Winter Album with Nancy Nickel

Hello, everyone!

It's Nancy here today with a fun Winter themed Project. 

 We've been enjoying beautiful frosty days!
The temperatures have been very mild,
with blue skies and incredible hoar frost!

That was the inspiration for my project today.
I've used some fabulous chipboard pieces
to decorate the front cover of an 8 x 8 album.

I began by pouncing some Picket Fence paint around the edges of the album.

Just enough to give it a frosty appearance.

Then I added the paper that looks like falling snow. 

I fussy cut some swirls out of a coordinating paper, 

and added them to the bottom of the page.

I thought they made fabulous snow drifts!

I inked two of the fun silhouette pieces from the Winter Kids set.

I think I have always done my silhouettes in black

but this time I did dark blue to work with the papers.

Then I adhered them in place on the swirls/snow drifts.

For the title on my page I used the Winter from the Winter Words piece.
I inked just the word part, and then adhered it in place on the album cover.
Once it was in place, 
I used white Crystal Drops to colour the little snowflake,
as well as the snowy part.

In the photo below, you can see the great glossy finish on the snowy part.

Finally, I added three snowflakes, from the Snowflake set. 

I actually adhered them in place first,

and then covered them with the white Crystal Drops.

This was so much fun to make!

I can't wait to start filling it up!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

-  Winter Kids 

- Winter Words

- Snowflake

Other Supplies Used:

- Binder from My Stash
 -  Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Vintage Shabby Paper Stash
- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Paint - Picket Fence and Distress Ink - Broken China
- Tonic Studio: Nuvo Crystal Drops - Simply White

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Thanks so much for stopping in today!

I'll have another project share for you in the New Year!

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Seasonal Clipboard with Charlene Byrd

Hello bloggers!

Charlene here! Thanks for joining me today.

I'm sharing with you a beautiful, decorative Christmas clipboard that I created to celebrate the season. I designed it so that it can easily be interchanged with the changing seasons or occasions.

To begin I covered chipboard with a piece of burlap and trimmed around the edges.

I used gold embossing powder to create the reindeer.

I simply added Walnut Distress stain to the pine branch.

I then added Fired Brick Distress Stain to the cute, tiny sled.

I inked the paper doily. Attached it and added the pine branch. I then added the tag with the reindeer. Wrapped it all with distressed seam binding ribbon and some bakers twine and tucked in the sled. I also added the ribbon and twine with a tag to the top of the chipboard and voila.....done!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Wood Small Marked Reindeer

- Pine Branch

- Mini Wood Sleigh

Other Products Used:

- Tim Holtz/Idea-ology: Clipboard

- Tim Holtz/Ranger Ink: Distress Stain - Fired Brick and Walnut Stain

- Kaisercraft paper

- Kraft tag and Chipboard

- Paper doily

- Burlap, Seam Binding Ribbon, Bakers Twine

- Gold Embossing Powder

Until next time!

Charlene Byrd

Not So Spooky Scrapbook Layout with Charlene Byrd

Hello Bloggers!

Charlene here! Thanks for joining me today! Happy Halloween!

Last year I spent Halloween with this little sweetie while I was visiting in Alberta. I experienced the best Halloween ever that night. The sidewalks were packed with kids and adults, all of the houses were were decorated so spooky, it felt like I was in a movie! I loved it so much that I’m doing it again this year!

To begin creating, I added some Texture Sand Paste to the Scary Word with a palette knife to make it very spooky looking!. Once it dried I painted it with Black Gesso.

I simply used Black Soot Distress Stain on the spider web.

Here is what I used to design this layout:

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Scary Word

- Corner Web

Other Products Used:

- Pink Paislee paper and diecuts

- Misc papers

- Black Mesh

- DecoArt: Texture Sand Paste

- Tim Holtz/Idea-ology: Number Plate

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Black Soot Distress Stain

- Metal embellishment

Thanks so much for joining me today! Happy Halloween and Happy Creating!

Charlene