"Winter Blues" Challenge for SSD January 9

This week the challenge at Sweet Sassy Diva is "Winter Blues".  Even though I live in Southern California I love using snowmen, snowflakes and penguins on winter layouts.  This layout was made using my Imagine and the Cricut Cart Snow Angel.  I love the  cuts on this cart.  The background paper is from a Recollections Christmas stack I got at Michaels which was the perfect blue background.

I collected pics of my two oldest granddaughters wearing hats.  

The ones on the right are all made by my oldest daughter. 

Here is the double page layout  

Closeup of first page.  The title Snow Cute is from Winter Wonderland  Cricut Cart and cut from colored cardstock.  The brown background mat is from Snow Angel cart printed paper. Cut 6 " and used other piece on 2nd page.  Mittens and booties are pop dotted.  Snowflakes on corners are precut from a package.  

Closeup of 2nd page

Closeup of hat, ribbon, and snowflakes 

The cuts as I said were made on the Imagine and I did them in pieces 

so I could pop dot the hats and scarves.  For my mats I used a EK corner punch.  

then I glued everything on the page and added ribbon and snowflakes.  

Hope you will come back this week and join all the SSD Design Team for their take on "Winter Blues" challenge.  Happy Craftin!

Also please mark your calendars for my first Blogaversary Blog Hop coming this month.  

Happy Craftin 

"All About Winter" Blog Hop-Imagine Snow Angel layout

Welcome to the "All About Winter" Blog Hop!!
 
We're so happy you could join us for this super-fun hop showcasing cards, layouts and projects that feature everything fun about snow, ice, and cold!!  You'll find an array of ideas throughout the hop -- We hope you'll enjoy each and every project along the way!!
 
If you've hopped over from Mindy's at http://www.papercreationsbymindyblog.blogspot.com/  then you are in the right place!!  If you've just popped in to visit my blog or are reading this via email and you'd like to join our All-About-Winter  FUN, then please CLICK HERE (http://www.memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/) to start at the beginning with Lynda's blog!!  Keep alert for blog candy along the way as some hop stops will be offering some goodies...

For the hop today, I've created a Winter Wonderland layout using the Imagine Snow Angel Cartridge.  I love the soft pink and blue colors on this cart.  The pink and white background paper is from a Christmas Recollections stack I got this year at Michaels.  The snow was hand cut from white glitter paper I got at Joanns.  

The cuts were all done at 5 or 6 inches except for the deer which was cut at 3 inches.  The girl in the sleigh, the boy and the deer were done in layers and pop dotted.    The houses and tree were done in one cut.  I then printed a 12 x 12 sheet of the flower design which I used for the mats and the title shadow.  The title I cut out with the white glitter paper.  Each corner of the mats were punched with an EK Success punch.  The blue paper is then inserted until the photos are added.  I also added stickles to some of the cuts to highlight the snow.  On the snow I added some white snowflake buttons and blue snowflake sequins.  I also added white snowflake buttons to the corners of each mat.  

Double page layout

Closeups

Title  closeup

For my blog candy I will select randomly chosen winner from the 4 Blog Hop days I have this month.  Those dates are December 2, 9. 10 and 15th.  The winner will be selected December 16th and will win a gift certificate of their choice to Michaels or Joanns.  I would ask you to be a follower as I love followers and if you leave a comment each of these 4 days you will have 4 chances to win.  
 
Thank you again for checking out my project...  Now hop on over to Jerise at http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/