
I’m the Creative Editor for Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine, I design 10 new Silhouette cut files every week, I have 18 online classes available on my website, an Etsy shop, and I have online courses at Big Picture Classes. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have 14 signature collections with American Crafts called GARDEN SHOPPE, SPLENDID, BUNGALOW LANE, WONDERS, GO THE SCENIC ROUTE, BLOOM STREET, TRULY GRATEFUL, HORIZON, WHIMSICAL, PICK-ME-UP, TURN THE PAGE, OH MY HEART, TAKE ME AWAY & FANCY FREE. I’m a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship and then we were stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany for 4 years! We visited 43 countries while living in Europe and miss it every day! Now we live in Littleton, CO where Chris works as a dentist at Old Town Dental. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in Nauvoo, IL. Do you have a favourite Christmas memory you haven't scrapbooked yet? I'd love to hear what page could bring you some Christmas joy at your crafting table! Of course our 2020 Christmas won't look like this, but staying home to scrapbook these memories is lifting my spirits in the dark days of winter. Then I sprinkled drops of gold mist in all three of those spots too for some festive and magical sparkle! In the embellishments, there are stickers from Go the Scenic Route and Bloom Street plus die cuts, chipboard stickers, washi tape, and sparkly enamel shapes from Go the Scenic Route. I always love a triangle of repeated colours and motifs to bring a page together, and the strong vertical lines of this page need that bit of softness from small layers and angles. To embellish this page, I searched my Paige stash for items in red, green, yellow, and aqua, then created three areas to layer them up: bottom left of the castle, top right of the title, and bottom right of the photo. I love the tiny white foam Thickers from Pick-Me-Up for spelling such a long title, and then the colourful Go the Scenic Route letters make 'CASTLE' a highlight. As such, it makes a great starting point for your.
#CASTLE LAYOUT WINDOWS#
The green half of the background is Paper 11 from Turn the Page and it needed a little festive detail at the join, so I used the same yellow from the castle windows with a Mickey Mouse border punch and tucked in a little strip of happy mice. Completed in 1855, the Castle is our signature building and home to the Smithsonian Visitor Center. The red is a design with a pink to red gradient, so I used the redder half of the page to help Christmasify my page! Those two papers are from the 12x12 Paper Pad too. I thought about backing the rest of the castle in red, but the castle in Paris is very much pink! Pink for backing the castle then, and the red became a 6x12 background box on the left.


I cut the Castle from white cardstock and filled the horizontal lines of the castle with green paper and the round shapes with yellow paper, both from the Go the Scenic Route 12x12 Paper Pad.
