Out of My Head: Blessings

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Blessings

We all have them and usually take so little time to think about how truly blessed we are! As I was creating this banner I did take the time to think about how blessed I am . That’s what Thanksgiving is about. We come together in the abundance of our blessings to remember and possibly to think about where we would be without all the things every day that cushion our lives in some way.

Here is my Blessings banner. I really like the way it turned out. However, it is long and was hard to get a whole picture of, so the first picture is just a picture of the whole thing.

Oh, I am going to have adjust that banner when I get home, and I am really not sure where I want to put it. For now it hangs in my family room very lop sided.

Now here’s a close up!

EW! Blurry! That’s what I get for photographing it at night with no natural light and in a hurry.

The base of this banner started with a tag from Gypsy Wanderings cut at 6.75 and 4.75”. Since I got my Gypsy, I’ve used the designer tag feature so many times I can not count. It’s got great tags and in so many shapes. I also used Sports Mania for the pennant shape at 5”x 3“, and because I don’t have Tie the Knot, I took the scalloped border from Accent Essentials and used two for each side at 3.45 x .45, and welded it to the sides of the pennant. Then I cut a regular pennant out just a smidge smaller. The scalloped circle cut at 2.91 x3.22 is from Mini Monograms, and I can’t remember where I got the leaf swirl. The fonts used are Cuttin Up and Blackletter. I used pop dots between the layers.

The patterned paper is from a fall stack of DCWV from several years ago and the card stock is a mixture of Bazzill and Core’dinations. I used some Stickles on the leaves and the ribbon is Hobby Lobby from their fall collection a couple of years ago. I love the colors and think it turned out quite striking in appearance.

OK, on with some more close ups.