On the 10th Day of Christmas {2SF Blog Hop}

Hello--and welcome to the 10th Day of Christmas Creations on the Two Scrapbook Friends Blog Hop. And what a hop it's been so far--such fabulous inspiration all around!  Did you check out (yesterday)  how Shelby repurposed blinds to decorate a candle--so cool!

I was so delighted when the ladies invited me to be part of this hop that I created 3 projects to share with you today --yup, count 'em 3 (really,I just couldn't decide which one to share, so why not share all 3, right?)!!
So grab a cup a'joe, and join me . . .

First up is a double page  layout I designed using products from both My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas collection and Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas collection. I love the sparkle and formal feel of the MME papers mixed with a few touches from the vintage-y Simple Stories line.

 I pleated some velvet red ribbon on the left hand side, which I finished with cute leaf pins and regular sewing pins to mimic holly leaves and berries.  The Christmas Wish List is from Simple Stories--originally a list of 10, but I cut it down to fit my page.

 I dug out some of my old decorative scissors and cut out triangles to create this banner [could easily be done with banner dies--2SF carries a great set from My Favorite Things here!].  I over-lapped them and attached with bronze coloured brads. Hard to tell in the photo, but the two ends of the banner have two shear ribbon ties and green snowflakes (MS punch).  I used some glitter stickers to highlight the key word in my title!

 I typed up the start of my title on the computer; it looked a bit plain, so I covered my typed "nothing" with Glitz Designs Teeny Alpha Stickers

 Final detail--more Teeny Alpha stickers; flower and glittered button from my stash; finished off with some twine.

My second project is a single page layout, and features this vertical card paper from Simple Stories [used above for the "Christmas Wish List" card]

Have to admit, I can't remember the manufacturer of the background paper (I selected it simply because it matched the green of my son's sweater perfectly, and it had the vintage feel of the Simple Stories line. Navy blue mounted panel also complemented my son's sweater.  Those could easily be swapped with other colours.  What really stands out though are those vertical cards I cut out:

The bear and Santa postage stamps are cut from a piece of patterned paper I picked up in the clearance section at 2SF--sorry, don't think there would be any left.
     I fussy-cut the "Naughty or Nice" label from one of those cards! This is the "naughty photo"--he was 2 years old here--enough said!

Now, if you're still with me . . . here's the third [and final] project. I made something that can be used either as a placecard . . .

 . . . or as a gift tag . . .

I started off with a mini clothes pin that had a square wooden face on it (actually part of an old set I had to pin up Christmas cards--not using them any more, so time to re-purpose!!).  The square could be added to any clothes pin with some chipboard.  Any way, I covered the face with some scraps I had from the Simple Stories Christmas paper, then added a punched snowflake, a pearl and some baker's twine.

 For the name-tag part, I used my "favourite" [pun intended] My Favorite Things Stamp and Die set to  stamp the polka dot frame.  I achieved the antiqued red colour by covering my stamp with Stampin' Up poppy red ink, and then dabbing some Ranger Ink walnut stain on top before stamping onto my paper. I love how it matches the text paper on the clothes pin!  The polka dots also pick up the "period" punctuation in the text as well--ha, I just noticed that--totally not intended.

Any way, hope you've enjoyed my projects.  Thank you SO much for joining us in this hop!!
Be sure to leave a comment to qualify for a great prize from Two Scrapbook Friends!!
Also, collect all the secret words from each blog along the hop to create a phrase--email that phrase to the 2SF and you'll have a second chance to qualify!  Click on the blog hop link at the top of my post if you're starting today and you want to start from the beginning.

My secret word is: A
Be sure to visit Carolyn's blog tomorrow!!
Thanks 4 your time!