welcome to my stop on the studio calico blog hop! i'm so excited to share with you what i've done with the new home front papers, stickers, and fabRips, but first, let me share with you a bit of my home. this is my kitchen. i don't spend as much time here as i probably should, but it is one of my favorite rooms because of my chicken collection. the chickens have followed me from our washington state home, where i had chickens and chef wallpaper. my sister made me the embroidered towels for a christmas gift and i've just added to collection here in colorado. they make me smile every time i see them. i also love my red breadbox and my black pitcher full of cooking utensils.
now, the reason you're here... i have to admit i was a little stumped by this paper at first, not quite sure what to do, but once i started cutting paper, i couldn't get this page done fast enough. it was so much fun to put these lamps together! using the fabRips to make accordion pleated lampshades made me very happy. :) now i'm seeing lots of possibilities with this paper, i just had to make the first cut. i love this layout!
so here's how you win...Studio Calico is sharing part of their home with you by sponsoring a giveaway of their brand new line, Home Front. Imagine June Cleaver styled 1950s domestic bliss. Featuring optimistic colors and smooth vintage inspired patterns. You’ll find fresh stained wood grain, retro home décor, an exclusive SC cardstock alpha set, and much more. Home Front is versatile, colorful, and beautiful (can we say that?)….I think you’ll love it.
To win this collection, simply leave a comment, on this post telling me what your favorite holiday song/album/artist is so I can add to my collection, and to increase your chances, visit the rest of the design team below.
April Foster
Celine Navarro
Davinie Fiero
Jenn Olson
Joy Madison
Kelly Noel
Lisa Truesdell
Maggie Holmes
Nicole Samuels
Nicole Harper
Stephanie Howell
Tina Aszmus
This collection is available at many online stores, such as: stopandscrap, amillionlittlethings, and 2peas and will hopefully be available at an LSS near you soon.
good luck! the hop will be open for 48 hours after this posts, so i'll draw a winner on wednesday morning. please make sure i can get ahold of you.
ETA: 11/18/09 COMMENTS ARE CLOSED.
360 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 360 of 360i absolutely can't wait to work with this collection. it's adorable and the fab rips are making me drool!
my absolute fave holiday album is "christmas with the rat pack". christmas is my totally fave holiday and sinatra is pretty high on my loves-list, too, so it's perfection!
happy holidays! and happy listening! :)
I think our favorite is good old Bing Cosby's White Christmas. Love the layout!
My favorite holiday song is "O Come, O Come Emanuel." And I like the version by Selah. Thank you!
Christine
"Mary Did you Know?" is my all time favorite Christmas song. I have two little boys and it always just gives me chills. Love it!
Love what you've done with the collection, it's beautiful!! I love traditional Christmas songs and the Little Drummer Boy is one of my favorites.
Those lamps are the cutest! I love love love Over the Rhine's "Trumpet Child" - gets me in the Christmasey mood without fail.
My favorite song is "Gotta feeling" from Black Eyed Peas. I love Studio Calico. Thanks
Oh my goodness those lamps are awesome!!! Love that pleating!!!
As for holiday music...I'm more of the get the CD with mixed holiday songs on it.
I am not very into holidays songs, I prefer to play some brazilian music (bossa nova) during the holidays, I love the warm and soft melody while it is cold and snowy outside :) you should try ;)
I Love TransSiberian Orchestra's Christmas Canon... I want one of my 3 daughters to walk down teh aisle to it - soooooooo beautiful! ;-)
i LOVE the version of winter wonderland by jason mraz. :)
great layout! i don't have a favorite holiday album, though. i do enjoy a variety of holiday music, though.
My all time favorite Holiday song since I got married is the one with " baby it's cold outside". I printed the lyrics last year and will incorporate it to my new JYC album. As far as your layout, I am so impressed with your genius ideas of dressing those lamps up with accordion pps and love your chickens too. BTW, I haven't really seen the album for the song and still looking so will keep you informed. Thanks for sharing that beautiful layout.
My favorite Christmas song ever..very untraditional "Last Christmas" by George Michael.
I am loving the new line, thanks for the opportunity to win it. :) bucket
oh... my comment didn't take. ok... i love your layout... it is just so clever and unique! i love those lampshades! you. rock! i wanted to post earlier, but couldn't think of a Christmas song. but i do like sarah maclachlan version of "song for a winter's night." :)
I'm crushin on your LO! Especially the pleated lamp shade- too cute! My favorite holiday cd of all time is Nat King Cole...My kiddos love The Chipmunks Christmas! Alvin is cute- although his voice can get annoying after a while!
