Echo Park - Chilling With My Snowmies - It's Snowtime

Hello, Karen here with a scrapbook layout using the Chilling With My Snowmies collection from Echo Park. This collection is such a bright collection with a predominantly red. white and blue colour scheme, with some pink and green thrown in too. It features cute snowmen and penguins as well as florals, snowflakes and snowglobes. Whether you're scrapbooking winter holidays spent on the ski slopes or the occasional flurry of snow in your back garden, this collection is perfect.

I started my layout by removing (gutting) the centre of a sheet of the Snow Globes paper and on top of the hole I stuck a 10" square piece of white cardstock. 

With a black fine liner pen I then doodled a line round the edge of the white cardstock.

Onto the white cardstock I layered rectangular pieces of the Feeling Frosty Snowflakes and the Snow Globes paper and added some horizontal strips of the Colorful Snowflakes, Winter Floral and B side of the Multi Journaling Cards papers. All the papers were lightly inked with black ink to add some definition and to make them stand out a bit against the white background.

My photo was matted on white cardstock and added on top of the paper layers.

In the top left corner of the layout I created a small cluster using more of the patterned papers and a die cut from the Ephemera Frames and Tags pack. 

Using some white twine and some triangles cut from some white glitter card, I created a banner to hang underneath my photo. 

I dug into my button box and found some buttons which matched the colours in the collection and added some to the ends of the banner and also to the cluster at the top of the page. When I first started scrapbooking, buttons were often used on scrapbook pages but I don't see then on pages very often now. I like the pop of colour a button can add and the texture they add. Bring Back The Button!

Using some mini foam alphabet stickers I placed the title directly onto the photo. By positioning it on top of the huge white snowball my son is holding in the picture, the title is easily seen.

Finally, using a manual die cutter, I die cut some snowflakes from more of the white glitter card and dotted these around the layout.

This is a very simple layout but I like how the combination of white cardstock and patterned papers make the colours pop.

Thank you for taking time to visit the blog today. The Chilling With my Snowmies collection can be found here in the shop and I hope I've inspired you to scrapbook your winter photos.

Take Care

Karen x x