got the sewing machine back out. The stitching across the banners is all by sight... I wish I had a technique to share, but I don't. :)
I made this tray to hang on the wall in the kitchen for fall/Thanksgiving time. Well, that's a stretch. 7 Gypsies made the tray. I decorated it with the kit and add ons...
...and some machine stitching.
...and some cut work.
...and some hand stitching.
This was literally made with the remaining scraps from my kit. I didn't trim the papers at all... just used and positioned what I had. I knew I wanted to do this layout when I saw the pear sticker in the Woolies. But I wanted some more green on my layout, so I decided to spray the book paper with Green mist. I loved the other side of this paper, too, so it was a tough choice. I used the JBS sprouts as masks for my journaling. Everything else is kit and add ons.
The background was sprayed with Turquoise Metallic mist and then Charcoal mist (letting it dry in between). I originally tried then adding another super light layer of the Turquoise over the BG Pyrus paper, but really didn't like the way it looked and ended up ripping it up. I also really liked the way the book paper looked in my last LO with the green mist on it, so I did that again. Some border punches, my last Woolie, a birthday sentiment stamp, and that's it!
