Happy New Year! Hopefully everyone had a great end to their year and hopefully starting the New Year with hope and happiness for the future! I created this layout using inspiration from the Tres Jolie Kit Club January 2022 Mood Board. Mood boards can help spark a little extra creativity in a project, and this one made me think about some of the things we don't always get to experience in Arkansas...like large amounts of snow. The icicles, however, now we have plenty of crappy experience joy filled memories of ice. I'll get off my soap box after this sentence, but we we tend to get more ice than snow down here...and I'm just a little jaded! 😂
Here is the Mood Board:
And here is the LO:
We took this group selfie when went to see Christmas lights back in late November. It was pretty chilly that night, so we were all grateful for the hot chocolate and heated indoor area after we drove through the Christmas light trail. I love the color blue, and I loved all the blues in the Tres Jolie scrapbook kit, and all the blues on the mood board!
The background paper I chose had some gorgeous flowers scrolling across the middle of the page, and I decided to make the paper a little 3D by replicating the page design with flowers from the kit. Below you can see a bit of a close up of the 3D flower scroll.
I took some chipboard and used everything from mist, to embossing powder and a little bit of glitter to decorate it. Again, leaning heavily on blue tones and a little bronze to draw the blues out. I used some pearl bead and some Beautiful Beads from Renea Bouquets shop. I also tucked a little bit of cheese cloth in behind the chipboard. It made me think of wispy snow in the winter time (okay okay...dream of wispy snow and hope we get at least one good snowfall again this year!)
Below you can see where I used some more cheesecloth on the other side of the picture, along with some more of the beads and a wooden snowflake from the Renea Bouquet shop. You can also see a few more of the flowers and if you look close enough you can see where I used some of the blue mists to splatter the flowers and the background of the paper. The resin bird came with the Tres Jolie kit as well!
Finally, here is some stencil work I did at the top of the page. I tried something new and stenciled some designs and colored them with the various blue mists I had grabbed from my stash (I used a couple from Lindy's Stamp Gang and a few Tim Holtz along with a few random ones that no longer have labels 🤷) After the mist and texture paste dried I used the same stencil to add an additional layer of paste, but without the sprays. I was going for a "fresh snow" look, and I think I did a pretty decent job. As a finishing touch I added some white feathers because feathers often make me think of the patterns that ice and frost make on windows during the winter time!
I hope you enjoyed reading through this and I really hope y'all are having a fantastic start to 2022!
xoxo,
Mel
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