Perfect Day

Ben & Cocoa Take An Elfie

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Happy New Year, my scrappy friends! I hope your Christmas was full of love, laughter, and wonderful memories. We were very fortunate to have our entire family home for the holidays this year! A rare treat, and we enjoyed every moment together. Christmas is extra special when you have a family member who still believes in Santa. It makes every day special and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day magical! Our youngest Grandson still believes in Santa Claus and the magic of his Elf on a Shelf, Cocoa. This year, my daughter took a cute picture of the two just before Christmas. Ben was so excited to count down the days as Christmas approached.

I dug deep into my patterned paper stash to find this background paper from 3bugsinarug, entitled Reindeer Games. Peartree Cutfiles had the perfect cut file to document this special picture. The Take An Elfie cut file contains two cut files: the title and the elf with a camera. I chose to back the elf and the camera with multiple coloured cardstock pieces, used vellum for the camera lens, and the Holographic 2.0 paper from Lawn Fawn for the camera’s flash. I find working with small paper pieces like the eyes in the elf quite tedious, so I opted to use Concord & 9th’s black enamel dots instead. Next, I backed the Take An Elfie title with patterned paper from BoBunny entitled Mistletoe. This patterned paper has also been in my Christmas collection for several years.

To complete the layout, I adhered the two cut files on either side of the picture. The elf and the camera were adhered using double-sided adhesive foam tape. I did not adhere the foam tape to the back of the vellum lens. I used Doodlebug Designs Black Alphabet Soup Puffy Stickers to add the names and date to the layout. And finally, I added some gold accents to the page using Vicki Boutin’s Thickers from her Print Shop and Warm Wishes collections.

And that’s a wrap on my first Christmas layout for 2025. Thanks for popping in today. Until next time, stay safe, stay well, and Happy Scrapping!

Life is a Beautiful Ride

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When Canadian cousins get the opportunity to meet up in Austria, a good time is guaranteed! As the Nana to Ben, and the Aunt to Raquel, I have to tell you this picture gives me all the feels! It is so difficult being so far away from your family, but when you see them get together on another continent, and see the love and joy on their faces, it makes one’s heart burst! It certainly makes me count my blessings to be part of such a loving family.

If you are familiar with Peartree Cutfiles, you’ll know their tagline is “There’s a Cut File for That”. I can’t think of a better cut file for this photo than Life is a Beautiful Ride. This picture of Ben and Raquel was taken at the historic Prater Amusement Park in Vienna, Austria. (Photo credit to my talented daughter, Lindsay!) I cut the file in black using American Crafts Precision Cardstock. It was backed with gorgeous papers from Craft Consortium’s Ink Drops – Ocean collection. I loved how the hues and tones of this paper blended with the blue watercoloured background foundation page from Vicki Boutin’s Color Study Ready-to-Use Mixed Media Paper collection.

The rest of this layout came together quite easily. After adding a bit of journalling to describe the photo, I used Thickers from 3 of Vicki’s collections to embellish the layout. I pulled hearts, words, phrases, stars and an arrow from the Loving This, Stories of US, and Perfect Day Thicker collections.

Every time I look at this layout my heart, and maybe even my eyes, fill up! So much love, so much fun, so much to experience and share together. I am so thankful these two had the opportunity to make such great memories together!

Thanks for stopping in today. Until next time, stay safe, stay well, and Happy Scrapping!