SNOW CROP

In early February I went to the first crop I've been too in years.  I was really excited as my awesome cousin who lives in Maine flew down to come too. ( She is mostly a stamper and has finally pulled me into yet another obsession which I've been trying to avoid for years!) The Snow Crop was in Gettysburg, PA at the Wyndam hotel which was beautiful and the food was actually good!

Here is the first page I got done:

It was definitely key that I made up page kits in advance.  I'm a very slow scrapper as it is so having pre picked out most of what I wanted for each set of pictures eliminated the hardest part. 

I scrap lifted lots of elements on the American Pavillion layout from various pages I had seen on Two Peas In A Bucket and Scrapbook.com layout galleries.

You can't really see it all that well but I have little star silver buttons I've had in my stash for ages on every other star in the scallop.  I loved how that came out!  The papers are all from Bo Bunny.  I cut out various elements from papers and mixed and matched them.  The bling is all from Michael's.

I'm sorry all of these pictures aren't too great - I am still learning my new Canon Rebel and indoor pictures are a challenge!

I had bought so many Asian papers thinking they would be perfect for China and Japan's Pavillion's but somehow none of them thrilled me with my pictures.  I ended up using Basic Grey's Lily Kate, Porcelain, and Offbeat.

I cut out some of the orange flowers from one of the papers and glued them here and there on the background paper to bring in some of the orangey-red from the Jolee's kimono sticker and the Koi in the pond.  The fronds are from K&Co.   

I put punched some corners for the pictures but it wasn't enough so I took some distress ink in Wild Honey and with my finger, (bad idea if you don't want to look like you have jaundiced fingers!), kind of smeared it around the pictures.  It looks way better in person!

 Japan is Cricut Jasmine cartridge with shadow.  I then put gold stickles lightly on the letter part.  Always have to have my bling!

In the same package with the K&Co fronds were these pretty intricate wide borders that were perfect - but not the right color.  It wasn't until I turned one over and discovered it was white on one side that all those tutorials I've been watching clicked into play.  I used some Tattered Angels spray to make it the color I needed and then used Distress ink to shadow it and was so excited!  I then took the pink flowers off of a Jolee's flowering tree branch and put them on the border as well as a few on the kimono just to pull it all together.

I am thinking perhaps I should change the template to less busy - what do you think?