Davinie's non-traditional challenge!

Traditionally winter layouts are embellished with snowflakes, circles, and maybe stars.  We usually use blue and green on white, maybe add some kraft, a little red, plaid, and we are done.  For today’s blog post I wanted to share a winter layout using non-traditional embellishments.

Last year we only had two storms leave snow at our house, but managed to find a good sledding hill on Christmas Eve while visiting my husband’s parents.  I was taking a couple of photos of Morgan when she put her hands in the shape of a heart on her chest and told me, “I Heart Snow!”  How perfect for mama, the scrapbooker.  I now had the photos AND the title of a layout in one moment.

Because of the sentiment she used, I wanted to include hearts on my layout, which isn’t a traditional winter embellishment.  And because of her favorite color, I also wanted to use pink. 

 

(Note to self:  Watch where the twine lands when photographing a layout, for pete’s sake!)

Supplies:  A few bits from a recent kit, a couple of different collections from Crate paper, new and old, and bits from my stash. 

I didn’t use any die cut systems for these embellishments.  I took chipboard hearts from my stash, traced and cut them out, and I used a basic cursive font from my computer, printed it as a mirror image on cardstock, and cut it out too.  The traditional snowflakes (there was snow, I had to have a snowflake), were punched out and then I used the negative just for fun.

I challenge you to use non-traditional colors and embellishments for your layouts.  I’ll see you back here on Wednesday for more winter ideas.

 ~ Davinie

 

Check out Kelly Purkey's beautiful tags on Day 5 of our December Countdown!

 

Comments

[Heather Guy]

Absolutely adorable lo! Love it!!

[Mary Jo]

Gorgeous layout!! :)

[Vicki S]

Very sweet layout, love the colours.

[JustAPacRat]

Gorgeous layout, love the colors used. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[JoAnn B.]

Beautiful layout and great colors. Love the sweet pictures. TFS

[Kathy P]

I love the non-traditional colors---really makes these fun photos pop! And I got a smile out of the twine thing....I have done similar things so many times!

[Debbie C.]

A gorgeous layout. Love the soft pink and green tones you used.

[kathyS]

this layout is so sweet love the colours. great tag love the gold so beautiful on the background-thanks for the inspiration

[Stacy]

Great LO!

[Line H]

You invented the "rebel" scrapbooking !

[Danielle Flanders]

BEAU-tiful, Davinie!!!!!

[Lucy]

It's layouts like this that want me go beyond cardmaking to scrapbooking! Lovely in every sense of the word.