December Daily Cover for Southern Girls Challenge

     Hi everyone and welcome to my final 2014 reveal for Southern Girls Challenge. Don’t worry…I’ll be back with more great inspiration for them in 2015.  We were asked to inspire you with projects that had a Christmas theme.  I am here today sharing my December Daily cover!
    I started with the layout sketch over at Stuck?Sketches.  Since they do layouts I’m not sure I can enter it into their challenge, but I’ll take inspiration where-ever I can get it and my mojo has been laking lately.  I flipped the sketch on it’s side and went from there.
    Except for the red ribbon, bling and possibly the snowman (can’t remember which pack he was in) all the products are part of the Simple stories DIY collection.  I can’t get enough of this collection.  I think it’s one of my favorite Christmas ones of all time. I inked all the paper edges with my prima inkers in green to make them pop off the craft cover.
   So tell me…what is your favorite Christmas paper collection past or present?
    Until next time…Keep Scrappin!

Child’s Play Challenge – Christmas Tree Hunting

     Hi everyone – welcome to this month’s Child’s Play Challenge 1st of the month reveal.  This month we teamed with Pixels and Paper to offer a super fun challenge with two chances to win.  We had to use both a photo and a recipe (both at the end of this post).  
    I choose to use photos from our Christmas tree hunt in 2012…they fit the recipe well and the awesome sketch I saw at Creative Scrappers. All of the papers are from older Stampin’ Up lines, as is the red card stock.  One tip I have for you…color your photo mats with ink.  I love Stampin’ Up’s Cherry Cobbler, but a pack is expensive…especially with the cost of shipping.  To make my mats I took white card stock, an ink dauber and used the Cherry Cobbler ink pad.  After a few minutes of drying time, just to be certain, they ere ready to go.  Perfect solution to keep costs lower.  
   As I was creating this I kept thinking it was too busy, but when done, and I took a step back I love it.  It’s actually one of my favorite layouts I’ve made recently…along with my son’s pre-school one (which can be found here).
   Thank you all for reading, and I hope you’ll play along.  Until next time…Keep Scrapping!
  


Recipe:
Gold – Washi tape and the stars on the tree
3 patterned papers – green/red stripe, green stars, red gingham
something 1 year or older – the green strip of trees as well as the pictures
animal – my hubby…lol
bling – the gold stars and red bling as tree toppers

 Photo – the red and green color and the tree on the tin.













Challenges:
Pixels and Paper
Let’s Get Sketchy Magazine – Mood board
Craft Galore – Anything Goes

Fall Memories Layout

 Welcome to another reveal for Paper Crafter Anonymous.  I am playing with the papers from my recent haul.  This is the Pathfinding paper as well as a few chipboard stickers and accessories. The banner and words are from Simple Stories.
     I loved this photo of my mom and son when he was about ten months old, but I didn’t want to overwhelm it with patterns since the background was busy.  The orange leaf paper from the Pathfinding collection was just interesting enough.
    The heart banner behind the photo was actually the strip of paper you cut off the bottom of a 12×12 sheet.  If you’ve followed my blog lately I’ve been loving finding ways to use these in layouts to extend the paper pack.
     I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve done with the paper. I’d love to see what you’ve done with the collection if you purchased it.  Until next time…Keep Scrapping!

Challenges:
ScrapMuch? – Color Challenge
That Craft Place Challenge – Girls, but no pink
Color Me Scrappy – Color Challenge #71
Paper Issues – Fall

Christmas Morning Layout

     Hi all – Thanks for visiting me today as I share a layout I created based on the Week 2 sketch from Let’s Get Sketchy.  When I saw the three photos on the sketch I knew it was perfect for these photos from our son’s second Christmas. He was just about a year old and absolutely loved the train table we purchased.  He’ll be four next month and still plays with it daily.
     My papers are from an older Stampin Up collection, and I unfortunately don’t remember the name.  The tag at the top is a very light matching green, but didn’t photograph well from a distance so I did a close up to show the shape.
    Thanks for joining me today and until next time…Keep Scrapping!

Challenges:
Let’s Get Sketchy – October Week 2