December Papermaze Kit - Part 2

Lynn back today with my second two design team layouts made using the festive December Papermaze Kit. This year's Christmas kit includes a mix of traditional and contemporary and designs.

Before looking at how the layouts were made, here is what you will find in the kit.

Patterned Papers:
Vicki Boutin - Peppermint Kisses collection - Winter Magic & Christmas Jammies
Echo Park - Happy Holidays collection - Festive Lights & Under The Tree
Echo Park - Have A Jolly Christmas collection - Holly Jolly Holly
Paige Evans - Sugarplum Wishes collection - #2

Image below shows both sides of the six sheets of patterned paper.

Bazzill Basics: Peacock & Coconut Swirl (included). Aqua, Bottle Green, Bazzill Red & Blossom (Extra co-ordinated Bazzill pack)

Embellishments: 2 red doilies, selection of Puffy Rosie's Studio Phrases, 3 Rosie's Studio vellum star diecuts, 1 Woodware Postmark stamp, Pinkfresh chipboard frames, 5 Pinkfresh title ephemera pieces, 3 glittery snowflakes, pinch of Pinkfresh jewels, 2 Prima flowers.

Joy - My great niece visiting the garden centre last Christmas.

I wanted this lovely tartan as a border for this layout, so I gutted the 'Sugarplum Wishes #2' paper to make a frame 1" deep.

The Coconut Swirl Bazzill was trimmed to 10.5" x 10.5", I used a 49 & Market - Gabi's Line Stitch stamp and Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink to stamp faux stitching in a square roughly 8" x 8".

I used Distress Oxide Spray Ink in Lumberjack Plaid and Peeled Paint to lightly spray over the Bazzill - This was concentrated where the photo and the small cluster of embellishments would go later.

I arranged my photo, together with the velum stars from the kit and my own embellishments made by die cutting. I used Sizzix Thinlits sets from Tim Holtz - Big Tidings (for the title, holly and stars) and Santa Greetings (for the smaller letters and numbers). I cut these from green glitter card, gold metallic card and scraps of cardstock from other layouts. 

Using the stamp from the kit I stamped the postmark greeting several times onto scraps of the white cardstock, cut them out and tucked them under the left side of the photo.

Finally, I scattered some star shaped gems and a few old stickers from my stash, around the other embellishments.

Sprout Racing - One Christmas I found some crackers containing little wind-up sprouts in party hats, for racing and we had fun with them after dinner, racing them along the table!

This time I selected the Red Bazzill and made a frame 0.5" deep, over this I placed the Aqua Bazzill, trimmed to 11.5" x 11.5". 

I used an envelope die from a Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits set - Postale, and cut nine envelopes. I cut these from several different papers from the kit:
both sides of Christmas Jammies
both sides of Festive Lights
both sides of Under The Tree
both sides of Sugarplum Wishes #2
and the red side of Holly Jolly Holly.

These were arranged in three rows of three over the layout. Then I cut seven tags from scraps of white card, using the Tim Holtz, Sizzix Framelits Tag Collection. I printed my photos nine to an A4 photo paper sheet, and trimmed them to fit the tags. Seven of these were portrait format so they were stuck straight to the tags.

 The two landscape photos were mounted onto white card with a space for journalling under each photo. I added the reinforcement rings cut from scraps, using the Tag Collection die set. Each tag had Baker's Twine threaded through the top and tied into a bow. 

Each photo was slotted into an envelope, the embellishments were added. I used the foam snowflakes and puffy phrase stickers from the kit. 

I added some old Simple Stories Sn@p stickers, some of which were used for journalling the date. The title was made with some puffy letter stickers from a previous Papermaze kit.

That's all for today, I'll be back with part three soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x