Shimelles Starting Point

I have had some time to do some surfing lately, and have been spending some time looking at all the great things over at 2 peas, and I found Shimelles blog. She has this great starting point challenge, which I gave a go. Here is the starting point:

And this is what I did with it using some Echo Park, Crate Paper and thickers. I really loved how this page turned out. I had these photos printed for a while and was stuck on how to use them. Thanks Shimelle for the inspiration to get these photos scrapped!

And then I thought why not see if I can squeeze the starting point into a 8.5x11 and this is what I came up with using some Crate Paper, thickers, MME die cuts, Purple Pumpkin buttons, Eye Candy Magic doileys and some brads and twine.

I know this one was created in June, but it's the start of my Christmas in July Challenge I have for myself to get some old and new Christmas Photos scrapped and completed. I seem to have a pile of xmas photos growing and I want to get them scrapped and documented before the years blend into one another!!