Winter Wonderland

Hello and welcome! Today is one of those days with a real winter wonderland, thick snow on the branches of trees, a pretty cold temperature making the snow crunch when you walk, and sunny clear weather. Winter at its most beautiful. Very fittingly, our challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog is Let there be Snow. 

Don't miss our special guest designer this month, Cate Dixson, who is 14 years old, and will share some really wonderful projects with you.

I was in the mood for a scrapbooking layout this week, inspired by some photos I took of the boys after the November snowstorm that we had. Leo's gingerbread outfit made me want to do something similar on the background of the layout. I also used quite a lot of layers and embellishments, trying to create a warm feeling of Christmas.

If you follow my blog, you might already know that I like to create snow, and today I used one of my favourite ways of doing so; embossed and torn vellum, with a tad of glitter. The SSS vellum was embossed in the Tim Holtz Bubble folder and after tearing it to create hills, I added some Stickles along the top edges. 

I  just couldn't help myself but to use some more DecoSheet, and here I placed it underneath words die cut from the woodgrain pattern from Tim's Tidings stash. I also used a couple of other papers from the paper pad, such as the one with the typewriter sentiments.

The photo is layered on patterned paper and I tucked a tag for my journaling in behind the papers. I used the WRMK Angle Corner Chomper tool to cut the angles on the tag, using a left-over piece of paper that I found on my floor (Leo had pulled out some papers from my bookshelf). The hole was punched with my Crop-a-Dile. Tinsel is such a festive way to tie a tag.

I wanted to use some of the small images on one of the papers in the Tidings pad and they are made to work perfectly together with Fragments. I glued them to the fragments with a small amount of Glossy Accents and when the glue was dry, trimmed the edges. Snow Cap alcohol ink mixative was sponged around the edges, for a snowy look.

Here are the other two fragments. They are hard to photograph and you don't really see the effect of the plastic here.

I also die cut snowflakes, from red and silver Deco Sheet. Adhere the Deco Sheet to a piece of cardstock first, then it cuts perfectly and is a little thicker too, making it easier to glue to the page.

 A few pieces of ephemera are tucked in here and there.

For the background, I used Tim's Holiday Script and Holiday Knit stencils, together with gloss paste.

When the paste was dry, I painted the background with watercolours. I will post a video class on this technique in this week. I just need to edit the videos.

For more inspiration on techniques you can use to create the look of snow, check out my Winter Village Video, Birch Tree Canvas, and Deer Winter Shadow Box, among others.

I hope you will join us in our Let There Be Snow challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy Christmas crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Sizzix HOLIDAY WORDS THIN	Tim Holtz Sizzix PAPER SNOWFLAKES MINI	Tim Holtz Sizzix WAVES & BUBBLES	Simon Says Stamp VELLUM	Tim Holtz Idea-ology TIDINGS Mini Stash 8 x 8
Tim Holtz Idea-ology HOLIDAY Deco Sheets	Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO SHEETS	Prima Flowers 12 X 12 WATERCOLOR PAPER PAD 847753	Tim Holtz FRAGMENTS	Tim Holtz Stencil HOLIDAY SCRIPT
Tim Holtz Stencil HOLIDAY KNIT	Prima 3D GLOSS GEL	Winsor Newton COTMAN WATERCOLORS PLUS 12 Tube Set With Palette	Ranger Stickles ICICLE	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink SNOW CAP Mixative
Tim Holtz SILVER TINSEL TWINE	Tim Holtz Idea-ology HOLIDAY TALK Metallic Stickers	Tim Holtz FESTIVE Ephemera Pack	We R Memory Keepers CROP-A-DILE	We R Memory Keepers Cropadile CORNER CHOMPER Angle
Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Sizzix PRECISION BASE PLATE	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	3M Scotch ATG 1/4 Inch GOLD REFILL TAPE	Tim Holtz TINY ATTACHER Stapler
Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL

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