New Challenge at Orange Paperie

Hello lovely friends
The new challenge set by Miss Annette has been posted over at Orange Paperie. http://orangepaperieandco.blogspot.com.au/ There is a sketch to follow


and the criteria is to use  a Christmas photo but to use non traditional Christmas colours. No Christmas embellishments, but can have a sentiment.

So this is what I came up with

I have used the word Christmas instead of the banner.

some lace, flower, satin seam binding, kaiser sparklets and a delicate scrapmatts chippy http://scrapmatts.ning.com/ .Kaiser PP

Another scrapmatts chippy & some stitching

Thank you for popping by, please let me know you called
We put our Christmas tree up on the 6th Dec each year as that is my DD's Birthday, and even though she is not home and was at work, we phone her and all sing Happy Birthday on her message bank.  So we have a family dinner and all put the tree up together. It is rather overloaded as I have kept every Christmas decoration my children have made & coloured in since they were in Preschool and there is no rhyme or reason how it all goes on, but we love it. A angel I made when I was little goes on the top ( Her arms have fallen off now) and we seem to have a few one legged Santa's that my children made when they were little and coloured in. Just can't bear to part with any of them

I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and everyone of you a safe, joyful, wondrous Christmas
Love and Sunshine
Mary x