| Playing in the snow is a great time to take candid | | | | out two snowflake mats. |
| pictures ofyour family. Where we live we might only | | | | To make the snowflake mats, I cut out a piece of |
| get one or two days ofsnow each year, if we're lucky, | | | | white cardstockto be the size my mat would normally |
| so this year we decided to driveto the snow! We | | | | be. Then I folded the pieceof paper in half as many |
| found a state park only a couple of hours awaywhere | | | | times as I could and cut the corners offand cut little |
| they had great sledding hills, and took the whole | | | | triangles into each side of the shape to create |
| familyalong for an afternoon of sledding and snow fun. | | | | mysnowflake. You can have fun with this part, just |
| We took lots of great pictures that day. It's not often | | | | think back tomaking snowflakes as a child! I also cut |
| you getpictures of grandma and grandpa sledding and | | | | out a couple of smallsnowflakes for extra decoration. |
| playing in the snow. | | | | To add some snow to the background of my page, I |
| The hard part is choosing which pictures to put in my | | | | took a 12x12piece of white card stock and tore a strip |
| scrapbook! | | | | of it to glue at thebottom of the dark blue background |
| Materials Needed: | | | | page. This gives the page theappearance of a snowy |
| - Dark blue piece of 12x12 scrapbook paper | | | | background (see photo). |
| - White piece of 12x12 scrapbook paper | | | | Next I cut out a freehand snowman to glue on the side |
| - Paper Cutter | | | | of thepage. It really doesn't have to look perfect, it's |
| - Glue | | | | supposed tolook homemade! |
| - Two photos | | | | I then printed out the words "Winter Wonderland" on |
| I was trying to come up with a "snow" theme for my | | | | my computerto create the heading for the page. I didn't |
| scrapbooklayout. I chose a 12x12 dark blue piece of | | | | mat this piece ofpaper. I just cut it out and glued it at |
| paper for thebackground of my page. I decided to | | | | the top of thebackground page. |
| accent the blue with lots ofwhite to represent the | | | | Last but not least, I glued two photos to my |
| snow. | | | | "snowflake" mats andarranged them in the center of |
| For the first white accent I decided to create | | | | the page with the extra snowflakefor an added |
| snowflakes to bethe mats for my photos. There was | | | | accent. Easy, and very cute! |
| only enough room for twophotos on the page, so I cut | | | | |