February 2017 Scrapbooking Workshop – City Sidewalks

I love the City Sidewalks paper suite!  These four layouts include lots of Cricut cuts from the City Sidewalks digital Cricut collection -- aren't they fun!! 

I did use lots of 4x6, 4x4, and 3x4 flip flaps again – of course – I just love our flip flaps!  :-)  They are great for adding extra photos without creating another layout.  I also usually hide my journaling under one of the flip flaps.  

On the "I Ruff Christmas" layout (the 4th one shown below), I used a 6x12 flip flap to add a little pizazz to the layout as well as additional photo space.  This flip flap is included in the workshop kit.

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  The next two workshops will be in March and May.  We will be voting on paper packs from the new Seasonal Expression 1 supplemental catalog when we meet in February to decide what paper we are going to work with for March and May.

This is the "I Ruff Christmas" layout with the 6x12 Flip Flap on the right lying flat (closed):

These two photos show the "I Ruff Christmas" layout with the 6x12 Flip Flap lifted:

Note:  This is not part of the workshop kit, but I also personally used one of the new Pocket Plus page inserts (Design 3) for my overflow pictures of Santa that didn't fit on either of the two layouts I did for our visit to the Legendary Santa ("Tis the season to be jolly" and "Noel").  I also used two of the leftover PML cards (including one journaling card) that come in the kit.  I'll decide into which layout I will insert this page when I add the pages to my album (I'm leaning toward "Tis the season").  That's the beauty of these Pocket Plus page inserts -- you can use them in multiple layouts  They are another great way of adding additional photos or journaling to a layout.

Front of Pocket Plus Insert:

Back of Pocket Plus Insert:

January 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- White Pines

The paper line "White Pines" is what we are using this month.  I made a comment when I first saw this paper line that I wasn't that crazy about it, but boy, after working with it, I take back what I said!  I really like the way the layouts turned out.  The first layout is the layout designed by CTMH for the WOTG (I changed it by adding red glitter paper and a few other small changes).  Again, I couldn't believe they were including Chocolate as cardstock -- I mean, who uses brown for Christmas pictures?!?  I thought for sure I'd be substituting something for the brown.  But it really does work well with this paper! 

I added red, gold, and white glitter paper to the paper, and lots and lots of Cricut cuts (45 different Cricut cuts used on the four layouts).  I haven't put pictures on the pages yet -- I haven't had a chance to even look at my Christmas pictures to see which ones I want to use, but I went ahead and committed to the sizes of the pictures I'm planning to use and added mats so that you can see the pages finished (we won't cut the mats in class).  

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  Our next workshop will be March 7th and 8th.  We'll be voting on paper lines this week to determine what we are going to use next.

BTW, the new Seasonal Expressions 1 catalog went live on January 1, so we have 3 new paper lines!  I have a feeling we might be using something from the new catalog in March.