NOEL Christmas Banner Using Emboidery Rings

You know when you get an idea in your head and then when it starts to come out your beyond excited. Well today's post is exactly that, I was sitting in my studio thinking what can I do and as I was cleaning up I found 5 (yes 5) oval embroidery rings made out of wood. And thought what can I create with these. I had treated myself to a new Christmas Kit and had everything for it sitting in front of me and then it came to me what about a banner that says "NOEL". And this is what I created and I am so super excited about it too.

This can be altered using any type of paper, I will be doing one for my workshop out of Stampin' Up products and definitely using MDS (My Digital Studio). I probably won't get that one done until I return from my holidays but maybe I will. When you are inspired sometime you just have to get it out, right?

What I used:

• 5 embroidery rings (oval)
• Any Christmas scraping kit
• 5" or larger wide satin ribbon in matching colour
• Cherry Cobbler card stock
• Early Espresso card stock
• Buttons
• jewels
• glitter
• Very Vanilla card stock
• Stamp Set Creative Elements
• Cherry Cobbler 5/8 Seam Binding

This is how looks like all put together
and on the wall, can you say WOW!

Close-up showing a little more detail.

The following images show each one separately so you can see the details of each one.

For those who know me I can never really create
something with even numbers so of course I had to have
another embroidery hoop and this works so well.
I love that my quirky habits work out.

"N" ice. How nice this patterned paper it is vintage and
sparkly and lends itself with the ribbon and buttons 

"O"h my I love the ascent paper that I used here again
the buttons work so well and so simple.

Close-up showing how I used Creative Elements
Stamp from Stampin' Up it doesn't always have
to be something Christmas related, I used it as a
background it it makes the letter pop!

"E"cellent  love the damasks look of the paper so pretty!

"L"ove I so love how this project turned out!

And Now for Something a Little Different

Whimsical Tree with Button Flowers

OK so two weekends ago my husband and I headed out on a little trip to Carleton Place see here. CP is approx. half hour drive from where we live, and a very cute town with a lovely main street. We were also and I say a loosely "we" (JC waited in the car playing his guitar) were going to check out there local scrap booking store that someone had told me about called http://www.scraptease.ca/.

I must say I was so excited, this store had tons of different items, almost like one of a kinds. The staff was very helpful, and were even better at showing how I can spend my money, LOL. Of course I bought a few things, and among them a product called Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels see here. I plan to dive into my next project this weekend, I will keep you posted as to how it goes, hey it even might be my next personal challenge, you never know.

Anyway among many of the things I purchased that day, was this very whimsical stamp that formed a tree and screamed out for some buttons. This tree is certainly a girly tree calling for some pink paper and as for the background I chose a designer paper called Deena's Penny Lane "Feeling Groovy - "Uniquely You" see here from My Mind's Eye. Ohhh so cute!

Anyway here is my creation with a close-up showing the button details, oh so cute.