Paper Variety and ScrapFit Challenges

I did a tic-tac-toe challenge from Paper Varieties.  My friend told me about this site and I finally made something to enter one of their challenges.  I used the bottom row of the tic-tac-toe grid.  I included sticthing (by hand), I created a layout, and I included a die cut (the christmas tree and candy canes).  I used a sketch that I found in my Jan/Feb 2012 Creating Keepstakes to hlep guide in in what to put where.

  I also made 2 stick pins and put those on my LO.  I followed the Step Class #2: Make your own decorative "pins" from ScarpFit.  I set my glue gun up in the bathroom.  Since I have no outlet accessible in my scraproom/walk-in closet the upstairs bathroom is the closest place with the plug and a "counter"  My husband was wondering why the glue gun was there.  So I promptly expalined why I was using the glue gun in the bathroom.  I found some decorative metal brads that I hadn't used so I put the glue next to the hole in the back.  I used regular straight pins that I had in my sewing drawer.  They worked well.  I did try to scrape the drop of hot glue off the sink counter and burned my finger.  I later stabbed my finger, so that blood came out, when I was putting the, the pin into my journalling.  Here is a close up of my pins

It was a process and took some time, but the LO came out quite nice.  One more thing you may not have noticed, is the orange stripe in the coordinated green paper.  I found these papers with March shamrock paper.  Since it was mostly green and the greens matched I went for it.