Christmas In July #6

I hope this little Santa makes you smile just as much as he made me smile!  I had time to kill while I was at my parent's house last year and decided to play with my mom's large collection of markers.  I stamped this little Santa and after one previous "practice" Santa, I made him.  He's so cute and I absolutely love him.  I think that I did him justice and really like how he turned out.

I wanted Santa to be the star (he's a diva nd deserves it) so I kept the rest of the card very simple.  I also kept up my quest to purge the button stash as well, so that was a bonus.  I really like this card and I love that Santa gets to spread the joy he gave me.

Identifiable Elements:

• Paterned paper - SEI
• Santa - "Cookie Cutter Christmas" by Stampin' Up!
• Markers - Stampin' Up!

Wrap It Up #6

Yet another high school page that I never got around to finishing.  This was the first page I've tried to fix that I actually didn't like what I tried to do originally.  I mostly didn't like how the color scheme seemingly had nothing to do with the subject of the photos or the photos themselves.

I ended up adding in some blue striped paper mostly to make it feel more like EIU and to match the colors in the photos better.  I and removed the flower buttons because they felt so out of place no matter how I much I tried to spruce up the page.  I covered up the marks they left with the bling that I thought was more appropriate for the page.

I'm surprised I was able to salvage this page as much as I was.  I usually have pretty good instincts in designing pages but clearly not always.

Identifiable Elements:

• White bling - Jolee's Boutique
• Letters - Sticko
• Blue stripe paper - SEI

Foil Fun

A little bit ago we were cleaning out the "craft cabinet" in the basement from when I was little and we came across these fun heart doilies.  There are lots of them and I decided to try and use them in a scrapbook page.  They looked so nice with this KaiserCraft paper I had.  All I had to do was add some elements from an SEI sticker pack and I was good to go!