Winter Blues

Hi there. We certainly had a lot of fun during our Japan trip just before Chinese New Year. We took the bullet train up to Akita in the North West of the main island and also to Aomori for a few days. Lots of lovely snow to play with and yummy Japanese food. I never get tired of going to Japan.

Miss C loves the snow and wanted to be out in it every second. Too cold for me, but she could play in it for hours if I let her.

Finally able to use a snow collection from My Creative Scrapbook January Creative kit and I love all the blues and purples in the papers.

Snow Much Fun

I love all the blue papers and patterns for the background.  I tore strips of different patterned papers to lay across the background. The photos were taken in Aomori, Japan.

I love all the glitter on the diecuts and alphas.

Glittery pink flowers bring a touch of feminine to the page.

Nothing better than a hot drink to warm up a cold snow day. Love the ready made rosettes.

Products Used

Patterned papers from Echo Park Hello Winter collection and Pebbles Winter Wonderland collection

Diecuts, washi tape and rosette from  Pebbles

White glitter Thickers from American Crafts

Thanks for looking,

Snowy Fun

Hi there,

It's been nice and quiet the last few days. School holidays don't end until Monday and we're trying to avoid crowds of people everywhere, so we've been staying home mostly. It also means more time to do some layouts. After our Japan holiday, I've been dying to scrapbook the snow photos and I had the perfect papers for it from my December MCS kits.

Snow Angel

How cute is the paper. Love the pinks and greens, and the snow angel chipboard and cut out are too cute - absolutely perfect for this layout. I decided to make a landscape of the layout, with the hills and trees.

Layer your embellishments in such a way to give an illusion of dimension on landscape style layouts.

I was wondering what to do with the empty space above the photos when I thought of using the cut out tags that came with the paper line. Just a bit of blingy stickles and tinsel to give it that wintery festive feel.

Products Used

Patterned papers, chipboard and cutouts by Crate Paper Bundled Up collection, photo matting patterned paper from Lilybee Design, foam glitter Thickers by American Crafts, Icicle Stickles by Ranger, pumice stone distress ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger, tinsel

Snow Much Fun

These are some of my favourite photos. I love the white snow background in contrast with Miss C's snow outfit and her happy smile. Good thing it all matches the papers too. How do you like Miss C's snow cat?

 I edges the papers in green to pull the papers together and also added some silver stickles to some of the chipboard to mimic the snow.

What cute and fun die cuts and chipboard pieces this kit has. Although I did add glitter to some of the written labels, I love how some of the other pieces are pre-glittered as well.

Products Used

Patterned paper, chipboard, diecuts from Crate Paper Bundled Up collection, small beaded peony flowers by Petaloo, white foam glitter Thickers by American Crafts, silver Stickles by Ranger, evergreen distress ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger

OK, time to get some other projects done. I've been really bad about handing a class project to HKMC for the last few months, so I better get a move on that before they disown me, haha.

See you soon,