Winter Wear | Bramble Fox

I'm so in love with the translucent Perspextives Bramble Fox has made for their winter collections!

The gorgeous "winter" title piece is from the November Fox Box. If you've been wanting to try Perspextives, the Fox Box is a great option, as you get 3 packs each month, plus exclusive designs.

Here's a look at what's in the November Fox Box:

I thought the Freezin' Season collection would be perfect for this layout. The tone of the colors work nicely with the translucent Perspextives, and the designs in the papers have the perfect touch of whimsy and playfulness I was going for.

How gorgeous are these translucent snowflakes from the Snowflakes and Snowballs pack--you get pink, white and blue snowflakes.

You'll definitely want to grab some of these beautiful pieces for all the winter pictures you'll be taking over the next few months!

Snow Much Fun {Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday}

I had a two-hour delay yesterday and managed to get a layout started and then finished it up last night. Scraplifting is a great way to get layouts done quickly. It usually takes me a whole entire Saturday to make a layout. Every Sunday, Paper Issues presents a new layout for the Scraplift Sunday challenge. Here's what I created:

Here's Angie's awesome layout I scraplifted. Since I scrap 8 x 8, I didn't have as much room to put as many fun details as Angie included on her layout.

Here are some details. I used Simple Stories Freezin' Season. I'm making pages for a friend, and the journaling came from my friend's Instagram caption.

The journaling cards are always too big for my 8 x 8 pages, so I often have to cut them down. Since I was doing all this layering of patterned papers, I thought of using one of the cards, but the bear was going to be covered up, so I cut his face with an exacto knife and overlapped him onto the photo. I did the same with the journaling card on the left.

I found some tiny snowflake stamps in my stash.

The February challenges are open until March 3. Come play for a chance to win a gift certificate to the Paper Issues store.

Speaking of the store, Paper Issues is getting loads and loads of new goodies in every day, so go check it out, and please use my code Debbi (no e on the end) and you'll receive 20% off your entire purchase!

Bundle Up! {Scrappy Friends Sketch Challenge + Paper Issues Take 5 Challenge}

I've been dying to use the new Simple Stories Freezin' Season collection by  I got from Paper Issues, and I found the perfect photo of my friend's son to use this cute collection.

I played along over at Rochelle's Scrappy Friends challenge with this awesome sketch: 

I also played along with the Take 5 challenge at Paper Issues. I actually used 8 things from the list: a banner, snowflakes, stripes, a cut file, stickers, fussy cutting, patterned paper, and a label.

Here are some details. I only had one photo, so I decided to use this cute penguin, cut from one of the cut-apart cards in the collection, inside a frame to substitute for the second picture. The little houses were cut from a patterned paper.

I used a snowflake in place of the circle in the sketch. This is a free cut file from Paper Issues called Circles and Snowflakes.

I elevated some of the elements with pop dots for added dimension.

I love these little banners I got at Michael's. I wish they had other colors besides black. They're by Recollections.

I hope you'll come play in the Paper Issues challenge for a chance to win a gift certificate to the PI store, and for sure give this sketch a try too!

While you're browsing at the free cut files at Paper Issues, take a look at all the new stuff in the shop, and use my code Debbi (no e on the end) for 20% off your entire order!