Carta Bella Layout

Good afternoon. I'm excited to share with you a layout I created using the Bundled Up by Carta Bella and a few Carta Bella shapes from the Silhouette store. I love Winter collections especially Winter collections that contain bright colors. The Bundled Up collection has tons of beautiful blues and reds. I used this collection to document the only snowman my kids got to make last year. There wasn't much snow so there was only one snowman at our house. My kids were being so silly and their faces add a lot of whimsy to the page.

I love using basic die cut shapes to add a little bit of extra detail to my layouts. I used some basic shapes cut out of red patterned paper to add some extra layers for my details. I added lots of extra tabs and background shapes to this layout.

Are there die cut shapes that you use over and over to create layers and details on your layouts? File tabs and basic shapes are some of my favorites to add to almost all of my projects.

Winter! Wait, Where's the SNOW?

I know most of the country is buried in snow and cold weather. Here in Idaho it's been very mild. We've had a few really cold days  and a few snow storms but for the most part we're still staring at dry brown grass. Hopefully, the weather will change and we'll get some snow. Snow is vital for this small farming community!
When the winter theme was assigned to me for the American Crafts blog I had to dig out some photos from last year because I don't have any photos in the snow this year.  Here's what I came up with

 I created this project with the Cut & Paste collection

 The journaling on the page is on the back of the tag in the vellum pocket.

 The second project I created with the Peppermint Express collection. I went a little snowflake crazy ;) Die cut vellum snowflakes, snowflake stickers, snowflake stamps...lots and lots of snowflakes. I wish you all could see this one in real life. There's a lot of dimension and texture on this one.

Hugs, thanks for stopping by!