New Friend – by Amy

Hello, It’s Amy here today sharing another 12×12 scrapbook layout that I have created with the Forest Friends kit. For this layout I decided to get all festive and scrap 3 photos from last Christmas Day. As soon as I saw the blue owl die cut in this months kit I knew I wanted to use it with these photos. My son has had a special blankie toy that he called ‘blue owl’ since he was just a few weeks old. Imagine how delighted he was to find another one in his stocking last year!

I printed by photos 6.5cm square and placed them in a vertical strip on top of a piece of the red polka dot patterned paper. To the right of the photos I cut small stripes of the blue & white paper bag to use as a layer. The main focal point of the layout, apart from my photos are the horizontal row of green trees and red animals and hearts. I fussy cut these out of one of the patterned papers from the kit.

To create my title I used some blue stickers from my own stash and the large green ‘friend’ die cut. I stamped my journaling in green ink onto one of the fussy cut labels and placed that to the left of my photos. I knew I wanted to use the small wooden pieces that came in the kit, so I placed the hedgehog and toadstool amongst the trees. The branch piece provided the perfect branch for the owl die cut, which I placed above the title.

Lastly I had fun using a mixture of the die cuts, stickers and large pearls to add embellishments to the  layout.

Thank you for coming to take a closer look at my Christmas layout. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas 2021.
Amy