Tree Decorating!

Hello Sunday!

A very quick post from me today - whilst dinner is cooking - to show you another Christmas layout!

*Tree Decorating*

I used lots of pop dots to give some dimension!

It's tradition in this house that we all help to decorate the tree and H loves to carefully hang the decorations! I love the look of concentration on her face in these photos.

They're not the best photos but I think they capture the moment perfectly!

The papers and stickers are a mix of Simple Stories and This & That Christmas. The tag is Jenni Bowlin and I've used my gorgeous woodgrain thickers for the title. I added a few Jenni Bowlin red rhinestone stars scattered across the page to finish.

Very simple page!

Right, must go and check on that dinner!

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