Little Snow Elves

(for Tresors de Luxe)

My mother (center) with two of her sisters in the 1940's

Although it's a little blurry I love this photo of my mother and two of her sisters.  They look like little Christmas elves in their matching snowsuits.

This is my first layout for Tresors de Luxe, using some of their beautiful laces, flowers and jewelry pieces.  These are some of the pieces I used.

GL-194

FL-055

EM-007

CR-026

I struggled with the My Creative Scrapbook design work I did in my last post, coming to the conclusion (especially when I saw what beautiful things the other designers accomplished with the kit), that perhaps I am not suited to design for a kit club.  I remember a designer on tv once saying "give a designer a limited budget and watch them sweat genius".   Well, I sweated all right, but I didn't smell any genius, lol.

I was much more comfortable working on Little Snow Elves for Tresors de Luxe.
For this page I used MajaDesign papers from their Vintage Frost collection.

 

I stamped the background using several different Kaisercraft texture stamps with brown and dark grey archival inks. Then I used a memory box stencil with molding paste, applying it in patches to random areas.  I washed over those areas with very diluted brown watercolour paint.

Kaisercraft stamp - Diamonds

Kaisercraft stamp - Sketchy

Kaisercraft stamp - Dictionary Meanings

Memory Box Stencil - Texture Adornment

 Under the large piece of lace at the bottom I cut a wide strip of a darker coloured paper from the Vintage Frost collection.  I used 2 sets of dies to cut out the layered shapes (although the My Favorite Things one is difficult to see) and punched a border for the top and bottom tucking it underneath the upper layer.

Lifestyle Crafts die - Nesting Doily Circles

Martha Stewart PATP stamp -Skylands Snowflake

The large pink "snowflake" under the top right corner of the photo was cut from very thin chipboard on a Cricut using the Close to My Heart - Art Philosophy cartridge.  I inked it and embossed it with Stampendous Frantage Embossing Enamel - Shabby Pink.

The berries, lichen covered branch and red cedar pieces I bought years ago at Michael's Arts and Crafts when I used to make topiaries and flower arrangements as a hobby.  The smaller flowers are by Prima.

The little snowflakes were made with Sculpey Ultra Light and Best Flexible Molds - Let It Snow.  I painted them brown and dry brushed multiple layers of white overtop.

The pieces of jewelry from Tresors de Luxe were cut apart with tin snips and dry brushed with white and pink paint.  I also dry brushed pink paint over the flowers and lace.

Here are some more closeups:

Thanks for taking a look.