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Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Favourite Christmas present!

I hope you all had a good Christmas.  Welcome to my new follower, Lia of  'Lia's Design and so'. I hope you visit again soon.

Before I post a photo of my card, I want to share one of my favourite Christmas presents this year.  My six year old great-nephew altered some slippers for my husband and me.  He had some help sticking the felt shapes and beads to the slippers, but it was his design and he cut all the shapes himself.

The Less is More theme this time is 'Homespun', so I decided to go with a sewing themed card.
The embossing folder I used is an 8 x 8 Embossalicious folder - 'Button Box'.  The sewing machine is one of the dies from the Spellbinder set 'Sewing Elements', die cut from silver mirror card.  The buttons are die cut from the same set of dies and mounted onto blue card, which I had added faux stitching to around the edge.  I used a silver sentiment to match the silver sewing machine.

I would like to enter my card for the following challenges:

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10 comments:

  1. Neets B29 December 2015 at 20:54

    Love that old sewing machine die cut, looks lovely in silver to give it a kind of vintage feel, and the buttons are a great embossed background. Your great-nephew did a great job with those slippers, a future designer in our midst? :)
    Thanks for sharing with us.
    Anita x
    Less is More

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  2. Kathleen29 December 2015 at 21:40

    What a fabulous present, well done to the little Lad.
    Brilliant card, great idea.

    Kath x

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  3. KT Fit Kitty30 December 2015 at 05:54

    OMGoodness, these are adorable! What a great gift! Your great-nephew is very talented! I hope he keeps this up - these are fabulous! Your card is adorable too! I like the sewing machine!

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  4. Doreen30 December 2015 at 09:23

    Wow what a fab gift love the slippers. Gorgeous card.xxx

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  5. Barb30 December 2015 at 10:28

    Hi Liz, what incredibly fun slippers for you and Hubby. I absolutely love your card. Wishing you and your family a happy 2016. Barbxx

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  6. Carol L30 December 2015 at 11:15

    Those slippers are such a treasured gift and to imagine your nephew made them at his tender age of 7 is just amazing! I love the sewing machine card too - that's really cute with all the buttons!

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  7. Sarn30 December 2015 at 14:15

    Difficult LIM theme, but you've come up trumps.

    Love your altered slippers. Bless him.

    Happy New Year to you and yours. xxx

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  8. Sazzle Dazzle1 January 2016 at 14:32

    Love your vintage sewing machine Liz and so effective and brilliant for homespun BUT I think those cute slippers deserve an entry too. Just awesome! Thanks so much for playing along and a Happy New Year to you.
    Sarah
    Less is More

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  9. Chrissie3 January 2016 at 20:29

    I'm sorry that I'm so late in commenting but having various visitors over the holiday period made me rather behind!
    This is great for the homespun theme Liz, super sewing machine!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is more"

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  10. Anne3 January 2016 at 21:08

    Liz what a perfect take on our theme, love it - and your slippers are wonderful, a gift to treasure!
    Thank you for joining our last challenge of the year and wishing you a very happy new year.
    Anne
    "Less is More"

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