I love "Winter Wonderland."
I absolutely love that song.
and I love Frank Sinatra.
but in order to stray away from the typical "answer", I'll add in two of my current favorite songs that are not Christmas-related.
I love "Wild Young Hearts" by the Noisettes and "Long Distance Call" by Phoenix!
hope i win!
Love, love, love your layout!
I've been adding the old classics to my holiday collection...and 'A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra' CD is great!
I love what you did with the lampshades! I love the old classic Christmas songs...Away in a Manger is my all time favorite.
Whoa--219 comments in 16 hours. There is more going on here than I realized. You'll have to fill me in later :)
We do love the Disney songs for xmas. Specially since we have kids they enjoy signing along. Hee
Michelle M.
My favorite holiday song is by Sting and it is called Gabriel's Message.
Have a great day and thanks!!
This LO is BRILLIANT! (pardon the pun) LOVE what you did with the lampshades :) My Favorite C-mas tune is Rockin' Around teh Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee. (btw)
Wintersong ~ Sara Maclachan is my alltime fave, hard to pick just one tune off of it! Love wrapping presents with the xmas tree lights on listening to it...so special
Super cute LO! I love Let it Snow, no matter who sings it! :)
I love your layout! I can't get over the lamps and the pleating :)
My all time favorite Christmas song is a remake of "The Little Drummer Boy" by Bing Crosby and David Bowe.
holy lampshades, Batman!
I usually just listen to the radio when I'm in the mood for Christmas music! Love the LOs!
I love anything by Harry Connick Jr. He has a couple of holiday albums that are great.
My favorite holiday album is Nat King Cole. That's what we listened to around the house when I grew up. I don't have his album now, but when I hear it on the radio, it immediately feels like Christmas.
I love Christmas Wrapping. It's such a fun song!
I love John Denver's Christmas albums...all of them!
I think I would love to have Harry Connicj Jnr singing from my iPod!!
Love those chooks - I have always had a bit of a chook thing too!! My sister gave me two chook mugs for my birthday recently!!
That kitchen looks like the one in my first home....only yours looks nicer. Do you have a window over the sink?
funny thing...today I was switching the radio stations around and one of them was actually already playing Christmas music....I love it all...and I listen to it driving in the car all through the holiday season
peace
Kim
wow!! just adore your layout!!! love all the details in the lamp shades! gorgeous work as always and thanks for a chance for these stunning papers & embellishments!
I love what you did w/ the lamps on that LO!
My sisters & I as babies loved Elvis, as well as my kids, sister's kids & cousins' kids. So we always play his records at Christmas, even the non christmas songs. It just became a silly tradition we have. We also love Josh Groban, Celine Dion, the Elf soundtrack (kids also watch the movie alot)& so many more.
Your page is stunning, makes me want this collection even more now!!! I would have to say any Christmas album by Chris Isaac would be my favorite holiday music! Thank you for this awesome chance to win!! xo
All I Want for Christmas is You by Maria Carey
The SheDaisy Christmas album.
Manheim Steamroller Christmas Carols.
Transiberian Orchestra Christmas Carols.
And a "class christmas carols" cd from like the 50s that I LOVE.
Oh, and Elvis christmas too... you can thank my college roomie for that one! :)
My favorite Christmas music is anything by Harry Connick Jr.
Fave song, although I really don't know why, is Do They Know it's Christmas? by Band-Aid. It reminds me of my childhood. (Tells you what kind of childhood I had, huh?!)
One of my favorites is The 12 Yats of Christmas by Benny Grunch and the Bunch. It's a New Orleans thing! :)
Hey! I have chickens in my kitchen, too--well roosters (or as Farzad calls them "hoosters")! I adore what you did on your layout--those lamps are genius!
Whoops! I got carried away and forgot to leave my favorite holiday carol: The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole.
Youre a genius with those fabrips! seriously those pleated lamp shades are THE coolest thing ever!!
Martina McBride White Christmas...classic songs amazing voice! Sarah McLachlan Wintersong is good too!
ok. mine is super super cheezy. My favorite Christmas song is "Last Christmas" by George Michael. Seriously. I know. Its so wrong.
such a cute layout! my favorite holiday music singer is Frank Sinatra and more recently Michael Buble- they are both very jazzy and classy, and they more important get me in the holiday spirit :)
Aaron Neville.....love his Christmas stuff.
