Christmas Scrapping

Gosh, almost a month since I last posted on my little blog! I have been busy crafting. I've just not had time to take photos of my layouts and blog them!

So, last weekend I headed off to the Artful Angels Crop and spent a very enjoyable day scrapping some Christmas photos. Well, actually it was just a few hours! It was my birthday and I arrived late (after H had insisted on making me a birthday breakfast!) and left early as hubby and H wanted to take me out for a yummy cream tea!!

But, anyway I still managed a couple of pages at the crop.

I take a hundred million photographs at Christmas but hardly ever scrap them. I'm not sure why that is, but whilst looking through my albums a couple of weeks ago, I realised I had big gaps and a serious lack of Christmas layouts. I decided to fill those gaps and reduce the pile of photos!

For my first page I used a panel of Simple Stories paper, a border and  stickers from Echo Park This and That Christmas, Fancy Pants alphas, stickers and alphas from Studio Calico's Yearbook collection and a few gems. 

Sorry for the dreadful photo of this page! There is hardly any decent light at this time of year. 

These photos were taken last Christmas whilst we were waiting with H to see Santa. The approach to his grotto, where we had to queue was decorated as a beautiful Winter Wonderland. I still need to add some journalling to this layout in the space over on the right hand side!

A close up of the overlapped border stickers, alphas and gems! I also put gems in the centre of the snowflakes - I think you can see them better in the first picture!

For my next layout I wanted to record how H always leaves out drink and snacks for Santa for on Christmas Eve. This particular photo was taken a few years ago when we spent the holidays, staying with family.

This one was quite quick to do, a few strips of EP This & That paper (with the edges inked), green washi tape, a title created with an EP This & That "Christmas" sticker and black glitter thickers, a few buttons, green twine, a journalling card and I was done. Although I think I will add the year the photo was taken.

Do you have photos still to scrap from Christmas past? Or do you scrap them as soon as the festive season is over?

Before I go, don't forget to pop over to the S J Crafts Blog - the new challenge has just gone live and this month there's a prize of a £5 voucher to spend in the shop!

Thanks for stopping by xx

Beautiful Ballet Dancer

This is the layout I made at my All Day Crop at the weekend.

I only managed one complete layout the whole day and 2 more that need finishing off! 

But I do have an excuse for my lack of productivity as I was also running the shop and helping customers choose their purchases!

Anyway, onto the layout ....

From a very early age H loved music and it wasn't long after she had learned to walk and then run, that she would dance and twirl around the room. At 3 years old she started ballet lessons at a local dance school and loved it! Now she attends a different dance school and takes classes in ballet, tap and modern jazz. She still loves music, singing and dancing but I wanted to record in her album where it all began, almost 6 years ago!

The patterned paper is Echo Park So Happy Together criss cross and I've used This and That Graceful stickers, papers and chipboard flower to embellish. The alphas are Dear Lizzy Glitter thickers and the blue alpha stickers are Echo Park. I also added some pearls and pink washi tape. The journal spot is cut from paper with scalloped circle nestabilities.

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