Thursday, November 12, 2009

Cut it Up

Welcome to Mosh Posh's Design Team Blog Hop. I'm stuck indoors due to the terrible Nor'easter that's parked off of Virginia's coast. Now, being stuck indoors would NORMALLY be a good thing, EXCEPT school's cancelled. So, I'm seeking shelter inside with five kids who have some serious cabin fever!


Today's a perfect day to take advantage and do some crafting. When I received Mosh Posh's November kit, the first thing I did was shuffle throught the kit's patterned papers. The Nutmeg from Cosmo Cricket is double-sided and just beautiful. I love how all of the B sides are that fabulous Cosmo Cricket woodgrain in assorted colors. In addition to November's Main Kit Carmel Apple, I also received the Spiced cider add-on. Within this add-on was the Cosmo Cricket Borders sheet. The possibilities are endless.





After perusing the papers, I looked for something I could cut up. I'm all about using my pink Cutterbees and fussy cutting. See that ca-yute pink border with the birdies? I started cutting up that bad boy to begin my Tractor page.


I used the border minus the lighter pink. I kept the clouds that were floating freely, too. I adhered the border to the top of page 2. I added the clouds with popdots. To add to the feel of the sky I hand cut clouds from the pink cardstock in the add-on. I made some bigger clouds to balance the 2-pager for page 1. I also did some hand stitching to amp up the hand spun feel...


So, I've got the border, the clouds and I knew I had to use a 4 by 6 photo of my youngest, one happy, one mad/sad. And, I also wanted to use pix of my other 4 (just smaller) on the same tractor. Sullivan just couldn't understand what the others were doing on HIS "wuck" (tractor) at the pumpkin patch.

Had to do some of my pleating. I pleated another couple of the Cosmo Cricket borders. The striped one with the alpha. To make it appear longer, I just hacked it in half and tucked one end under the top of my main photo and the other under the bottom. Next up I handcut the quote shape from a border, added a title and a few other little decorative touches. Including that hand sewn "mine" in the lower right corner. I used a bling template from Bazzill. It's supposed to be used for placing bling on alphas. I just used it as a template for stitching the letters.

Well, there you go, a little look at my process today. Be sure to visit the other girls' blogs to up your chances for the giveaway...

Estee Stone
Brook Magee
Frances Sylvia


I may even put together a little something something giveaway if you leave me a comment. I'll draw a name at midnight.

Be back later today with some other new stuff, if Ida can give me even a little bit of sun...

25 comments:

  1. The weather is no fun!! Today is very, very windy and cloudy. I love the new MP kit and finished a page with it last night. tho I think it still needs some tweaking. I love your tractor page. Made me think of Ben and his love of tractors. :)

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  2. Hey lady!!! It was so nice to talk to you this morning!! I hope that the kids are, well, calm! You can always UPS them to my house!! :) Muah!

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  3. Great layout!! Loved the way the word tractor looks!!

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  4. 5 kids and a Noreaster!! Wow, what a woman!

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  5. Great layout, I love Cosmo Cricket.

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  6. Lovely layout! Cosmo Cricket are the bees knees!

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  7. I only have one of my 5 kids home today, missing the others!

    Love your clouds and those cute little stitches~

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  8. Love it! Enjoyed visiting your blog!!

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  9. Love your page:-) I have some tractor pics that need scrapping...thanks for the inspiration!!

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  10. So in love with the stitching and pleating...thank you for walking us through your creative process for this beautiful layout

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  11. ohh love what you did with that line!! and a great 2 pgr!!! way to go, love the added stitching

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  12. LOVE that two pager Jenny!! Those little x stitches are sooooo cute! =)

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  13. beautiful work! That is a beautiful Kit! I just love it! I admire that you still find time to scrap while taking care of five children! You go girl!

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  14. Beautiful work, as always Jenny! You rock!

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  15. Double page layouts are a challenge for me. I love what you have done with yours! :)

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  16. I love your LO! I would have never thought to cut the border papers. Thanks for the idea!

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  17. And I thought being home with 2 kids and a friend with no tv was bad! 5 of them? I would not be able to scrap at all, but your lo's are beautiful! thanks for sharing.

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  18. Darling layout! I love Cosmo Cricut, too. Good luck riding out that storm.

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  19. Love those free floating clouds - darling page! I just love the Cosmo Cricut line of papers ... can you say NUTMEG?!?!

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  20. I'm sitting here wondering if I can fussy cut as well as you. I'll have to head downstairs and give it a try. LOL!

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  21. I LOVE fussy cutting. I think your layout came out darling. Thanks for letting is know that you cut the strip in two to make it stretch longer.

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  22. I love your hand stitching on the clouds!!! This LO is amazing! I also LOVE fussy-cutting! :)

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  23. I love these layouts. The pictures are extra cute too!

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