Your work is beautiful!
I love that layout with the lamp!
I love Motown Christmas!
I love Martina McBride's version of Oh Holy Night, so hauntingly beautiful! Great layout Em!
Love love love the lamps!! I love Harry Connicks christmas collection! :)
Thanks for the giveaway! I love Tony Bennett's Snowfall album. A great mix of peaceful and jazzy tunes, some religious some not.
Those lamps are the cutest ever! My favorite christmas album is Manneheim steamrollers...
My favorite is James Taylor's A Christmas Album and my favorite song on it is "Some Children See Him". Thanks for the inspiration!
Such a fun layout! Your lamps are adorable.
Oh boy, I have lots of holiday favorites. Individual songs: Let It Be Christmas by Alan Jackson, The Gift by Garth Brooks, The Secret of Giving by Reba, Why Can't Every Day be Like Christmas by Elvis, Old Time Christmas by Randy Travis. CDs: Noel by Josh Groban and the Time Life series.
Sarah Maclachan has to be my all time favorite holiday cd. Mariah Carey second.
I <3 your lampshades - so very awesome!! I absolutely love any Christmas song sung by Nat King Cole! His voice is so smooooth!!
I just love Bing Crosby's White Christmas. We play tons of classics around here at Christmas time.
Yikes! So many comments. anything by u2 :)
Fun!
I think one of my favorites is Harry Connick Jr's "Winter Wonderland" from the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack. :)
it HAS TO BE this christmas by donnie hathaway
OMG! First I have to say how incredibly AWESOME those lamps are! Wonderful!
And I had to think of holiday songs for a bit (ie search the collection since it's been nearly a year) and came up with a little acapella group called Tonic Sol-Fa. You might have actually heard of them, they are from MInnesota. Anyway, their Christmas songs are so fun to listen too!
Oh my goodness! I love your chickens! They are so cute. And I just adore the way that you cut out those lamps and decorated them for your layout. How creative and cute! Lvoe the line!
Absolutely adore your LO with all the lamps! Going straight to my favorites! And my favorite holidays song might seem kinda wrong, but I think 'grandma got runover by a reindeer' is hilarious. Not sure who sings it, and there may be multiple artists (or goofballs might be a better description) who have tackled this. I take a strange cynical approach to the holidays I'm afraid - my favorite Christmas movie is the Grinch too - I'm weird that way.
I am looking to add the Casting Crowns Christmas CD to my collection this year. :)
And I am loving the new line!!
XO
Christie
You are SO creative! Those are the most adorable lamp shades!!!
My all time fav - Harry Conick Jr. - Christmas album. =)
You rocked the lamp shades EM!!!!! Fav. holiday song would have to be Jingle Bells...'cuz my daughter sings it so darned cute!
Suuuuuper cute!!! :)
Funny you asked that question. My 4-year old daughter has decided she needs her own holiday album like Taylor Swift. She is asking everyone in the family to tell their favorite song. We are going to compile the songs on a CD and give everyone one. I am between I Believe in Santa Clause (Dolly Parton) and Alfie, the Christmas Tree (John Denver and the Muppets).
anything by The Bobs :)
this may sound weird but i love the TLC very merry christmas song and the NSYNC christmas album!!! hahaha!!!! thanks for the chance to win!!!
love the lamps .. my lamp is my favorite part of my room! ~pidgen
love the lamps .. my lamp is my favorite part of my room! ~pidgen
My favorite christmas album would be Boys II Men. Homefront is awesome and i REALLY love the way you used the lamp paper!
I love Amy Grant's album, A Christmas to Remember.
I uploaded my Christmas songs collection on my ipod & iphone the day after Halloween! Big fan of the "classics" (aka Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles & Ella Fitzgerald, etc) but I am really liking Michael Buble's "Grown up Christmas wish" version, as well as Kristen Chenoweth's holiday album.
I'm an old fashioned country girl when it comes to Christmas music.
Gene Autry is my very favorite. Listening to his Christmas album takes me right back to my childhood and my dad's record player.
i LOVE sarah mclachlan...her Winter Song cd from last year is beautiful but a class is the Carpenters...hands down that album gives me the goose pumps when i first put it on
your layout is SO clever - I love it! I'm jewish, so there's not a whole lot of holiday music played in my house, lol! I love listening to it in the stores though :-)
Nat King Cole's "A Christmas Song" is my all time favorite. I love the way you cut the lamps and highlighted them on the layout!
