Ho Ho Ho

I'm sharing another page for Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files today. This time I used the Shaker Pocket Colour Wheel cut-file, but I only used the inner parts to cut eight segments from some old 6x6 Christmas papers.

I smooshed some green ink over the background and then reassembled the segments into a circle, offsetting some of the pieces slightly and popping up some of the corners on foam squares. 

I matted my photo a few times, including a cream layer to stop it merging into the background. The photo is one that my cousin sent me and it looks like it was taken in a studio so there's no story to go with it. I took my title directly from the large ornament in the photo, adding it to another mat that sits behind both the title and the photo.

My final steps were to add a selection of ephemera pieces to surround the photo,  spatter gold paint across the page and doodle gold lines around the edge. I added a small amount of journalling (names and date) after I took the above photo.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill?

Paper - Dovecraft?

Letters - Mustard Moon

Ephemera - Fancy Pants Cottage Christmas 

Heart Stickers - Heidi Swapp

Gems - Papermania

Ink - Memento

Paint - Golden

Tools

Silhouette Portrait & Jenny Wren Shaker Pocket Colour Wheel Cut-File

Disclosure: I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.

Build a Snowman

Today I'm sharing my first December DT page for Twilight Crafts, featuring another Jenny Wren cut-file. Sorry that all you're getting at the moment are DT posts; my crafting time is being taken by other things at the moment but I hope to be back to a more normal schedule in the new year.

I originally scrapped these photos back in 2012, but I chose a grey and green colour scheme then and I've never really liked the page. It's been ear-marked for a re-make in blue for almost a year and I've finally done it, using the Snowman cut-file for my title. 

I originally used eight small photos, but I ditched half of them for the new version, matting them in a block to follow a sketch from Lisa Sikorski at Scrap a Sketch.

I had one full sheet and one part sheet of paper left from Echo Park's Winter Magic collection; some careful gutting and the addition of a sheet of navy cardstock allowed me to get a few layers and to use the patterns from both sides of the snowflake paper. 

I was really pleased that I could layer the snowflake 'O' of my title exactly over one printed on the paper. I added a large pearl to the centre of that one and then added small ones to a selection of snowflakes across the paper. 

I am so much happier with this page than I was with the original version, and I'm one step closer to finishing my 2012 album. Two pages left to go there, and I have photos printed and papers chosen for one of them!

Supplies

Cardstock - Stampin' Up!

Paper - Echo Park Winter Magic

Glitter Tape - The Works

Pearls - Scrapberry's, Craft for Occasions

Tools

Silhouette Portrait & Jenny Wren Snowman Cut-File

Big Shot & The Works Alphabet Dies

Disclosure: I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.

West Pier Sunset

Twilight Crafts are half-way through a '12 Days of Christmas' cybercrop over in their Facebook group, and today it's my turn to set the challenge. I've chosen a stash challenge based around the letters of the alphabet. I'm asking people to choose any four consecutive letters of the alphabet and then choose an item of stash for each letter; for my sample page I chose butterfly stickers, a cut-file, die-cut tags and enamel dots for BCDE.

My photo (or rather my daughter's photo) is of sunset over (the remains of) the West Pier in Brighton and the page will go in her University Years scrapbook. I started out with the Criss Cross Grid cut-file from Jenny Wren Cut-Files which I cropped down as my Silhouette Portrait can only cut 8" x 12". I cut it in grey cardstock, backed the open stripes with papers from 7 Dots Studio  and flipped it round to be on the left of my page.

I had a sheet of die-cut tags from the collection so layered some of the larger ones behind my photo and tucked a couple of the smaller ones in next to my title, adding three trios of enamel dots. At this point I had used C, D and E from the alphabet and had a decision to make between adding B or F; the butterfly stickers were on my desk, rejected from another page, so they were an easy choice.

Supplies

Cardstock - Papermania

Paper - DCWV Romantic Life, 7 Dots Studio Illumination

Letters - Basic Grey, Crate Paper

Tags - 7 Dots Studio

Stickers - OneCanoeTwo

Enamel Dots - Crate Paper, Artenew

Tools

Silhouette Portrait & Jenny Wren Criss Cross Grid Cut-File

Big Shot & Spellbinders Circle Die

Disclosure: I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.