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countdown to christmas: webster’s pages

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Webster's Pages Winter's Wings, is such a beautiful, whimsical alternative to a Red and Green Christmas. With its gentle creams, mints and olives, this story is both elegant and easy on the eye when creating a layout. Steph has used nearly all the Papers from the range and cut the word Beautiful from the Webster's Pages Vellum that is available.

This sheer vellum lets you look at the layers underneath and offers some texture to enhance your layout. Steph also scanned the little swan that is on her second page and made it larger to compliment the original. This way, she ended up with 2 swans and the effect that she wanted on the page. The journalling calendar card is another addition that adds extra interest to her double layout.

 

countdown to christmas: scenic route

One of Mel's favourite combinations is Scenic Route with Kraft cardstock, so when the Christmas layout challenge was announced it was a very easy choice which product to choose for it.

The Garland Grove range is full of traditional Christmas colours with tiny splashes of pinks, creams anda sweet lime green thrown in too, which make a lovely, fresh layout or project when combined. Adding a mixture of large and small photos gives an interesting feel to this double page spread and we loved how Mel punched out the circles using different papers from the range, distressed the edges and then machine stitched them down underneath the pics.  Mel scattered silver bling here and there to complete the page.

countdown to christmas: rouge de garance

Carole created this darling little Christmas "Twiddlebitz Star" Album using the gorgeous Rose Moka "Mec" collection, the vibrant blues and greens matched perfectly with the Cosmo Cricket Jolly By Golly and Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Chipboard Stickers, and what a cute little album it is. Carole has created this gorgeous embellished album as a gift for one of her friends, I am sure she will love it.

As you can see Carole has mixed and matched several manufacturer's together, but it works perfectly for this album.

countdown to christmas

If you want to create a feeling of sentimentality around your Christmas projects, you can't go past the beautiful Mistletoe & Co. product range by Pink Paislee. Bringing a delicious traditional palette of warm reds and gold with a hint of blue, Mistletoe & Co screams home, warmth, comfort and joy. Nicole created this layout using papers, stickers, rub-ons, die-cuts and brads from this range as well as her absolute favourite product from it all - canvas tags!

To add emphasis to her favourite canvas tags, Nic added strips of loose frayed canvas as mats under her photos and used a Tim Holtz mask with distress Ink to create the left-hand border.

countdown to christmas: little yellow bicycle

After Caz saw the Little Yellow Bicycle 25 Days of Christmas range she decided to make an album that counts down the days until Christmas. Starting at the 1st of December, all the way to Christmas Day, listing things that happen in the household to prepare for the big day.

She used only the 25 Days of Christmas papers, journaling spots and stickers, and added a variety of letter stickers, chipboard letters and bling.

So far she has covered untangling the christmas lights, making teachers presents, advent calenders, the Christmas letter that she writes each year and the kids letters to Santa. Caz has included envelopes on some pages to contain things such as the letters. She has used a mix of current photos and older photos. She particularly loves the page with the photo of her kids some years ago, posting their letters into Santa's Mailbox.

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Photographs do not do these SEI Winter Song papers and elements justice, in Kathie's view (click to see enlarged image). She was captivated by their glitter and sheen. In fact, she decided that the background paper was just too beautiful to cut up and has left it whole as the base of the page.

Kathie decided to keep to a white and pale green/blue colour palette for this layout, to let the photos of her son decorating the Christmas tree last year really have centre stage. Baubles cut from cardstock and patterned paper hang from satin ribbons and are decorated with Die-Cut Glitter Accents and Decorative Elements. A touch of glitter accents the shapes and ties them in with the glittered background papers.

The font that comes with this range was quite dark, and not in keeping with the ethereal feel of this page, so Kathie's used some coordinating lettering from BasicGrey. Because she'd almost run out of letters, she's mixed existing letters with silhouettes cut from the packaging where previously used letters used to be.

countdown to christmas: twiddleybitz

Nicole is well prepared for this year's Christmas photos having created this gorgeous mini-album from a Twiddleybitz chipboard book. The intricate detail on the cover front lends itself to a host of different treatments, in this case Nicole painted the fine details with Twinkling H2O paints by LuminArte, then inked all of the edges with Distress Ink.

She has backed the cover with a Hambly overlay for decorative appeal but you could also leave it as is, use a clear back, a cardstock or paper back, the possibilities are just about endless.

Proving also that you don't need Christmas themed papers for Christmas projects, Nic embellished the pages of this album with papers by Rouge de Garance and trims by we R Memory Keepers. Also by We R Memory Keepers are the fabulous glitter rub-ons in this book and the chipboard pieces are by Twiddleybitz.

All Nic needs to do now is celebrate Christmas, take some snaps and put them in this book!

  

countdown to christmas: sei

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Janine loved the gorgeous Christmas Mint papers by SEI with their lovely flourished elements and wonderful matching embellishments. Janine handcut out the tree, baubles and presents and foam mounted them on this 8x11 double LO. She then used BasicGrey diamantes to add a bit of glitz to the Christmas Tree.

countdown to christmas: webster’s pages

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Like many others, Nic mentioned she finds it hard to create Christmas layouts after the festive season has come and gone. She decided to be one step ahead this year, with this double layout created with the help of a Becky Fleck Pagemap from Jan09.

With photos from Christmas Day planned for this layout, Nic wanted a soft yet not too childish range of papers and the Websters Pages "Home for the Holidays" was perfect for this.

Nic started with a base of plain BasicGrey papers and built layers of soft pinks and reds from the Webster's Pages range. The addition of some golds and soft greens added to the gentle feel, with the distressed edges making a Christmas layout with a distinctly vintage feeling. Flowers, lamp post, deer and scrolls are all cut from the Webster's paper, with the title from BasicGrey. Notice the final Christmas touches in the way of the glitter on many of the elements, this layout sits ready for photos!

countdown to christmas: we r memory keepers

Suz fell in love with the beautiful bright We R Memory Keepers perfectly named Chrsitmas range - “Merry & Bright” says it all really!  With beautiful pinks and oranges scattered through the traditional red and green colour palette, these papers are a joy to work with.  As with all the We R Memory Keepers White Out range, these papers are double sided and many of them have four scaled down 6x6” designs on the backs which are perfect for cardmaking.

Suz has layered and glittered the patterned papers, and with the help of the Layered Chipboard Tags from the same range, these cards practically made themselves.