Perfect Pockets!

Happy Wednesday!

This week’s challenge is all about pretty pockets!  Yup… I want to see some use of a pocket on your creation.

To get you started, I thought I would show you a few ways to use or create a pocket on your layouts or cards.

Sweet Treat

Stamps sets used: Let It Snow, Mention It!, Symbols.

First off, I started by using a kraft envelope that I punched the edge of using a snowflake design.   I don’t have anything store d in this particular pocket but you could add some journaling or another picture or two.

For the second part of this layout, I used the top of brown paper bag as a pocket to slip in my journaling tag.  I stamped a few subtle ice cream cone images from the Symbols stamp set.

I used some fun snowflakes from my Let It Snow! stamp set to stitch and attach along with a fun statement tag from the Mention It! stamp set.

The next way to add a pocket to the design of your work is to create a faux looking pocket.  For this, I used some Moda fabric swatches and stitched it up to look like a pocket you might find on a shirt or pair of pants.

This particular pocket has no actual pocket but you could certainly create a space behind it to drop in a fun tag or gift card.

Have a Very Merry Christmas

I used the edge of the journaling box from the Just Add Notes stamp set and the stamped in the “Winter Greetings” message from the Winter Flakes stamp set.  I also used the Winter Flakes set to stamp and layer my snowflake images.  The beautiful greeting on the embossed banner is from our Lines of Life stamp set.

And the final reason that you might add a pocket to your layout would be to store something in it.  In my case, I wanted a layout to store the 2 pieces of art that I had kept from my son’s pre-school year.

Just Like Mom

For this page, I used some of our fun papers from Kiki Art, one of our generous partner companies.  I used the Wishing You Sunshine stamp set to continue the cloudy patterned paper by Kiki Art and stamped out my title using the alphabet stamp sets, Color Me and Lots of Dots.  The Color Me alphabet set was perfect for that “child like” drawing quality I wanted on my page.

I created the pocket by popping up the red cardstock with long lines of foam adhesive to create a space behind to slip in the artwork my son created.  So fun and so easy to do!

There are so many ways to include a pocket on your creations and I can’t wait to see what you come up!

Happy stamping everyone!!