Remember December: SANTA

Merry Christmas, friends!

I am up on the Paper Issues blog with some Remember December inspiration.

A trip to the mall with Ryan to visit Santa was fitting for today's post!
He is always so excited to see Santa and tell him his Christmas list
and to talk about the Gopher football team. 
Santa sure seems to know a lot about MN sports!

I used the December scrapbook kit. The kit is sold out, but many items can be purchased separately in the store or found in the December Swag Bag kit. I love the background of the mall's snowflake cut outs behind Santa, and used the light blue as my first color to bring out in the watercolors. 
(Grab similar flair buttons here from Pretty Little Studio.)
I used glittery snowflakes from an older Pink Paislee collection,
but even a cut file of snowflakes could be used in your design!

The Elle's Studio puffy titles and mini label stickers were the perfect little touches to layer and add the pops of color I needed in the horizontal grouping.  The Pink Paislee Together for Christmas paper number 9 plaid made a beautiful background border!

I love that the Together for Christmas ephemera from Pink Paislee also coordinated with Elle's Studio stickers and Pretty Little Studio Glitter and Ice trees. With little bits of foam adhesive squares, the little bits were easy to layer against the watercolor background. The iridescent acrylic paint added little snowy dots that were scattered over the watercolor layer.

I hope you are inspired to carve out some creative time
 over the next few days to join in the December challenges at Paper Issues!!
Tag us on social media when you complete a challenge.

Post your creative additions to the December challenge album on Facebook
in the Friends and Fans group now through January 5th!

If you missed out on the Pink Paislee Together for Christmas or need a
December Swag Bag (with the Elle's Studio mini labels I used today),
be sure to grab yours today!

Save 20% with my code: Stacie

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Thanks for stopping by!

Holiday Coffee: Starbs Holiday Cups

 Hello, Stacie here with a fun geometric style Scraplift Sunday

                                                       design from talented Kelly Feldman.

I was inspired by her use of several pattern papers in the background squares.  

The Paper Issues December kit was the perfect pair to the Starbucks holiday coffee cups

 that I used as my background squares.

Here's the beautiful Scraplift Inspiration from Kelly using 

Pretty Little Studio (get it before it is all gone!):

The December kit included Pink Paislee sequins and holographic snowflakes which I sprinkled throughout the design in place of the leaves and enamel dots.
Tip for this geometric design:

 to align the squares point to point, 

I lightly drew vertical pencil lines down the page

 for easier placement of the squares. 

 The December kit included these red puffy Rudolph Thickers and they were a fun addition to the scraplift since I had space around my photos for the title.

I can't wait to see how you are inspired to create with Kelly's design.

Post your new lift on the PI Facebook group in December Challenges.

Have a wonderful week ahead and be sure to stop by Paper Issues 

 for their 40% off SALE happening NOW!

Code: TY40

Happy Holidays! 

*(Treat Yo Self!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Stacie