Christmas Magic

Hi Everyone

 It's Anita here today with my last layout for December.....where HAS this year gone? So much time spent in Lockdown/restrictions or isolation I suppose....here is to hoping for 2022 being much kinder to us all!

Once again I am using Christmas Magic by Echo Park, such a fun collection with lots of cute characters and co-ordinating embellishments and stencils to compliment the papers.

Starting with a sheet of Raven Cardstock, I took a sheet of North Pole Nights and drew round a dinner plate to create the size circle I wanted for the centre.

I am not very good at all at leaving white space on a page ( I am a chuck it all on kinda girl!!) and the more I looked at the empty black around the edges the more I wanted to do something to it!!

So using a cotton bud and some white, red and green acrylic paint I dabbed dots randomly all around the outside of the circle, with some just over lapping the circle. I was pleased with the result as it was almost like confetti sprinkled on

When we visited the reindeer farm we found the reindeer to be very friendly....and VERY nosey!! I think the fact that we had bags of food for them had a lot to do with it!! Even though the antlers look really tatty they were lovely and soft and this particular fella was very friendly...and hungry!

I used a couple more of the chipboard frames from the pack and popped them on a couple of small photos. Using some red and white Bakers Twine I turned them into hanging decorations and placed at different heights.

From a sheet of 3 x 4 journalling cards and a sheet of 6 x 4 Journalling cards I cut out some panels, one was the little reindeer panel and the other included all the reindeer names which I cut up into singles. 

I matted them all and the main photograph with some Lava cardstock and raised each of the names up on foam pads to add a little dimension.

A good rummage in my craft room through my packs of various alphabets turned out some silver glittery chipboard letters, perfect for my title and this finished the page.

I hope you have liked seeing what I created with this collection. I am sure that lots of you have some super new Christmas photos to scrap now, so why not pop along to the SHOP and have a look at the amazing variety of Christmas Ranges that are available.

Happy New Year to you all....see you on the other side!

Warmest Wishes Anita xx