Christmas Cheer (Scraps of Elegance "Christmas Cheer" kit & SIWAS)

Happy Boxing Day!!

I really hope that you had a wonderful Christmas full of happiness and cheer with your loved ones!!

I am sharing with you another Holiday-themed layout created with the Scraps of Elegance "Christmas Cheer" kit.

For the 2nd time this month, I am playing with the Scrap It With A Song December challenges.

This time I opted for their Christmas music option, We Wish You A Merry Christmas.

I think the inspiration is pretty obvious and need no more explanation. hehe

The SOE kit comes with a beautiful Christmas stencil which I used to trace some holly on my background.  I then colored it in and stitched the contours.

The photo documents a beautiful Christmas morning memory of my nieces with their Memere and Pepere (my mother and her partner).  What a happy family!

Learn more about the Scraps of Darkness and Scraps of Elegance kits right HERE.

A Wonderful & Cozy Life (Blue Fern Studios DT Reveal 1 & some challenges)

What a bittersweet post this is for me, as after a year of being on this wonderful team, this is the 1st of my last 3 posts as DT member on the Blue Fern Studios blog.

Through the year, I have been blessed with wonderful scrappy friends, fabulous quality products from generous owner Leslie and inspiration galore.  I am forever grateful of having been given this amazing opportunity and will forever hold a special place in my heart for Blue Fern Studios.

Let's start off this series of farewell posts with this Winter-y creation featuring the gorgeous Vintage Christmas collections 1 & 2.

To create this layout, I was inspired by this stunning mood board from Berry71bleu.
To learn more about this fabulous challenge, click HERE.

I am also playing along to one of my very first DT's dating back quite a few years,

Scrap It with a Song which is a wonderful challenge blog inspired by music!

Click HERE to find out more about their December challenge.

Their rock song inspiration this month is Hammerfall's Send Me a Sign.  I had never heard that song and found the melody to be quite soft and romantic, very beautiful, but with very sad lyrics.  It reminded me of how I used to feel about Winter before I met Yves... it was a truly sad and depressing time for me. I kept wishing for a sign of true love.  Now, each day spent with him is a testament that life can be wonderful and some things are truly worth waiting for. 

Now let's take a closer look at my page...

The Blue Fern Studios' Vintage Christmas collections not only offer beautiful Christmas patterns, 

but also include lots of papers that are perfect for Winter-themed layouts like this plaid print.  

To go along with it, I chose several Winter chipboard pieces including the Snow Medley board, covered in Snow embossing powder with a touch of glitter dust, and these adorable mittens from the Cozy Christmas set on which I used It's a Girl and Blue Sky. 

You see below the Dangled Flake piece which I cut in half as I wanted to save some of it for another project. I added several flowers from the new kits, Christmas Blooms and Soft Blossoms.  I sprinkled lots of silver microbeads throughout my page.

I chose A Wonderful Life, covered in Snow, as the title to which I added the word Cozy which I 'stole' from the Cozy Christmas piece, as that is exactly the word that comes to mind when I look at this picture of Yves and I cozying up to each other for a selfie during a Winter stroll.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Patterned Papers: Vintage Christmas 1 (Greeting Cards); 

Vintage Christmas 2 (Let It Snow, 'Twas the Night, Holiday Cards)

Chipboard: A Wonderful Life, Snow Medley, Cozy Christmas, Dangled Flake

Flowers: Christmas Blooms, Soft Blossoms

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powders (Snow, Blue Sky, It's a Girl)