I hope you all had a wonderful week. I got my scrapping area cleaned up and am ready to start on some new layouts this weekend. I finished up the Frosty Fun layout the other day and ended up doing some stitching on it as well....
I used my Cricut and the Winter Woodland cartridge for the title - cut at 2-1/2", and for the snow woman - which was cut at 7". The Winter Lace seasonal cartridge was used for all the snowflakes - cut at 1-1/2", 2", and 2-1/2". All the patterned paper, cardstock and glitter cardstock is from DCWV from their recent Winter Wonder patterned paper & Christmas cardstock/glitter matstack(s). I inked the edges of all the papers and photos with Faded Jeans Distress Ink. Border punch is by EK Success. I went a little crazy with my i-Rock on this one. There's 54 rhinestones in all! lol! I pop-dotted up all the snowflakes, the snow woman, and the scarf, heart and hat, and my journaling block. Lots of dimension on this one, and, as you can probably tell, I had a lot of fun with it. :) I sort of scraplifted a layout that was in Creating Keepsakes magazine a few months back. Except I did my own thing with the embellishments, papers, title, and journaling area. I really like how it turned out....
I love stitching on my layouts. I've been using the Bazzill in Stitch'z templates for awhile now and really enjoy using those for my scrapbook pages. I used the flourishes one for this layout. And since I like stitching on my scrapbook pages, I wanted to give the new Sew Easy by We R Memory Keepers a try. I was finally able to get my hands on one since they've recently become available and keep selling out everywhere online. The Sew Easy tool itself comes with the straight stitch attachment and a large needle which stores inside of the handle. But all the other heads and the piercing mat you have to buy separately. So it was hard finding them altogether at the same time, at the same place. I got all but two of the attachment heads. But I'm happy with what I was able to get for now and can't wait to try using this on some layouts.....
I also picked up some great cookbooks - all 75% off this week. I've bought maybe one cookbook (for a fundraiser at one of the local hospitals for the cancer center - well actually, I bought two since I got an extra one to give to my mother-in-law) and no cooking magazines in the past year because I have so many now as it is. So I figured since I've gone so long, I could get these to add to my cookbook library. And at 75% off, how could I resist?? lol! These were all less than half of what a typical cooking magazine costs nowadays. There's some recipes in these that I'm really looking forward to trying....
Well that's all for now. I hope you all are having a great weekend and thanks for stoppin' by...
