Bethinking

Spring Break

I chose the colours for this layout straight from the Spring Break patterned paper pack - Old Olive, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky and Pumpkin Pie. I love how this colour combination works, but I don't have too many chance to use it in my scrapbooking as normally there's mostly girls in my photos!

I thought it would go well for this Zoo layout, though. I cut the flowers from one of the pieces of paper to use as an accent, and of course stamped some animals from the "Wild About You" stamp set. I've fringed the stripey piece of paper so that it looks kind of like grass. The effect of that is pretty much entirely lost in this flat photo, but trust me, it looks good on the page!

Some of the products I've used here are 25% off because they're retiring:

•  Spring Break DSP - only $8.96 for 12 sheets!
• On Board Simon Lower chipboard (for the 'U") only $15.71
• In Colour stamp pads - only $7.46

Please let me know as soon as possible if you'd like to order something that's retiring as stuff is selling out! And have a great Monday...

Snow Flurries Scrapbooking

I realise that this looks very similar to my last project, but I decided that the colours and style I used in my City of David card would also work for this scrapbook page. I've had these photos waiting in my pile to be scrapped for ages now. They were taken down at Perisher last year, and even though there wasn't heaps of snow, we had a great holiday!

The colours used are Close to Cocoa, Bashful Blue and Whisper White. Obviously I've used the Snow Flurries stamp set, but also the Best Friends and Big Deal alphabet sets. The 3/4 circle punch got a work out, too. I've stamped some snowflakes, embossed them, then punched them out to make the scalloped style edge on the left of the photos. Some of the flakes are stamped in white on vellum, to give a translucent effect. I had to use some Dazzling Diamonds on these, too.

I also used my heat and stick powder to add glitter to the title, which you can see better in the detail photo. A couple of pieces of Hodgepodge Hardware to embellish it, and it was finished. Now I just need to scrap the snowball fight photos for the opposite page of the layout! If you'd like some more Scrapbooking ideas, please let me know. I'm happy to run Stamping and Scrapbooking classes.