Scraplift Santa with Mel

Hello and welcome to the Boxing Day edition of Scraplift Santa brought to you by the ATDML Design Team!

Today my post is all about the white stuff. As I look out of the window typing this on Christmas Eve my garden is remarkably sunny and there seems to be a whole lot more greenery still around this Christmas. It got me thinking back to last winter when we had snow in December, January and February.

My layout features a favourite photo of Isabelle trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue! I started out planning to make a white on white layout but I decided I wanted to add some white sticker words and so I amended my plan to feature a whole lot of white embellishments on a simple kraft cardstock background.

To start with I cut some snowflakes on the silhouette and I also adapted a Paige Evans "Snow" title to include a space for the photo in the O.

Once the items were all cut I sorted through my embellishment and sticker boxes and hunted for clear bling, white stickers and words.

I added the photo behind my letter O and added the word title to the centre of the page before adding snowflakes above and below. I had some white doily stickers which I included and then I used lots of the white words from several packs of Simple Stories Photo Stickers.

I then added both crystal swirls and individual crystals to the page to give the snowflakes some sparkle and shine.

Join us on Saturday 29th for the Final Scraplift Santa and until then enjoy the rest of the festive season.

Scraplift Santa - Christmas Lights

Dolly here with another scraplift santa that I hope might get you scrapping over the festive period.

I used to find it hard to get good night shots of lights - crucial when it is Christmas - but with the phones these days they do take beautiful night pictures with little fuss. Hopefully over the festive season you will get some great pictures of the wonderful Christmas lights in your home and your area.

I love pages which use two 4" x 6"  photos that compliment each other because, whether they are portrait of landscape, they are so easy to scrap when they are a pair.

This page uses up some scraps. When you are putting papers behind photos and they are not seen you can often cheat and use up bits which, when put together, look like a much bigger piece of pretty paper, and I do so like to use up my scraps.

I used two different patterned papers from the Simple Stories Merry and Bright collection - the Christmas trees an the lovely floral paper.

The green dotted papers used for accents across the page is the reverse of the Christmas Tree paper (don't you love double sided papers)

I added some strips from the Graphic 45 Christmas Magic collection, and that is where the stamp came from too..

I kept the page simple - my pages always are I'm afraid - and just added punched circles with trees cut from the paper and decorated with tiny red enamel dots.

The title was stamped using two different sets of stamps.

Have fun with taking pictures of Christmas lights this year and I can't wait to see what you scrap. 

Scraplift Santa - Recording the Evidence with Debs

This season is my most favourite of all simply because I love the joy and excitement Christmas brings with it.The flip side is that it is such a busy time of year for a lot of us. And that brings me to this morning scraplift inspiration ... a few pages from my Christmas journal.

I love  that a journal allows us to plan and prepare pages in advance so that we can jot down notes and keep photos of all the moments of the season as we go along. I tend to set my journal with themed pages that feature every year:- What’s on my front door, advent calendars, Christmas wish lists from my girls, Christmas party with work colleagues, music playlists, decorating the tree, samples of this years wrapping paper and/or cards,envelope for receipts  and so on. I then leave pages to add the extras like tickets to pantomime or movies or shows, visits from friends, secret Santa gifts, BIG news this December, etc.

Our Facebook gallery is HERE  if you decide to join in any of the Scraplift Santa Challenges we have been posting. See you again on Saturday when our next challenge is up  

Scraplift Santa - more festive inspiration from Ann

You don't always need Christmas papers or winter papers to make a seasonal layout. Grabbing a generic striped background, in this instance grey and white then adding a couple of seasonal stamps and some mist I've shown you can get seasonal without a themed paper. 

Why don't you have a dig through what you have, find some stamps you've perhaps not used for a while and see if you can Scraplift Santa Ann. And did you see I used small asterix Thickers to make snowflakes? Another Scraplift tip for you!

If you don't fancy a snowflakes and wintery themed layout for this challenge swap for brighter colours and stars or flowers. 

Our Facebook gallery is HERE  if you decide to join in any of the Scraplift Santa Challenges we have been posting. See you again on Saturday when our next challenge is up  

Scraplift Santa Sketch Saturday

Dolly here and as always the second Saturday in the month sees a sketch from me and of course this time it has a Santa Scraplift twist.

First off here is your sketch for December.

Having been to Disney last Christmas I have so many photos I will be scrapping them for years. This is what I made from the sketch.

The Simple Stories Merry and Bright papers were perfect for the photo of the gingerbread family at Celebration. It's a really simple page just using cardstock in two colours and some of the gorgeous papers.

I really wanted a circle and I wanted it to be scalloped. It's a really easy effect to achieve. Cut your large circle and then in a contrasting colour punch a lot of circles and cut them in half. Slip them under the main piece all around the edge and, voila, a really cute scalloped circle. I made the scallop more prominent by dotting around the edges.

The title block is from Simple Stories Merry and Bright too. I added some die cuts and stickers and to finish off I made a little bunting banner and stamped a decorative edge around the page.

It is really a very simple page and I hope it might inspire you to scraplift something similar.

Scraplift Santa - An advent calendar with Ann

Welcome to December 1st, the start of advent and of the most festive of times with your ATDML design team. Every Saturday and Wednesday this month one of the team will play Santa and pop up a crafty project to inspire some crafting this holiday season. There are no kits, no instructions, no rules, just images and the blog posts.

Today I am Santa and as it is the first of the month I thought I would create an advent calendar for you. This was made from 2 chipboard coasters and 24 plain matchboxes which were assembled into towers of three and then fixed together to form two blocks of twelve boxes which were adhered together, sandwiched between two covered coasters. 

I have added a few images which hopefully show how this came together which was really simple once you got going.

The matchboxes were a bit flimsy when I got them but I covered the left and right side of each stack of three in a piece of the Kaisercraft Wonderland papers to hold them more securely. Then each door was covered in a number cut from the Wonderland foiled advent paper and a coordinating brad added which acts as a knob to pull the drawers open.

Here are a few more images of the sides and the top which was decorated with wooden tiles spelling out advent.

I appreciate you may not be inclined to copy this exactly but an advent inspired page is a good compromise for the challenge, or if you really want to challenge yourself you could make all the boxes from scratch (and not used ready made blank matchboxes like I did!)

We have created an album over on Facebook for you to share your projects or you can add a link in the comments section of the relevant blog post - the choice is yours.

A month of December inspiration...Scraplift Santa!

Starting this Saturday and every Saturday and Wednesday throughout the month of December with your ATDML design team.  A series of nine festive posts to inspire your festive crafting with layouts and off the page projects to inspire. 

You can directly scraplift whoever is playing Santa that day or take an element of the project to inspire some seasonal crafting. No kits, no instructions, no rules, just some festive fun from the team. We can't wait for you to join us!