Altered Legal Pad using Holiday Catalogue products - SUO Challenge #209

I think this Holiday catalogue is one of my favourite one so far.  Many of the stamp sets and/or other products work together so well.

Making 3D items or altering existing objects is one of my favourite activities, so it was natural that for the challenge with SUO Challenges  this week  I use products(s) from the current Holiday Catalogue, alter a legal pad.

• Crumb Cake card stock 10 1/2 by 8 1/8".  Score 5 1/16 and 5 3/8"
• Cajun Craze 4 3/4 by 7 7/8"
• Whisper White 4 1/2" by 7 5/8"

Inside:  

• Top of Legal Pad Cajun Craze 5 by 3"  Score at  1 1/2 and 1 3/4
• Adhere a piece of 5/8" Striped  Burlap ribbon to the lower edge.
• Adhere to top of legal pad with longer piece on back.Adhere entire legal pad to inside of Crumb Cake cover

Whisper White Art Piece:

• I designed the front of his Altered Legal Pad in 2 sections - an upper and lower - using mainly The Winter Wood stamp set.
• Upper  On a lightly brayered Balmy /blue sky I stamped the 5 tree image in Early Espresso. just slightly off center.  The shadows at the base were stamped with Mossy Meadow ink.

Lower:

• On the right side the strand of birch tree branches were stamped with Soft Suede ink against a lightly brayered Balmy Blue sky.
• Beside it, on the left, the larger pine tree was stamped in Mossy Meadow Ink.
• Below both I stamped the shadows in a mixture of Mossy Meadow and Crumb Cake.
• On a separate piece of Whisper White one of the deer from Deer Splendor was embossed with gold embossing powder and die cut with the coordinating dies/framelits.
• This die cut deer was adhered in front of the Pine tree.
• The sentiment, from Country Home, was embossed with Pewter embossing powder on Whisper White,  die cut using the Stitched Seasons framelits, and then adhered over the bunch of birches. Small pine cones from Winter Woods were stamped with Soft Suede on either side of the sentiment.

To separate the two sections, I adhered a strip of 5/8" striped Burlap ribbon.  On the left side a separate piece of this ribbon is folded in half, the ends cut at an angle at different lengths and then adhered to the left side using glue dots.  On top of this angled ribbon I add a leaf embellishment.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Winter Woods, Dashing Deer, Country Home

Inks:  Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Mossy Meadow, Versa Mark, Balmy Blue

Papers:  Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Whisper White

Accessories:  Gold embossing powder, Pewter embossing powder, Stitched Season framelits,  Detailed Deer Thinlet framelits, 5/8" striped Burlap ribbon, Leaf embellishment. Lined legal pad, Brayer