Chockie Grin!

Here's a layout I made over the weekend. I adore this photo of Holly! I think most of us will remember getting to lick the spoon while making cakes or cookies when we were kids. How good was it?

While I love working with all Kaisercraft products at work because it's so easy to coordinate everything, I really enjoy being able to mix up my brands when I'm scrapping just for fun at home. I've used a bit of Kaiser in this one (the die cut page), but also Prima (blue doily paper), October Afternoon (flowers), American Crafts (thickers), Lily Bee (little alphas) plus a Sassafras heart sticker. I just love going through my stash to see what works together. Sometimes I only have a small window of time in my craft room, so I spend it just choosing papers and embellishments to go with photos. I put them away as a sort of kit so that when I do get time to create I can just grab one and start. Sometimes I like to work from sketches too so I'll make a note of which one I want to use for a photo. I find being organised like that helps me make the most of my creative time. There are of course days I just go where the mood takes me and start from scratch. I do have to be in the right frame of mind for that or I'll end up just moving bits of paper around and not sticking anything down. I think we all have those times, don't we?