A Cherry Cobbler Layout with a Surprise

While we're waiting for the turkey to cook, here's a little Cherry Cobbler layout I made up for some fun.  Be sure to read my entire post to learn about the surprise with this layout.

It's the day before Thanksgiving and heavenly smells will be filling our home soon, as we cook our turkey the day before Thanksgiving.  My Bill usually cooks our turkey on the Weber.  It is amazing.  This year, with it being so cold, we're going to cook it inside, to be sure the heat stays even and the bird gets completely cooked.  It will be wonderful, I'm sure.  Now, for the layout. 

I've used our Festival of Trees and Wondrous Wreath stamp sets, our little Banner Punch and some of our gorgeous Cherry Cobbler ribbon. 

The papers are from our All is Calm DSP.  It looks nice with the Cherry Cobbler and totally changes the feel of the color story.

The snowflake is from our Snowflake Card Thinlits Dies.

Now, for the surprise.  
All the pieces for this layout were leftovers from other projects!

The turkey is now in the oven.  The fun is just around the corner!

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Christmas Plaid

Here's another card using our Wondrous Wreath... this time in a Christmas Plaid.  I love the look of plaid.   It reminds me of a special Christmas memory.  First the card and then the memory. 

I've used our cherry cobbler seam binding in 2 places on this card and then created a coordinating envelope using some of our Washi Tape.

Now the memory.
When I was a little girl, my grandmother would sew for the entire family... every year.  She made pajamas and/or robes for all the moms and dads and complete outfits for all the kids.  The outfits could be pajamas or robes or my favorite... a skirt, blouse and vest for each of the girls.  I loved my little plaid skirt and vest so much that I actually cried when I outgrew it and had to pass it down to my little sister.  I do still have something wonderful by which to remember all my grandmother's wonderful outfits.  One year, she used all the scraps from previous projects and made a lap robe for each of the moms and dads.  I have the 2 passed down from my parents and I already gave 1 to each of my children because I wanted them to have a token of the incredible love given us by all our family.  If you're not already impressed, here's the info on how big a job my grandmother took on each year.  She had 3 daughters and 1 son and among them, they all had 7 grandchildren.

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Wondrous Wreath

One of my favorite new stamp sets is from our Holiday Catalog.  It's called Wondrous Wreath and comes with coordinating framelits!  We've had wreaths in the past that I loved but they had to be cut out with labor intensive fussy cutting.  I actually like to do fussy cutting, but it takes a lot more time.  The framelits make it easy peasy to create a gorgeous project using the wreath and in a lot less time.   That means more time for other projects!  

Click here to see a video on using these coordinating products.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmGvHHgdUh0&list=TLBrp22gSLU-YnwPRc2ULYXxu_7TWUJnWV

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'Joy' Blocks

Here's a closer look at the 'Joy' Blocks we'll be making at my November 10 Scraps and Prayers class.  I really like how they turned out.

The letters are cut from Glimmer Paper that I spritzed with Cherry Cobbler reinker.  I like how the Cherry Cobbler becomes a wonderful accent for our All is Calm DSP.

I've used our Wondrous Wreath stamps and coordinating die to create a wreath to stand in for the 'o' in Joy.

Click here to see a video on using these coordinating products.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmGvHHgdUh0&list=TLBrp22gSLU-YnwPRc2ULYXxu_7TWUJnWV

To create the 'wrapped present' look for each block, I wrapped one piece of ribbon around the block and attached it.  I wrapped a second piece around the block the opposite direction, leaving long ends to tie.  I cut a 'v' in the ends of each ribbon... because it just looks cool.

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