Tuesday, February 11, 2014

"Cherish" the snow??

Good morning everyone!  I just heard last evening that we are going to get more snow beginning tomorrow night.  It is going to be a "big one" and we are predicted to get 8 to 14 inches with accompanying high winds and a possibility of ice.  Oh my goodness.  Will it ever stop? Yesterday, Anne and I got locked out of our house because the front lock was frozen shut. After that happened and I heard about more snow,  I was wallowing in self-pity!!  But then I decided to embrace the snow - what else is there to do?!  So here is a page I made about the "beautiful snow" in downtown Bethlehem, PA . . .

I used a gorgeous sketch from the current challenge at the
Scrap Africa blog as the basis for my page:


And my layout:

With some close-ups:




And here are some more snow photos that I took while walking with my husband this past weekend:









That's it!  My way of trying to "embrace" the snow.

I hope all of you are warm and dry today and throughout the next weeks.  Please stay safe!

Hugs to all!

25 comments:

  1. HI.. Well we are definitely warm and dry here, in fact a drop or three of rain would be really nice as it is very dry once again here.. I love your snow photos, I am trying to imagine what snow is like to look out and see soft whiteness everywhere.. amazing.. Love your layout too.. gorgeous colors and wonderful take on the sketch too.. stay warm and dry!!hehe!!

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  2. And we are completely OPPOSITE here ... we are expecting 90 degrees on Valentine's day :( I am not ready for it to be that HOT all ready :( I loveeeeeeeee your page!!! Just gorgeous!!!!!!!!

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  3. You did great! I can't imagine the winter you guys have been having back east- my sister-in-law says she is "So over it." Even our small amount of snow got old after awhile and the laundry sure piled up!
    I really like the picture you chose of the tree-lined street. I bet it is also beautiful in the spring and fall.
    Hang in there and stay safe!

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  4. We are having a super hot and windless summer. For me it can never be to warm...I would never be able to handle weather as extreme as yours. Your page is beautiful...I love the way you interpreted the sketch. So glad you had time to play along with us at Scrap Africa.

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  5. What a fantastic piece to embrace the snow!! I love it. That lamp post is to die for! Good luck tomorrow. We're supposed to get this one too because it's coming up the coast. You've had so much more than we've had, so I guess I can't complain. Stay warm and safe, Sharon!

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  6. So pretty Sharon and your photo's are fabulous. I just love your colour palette and the lamp is awesome. xx

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  7. It's beautiful. Good for you for embracing it. It's not like you can make it stop or go away, so you might as well embrace it!

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  8. WOW!! Beautiful layout! Love the winter photos too. Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Africa!

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  9. You make it seem so serene...stay safe!

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  10. Hey Sharon...glad I made you giggle, last comment . NOTHING to giggle about being locked outta your house, though...errrkkkk! Good on you for 'embracing' the snow...bit of an ice maiden embrace, I imagine...but....LOOOOOVE your page...that corrugated board is perfect & it really does look magical. Probably not to YOU, but from hot & bush fires burning Australia......not so bad!!!

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  11. great take on the sketch. love all the dimension. your photos of the snow are lovely. but goodness it looks cold.

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  12. So soft and pretty.
    Hope you get warmer weather soon.

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  13. Oh wow...how stunning is this page! The colouring of the photo is perfectly matched on your page! Love the snowflakes, corrugated board and the amazing accents! Fabulous page! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Scrap Africa! ;-)

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  14. Your layout is so beautiful, as are your photo's . A positive you get to take lots of amazing photo's to scrap. I am not a lover of being cold, but it is soooooo hot and dry here at the moment, we need rain so badly, the poor stock :(

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  15. Hi Sharon,
    WOW, that is a lot of snow and I can't believe you walked outside but so happy you did and could share these pictures. GORGEOUS!! I need to come visit you one day and take this walk with you. In the warmer weather I think though, lol.
    I didn't hear about more snow coming, hope that isn't coming to us too, YUCK! I will embrace it like you are and see the beauty in it.
    Your layout is pretty, love the pops of blue and the picture you used. The little frame around the towns name is pretty too, love how you did that.
    Stay warm too my friend, school has been on for 3 days in a row now, YIPPEE!! Thanks for this beautiful reminder to embrace the snow. HUGS!!

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  16. Thanks for playing along at Scrap Africa. Your interpretation of the sketch is wondrful. I can not imagine what it would be like to walk in the snow. It's been brutally hot here this summer. 42 degrees Celcius today :D

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  17. Awesome wintery page. Here in Oz we are far from that, oh how i wish we weren't lol. TFS with us at Scrap Africa!

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  18. Great!!! Very beatiful page! I love it!
    Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Africa!

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  19. Oh this is such a pretty snow layout and all of your snowy photos are lovely. The colours are soft and pretty and I love the little snow embellies... hard to think of snow in the temps that we are having too. Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Africa this month. D:

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  20. Gorgeous layout, love te wintry colors and layers! Thanks for joining us at Scrap Africa!

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  21. Lovely layout, I love the winter so pretty. Thank you for sharing it with us at scrap Africa.

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  22. Just love those photos of yours...stunning! Well done too on a beautiful page showing the wintery landscape...Thank you for sharing with us at Scrap Africa...

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  23. Thank you for sharing your beautiful snowy layout with us...we are enjoying the heart of our summer and high temperatures and huge humidity at the moment...:-D...we don't know snow around here...living on the east coast of South Africa...:-D Thank you for taking part in the Scrap Africa Sketch Challenge!!

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