Simple Stories Baking Spirits Bright - Walking with The Snowman

Hello, Karen here. Happy New Year! Today I have a final layout using the Simple Stories Baking Spirits Bright collection. My layout isn't about baking but instead records memories of a festive sculpture trail which came to our local town this past Christmas.

I have to admit that when I came to create this layout I didn't have a lot of my design team kit left so I have cheated and added a sheet of Simple Stories Sn@p Basics woodgrain paper from my stash. Sadly I don't think that paper is available in the shop now, but there are plenty of other woodgrain papers which would work just as well.

I started with a 12x12 sheet of Bazill Maraschino (red) cardstock and onto this I layered a sheet of 11.75x11.75 white cardstock and  a 10x10 sheet of the Simple Stories Sn@p Basics 'Birch' paper. I machine stitched around all the edges with white sewing thread to add some texture. 

A strip of the Sweet Holiday Wishes paper was then placed horizontally on the layout and also machine stitched.

So that I could include lots of photos on the layout, 12 photos were printed onto a 7x5 piece of photo paper using a collage app. The printed collage was then matted with a piece of the Merry & Bright paper and attached to the layout.

Using a free printable children's colouring page from the internet I created my own cut file of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman. The outline was cut from black cardstock and then backed with some white glitter cardstock and scraps of the Merry & Bright paper. The backed cut file was then tucked under the left edge of the photo collage.

One of the foam stickers from the Foam Sticker Sheet was used to embellish the Snowman's hat and the title was created with another foam sticker and some black cardstock stickers form my stash.

An image from some of the publicity material for the sculpture trail was printed onto some photo paper and, with the addition of some clear number stickers, was used as a sub-title.

Journalling strips printed on the computer were added.

Finally, a couple of foam stars from the stickers sheet were added to the bottom of the layout.

That's all from my today but I'll be back later in the month with another project.

Take Care, Karen x x