Merry Christmas Tree

 I love seeing the Christmas Tree all lit up and surrounded by gifts.

I'm usually so busy with dinner and games that I forget to take pictures of the tree.

I remembered this year!

I scrapped these pictures using this challenge from Scrap Our Stash:

I added some gold trimmed acrylic embellishments.  

The dimensional ornaments are from K&Company.

I added some gold glitter Stickles to them to make them shine even more.

I wasn't feeling the "glitter and sparkle" enough, so I outlined some of my papers with the gold Stickles too.

Off to order this year's pictures!

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December 25th

 Almost done scrapping previous years Christmas pictures!  Now I just have to sort through hundreds of new pics from this year.

This was a fun page as I finally had a thought on using all those little word strips.

I added some black and white braided ribbon and these really pretty poinsettia pieces I found at Hobby Lobby.

I used this sketch from Sketch n Scrap # 215:

As I work on these pages, I'm already making a list of things I will need for this year's pictures.

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Happy Holidays!!!

 It's Christmas morning!  We have a dusting of snow but it's soooo cold outside!!

I had a wonderful time with my family last night for our Christmas party.  Lots of food, games, presents and laughter.

Here is a picture from last year of my Mom, sister and me:

I used Simple Stories Say Cheese Christmas collection.

I love the Disney vibes!

I added my own little hidden Mickeys to my enamel dot scatters.

Here is the sketch I used from  Sketches in Thyme #450:

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!

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My Sunshine

 This past summer, my daughter and one of her friends went to a sunflower farm.  I didn't know they existed!  I am so putting this on my bucket list for next year.  The pictures she took were beautiful!

I started this page by playing with today's mood board challenge from Cookin' Up Creations:

Once I saw the bright yellows and that picture of the shoes among the flowers, I knew which pics I wanted to scrap.

My second step was choosing this sketch from Sketches in Thyme #449:

I used a crumpled up napkin and some blue paint to "mess up" my background.

PSA - after a few dabs, the napkin starts to stick to the paper...lol.

I used one of my templates from my cutting system and a brown marker to create the different sized circles.

The flowers are a mix of felt flowers from Michael's, some random leaves and Martha Stewart sunflower stickers.

My title was a print and cut from a Pinterest board.

Now that I have avoided everything I was supposed to do tonight, I'm going to bed.

Baking in the morning!

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'tis the season

 I have Christmas scraps all over my corner!  I put them to good use making this page:

Scraps and doilies to create layers for my pictures.

I used my texture paste for the first time!

I used a stencil and made snowflakes on my background.

I then added some white brads to the centers.

I stuck with this color palette for the challenge from White with 1:

I miss parties this like!

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WISH

 We recently celebrated my niece's 6th birthday!  

This was really fun to work with.

I was able to find a few cute things in the stash.

I used my coluzzle cutting system to make my circles with some scraps.

I pulled out the misting sprays for the background paper.

I then outlined them with gold Stickles.

While looking for birthday goodies,  I found these fun little shaker balloons.

A few random flowers and some fun metal star clips added more dimension.

I found this cute little unicorn idea on one of Jana's pages.

Here is the sketch from Stick it Down Sketches that inspired me:

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I am an Original

 This was a fun page to put together.  I was surprised and how fast it came to mind.

First I was inspired by today's mood board from Cookin' Up Creations:

These colors are so pretty!  This brought to mind the Zodiac Stack from DCWV.

I was originally going to use flowers to work with this sketch from Sketches in Thyme:

 

But once I saw all of these zodiac cards from the stack, I thought I would put them to use.

I then added a LOT Stickles around EVERYTHING....lol.

The alphas are a mix from the stash.

While looking for stars, I found these fun holographic stickers - perfect for a zodiac page.

SO happy with how this all came together.

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