Naughty or Nice

I am just smitten with the Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Delight collection and have a few projects to share this week. I really appreciate how versatile the collection is and can represent both the Christmas Holidays as well as the season of winter. I trying to get the perfect holiday photo when I took these pictures of my daughter. Ironically, my favorite photo is the one where she looks totally bored of the whole plan. Serves me right doesn't it?

Little Yellow Bicycle includes so many fun embellishments with all of their collections. I can easily make a page with 100% of their stuff - never anything needed to add to a beautiful page. I particularly love the chipboard swirls and bling that came with Christmas Delight. They were such a great accent. Not to mention the wonderful journal cards that always have the perfect sentiment.

The decorative edge papers were a great way to vary the look of my layers and I love how the soft blue color of the chipboard words contrast with the deep rich colors of the specialty paper with the ornaments. This collection will not disappoint.

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November Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Melissa D. for being the randomly drawn winner of the November Challenge. Your layout is absolutely beautiful and I love the Little Yellow Bicycle papers you chose for the layout and photo. Please email me your information and I will get a RAK out to you soon. Melissa's layout is based on this November sketch.

Thank you so much to all who played along this month. I know things get crazy around the holidays, so I am going to take a hiatus for December since we are already most of the way through. However, I promise to be back with more sketches and challenges in 2011.

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Wintertime with Echo Park

 

Sorry the sketch is just a tad late.  I had submitted this layout and sketch to the Echo Park Guest Blogger challenge and was waiting to see if it was selected.  This morning I found out that it is the first project selected for the 12 Days of Guest Designers on their blog.  Now that it is live, I can share the sketch with you all.  I'll be posting the winner of the November Challenge this week and putting up the December Challenge soon - although I am feeling like most people are too busy to scrap...

This is what the holidays look like in Colorado - pure Rocky Mountain fun, filled with fresh air and powdery snow. The "Wintertime" collection is a perfect palette of frost to make these photos of my son look even a bit chillier. I have been working on ways to add more photos to my layouts and since I am addicted to wallet-sized ones, I am always searching for more ideas on how to include them on my pages.  For this project, I decided to make a filmstrip of my son playing in the snow to compliment the larger 5x7 close up photo. I also tried to keep my embellishments fairly simple, but had to add this super cute sticker of the snowman. I also used some pop dots.

To increase the frosty feel of the page and to give it some sparkle, I added a bit of bling to this cardstock border sticker. I also varied the colors of the sticker alphabet to create a bit more interest to the title. The little circle snowflake sticker finished off the look.

Aren't these trees adorable? It is the little details like this that make Echo Park papers so fun. I cut up some of the paper strips to include this as a layer in my design and then added some of the sentiments from the cardstock stickers.

Hopping with Adornit - Day 3

We have one more day of fun from Adornit.  Today it is a Potato Sack Race to all of the blogs to check out the fun we have planned with the two Adorable Owl collections from Adornit - Carolee's Creations: Pink Hoot and Fern.  I really love both of the collections, but I opted for the more masculine Fern collection to make this sign for my son.  I know you will find projects from both of these super cute collections as you hop from blog to blog.

This Happy Wood Photo Plaque sign is also from Adornit.  It happens to be one of their wood decor items.  It measures 7 x 22 inches and has a lot of real estate to cover, but the design is so darn cute, you don't notice the size - LOL.  I thought it was a really interesting feature to hang these three little plaques from the sign, because I also thought it would be really practical to use the pegs on the sign to hang some of my son's hats.

I used this Owl Hoot B paper to cover the two little plaques below.  Isn't it adorable?  Then added a few cardstock stickers for the sentiment.  The owl motifs totally crack me up.

The larger Hoot stickers were great to decorate the word 'HAPPY'.  I used the one below to embellish the 'H'.  I think it is a perfect fit.

Win this wonderful collection by leaving a comment on each of the designers blogs and a final comment on the Adornit - Listen In blog.  

Melinda

Liz

Suzanne

Aphra

Robbie

Frances

Adornit - Listen In

One final thing I should mention about Adornit...you can purchase all of their collections and embellishments directly from them at their store.  They have wonderful customer service and I always receive my packages right away.  Plus they have some amazing bargains.  I recommend checking it out here - Adornit Store.

Thank you so much for hopping with us, especially those of you who have been here for all three days.  We appreciate all of the encouragement and hope to see some of these wonderful collections in your own work.