Echo Park - Christmas Time - Happy Holidays!

Hi everyone,

With just one week to go until the big day, today I'm going all out festive to document a picture of the Christmas Trees at our local garden centre! 

I'm using the Christmas Time collection from Echo Park - It's a stunner and is such a perfect match for all those festive memories. You can find it in the shop here.

For a change, I'm not using my white cardstock background at all! I'm diving straight into this beautiful patterned paper. I tore two strips to create a 2/3, 1/3 design, using the Let It Snow and Festive Floral papers and ruffled the edge for texture.

I wanted to create one large cluster on the bottom left overlapping the two papers.

I printed two photos and sized one slightly smaller than the other to add more scale to the design, and backed them with the Snowflakes Falling paper and mounting them on foam before adhering to the page.

to create the floral clusters, I fussy cut the flowers from the Festive Floral paper making sure to have a range of different sizes from the paper.

To create a focal point, I added a small circular element from the Ephemera Titles and Phrases and nestled this amongst the flowers along with some smaller stickers from the Ephemera Stickers and Puffy Stickers.

To echo the circular element on the right of the cluster, I added another Puffy Sticker and a cute truck from the Element Stickers, extending the design across the page.

To help bring my photos to life, I reached for the Sticker Book and found lots of different trees in all shapes and sizes. These were perfect to add context to my story. I raised these on foam and slotted them in behind my photo - almost as if I was stood in a forest of Christmas trees.

To balance the layout, I added a small cluster at the to right of the page. I used a scalloped border sticker to act as an anchor for the cluster, and then added some fussy cut florals, floral puffy sticker and a lovely birdhouse from the Element Stickers to bring the cluster to life.

The Happy Holidays sticker from the Elements Stickers sits proudly on top of this cluster on foam, providing a lovely title for my page.

As a finishing touch, I added a few Nuvo Crystal drops and the layout was complete.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how this project came together and it has given you some inspiration for documenting your festive memories.

That just leaves me to say thank you for all your support this year. As always, it is very much appreciated.

Wishing you all a wonderful festive season! I will see you in 2024!

Claire xx

@scrappysoulamte