Neat and Tangled and Benzie Designs Collaboration Felt Ornaments

Hello everyone,
Today I am sharing with you, a project that I created using some products from Neat and Tangled, and Benzie Designs, who collaborated to create the dies used for this project.  (CLICK HERE!) to visit  Benzie Designs, and (CLICK HERE!) to visit Neat and Tangled.

Using the Ugly Sweater and Snowflake Stitching dies from the Neat and Tangled and Benzie Designs collaboration and Glitter and Glass and Winter Mint felt color palettes from Benzie Designs, I set out to make some special winter ornaments.  These palettes include a beautiful selection of high quality felt, but also offer coordinating embroidery flosses (which I purchased).  I cut the sweaters (one for the front, and another for the back) from the glitter and glass color palette.  I was really channeling the "ugly sweater" fad that has become popular over the last several years, but I think I missed the mark a bit, because these turned out really cute!

Once I had the sweaters themselves cut, I proceeded to cut the sweater cuffs and collars from a coordinating color, and stitched them onto the sweater using the embroidery floss.  I used the same process for the candy cane, wreath, snowman, and gingerbread man.  However, I elected to enhance these items by selectively stitching some seed beads onto them to dress them up a bit.  I then attached these items to the sweaters using liquid glue in lieu of the stitching.

Using the embroidery floss again, I made loops of floss, and secured them to the back of my sweaters, and then used liquid adhesive to attach the backs of the sweaters, and moved on to my snowflakes.

I followed much of the same steps to create my snowflakes- beginning with the Winter Mint palette of felt (again with the coordinating embroidery floss), I die cut my main snowflake shapes (in twos- one front and another rear), and inner structure of the snowflakes from the felt.  I then created an interesting series of stitching, incorporating sequins and glass beads to add some sparkle to the felt (what's a snowflake without sparkle anyway?).  After getting them looking the way that I wanted,  I again added some loops to the backs before sealing the snowflake "panels" with liquid adhesive.  These loops will allow me to hang some of these cute "ugly" sweaters from our Christmas tree this year!

I hope you enjoyed my project today, I certainly had a lot of fun playing with something a little different, and I think this would be a fantastic family crafting idea- everyone could spend a little time creating something adorable for your holiday celebrations!

Koren

Your Next Stamp Winter Unicorns Card Video

Hello everyone.

It's Preview Day at Your Next Stamp, and with it comes a NEW video from me. In this video I'm using the NEW Winter Unicorns Rock Stamp set and coordinating dies to create a fun, and non traditional Christmas card.  The blog hop for this release will begin at 11am EST on November 8th. (CLICK HERE!) to visit the YNS Blog.

Linked in this post below, you can find the video I created while making this card. You will also find a Copic color map for your Pinterest enjoyment, some additional photos and a complete list of supplies using affiliate links when available; these links are at no additional cost to you, and a small percentage of the sale helps fund this blog, so, thank you very much for your support!

I hope you enjoy my project and don't forget to stop by the Your Next Stamp blog and check out what the rest of the design team has create with the NEW Release products. To visit the YNS blog (CLICK HERE!) 

Koren

My First Project Life Pages using NEW Spellbinders Clear Stamps

So... I did it.  I finally took the time to create my very first Project Life pages.  I chose a trip that we all took last December to visit my Mom in North Carolina.  We had several great photos, and it seemed like the perfect trip to use...

I want to thank @sarascraps for always pushing me to pick up my scrapbooking supplies. I am dedicating my very first page to you Sara. It's not too bad for my first try.

Anyway- onto the project.  The project life pocket configurations really drive your image sizes, so, I laid out my pages in the way that I thought looked best, and then began trimming, clipping and cropping my images, as well as sections of colored cardstock that I incorporated into the design (and later stamped and journaled on).

Page One 

All of my sentiments for this project were from from Spellbinders' Captured Sentiments set.  I used their "you are my sunshine" stamp , and applied a healthy coating of Staz-On opaque Cotton White, and stamped on a photo of Dexter playing at the beach.  I then selected the "Memories" stamp, applied some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink, and stamped that beautiful image onto some plain white 110lb cardstock.  "Can you believe this" was stamped on Stampin'Up!'s Night of Navy cardstock in tumbled glass ink, "Today" was white ink on a separate piece of that same navy cardstock.  Using some Distress Oxide Chipped Sapphire, I stamped the word "Captured" onto Simon Says Stamp's Sea Glass cardstock, and then "Shine" onto a separate piece of that same colored paper. Below "Shine", I stamped "Bright" in white ink.

Page Two 

I also die-cut a speech bubble, and the 2017 from the same navy cardstock, using the Spellbinders "Say What?" and "Count the Stars" die sets. From there, I began adhering my die-cut pieces to their backgrounds using some liquid and tape runner adhesives.

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 I stamped "this moment" onto a piece of heat resistant acetate, with the intention of sliding this in front of the photo where everyone is getting a little splashed... and I totally screwed it up.  But in "this moment", I realized that my happy accident ended up looking like 3-D water splashing effect.  So, I abandoned my desire for my original idea, and in fact, I accentuated it a bit using a splatter technique and some white acrylic paint!

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I finished off this project with some handwritten entries, including a few details about the trip, and I was really relieved to have this first Project Life page in the books.  It feels so familiar, yet, strange and foreign at the same time.  It was a fun project though!

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