Perfect Tree | CSI Case File No. 340

I had lots of fun making this layout for CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration. 

Here are the Case File and clues that inspired this page:

Besides the color scheme, I used lots of the Evidence clues: plaid, wood, Christmas/Winter-themed elements, ribbon, something fuzzy, glitter, frames, stamps, chalkboard elements, snowflakes, cursive font, puffy sticker.

Here are some details. I started out with the plaid from Photoplays Kringle and Company and the wood paper at the bottom. I tucked in some greenery (whitery) from some Tim Holtz dies. My title uses some really old chipboard letters that I'm trying to use up. They're so big for my 8 x 8 pages. I painted them green. And I used the red glittery letters, which are also old, by Pink Paislee, for the glitter clue. How fun is that chipboard truck? I added a black puffy heart for the puffy sticker clue and also because I always add hearts to the pages I give away.

I found a die cut with a chalkboard look that was perfect for my page and met one of the clues.

That awesome string of fairy lights is a die by Bramble Fox. The stamped stars (red) are old Bo Bunny Stamps, and I stamped the wonky snowflakes (black) from Bramble Fox's Fox Stamps #2.

I cut that tree out of a Photoplay paper and added a fuzzy green brad and a glittery red brad for two more clues, and you can also see that I added a frame for an additional clue.

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Rollin' With My Gnomies | Paper Issues Vintage Scraplift

It's my turn today on the Paper Issues blog. Here's my post:

Hey, everybody! I'm sharing a layout I made for a new challenge called Vintage Lift. For this challenge, you'll want to choose a layout you've made from when you first started scrapping and scraplift yourself and then post them both to see how your style and products have changed. Here's what I created:

I've been scrapping for nearly 20 years, but I decided to choose a layout from 10 years ago:

I used PhotoPlay's Kringle and Company collection for my layout, as well as two of Paper Issues' awesome free cut files, Gnomies and Freeze Frame Snowflakes

            

When I lifted myself, I decided to go with the same basic composition. I substituted that scalloped circular element with a more updated background cut file. I used vellum as the strip in the center of the design so as not to cover up all those beautiful snowflakes.

How stinkin' cute are these gnomes? And the title "Rollin' with my Gnomies," which is a title in the cutfile set was the perfect title for this picture of my friend's adorable kids posing in the snow for our local news station's #snowstick photo challenge. I just used the "Rollin'" part of the cut file and used some rub-on letters and Thickers for the rest of the title. 

I love combining older supplies with newer, so I added those fabric brads, and of course the vellum is an older supply.

I know I sort of cheated by choosing a layout from 10 years ago, but if you saw my first layouts, you'd realize there's nothing at all scraplift-worthy. Here's a peek at the first layout I ever posted over at Two Peas in a Bucket, back in 2003, when I scrapped 8.5 x 11 (I started out 12 x 12, and back in those days, we'd scan our layouts, which was nearly impossible to do). I now scrap 8 x 8.

I hope you'll give this challenge a try. Share your creation in our Facebook group for a chance to win a gift certificate to the shop. Speaking of the store, go check out all the latest and greatest scrappy stuff, and please use my code, Debbi (no e on the end), and you'll get 20% off your entire purchase!