Merry Christmas**** Maja Design/Dusty Attic****

Merry Christmas!!! Today I am going to share with you, a Christmas stocking card that I made for a very special lady in Sweden, Marie. Marie is the Designer & owner of Maja Design,

I have a longer supply list on this post, as I decided to do a tut. It may be confusing (LOL),but I took the photo's in the order as I was working on this,missing a few here & there!!!

I used the Vintage Frost Basics Collection

I used:

6th of December

21st of December-BS

8th of December

20th of December-BS

Christmas diecuts & BS's of labels 

The Dusty Attic Chipboard used:

Vintage Frame (DA0254)

Holly #1 2pk (DA0110)

ATC Frame #1 (DA0673)

Lace Border #2 (DA0844)

Mini Holly #2(DA0186)

All I want for Christmas (DA0647)

Marrakesh Trellis Small (DA0821)

mini heart buttons (DA0682)

Flourish #5 (DA0434)

mini Lamp Posts (DA0754)

mini script ABC (DA0859)
other products:
Petaloo

Penny lane-forget me-robin egg blue

Burlap Poinsettias-Ivory

Spring Berry Clusters-Pink
IamRoses

Ivory semi open buds
Prima Marketing

Texture Paste- White Sand

Prima-Clear Crackle

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glass glitter-pearl

shabby chic treasures-door locks


Tim Holtz

Distress Glitter,Clear Rock Candy
Frosted Film
We R Keepers

Bulk metal eyelets-white
Pebbles chalk

Earth tones
Viva

pearl
Etsy ArtwearElements

Vintage White/Ivory Sari Silk recycled ribbon
Burlap,ribbon,pearls

Now,I will do a Tut on how I made this stocking....

I started off  by drawing & cutting out the top & bottom of the stocking on white cardstock. You can use any old paper,as you don't see it.....

One of the pieces of Dusty Attic I wanted to use is this Vintage Frame,so that is one of my starting points,of designing around the frame....

I then traced &cut out the lower part of the stocking onto the piece of Maja Paper. I glued it onto the cardstock. I use 2 layers,because of my hand stitching. If you are not stitching,you will not need as many layers or backings....

I will first go through my scraps to see what I will use on the stocking...

I traced & cut out the toe & heal of the stocking...

                                                                                                        I distressed the edges, & decided to use the Marrakesh Trellis

I glued the Trellis under the heel & toe,then trimmed off the excess...

I glued the Santa onto Dec 20th-BS, cut it out then distressed the edges..

I will also hand stitch this...

Theses hearts are the hearts that are dangling from the ribbon, I glued 2 hearts together with a piece of chain in between.

Then I clamped them together until the glue dried.....

I have now stitched the outside edges of the Santa. I covered the inside part of the Vintage frame with 21st of Dec. I  covered the top part of the stocking, I glued some lace on,then hand stitched the top & bottom,leaving the sides until I stitch the stocking together...The piece of chipboard is a piece of the lace border,left over from a project I did before this...

The BS of the top part of the stocking....

Now that I have the top just about done, I placed it on top of the lower part of the stocking,to decide what else I wanted to add....

So this is what I decided on....

I painted the Frame with white crackle,then once the crackle dried I brushed on some brown chalk,to bring out the cracks,then inked the edges....

I decided to do the frame as I did the lace,I painted on a thick coat of clear crackle,onto the paper,then attached it to the BS of the frame, (the crackle will act as the glue) then sprinkled on glass glitter & TH glitter while the crackle was still wet....

I used the TH frosted film over top the images....

I glued the BS's of the label onto this piece of paper,then cut them out & distressed the edges....

I glued a piece of burlap onto the top part of the stocking.... 

These are dry now,so I gave them a coat of cloudy blue paint,let that dry,then I applied a thick coat of clear crackle,sprinkling on the glass glitter & glitter as the crackle was still wet...These will have to dry,then I did the BS the same....

I punched in some eyelets,did some lace work,secured the door locks with brads. I also glued a piece of burlap on the BS of the stocking...

I am now gluing the top of the stocking on to the bottom....

I put weight on it as it dries...

I finished hand stitching the stocking,the glued it on to the 20th of Dec -BS,distressing the edges...I also added the frame & flourish's. I did the same treatment to those as I did to the frame....

I used white sand texture & glitter on the outside edges....

Here are some closeups of detail..

Now,for the final touches.On the left side,I made a bow using recycled ribbon,I love it,as it is already tattered & distressed.I then glued on the Petaloo burlap flower, the holly chipboard & the berry clusters..

I also used the Viva on the rose buds.My flower clusters consist of Prima Audrey Collection,Petaloo Penny Lane-robin egg blue,I am roses Ivory semi open buds & Dusty Attic Mini Holly....
I frayed the burlap that I was working with to mix in with the ribbon & to sting beads & tie on the dangling hearts. I also used the frayed burlap for the lacing...

I did the same treatment on the bottom part of the title. I used white sand texture

Added pearls to the Marrakesh Trellis

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Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas....Rachelle