Midnight Rooster 'Paper' mint Mocha

'I'm happy today to share some of the projects I made for Midnight Rooster. What a great time I had working with this month's kit 'Paper' mint Mocha - now available for purchase. I really love these kits and was so excited & honored I got to be a part of the reveal. Besides a great mix of paper and embellishments, Tobi includes some adorable handmade embellishments - this month they came packaged in glassine envelopes that were zig zag stitched closed. I love details like that!
Here's a photo from when I opened up the kit - you can see the embellishment envelope:

You can also see those Pink Paislee Mistable trims...one of my all time favorite supplies ever! Check out the full kit contents at the Midnight Rooster Shop. Here are 2 of the layouts I made:

One of the handmade embellishments is the tag - it has a strip of fabric stitched onto the lower edge. There was also a piece of fabric included with this kit, as well. I used it to make that little flower on the tag. (I added the button from my stash.)

For this page, I used the Pink Paislee Wood Shop letters - first I misted them with red ink (Mister Huey, Schoolhouse), then went over them with some Jenni Bowlin ink (Cough Syrup). I stacked them up for dimension onto another one of those cute handmade tags:

Here's the close up - I like that the letters vary in color slightly:

To make those circles in the background I used a circle die to cut a few of the papers. I cut them apart, mixed them up, then pieced them back together. I'll post the rest of the projects later in the week - you can also check out the Midnight Rooster Flickr group to see the rest of them and the work of the design team, as well. Thanks so much to Tobi and the design team for letting me play along with them this month!

So..I was really bummed yesterday when I went to preheat my oven for "Bakefest 2011" only to discover it was broken. I'm trying to grasp the reality that this might be the first Christmas I haven't baked cookies since 1993. It's not an easy thing to get my head around. Hopefully the oven will get fixed in time to make one or two batches.
Hope you had a great weekend!