SHCG: Sharon, I absolutely love this idea! I am so wishing that I had seen it before this past Christmas. I totally plan on scraplifting this, with your permission, of course. :-) You know I love the torn paper around the journaling, because that is so my "thing"! Also, what I love about this layout is all of the different patterned papers to individualize the stockings. I just adore everything about this! My only suggestion might be, (and this is reaching) I'd like to see some ribbon or wire stretched across the layout that the stocking could "hang" from. I hope that makes sense. This is fabulous, Sharon and such a creative take on the challenge. Love it!
SHCG: Wow, this is so frigging adorable! I LOVE it! I so love your take on the challenge and the fact that you have kept these tags! These colors just pop off of the black background and its just plain fun! If i would think about adding anything, maybe some white inking around the edge of the black paper. It would be cool if it gave the page a frosty feel but this is still going in my favs as is!
This is great! Love all the stockings, different colours (great way to use all the scraps) and I love that you have a stocking for everyone! This is such a cool idea Sharon!!! This will be great to look back at!!
SHCG: GAH! I FREAKING LOVE THIS! This is an absolutely wonderful idea for using scraps and an incredible response to the challenges. I love the Wishes font with all the teeny stars underneath. I adore all those adorable stockings and your added Sharon touches, with the ribbons, brads, doodles, and more teeny stars or flowers that I've seen from past los. It makes me sigh at how great your family is, and how wonderful it is that you have these lists to reflect, truly special mementos. Knowing you, you probably made sure each stocking pattern was actually somewhat representative of the person you assigned to it. Huh? You know it. Fess up.
SHCG: This is so eye catching. My first reaction when I pulled this page up was "I love this." I love that the stockings are all different and unique just as I am sure all of the lists in the pockets are all different...what a really interesting thing to save. Imagine 10 -15 years from now when you pull out the lists and look at what everyone wants. It will be so much fun to go over everything. I love the entire page and would not change anything.
SHCG: I love this Sharon! something wants me to see another element. But I'm currently going through "take everything you have and put it on one project" Leave it how it is! Love this whole idea!
SHCG: Sharon, great idea to record past wish lists and great way to do it! Love the stockings! I don't think you should change anything. I love it the way it is! Also, love, love the title! Great job combining two challenges!
SHCG: this is such an awesome idea!! I am amazed you still have all of this from 3 years ago. I think the think i like most is how each stocking is different. are you planning on bringing this when you visit relatives? I think they'd all love to see how much their wishes have changed over the years. great job on the challenge!
That's a great idea...what DID I want for Christmas 3 years ago? I'm amazed you still know! Your use of my leftover challenge--brilliant as always; I would not have guessed any of this was if you hadn't noted it. I really don't know if there is anything I would change. I am an "adder" so I might have personally added a gold string of some sort so each row of stockings looks like it's hanging up on something but think that's my own taste. Nicely done :)
This is my response to 2 Scrap Happenzz Critique Group Challenges – Sosumi_san/Angela's Leftovers Challenge (besides the background, all the paper here is leftover scraps!) & my “Some Interaction” Challenge to use interactive elements (the stockings are pockets that hold everyone's Christmas lists).
This LO also appears in the Nov/Dec 2008 issue of Scrap N Art ezine.
I don't have photos from Christmas 2004 – my out-of-state immediate family & I alternate holidays for our annual reunions & that was a “Thanksgiving year” (& DH's nearby parents celebrate Chanukkah). But I do have my family's Christmas lists from that year. The adults in my family draw names for gift recipients & every year either one of my sisters or I play the Gift List Manager of the exchange. Each stocking contains the wish list of each family member, along w/ who they gave a present to & who gave a present to them.
Journaling: “Seeing our past wishes reveals how we've changed…& what remains the same! Every Christmas, the adults in my family draw names to determine that year's gift recipient; we all get the kids gifts. One of us, as Gift List Mgr., collects wish lists from everyone & coordinates the exchanges; I did this for 2004. Here's my family's lists…it's so fun to peek into the past to see what we wanted then!”
I made a stocking template from clip art & hand cut the stockings; I used bookbinding glue for the stocking pockets even though I normally use glue lines/dots for page pockets (that would've taken forever to do!)
Excuse the imperfect scan stitching demarcation; the scan also cut off the right side & the star brad on the bottom.
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