My tutorial take on non-traditional Christmas colors

I decided to go with the nontraditional color palatte

because well....

it was a challenge.

 I had to dig through way too much stuff

to find papers.

 And accessories.

I used watercolors to make up for lack

of some colors and to enhance others.

I have wanted to use that bow and my flamingo

die cut.

Because grammy lives in Florida - get it? LOL.
Both provide a bit of whimsey especially the flamingo because as you 

can see some of the kidlets are dressed for winter.

Finally used that flower soft stuff I've had for
a million years!
The title placement drove me crazy - 

short trip I know -

I put it everywhere on the page,

and it finally found a home.

Whew....

Ta-da!

Hope you have as much fun as I did with this

beautiful color palatte.

Merry Christmas!!!

A tutorial in using a nontraditional color palette For Christmas

Still working on the time zone visual.

Still having issues.

Still under the weather.

among other things - over at Off the Rails scrapbooking.

Here's a glimpse of my take.

I finally got to use that stupid flower soft I had laying around

for centuries.

Really nontraditional Christmas colors

Not sure why it went in this direction 

but I love it.

Actually it started with the Paper Issues Swag bag.

Picked out a couple of things and it took off from there.

 Got a few fun clusters going on with a Basic Grey

transparency from the new Studio Calico kit.

 And that Creative Cafe tag that has been around for years.

And thought a border punch added another layered dimension.

The roller heart stamp added another layer as well and mussed up the

background a bit more.

And some mists - can't ever go wrong with that.

 Love the shiney letters - worked perfect in the title.

And swinging stars. (a facsimile thereof LOL)

And my homemade enamel dots.

Remembered the snowflakes. 

Woohoo - more stash being used. 

Love that.

Awesome shot as always and a delight to scrap.

Yea its a lot of pink going on - but those boys are manly enough

to tough it out. Hard to explain but it worked.

Mostly all Studio Calico, Paper Issues Swag Bag, and pre-cut

die cuts that I did a couple months ago.

I really enjoy having die cuts at the ready and for the most

part even using random papers and colors has worked quite nicely.