I love Bing Crosby - especially when he is singing in the movie White Christmas. Love the collection and what you did with the lamps is genius!
Josh Groban "Noel" is the best. If you ever get a chance to go see him in concert, his voice is even more amazing in person!
I love all Michael W. Smith Christmas music - he arranges the music so beautifully!
I love the Boston Pop's Christmas albums.
my favorite christmas album is by Jewel. I love her voice!
I really like what youdid with the lamps on the LO!!! Great job!!
my all time favorite holiday song is "i wanna hippopotamus for christmas"!! makes me giggle and just feel happy :)
becky
I love almost any version of "Oh Holy Night" and I've always loved Amy Grant's "Breath of Heaven." Just so beautiful!
I have a Kenney Chesney Christmas CD from a few years ago that I love.
Your lamp LO is very cute!
Definitely Amy Grant! I have overplayed it lol and I still love her Christmas CD. Thanks for the chance to win!
old school - Boyz II Men Christmas
cute pages...lamps are awesome...& I love your chickens!
debbie/debhight@socal.rr.com
My fave xmas albums are the Starbucks one from last year and ANYTHING by Sarah Maclaughlan. She is fab. Thanks for the generous giveaway!
One of my favorite holiday songs is "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band-Aid. (Yes, I am a child of the 80's. ;)
Very clever using the lamps on your page! This is a very cool collection - thanks for the chance to win!
those lamps are fab! my fav christmas song......i like the old old ones - my kids have been loving Marshmallow world - who sings it - i can't remember - they are asleep and the case is in thier room - i'll get back to you on that!
I love what you did with the lamp paper! Wowza!!
I love Kenny Chesney's christmas album
this looks like a very fun collection.
The best holiday song is "Santa Baby" by Etta James.
I really love the lamps!
One of my favorite holiday CDs is Josh Groben! His voice is amazing and gets me into the holiday spirit every year!
wow, you really did an amazing job creating your page and those lamps...wow.. those lamps! love love love them!
Ok, this is truly old school, but I love the Jim Brickman Christmas album. It's mostly piano solos-so pretty and relaxing!
Wow, I don't own any holiday music. That's pitiful. Must get some. Sorry no recommendations. Would love the HomeFront collection though!
Oooh my favorite song would probably be 'All I want for Christmas' by Mariah Carey. Not a big MC fan but this song is so cute and it comes from one of my favorite holiday movies, 'Love Actually.'
I love anything about the Carpenter's.
pixiepetalsvintage@gmail.com
MLE!! You blew me away when I saw those lamps! Fabulous LO!
The Christmas season is one that I am only just beginning as a family this year (my daughter is only just now for us to be able to do any fun stuff) so I am actually on the hunt for some Christmas music. Something that all three of us in the fam will enjoy. :P Easier said than done. Sorry I don't have a suggestion. I'm workin on it! LOL! Take care!
well i have to say that i love the classic Mariah Carey songs! also love the more traditional ones too! i am loving the new homefront line!
I absolutely love to scrap a favorite photo more than once! Love your page JOY! You’ve *always* been a favorite of mine!
How super cute is your LO??!!! My fave Holiday song is "Feed the World" by Band-Aid. I am a sucker for 80's music!! :0)
vraiment génial et complètement intemporel !
mle, I love your pleated lampshades. My goodness, you are so clever!
To answer your question, I love the Bing Crosby and David Bowie rendition of Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy. Aaaaah, I think I need to create a holiday playlist on my iPod. :)
There are plenty of good songs that make me happy at Christmas, but "Silent Night" to me is THE Christmas song. Every time I hear it, I begin to cry (really, I do). It is just a peaceful, joyful, hopeful song for me.
I trying my luck. I love the labels and the papers are simply sublime !
I love the Jewel Christmas album. It's called Joy A Holiday Collection.
Thanks for a chance to win,
Cindy
I absolutely love what you did with the fab rips! Always so innovative!
i like it so much !!!
and your lo is fantastic !!
please choose me .....
marjo
http://Scrapomarjo.over-blog.com
mbillet51@yahoo.fr
The Christmas songs by Helix on itunes are awesome!
Love the kit and your layout. Fave Christmas album would be Steven Curtis Chapman "THe Music of Christmas"
Dido's song Christmas Day. Good stuff! Love what you did with the lamps. It looked very time consuming but well worth it!
