Hi Everyone!

I have been thinking about this project for a while and I have been trying to figure out how I wanted to create this. Today's project is a scrapbook lay out. I have been wanting to start a new scrapbook, but I have been struggling on how I want to create it and what I wanted to put in it.

Last month, my boyfriend and I went on a ski trip up in Michigan. It has been years since I had gone skiing and I was a bit rusty but man did I have a blast. As a result, we took some fantastic pictures. That's when I decided that I wanted to put together a scrapbook page of our ski trip.  We had so many wonderful pictures that I could not decide which ones I wanted to use, so I decided to do a two page lay out so I can display six of my favorite photos.

The materials I used for the pages are as follows:

- 2 sheets of 12x12 card stock- black
- 2 sheets of 8 1/2x11 card stock- aqua blue (this card stock has a little bit of a shine to it)
- chipboard stickers
- Thickers letter stickers
- white sequence
- White ink
- Hill stencil
- Sponge
- Adhesive
- And of course the pictures

My first step in creating the page was to use my stencil to create a snowy hill in each of the bottom corners. Using washi tape, I taped down my stencil so it would not move as I brushed ink onto my paper. I used the Very Vanilla ink spot from Stampin' Up to create the snowy hill.

Once I removed the stencil, I brushed a bit more ink onto the bottom to make it look like the hill ran off the page.

My next step was to get the placement of my photos situated. I choose to use a light blue card stock to mat them on. Unfortunately, I can't give you measurements since I am not really sure how much I cut down the photos from their original 4x6 format. I did make sure that there was a quarter inch border. I also cut out a mat for the title of my pages.

Once I got the picture's placed in a way that I liked, it was time to lay out the embellishments and title. I stuck the chipboard stickers and the letter stickers to wax paper while I was trying to figure out where I wanted them. This made it easier to move them around before committing to a location. 

Once I decided I liked the location of the stickers, I removed them from the wax paper and stuck them to the black card stock.  The white sequence reminded me of snow flakes falling from the ski, so I added a few more than I originally planned and laid them out randomly.  

The picture below is how the pages will look within my scrapbook. I noticed after getting everything together and taken the pictures, that I misspelled mountain. Sadly, spelling is not one my strengths. I did correct it before putting it in my book. I will also be adding a sixth picture to the page but I just haven't printed it out yet. 

I hope you liked this project and I am excited to get started on my next one. Please feel free comment and let me know your thoughts. Any constructive criticism is also welcome as I am always up for learning new things and improving my crafts. Thank you for reading!