Mel's Me Time

Hey everyone! How exciting…it is December!! Christmas is just around the corner. Are you ready? Have you got the decorations up yet? Finished the Christmas shopping? I’m part way through…but it is creeping up quickly so I had better get a wriggle on!!! Today I have created a Christmas layout to get us all in the mood for the festive season. I have used one of the cut files from the 25 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar . It is called Christmas Polaroid. I just love it, such a cute little Christmas cut file and it matches perfectly with these gorgeous photos of my son taken after having his first traditional Christmas lunch. How cute is that dirty little face?? Now lets talk about the 25 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar. This is awesome!! Have you checked it out?? There are 25 different Christmas-themed cut files for you in one bundle. To make it even better, over at the CUT to YOU store this bundle is currently on sale!! There are so many really cute cut files…perfect...

It is very exciting that Sketches in Thyme is up and running again. After it finishing up last year I noticed that completed layouts of my son, especially when he was a baby, had diminished.  So my task of using the sketches from the Sketches in Thyme blog to complete only photos of my son has just started again. Yay! Here is Sketch #122 As we are currently on our Summer holiday by the beach in our caravan I had to be clever with what I would take to scrapbook. I couldn't (unfortunately) take my whole collection. Actually, it would be great to have my own caravan for scrapbooking (shhh! Don't tell my hubby! :)).  Anyway, I thought Santa photos would be the easiest. Here is my take on Sketch #122. I have used the Simple Stories ~ Handmade Holiday Collection . Simple Stories would have to be one of my most favourite paper companies. All of the embellishments and tags are cut from the papers so there was no need to bring along a heap of embellishm...

I don't know whether the thought of Christmas in July got me inspired to complete this project, that really should have been done before last Christmas, but hey it is better late than never! I just love the Kaiser wooden off the page projects.....this is the Advent Calendar. I used the beautiful Kaiser Countdown range of papers....some paint, Mod Podge, Kaiser Christmas Rub ons, some Dimensional Magic and what Chrissy project is complete without some Kindy Glitz. Check it out...I'm really happy with the results! The Christmas Tree ~ I used the technique that my beautiful friend Nikki has used once before. I used strips of paper, some crinkle cut scissors and layered them up the tree. It gives the tree a little bit of dimension to it!!! Until next time, Melxx