Upcoming Scrap the Moments Challenge & The Scrappiest...

So I doubled up this week and took care of my design team responsibilities over at Scrap the Moments as well as working on Liz's Sketch #96 from over at The Scrappiest.  The Scrap the Moments challenge is scrap a holiday layout in non-traditional colors.  This one threw me at first then I started searching through my box of Christmas papers and embellishments only to find a Sassafras ad that I had cut from a magazine last season.  It was an ad for their Life at The Pole collection and included cut-outs for a desktop display.  I didn't make the desktop display but I did cut that ad into many pieces, added LOTS of Diamond Stickels and some Glossy Accents and voila...a non-traditional Christmas layout was born.  I based the framework of the layout on Liz's sketch for this week that you can see below...

And here is how I made my Christmas layout not so Christmas-y...

I used papers from Cosmo Cricket Material Girl collection and Basic Grey Sugar Rush collection, a bit of pink embroidery floss, white chipboard letters from Basic Grey covered in Diamond Stickels to make them look like they were dipped in sugar... and I absolutely love the results.  The photos don't do all the glitter and shine justice but trust me it's there.  The tops of the gumdrops are covered in Stickels so are most of the cute little accents in the border strips.  It's a fun, festive, non-traditionally colored Christmas layout.  Join in the challenge over at Scrap the Moments and show us what you can do.