It is a beautiful, spring-y day outside, I've already kicked Cole out to ride his bike and enjoy the sunshine and I'm blogging about a winter layout? What can I say, it's been such a mild winter I can still look back on it fondly!
This layout is chock full of the new goodies I got on my most recent scrap shopping trip. The snowflake strip was fussy-cut from new BoBunny patterned paper and I found the Glimmer Mist in the discount bin, although I honestly didn't expect it to work on this layout (that's like a double-score, isn't it?). You can read about our day on the very cool, oh-too-perfect-to-pass-up snow tube journaling card.
The pictures were taken by the Tube Park staff which I purchased at a ridiculous price I wouldn't have paid if it weren't such a special day for us. I'll never do it again, as I had to bug them to let me check the pictures from their computer (um, really? People pay you for pictures they don't first look at to be sure of the quality?), then bug them to email the pics to me days later (instead of the half hour I was promised) and then continue to bug them because one is still missing and will remain missing since I got tired of arguing with them.
As much as that all ticks me off, I got the best picture out of the bunch that shows all of us together on a day that was very important for me to capture. I'll take the good out of it and just accept the rest as a lesson learned.
I think I had as much fun creating this layout as my guys did creating their Lego UFO! It started off with a trip to the LSS. I debated between an outer space line by BoBunny and A Boy's Life by Echo Park. I would have loved to mix the two together, but the greens clashed and the BoBunny line had space monkeys throughout it that I just wasn't happy with. I also preferred the versatility of the Echo Park line, knowing I'd get more bang for my buck with the scraps.
Because I wanted to use the negative space for my title, I made it with my Cricut Design Studio to get the spacing and alignment just right. I pop-dotted it onto the layout for some added dimension.
All of the other die cuts are from my Accent Essentials cartridge. I sanded around some of the elements throughout the layout for more depth, interest and because I bought the Core'dinations cardstock for BOTH colours!
And finally, the journaling. I'm getting back into the habit of journaling and labeling more. After all, one of my favourite parts of scrapbooking is telling the story! 
