12 Days of Christmas - Day 3!!!!

So, let me start by saying one thing first. I am dumbfounded I have done 3 layouts in 3 days.  Seriously.  And 3 I like!  But I am going to just ride the wave and enjoy it.  (while also believing this can't possibly happen a 4th day in a row... or can it?)

The fun challenge for Day 3 of Victoria Marie's 12 Days of Christmas challenge is "Three awesome die cuts (or more)!"  So... I went to town and there are more die cuts on this layout than I may EVER have done before. I borrowed VERY heavily for the concept from a layout Irit Landgraf over on the Hip Kit design team in October.  She had used die cuts and other pieces all around a square photo.  It was really fun, like a reverse puzzle. I started with that blue snowflake tag and just kept picking up and putting down all the pieces from the Elle's Studio die cut, wood veneer and cut-apart sheet until I was happy with how it looked.

BTW, super happy coincidence that the advent calendar on the picture (a CTMH kit from about 3 years ago) was all red, green and blue, the same as the Elle's Studio pieces.

There are also some very tiny sprinkles of Heidi Swapp Color Shine mist in Citron and Blush to pull in a bit more of the lime green and pink.  (and I believe I am actually in capable of doing a layout without adding color shine).

Here it is:

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen 

12 Days of Christmas - Day 2!!

The second day of Victoria Marie's 12 day of Christmas challenge is mixed 2 fonts! Well, as the proud owner of 100+ sets of Thickers (who am I kidding, it's like more like 200+)... this was an easy challenge for me :)  I used my November Hip Kit for this as well.  Only additions were the Thickers as the totally adorable striped ones that came with... I just couldn't get to work on this :(

Here is my layout:

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

12 days of Christmas challenge - Day 1

I'm participating in the 12 Days of Christmas challenge over on the Victoria Marie FB page.  Our first day's challenge was to use distress ink in a new way.  As I've only ever really used it to ink the edges of my stuff... for me, pretty much any other way was going to be new :) haha.

But, I really wanted to try it with a stencil to get a soft, starry kind of look.  I took these photos Sunday night while we were setting up the Xmas tree. I asked everyone to pick their favourite ornament as we were decorating and I snapped a pic.

AND... hurray, I finally cut into my brand spanking new, first time I got it Hip Kit!!!  The November kit is so pretty with reds, blues, pinks and a touch of green.  I actually got a wee bit stuck too as... I wanted to use EVERYTHING all at once and that would have been a disasterous page :)  So I took overnight to step back and go... it's OKAY, you can use the other pretty things on the NEXT page.  Anyone else have that problem?  I am pretty pleased on the stepping back and how the page turned out.

Here it is:

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

November Scraptastic kit KILLED

So I went to clean up on Sunday and inspiration suddenly struck and I put together a VERY quick layout using up some of my pp and "bits" from my print and cut marathon.  I have to say for being a pretty simple layout I actually really like it.  The only issue... I am out of A's, E's and R's in those cool Maple Thickers making them sort of impossible to use now :(

Here is my layout:

(I actually added a few enamel dots to this afterwards but that's okay... )

And here is what I had left of my November Scraptastic "Shake It Off" kit (best kit name ever, next kit needs to be Uptown Funk) I did stash 4 full sheets of cardstock - 2 yellow and 2 pink, I just don't use bright cardstock like that, I did use the blue that came with it however. 

And lastly, here are the layouts I made this month with the kit. I had a flurry of inspiration and did 2 layouts just on Saturday so I am SHOCKED I killed this kit so fast.  I only got the main kit, no add ons.  I can now move onto my November Hip Kit Club kit which I was saving for Xmas stuff.

Thanks for stopping by!! My next mission is the 12 Days of Christmas challenge that Victoria Marie is putting on.  Here's her blog so you can check it out:

http://victoriamarieblog.wordpress.com/

Jen

Weekend layout #2

Here is my 2nd layout for this weekend. I had a grand time scrapping Saturday night with my 80s playlist cranked :)  The Bangles and a little Motley Crue would inspire anyone, right?!

This layout is all about my fav book series of all time (Harry Potter is a close second).  I have reread the Outlander series 8x (every time a new book comes out I read it again).  I suspect I will be rereading the recently released book 8 soon (only read that one once).

Here is it:

As soon as I saw this book paper in my November Scraptastic kit I knew... it was time to do a layout about Outlander.  If you look at the 2nd picture you can see I actually wrote stuff about the book/characters all around the border of the cream cs.  I included main characters, a couple Scots or gaelic words, places, etc.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Jen