Newborn layout with Carta Bella

I made a fabulous discovery a few weeks ago - a stack of photos of my oldest boys from back when they were babies. They are mostly pre-digital, so there are not as many of them! and they are not sitting conveniently on my computer ready to print off when I want. I've had fun going back and scrapping some of these baby photos in a more current style!!

Here is a step-by-step using the fabulous Carta Bella Alphabet Junction papers from my2angels.net - beautiful quality - if you love My Minds Eye and Crate paper quality papers - you will love these!!

For this layout of Lachlan when he was a baby, I used the blue reverse side of the Carta Bella Dear little Dots paper for my background.

I then cut large flag shapes from Delightful strip and Simple scallops, using the reverse side of Simple scallops for the third flag. I then distressed and inked around the edges before doodling along the edges as well.




I then used Bakers twine to thread the flags together - you will need a good strong needle for this! As I looped the twine, I added the cool lollipop charm and the Make a Wish tag from the Birthday Boy Green Presents embellishments. This gives additional interest and dimension to the banner.







I then cut a selection of hexagons from the Honeycomb paper and added some to the middle banner and some to the bottom right side of the layout ...





I then selected a range of stickers from the Alphabet Junction sticker sheet and added them to the edges of the photo and also decorated the flags with them.



I used the coordinating Alpha stickers for the title.





Finally, I added some journalling and it was done ... these are such awesome papers and have they are very versatile. I can see me using them over and over.

LISA

Large Christmas Tree Charms on the tree

Our new large Christmas Trees are as mentioned previously, a generous size with amazing detail .. sometimes you can't imagine the size and detail when viewing on-line so here I have tried to show the size and other ways you can use them.

So here they are on my palm ....

And because of the size they can quite easily become a decoration on their own on your Christmas Tree this year.  

They have small circle indents on them which acts as a guide to embellish

Here are a few suggestions
First with our Large Antique Silver Christmas trees

Hanging from our mobile phone cords and embellished with light green rhinestones

Embossed with Aged Rose Stampendous Embossing Powder then sprinkled over Rose Fragments, using dimensional magic to adhere the fragments

Baby Blue Liquid Pearls with 

Blue Satin Ribbon with Silver Spots

upclose of the 2 silver Christmas traditional bells
and 10mm silver jump rings





As Glimmer Mist won't stick to charms I first painted my Large Antique Silver Christmas tree charm
with Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matte then sprayed
starting at the top of the tree with Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist then Olive Vine Glimmer Mist towards the bottom
(I wish you could see the full effects of the Glimmer Mist on the tree, it looks stunning!)

after the glimmer mist dried, I added some brown pearls

or how about Opaque  Black Seed Beads and Diamond Stickles?

upclose ...

Now working with the Large Antique Bronze Christmas Trees

First left unaltered hanging from our Antique Bronze Iron Chain

 

I wiped Christmas Red Stickles using my finger
Added 2 red Christmas traditional bells to the top of the Antique Bronze Iron Chain
for this one

Christmas Red Stickles
 filling the "indented" holes

Embossed with Stampendous Embossing Powder Marine and hanging from Blue Pearls, 8mm Brown Pearl and bead findings

To create this tree

Randomly wipe "emboss it" over tree then sprinkle with Stampendous Embossing Powder Marine

and emboss it with heat gun (be careful let it cool down before you touch the charm ... HOT!!!!)

Take a 7cm Antique Bronze Eye Pin and thread on 6mm dark blue pearl, then 5mm antique bronze snowflake spacer bead finding then repeat

Next add a 8mm dark brown pearl and a 5mm antique bronze snowflake spacer bead finding

then finish off with 2 lots of 6mm dark blue pearl, separated by a 5mm antique bronze snowflake spacer bead finding

with your round nose pliers bend the end of the pin, (without the loop) and trim with plyers so it is aligned with the bottom of the bottom pearl

Place the "hook" of the pin through the loop at the top of the Christmas Tree Charm

now squeeze the loop together to secure it to charm

so there you are with just a few ideas to alter our new large Christmas Trees.
Pop over to my2angels and get yourself a packet or two as these are selling even quicker than we expected!

