Saturday, October 17, 2009

Say it with Letters for Christmas...

When you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze, For the holidays, you can't beat home, sweet home. -Al Stillman
I am a day late on my Friday Blogger's Challenge post, sorry again ladies! I seem to really be running behind this week! This week's Challenge was to "Alter It!" I was SO happy to see this, because I just Happened to finish my very first Say it With Letters DT project!!! :)

My package came and I had no idea what to expect...when I opened it up and saw this set of houses I was SO excited! They are just Adorable and I had sooo many ideas immediatly come to mind! I decided to settle on Christmas as a theme and chose 3 coordinating Cosmo Cricket papers. (When I was done I realized I should have used the larger Poinsettia pattern on the larger house.)

I went pretty simple on these with minimal embellishments, the papers are so rich and beautiful they really don't need much...the swirls and snowflakes are even a part of the pattern on the larger house. I just added some eaves with a scallop punch, some snowflakes with some more punches and a whole bunch of glitter! The chimneys got a good coating of snow courtesy of my Drippy Goo punch and more glitter...


I stamped Happy Holidays on a die cut tag for the larger house and added snowflakes, snow, glitter and a few pearls on the tag and snowflakes...
Here is a little detail on the snowflakes and pearls...


For the medium house I just added snow, eaves, glitter and a little sprig of holly...
you can click on any of the pictures to see a larger view and more detail...


the littlest house doesn't have a chimney and I used a darker paper, so I wanted to brighten it up a little, I pulled the pearls from the Large house in with a small Zva Creative Pearl Swirl...
Don't you just LOVE these pearl swirls???

You can see the Unfinished Houses as well as some other Design Team ideas for how to decorate them (Check out the Awesome Halloween Candle Holder Idea!!!) at the Say it with Letters Etsy store.

24 comments:

  1. CUTE Rachel! Love the little houses.

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  2. Oh, my gosh! This is adorable! What a great idea for a Christmas gift to someone!

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  3. These are going to be such a fun and fabulous way to decorate in your home this coming holiday season! LOVE this project!!!!

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  4. They are Gorgeous. What are you doing with them? Email me!

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  5. These are SO cute! Great job with the challenge!

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  6. That is so darling! What a great altering project!

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  7. These are absolutely adorable! Love them and would use them hyear round -- great paper!

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  8. These are SO amazing!
    I think they'd make great gifts,too.
    hhhmm...do you get a referral discount if I buy some?
    Mine won't be nearly as cool as yours.

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  9. Oh my Rachel! These are delightful! What wonderful little houses! :D

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  10. Such a beautiful altered Home Decor piece, looking for a place to put it, send 'em my way!

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  11. These are gorgeous! {SMILES}

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  12. Your houses are just beautiful!! These will make great keepsakes for hears to come!!

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  13. OMG Rachel! These are so awesome! I love the papers, and all your little embellishments too. What a great decoration to have out at Christmastime.

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  14. What a sweet little project! I love all your details and the paper you chose is gorgeous! Great job!

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  15. Rachel, what a wonderful job you did altering this darling little houses! Very good ideas .. they look great!!

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  16. These are just so cute and festive. I love the papers, the sparkle, the swirls and well just everything.

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  17. I just love these Rachel!! Adorable and so festive.

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  18. Rachel, your project turned out phenomenal! This is absolutely darling and is a perfect gift or nice fireplace centerpiece.

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  19. Oh I am SO IN LOVE WITH THIS project!!! I'm off to help set up for our church R/sale this week--wouldn't it be great to find something like this to alter!!!
    Wonderful job! TFS, Nola

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  20. Very cute! What a great decoration for the holidays!

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  21. Oh this is AWESOME! I can see some Tildas or Anya's, etc by them, too cute! I always love coming to your blog, not only for your amazing creations, but the fun cupcakes you always put up! :)

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  22. Fabulous altered project! These will make a lovely holiday decoration.

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