can you believe that in just 9 weeks it will be Christmas! the new papers started arriving about a month ago, but i could not bear to unpack them already!! i thought it was WAY too early! now i see that i have no choice, and we unpacked the last of them embellishments today, and dedicated a whole paperstand and wall to Christmas. when we unpacked the Christmas storage unit, the most amazing things were discovered! among them these papers from Christmas 2010. Bo Bunny and My Mind's Eye - two of my favourite brands. i took one look at them, and knew i had to do a page! choosing the paper was no problem, neither was deciding what to do with the paper - the layout came easily. finding photos was the big problem! i am not big on commercial Christmas and as i don't have much "close" family close by and no children, traditional Christmas is not really a big event for me. that does not mean that i don't enjoy the whole tradition! luckily i dug up these two old photographs ( one was taken before the digital camera age and although the other one was taken during the digital camera age, i think i was too stupid to know what to do with them!) so i only had this one original.
i used plain white cardstock as my background that i misted with my own home-made mists - ( it was a bit of a mission to get the colours matching the papers to my liking, but in the end i got the perfect combo of Distress Re-inkers and Perfect Pearls to suit the colour scheme).
i use lots of stamps on this layout - the border around the top was created with a 7 Gypsies Christmas set and the Baubles are from a set by MME. i used Coffee Archival ink to stamp with. i used the Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers dies to cut the "naughty/nice" tags. stamp is also from the 7Gypsies set. ( yes, we do have them in stock!!) the blings are from the shop, but the gold ones i coloured myself ( they were clear) i just used some Gold Mixative Alcohol Ink and some stickles to get them to look like really old gold rhinestones.
i put some strips of the various papers down and i used my new Fiskars Postage Edger Punch to do the borders as well as my EK Success Donut Chain border punch to create the circle edges.i used the Tim Holtz Ticket Strip die for the Merry Christmas tickets and stamped them with one of his stamps. for the date tags i used a McGill punch and the date stamp is also from the 7Gypsy set. the beautiful door with wreath stamp is by Artistic Outpost and i also stamped it with Coffee Archival ink and just added some Christmas Red and Gold Sticklens. i sprayed a piece of white cardstock with my green mist, and printed my journaling on it. and there you have it! hope you will be inspired to create a Christmas layout of your own - remember that we have everything you need to create your Christmas layouts, make your Christmas Cards, gift tags and many more! We have most of the products used on this layout in store - just phone us or email us for the supply list!! enjoy the rest of your week. lots of Blessings!! xxxxx
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