Winter birthday card

Just finished this card for the Pollycraft Monday Challenge. The theme was "winter birthdays" which worked out perfectly for me as I had to make a card for my dear friend Kathleen's birthday in a couple of weeks. I chose this cute little bear "Bronson Star Gazing" from Tales of Pollycraft. I coloured Bronson with my Copic markers, using pinks and other feminine shades to make Bronson more girly. The background paper is from Basic Grey's "Euphoria" line. You can't tell in the picture but there is white flowersoft added to the hat, boots and mittens. I added an outline sticker star and finally, a sprinkling of Stickles for snow (you can't have a finished project without glitter!) and the card is done.

The card has a tri-fold - when closed you see the simple front with the sentiment "wishing upon a star" and then once the right flap is opened you see the sentiment continue along with a detailed border.

More scrapbook pages

A digital page completed using Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Creator


I changed all photos to black & white in order to emphasize the lack of colour in the winter landscape. I then opened the colour of Alex's coat and crazy carpet to draw attention to the focal picture.


A goofy layout of the boys acting up. I used a combination of circle punches & rub-ons.


This layout took forever as it was difficult to find decent instructions on how to embed the photos inside the letter frames. I'm really happy with the result. The layout was finished off with animal stickers to lend depth.


A traditional layout


Another traditional layout. I love the Elmo paper!

Snow in Vancouver

Scrapbook stuff

It's been snowing all day, Alex is napping, and Luke is watching "Peter Pan" on the DVD player. What better time to catch up with some scrapbooking. I promised myself that I would scrapbook all my pictures as I went. So far I am keeping that promise. As for the backlog of pictures? Well, I finished 3 2006 pages today! Only another 20 or 30 to go!