You will find them in the new arrivals section
or
the Christmas embellishments section

New Arrivals in store now and a few Christmas tutorials

New Arrivals

Just in time for your Christmas Creations

Antique Silver Curly Christmas Trees

5 for $1.60

Large Silver Christmas Trees

2 per packet for $1.50

and measure nearly 7cm tall

Large Antique Bronze Christmas Trees

2 per packet for $1.50

and measure nearly 7cm tall

Antique Bronze Double Stars

5 for $1.60

Silver Star Charms small
5 for $1.60

Gold Star Charms small
5 for $1.60



Silver Presents with For You Hanging Presents

5 for $1.60

And a great stocking filler or a Teachers thank you gift
Angel Bookmarks
$4.50

6mm Christmas Bells

in Traditional Christmas colours 
and Non Traditional Colours

Packet of 16 for $1.99

For your vintage Christmas Creations

a new my2angels charming chain

Antique Bronze Merry Christmas Charming Chain with coordinating Pin

$2.99

And we have loose seed beads

 1 scoop for $1.30

 What do you do with seed beads?

At our recent Christmas Embellishment Class we created a Christmas tree using the strands of beads on a Christmas Tree

Or you could make your a 3D Christmas Tree Gift Holder using this Christmas Tree Template

I cut mine from pizza box for a sturdy tree and so it will keep for many years.  Strip off some of the layers randomly.  Add our Green Christmas Tree and Stars Felt Ribbon and paint all over using Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matt .  Our felt ribbon is also available in red.  All felt ribbons are here

While the medium is still wet, sprinkle over green seed beads, cut various scrolls from the felt ribbon to "hang" our gold star charms and just for you star charms.  Add an Antique Bronze Double Stars to the top of one side.  You may need to do this in sections eg each triangle at a time so the beads don't fall off before they stick.  And don't forget the bottom of your tree.  I added a mini olive gardenia and a brown tassel

So you should have something like this, which at this point looks pretty dull.  Next give it another paint of Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matt to give it a sealant coat.  Leave to dry.  Should only take about an hour in warm conditions with a semi-thick coat.

Next choose your choice of Glimmer Mists to spray over your tree.  I used Tattered Leather, Lime Key Pie, Olive Vine and Bronze

Attach Antique Bronze Chain and Antique Bronze 10mm Jump Ring to the Antique Bronze Double Stars and hang from your Christmas tree for a unique Gift Holder

or you may like to omit the  and adhere one of our new Antique Bronze Merry Christmas Charming Chain to the top

OMG

The new Large Christmas trees are a generous size being 7cm in height!

Here I have created 2 Christmas Cards using both colours with

 Fresh Green Glitter Class

Leaf Green Colour Fragments

Twiddleybitz Kraft C6 Card packs

and the Christmas Tree from Kaisercraft Turtle Dove Stamps

Card 1

Highlight the tree with Red Stickles

For the background Christmas Trees I dropped coordinating Tim Holtz Reinkers on a makeup pad and applied my stamp to the make up pad then stamped onto the card and onto Bazzill Kraft cardstock.  I then cut around my kraft stamped trees and adhered to layout.

card 2

Highlighted the tree with light green rhinestones

 

The background trees were again using
the Christmas Tree from Kaisercraft Turtle Dove Stamps

but this time embossed with Shabby Green Embossing Enamel Powder

So pop over to our New Arrivals section

because I don't think many of these items will stay in stock for long

Don't forget you only have until the 20th November to book your 12 layouts of Christmas Kit, only a few kits left

And do you live near us?  We are near Harbour Town on the Gold Coast, Queensland?

We have had to add an extra Christmas Embellishment Class, due to popular demand

Details can be found here:

 Price includes subway lunch, endless coffee and tea plus all materials required

Wishing you all a relaxing and creative weekend