Trendy Twine January Challenge - Show us your mittens!

Happy January!

This month Trendy Twine is featuring a new color ...  Watermelon Taffy.

Watermelon Taffy is a new pink twisted with lime green that was introduced

in the Halloween line.  This month Trendy Twine also has a  Watermelon Taffy Mini Pack 

available that has coordinating colors.

The Trendy Twine  challenge for this month is:
 Show Us Your Mittens

Your project (of any form) must include:
Mittens
Buttons
Snowflake
Color pink
Trendy Twine

I hope that you will consider joining us for this month's challenge!  NO EXCUSES .. there is plenty of time to link your projects up.  Just head HERE when you are done to post/link your projects.

Now, here is the project that I've created for the challenge.
Now .. I have to admit that pink is NOT my thing.  Probably because I have two boys and I simply can not ever see them lovin' the color pink :)  That being said .. I really fell in love with the Watermelon Taffy twine.  It's so bright and cheerful... makes you smile!

I've created a one page layout that will hold one picture in the circle mat in the center of the page.

This was one of those ideas that evolved over time for me.  My initial thought when I read the requirements for the challenge was along the lines of "The three little kittens that lost their mittens".  This theme started out as a tag... then turned into an ornament .. which then ended up on a one page layout ... go figure.  I really do like the brightness to this and hope that you do too!

 Here is the full layout

A close up of the kitten

A close up of the circle photo mat

The left mitten and photo mat.

Close up of the mittens wrapped in twine

Close up of the button/ribbon/twine wrap

More mittens

A dimensional view

The items that I used to create this project are as follows:

1. Trendy Twine in Watermelon Taffy

2. Paper piecing patterns from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs (Playful cat, Snowflakes from Twas the Night Before Christmas, Mittens in the advent set, Small scallop border)

3. Clearsnap Colorbox chalk ink

4. DCWV paper stack - Baby Girl stack

5. American Crafts solid cardstock

6. Glitter

7. Misc ribbon from my stash

8. Buttons

Your Trendy Twine entries for the month can be entered HERE.  Please be sure to follow all the requirements.

Lastly, head on over to the Trendy Twine blog to see all the fabulous projects for this challenge from the Trendy Twine Design Team!!