My favorite holiday CD is from Dave Koz. It's been out several years, I picked it up having never heard it before. It's fantastic.
Bing Crosby-White Christmas album or Alvin and the Chipmunks...retro never gets old!!
clever layout! and lovin the chickens - super cute! my favorite christmas cd is classical christams! thx for the inspo! smiles, m-
Not a big Christmas music fan...sorry :( But I love the Mariah Carey song All I Want For Christmas. Totally makes me sing and dance no matter where i'm at!
My favorite Christmas album is an old one from Nana Mouskouri (a greek singer well known in France). We used to listen to it with my mam and my sisters when we were young.
I'm embarrassed to admit I'm not really a music person, gasp!! Love your LO...your use of the lamp paper and fabrips is brilliant!!
My favorite holiday album is Celine Dion's These Are Special Times...her duets with male opera singers are spectacular! :)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your first Homefront layout...it's my fave I've seen so far, though I'm loving all of them! Those lamps with the patterned paper and fabrip accordian shades are to DIE for!
My favorite Christmas song is sung by Amy Grant is titled Emanuel. Everytime I hear it I get lifted to the reason we celebrate Christmas. It is a beautiful song but Amy Grant makes it very special.
"Santa Claus is comming to Town" by Bruce Springstein...such a good version of a fun holiday tune. Thank you for a chance to win!
Tracy
jdayett@nctv.com
Love your layout, especially those cute lamps and lampshades. You've really done a great job with this collection!
It's too hard to pick my favorite Christmas song, but it is nothing you haven't heard before, so I'll just be lazy and say "Joy to the World" :)
I'd have to say Dave Matthews Christmas Song... non-traditional but lovely just the same.
Beautiful little lamps you've done - I will try to copy your idea!!
Good somg; Cumbia del Mole by Lila Downs from Mexico. One of her songs was in the film about Frida Kahlo!
La Vikinga, Sweden
Looks scrumptious!! :)
Love the lamps - great layout!
I love the song Mary, Did you Know? sung by Kathy Mattea.
amy grant -- home for christmas
Fave holiday song? I don't really have one. I'm not a big fan of christmas songs!
I adore the new studio calico collection! I hope it's the first of many many more!
My very favorite holiday collection is Mannheim Steamroller...my husband doesn't like it, so I might just like it because I grew up listening to it, but there you go!!
Like the little chickies!
I don't do holidays, so I hope I still get counted for the giveaway...but I just discovered Eric Hutchinson recently and totally LOVE his singing voice. It's the kind of music you wanna groove to. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love your lamp layout! As to holiday music, I just bought my husband the Andrea Bocceli CD - guess we will see if it has some good music on it.
I love your lamp layout! As to holiday music, I just bought my husband the Andrea Bocceli CD - guess we will see if it has some good music on it.
Always love Amy Grant. She has a newer EP that released two years ago, I believe and it is GREAT.
I love this LO, you are so creative!!..:)
My favorite Christmas Songs are those from Sarah McLachlan's Wintersong CD Album.
TFS
My favorite son is Mary Did You Know by Kathy Mattea or Martina McBride's O Holy Night
Don't really have a favorite but I enjoy Harry connick, Steve Tyrell
Lynda in calif
I've got several favorite Christmas songs... one of them is "Baby, It's Cold Outside".
I really like the lamps on your layout... especially the lampshades! Very clever. =)
I am one of those strange people that LOVES listening to Christmas music, I never tire of it.
One of my faves is the Linda Ronstadt version of Joni Mitchell's "River".
Love that layout, Emily!
My favorite is Garth Brooks singing "Go Tell It on the Mountain."
LOVE your layout and LOVE studio calico!
I'd love to win. My favorite holiday albums are by Josh Groban and Celine Dion - they both have such amazing voices, who could resist?
Love your layout! This is just a great collection!!!
love what you did with this new collection. I love the christmas songs sung by Michael Buble.
I too love my kitchen as a great gathering place.
My favorite song is Baby it's cold outside, by Dean Martin. It is a classic! Fun and funky layout love what you did with the fabric on the lamp shade. Super cool!
my holiday song is santa baby, by earta kitt. :)
The collection is really very beautiful and original! I am a fan!
Love all of Amy Grant's Christmas albums.
Great layout!
My fave Christmas song is Silent Night.
Whaou !!! J'adore !
I love your layout !!!
Christiescrap
I like Mika !!
And I looove this new collection !!
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