Good morning!

I am so excited for the upcoming holidays.  I love our family traditions and giving gifts to others.  One of the biggest gifts I can give to my son, is memories.   I drag him to see Santa multiple times a year, have him help me make treats for our neighbors, we give to Toys for Tots and feed the homeless Christmas afternoon.  The biggest gift he can give me, is smiling for photos so I can preserve our memories.  This is a photo from last year when we visited Santa at my son's school.   My son seems bigger than Santa!  

I love love love the SN@P!  Pages.  Meant for the 6x8 SN@P! Albums, but so fun to use on a layout!  I used the half circle Santa.  I placed half of my title on this piece.  

Look at all of these little bits that I collected from the Classic Christmas to help my layout come together.  

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Yes, you read the title of my layout correctly.  

It snowed here on March 28th last year.  I realize I live in New England, but still, snow at the end of March is plum crazy!  We were not prepared.  Our boots, shovels and scrapers were all put away.  However, our house looked beautiful on this day.  Fresh and clean with cover of snow.  

When I saw all the houses throughout the Classic Christmas collection, I knew I would be using them on this layout.  

Trouble was, it wasn't a Christmas spread, it was a March spread.  So, I picked through the collection for items that could help me document my memory without it feeling Christmasy.  So, ignore the wreaths on the windows and see how it all came together!  

I started by fussy cutting the blue snowy paper with scissors, backed the entire piece with foam and applied to white cardstock.  (that is the sky)

The bottom white part was for my houses.  (that is the snow!)

Every year, about this time, I have the habit of bring out my stickles and pearl pens.  I used a pearl pen for this layout.  I used the stars on the paper as my guide on where I placed my dots.  Looking at it from afar, it looks like a snow filled sky.  I carried this to the bottom of the layout to the stars on the red paper too.