Page Drafts Christmas Release 2014

Hello friends! Well it's another Page Drafts Christmas Release and I am honoured that I was asked to be guest artist again this year.  I love Emmy Stafrace's sketches!  I used Release #37 Sketch #3 to create this Christmas layout of my three kiddos.  I took these photos last Christmas.  The layout below was  created with the Pink Paislee Merry & Bright Collection of papers and embellishments, some enamel dots from Simple Stories, some wood veneers from Creative Embellishments and some flair buttons by A Flair For Buttons.  The pine branches, poinsettias and the title were created from Silhouette America files on my Silhouette Cameo.

I also used the same sketch and created a winter layout.  I used the Fancy Pants Designs Timbergrove Collection for the papers and tags and some snowflake embellishments from Creative Embellishments.

Here is the sketch that inspired me.

To see the entire Christmas Release, sketches and the designers that participated, please go here.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are inspired with these sketches  Have a wonderful day!

Christmas Themed Family Layout

Hello!  I hope you are enjoying your day.  Today over at Susan K. Weckesser, I have a Christmas themed layout to share with you using Susan's awesome stencil, a snowman stamp for the vellum snowman embellishment,  that I can't seem to get enough of, and some patterned papers from Canvas Corp. I also sprayed some Tattered Angels Chalkboard Mist in Ferrari Red,  as well as some twine on the banner from May Arts.  The sketch was designed by Karan Gerber.

Some more detailed photos:

Now is the time to scrap those Christmas layouts.  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

Lee-Anne

Scrap Our Stash December 15 Sketch Challenge

Hello friends!  Today is Christmas Eve and my last layout for the year.  At Scrap Our Stash,  I am sharing a Christmas layout of my Christmas tree this year.  It is a bit small for the living room space, but was using a smaller tree this year so I didn't have to struggle with lights.  It's nice and bright.

 The challenge is to use the sketch that was designed by Kelly Holifield below and use at least two border punches and one other type of punch.  Scrap Our Stash and Sketch N Scrap are combining challenges for this one.

For my layout I used two different Fiskars border punches, an envelope punch to create the tiny envelopes on the right side of the photo and also a Kreaxions 4 in 1 paper punch to add snowflakes to the envelopes and corners of the layout.  

Thanks for spending your time with me today and I hope you are inspired to create a layout.  The deadline to link up at Scrap Our Stash is December 29, 2013 and 11:59 pm PST.  Thanks for stopping by and Happy Holidays!

Practical Scrappers - Ten Things Letter Stickers

Hello scrappy friends!

Today is all about letter stickers.  Do you have tons of letter stickers in your stash that you don't know what to do with?  I have the perfect solution.  Use your Thickers or alphabet stickers to create a background for your layout.

My layout is of my grandpuppy Elly who was very sick recently.  She is sleeping in this photo so I thought I would gather up all the letters "z"s" that I had and knew that I would never use them all and put them to good use.

Elly

I took a 12 X 12 piece of white cardstock and adhered numerous letters on it.  I then used a small foam brush and applied gesso to all the letters and let it dry.  This gives the letters some toothiness so that inks and mist will adhere better and mute the colors as I had all different colours of letters.  I then misted and inked with distress ink and then I embellished with corrugated paper that was misted and inked and then added a variety of embellishments.  Here are some closeups:

This layout was a lot of fun to create and I was happy with the result.

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day!