Echo Park ~ Christmas Express #2

Hello everyone and Happy Christmas! Hope you’ve all been enjoying the festive period and making memories to document!

I’ve been enjoying some crafty time in amongst all the Christmas fun. So I went back to using Echo Park Christmas Express to create another page. 

I began with a sheet of white bazzill as my base. I then created a star template in various sizes on my silhouette cameo. I used the template to draw around North Pole Plaid and then a slightly smaller star from Holly Jolly Stockings, so that I could layer them on top of each other. I then cut out some smaller stars from the b side of Red Snowflakes. 

After distressing the edges, I adhered my large stars off centre to the left and trimmed off the excess. I then layered my photo on to some red coordinating bazzill cardstock and Red Snowflakes. 

I placed my mounted photo in the centre of the star and alongside it I added a 3x4 journal card. 

I added the smaller stars randomly around the rest of the layout and also added in a few Element stickers. 

I used some stars, snowflakes and sentiments from the Vicki Boutin Peppermint Kisses, Ho Ho Ho Phrase Thickers. 

Thanks so much for looking! 

I’ll see you again in January when I’ll be working with Simple Stories Take Note.

Happy New Year! 

Anna 

@acraftylifewithanna

Echo Park ~ Christmas Express ~ Advent Calendar 🎅🏻

Hi everyone, it’s Anna back with you on the blog today. It’s that time of year again - it’s time for my annual advent calendar project. 

To create this project I have used Echo Park Christmas Express.

This year I’ve gone with a slightly different take on it. I always make something that can be displayed at home and then it either gets taken apart, given away or stored for another year. So this year I decided it would be nice to be able to keep it in my album like a scrapbook layout. Which got me thinking, and then I came up with this idea…

It’s an advent calendar which looks back over the year. I debated whether to use Christmas photos from over the years - but in the end decided that as it would be in my 2025 album, I would use photos from this year. So behind each door is a memory from the year. I can have it on display in December and then it can be placed into my album when I’m finished with it. 

So the calendar has been created using ‘Christmas Coundown’ as seen below. 

I kept this paper as it was, but used a craft knife to create the cuts to make the numbers into openable doors.

I adhered this on to some bazzill cardstock and then printed pictures to fit behind each door. I just trimmed them down to fit behind and tucked them underneath.

I then decorated each door with some cardstock stickers and some journalling boxes, noting down when the picture was taken during the year. 

Here are some of the advent doors…

I added some Nuvo drops to decorate the front of some of the doors. 

Thanks so much for looking! Hope this inspires you to create your own version. 

See you next month!

Anna 

@acraftylifewithanna