Beautiful Day - Gina's New Year scrapbook layout

My New Year always starts with me wanting to do more scrapbook layouts and lasts for at least the first 2-3 months so I thought I'd start with a layout using some lovely photos I took of my daughters in their New Year dresses.

I started by die cutting some of the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage paper with the Sizzix Tim Holtz pocket frame die set. For the first three frames, I used the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Daughter, Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Handwritten and Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Portrait papers. The pictures I took with my Instax camera turned out to be the perfect fit for this die.

I die cut three more frames and used off cuts which I stuck where the pictures should go. For these frames, I used the Maggie Holmes Crate Paper Heritage: Handwritten, Maggie Holmes Crate Paper Heritage: family Tree and Maggie Holmes Crate Paper Heritage: Perennial papers.

Next I took a Vintage yellow 12x12 scrapbook paper from my stash which I used as the base. I cut a 4 inch strip of Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Postmarked paper which I stuck on the left of the page. I cut a strip of Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Homestead paper at 1 1/2 inches and stuck that slightly overlapping the Postmarked paper. On the right, I stuck my frames.

In the middle of the Homestead paper, I glued the dark green Santoro leaf ribbon.

Next, I die cut a tag on the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Generations paper. I fussy cut the "You make life beautiful" sentiment from the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Lifetime paper and used my Tim Holtz antique linen distress ink to colour it followed by my Kaisercraft Cotton Candy ink. I used a piece of the blue WRMK Sew Easy bakers twine for the tag an stuck them on the top left to make the title for the layout. I also stuck a little bow from my stash under it.

I die cut the arrows, banners and shapes that came with the Tim Holtz Frame die using some of the paper off-cuts.

Now to decorate each frame. For the first frame, I used one of the diecut arrows and a heart an also a little frame that I fussy cut from an off-cut. The second frame with my eldest daughter has flowers in the top left corner that I fussy cut from the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Handwritten paper, and a banner on top of which I stuck one of the Tim Holtz Small Talk stickers.

For the middles frames I added some more fussy cut flowers to my second daughter's picture and also some roses I fussy cut from the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Family Tree paper. I love the 'family' at the bottom so I just added some die cut hearts next to it. I fussy cut the portrait from the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Decades paper which I stuck in the centre of the next frame. I put a banner at the bottom with a Tim Holtz sticker over it and die cut stars in the top left and bottom right corners.

The bottom left frame has a flower fussy cut from the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Lifetime paper, a Tim Holtz small talk sticker, die cut arrows and a little boy sitting on the bottom edge of the frame from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Dolls. The last frame with my girls has another banner, Tim Holtz sticker, a bow fussy cut from the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Heritage: Decades paper and a die cut star in the bottom right corner.

And here is the completed scrapbook page. I thought about adding something more on the left but I wanted the frames to be the focus so I left it as is. I might add some journaling on the left.

Thank you for following along with me and see you again soon. Till then let's enjoy our creativity with confidence

Gina xx