Sweater Weather ....

As I said in my last post, I have been scrapbooking with some of the lovely Stampin Up winter seasonal papers. I have had the Sweater Weather papers since October but with the house move they went straight into a box, and although I unpacked them about three or four weeks ago, I had a few Christmas projects I needed to do first. So here are my basic Sweater Weather pages, what I love about this collection is that when you split the papers down and look at the front and backs, there are really two colour ways, to demonstrate this I have made two layouts. One with mainly the blues and one with mainly the browns, oranges and yellows. Both layouts will be heavily embellished and finished off, but these are the bones of the pages for you to see :)

I also mixed some of these blue papers, with the Winter Frost on the previous post.

Winter Frost ....

So I have had some lovely time off over Christmas and we have had the house to ourselves for just over a week, (no builders yay, so peace and quiet, well generally), and while Craig has been doing a lot of painting and I have been doing a lot of cleaning (just to keep up with all of the dust and dirt here), we have had some time to relax with golf for Craig, and crafting time for me. I was really looking forward to making a layout with the Winter Frost paper stack, but hadn't realised there are only two different papers in the stack, it gives you four patterns all together as they are double sided, but in hindsight as a scrapbooker, I should have ordered the 12x12 paper pack which would have given me 5 double sided sheets to go at. So I improvised and mixed the Winter frost stack with some papers from the Sweater Weather Collection. I have been looking forward to using these papers too, and am going to feature them on my next post :)

I have used a die on this layout, the little row of houses
that is not Stampin Up and two pins! (inspired by Christin Gronnslett)

Focus on fringe cont ....

Well here is the layout today, I have just about completed it, and also made another layout with the gorgeous Season of Style papers, now just to add some photo's and journaling :)

The second photo is a little dull but you get the idea. I used one of the Tag a Bag chevron decorated gift bags as a pocket on this layout and made a large tag to fit inside it, you can put additional photo's on the tag or hidden journaling :) Here's a little sneak peak too, on both layouts I have used an up and coming sale-a-bration item, see if you can spot it :)

Configuration Boxes ....

Hello, I just wanted to do a quick blog post before Christmas, today has been a pretty calm day for me compared to the last few months !!! I have had builders here every day, and it has been nice (since they finished work on Friday) to have the house to myself. Peace at last, which has been lovely these last few days on the run up to Christmas. Of course the house still looks like a building site, but at least there are no builders here, except for Craig who is now waving his paint brush around !!! So over the weekend I had a couple of exceptionally nice days, Saturday with ladies Christmas lunch and Sunday with some crafting pals. I invited a few friends round and said that I would provide these wooden houses which were left over from one of the retreat classes. Everyone brought loads of bits and pieces with them, and we all went to town in making our own unique projects. I haven't quite finished mine yet, but here it is so far ..... just out of interest if you google configuration boxes, you can see some amazing ideas :) enjoy.... not sure about all of the elements yet i.e. Santa :)

Focus on Fringe ....

Or Tassle, depending on what you call it. I was thinking about my Season of Style page the other day, and wanted to make one of these flowers. I like to make them out of felt, but have made them from paper before as well, so I started with a 2" strip of card, folded it in half down the length and then snipped along the closed edge to make the "fringe". Of course this can be used for quite a few applications, and I have tried to use it a few times on my page to demonstrate this ... flower, Christmas tree, fringe over photo mat and of course it makes great grass.

Convention Swaps ....

Just wanted to add my last post about convention as I haven't shared any cards!!! Here is a photo of the swap I made and also a photo with some of my favourite swaps on it.

Beautifully Baroque.

I hope the photo's not too small for you to enjoy :)

Season Of Style ....

I just didn't want anyone to miss out on these gorgeous papers from Stampin Up! If you happen to have missed them they are in the seasonal catalogue and I just can't get enough of them. Robyn and I have been covering the SU Kraft Gift Boxes with the papers as she always makes her own Christmas gifts and the boxes are the perfect size for so many things. I am going to try to scrapbook with them tomorrow just so that you can see them used for another application, but I have seem them put to all sorts of uses :) here's a layout I have started :) I have updated the photo to one of Robyn's gift boxes as she has given them out now :)