TRUE LOVE, I LOVE WINTER, 2-D, LIFE DOCUMENTED, SNOWDROP

Morning all well Wednesday greets us fine and dry if not a little on the cool side here in Yorkshire and I am still emptying that blog folder.

So here I am sharing the next 'batch' of pages, I'm slowly getting through them, first up photo taken by said 15 year old when we were at Hodsock Priory earlier in the year, I loved the photo and even used it as my profile picture on Facebook for a while.

This was a 'mopping' up layout using papers from a Simple Stories pack that I got from Jen at Wear Crafts, I used some background stencil work and then just added the simple elements on the page. The photo was taken outside the local garden centre when we had had no snow whatsoever, but I felt the photo emulated winter!

Me and hubby at Chatsworth sitting on a 2-D chair it was very strange and not particularly comfortable but made for a fun photo!  Again Simple Stories papers which I love.

A shot of our nearest Castle - Conisbrough, blue skies day, it's always fun to visit and they have a new visitors centre this year.

Finally a snowdrop picture from Hodsock, we got some really lovely photos close up of these little flowers and there were so many different varieties it's proved difficult to pick which one I liked the most to scrapbook!

So the question is - is it empty and the answer - not quite!

WEAR CRAFTS LAYOUTS USING GRAPHIC 45 FRENCH COUNTRY

Just before Christmas I received a package from the lovely Jen at Wear Crafts containing some beautiful papers to play with.  Today I'm going to share with you a layout I did with some of these gorgeous Graphic 45 French Country papers she sent, if you fancy getting hold of some of these pop over to Jen's website (button on my right side bar).

Now first up is a double page layout that I did using these papers, I'd not seen them before and at first I was a little daunted by the heavy flowery type patterns but with them being double sided I soon discovered that you can use them to make great layouts that don't necessarily appear 'flowery'

As can be seen here in the double page layout of a day trip to Conisbrough Castle.  I used a combination of the papers, added some black punched cardstock strips, a handstamped title and some simple journalling and it was done.

 Up close you can see the detail a bit better

I also loved the fleur-de-lys on the papers, and that's what steered me towards these particular photos!

I hope you like, I'll be sharing another layout using these papers tomorrow - so don't forget to pop back. Hope you have a fabulous Saturday!