Poor Santa! All
full of Christmas cheer and promises of plenty for good boys and girls and look
what he has to put up with: three very silly children, one of whom is in on the
secret but goes along with it all for the sake of her little brothers.
And poor
Grandma! All ready to scrap the annual Visit with Santa photo and look what she
has to work with: three very silly children and a Santa who is obviously
looking for deliverance.
Just like my
grandchildren, this layout seemed to be determined to be uncooperative. It
started one way, then it decided to go in another direction and then another
and another… I’ll have to admit I like the end result.
I started with
the layered circles in the background and took out some flowers from my Christmas
stash. I didn’t like how they looked against the small faces, so I put them
back and went to the papers that I had used for those circles.
I started to cut
some strips to used as borders or banners when I took another look and realized
that the “Merry” sheet contained that gorgeous image that you see on the side.
As I was cutting
it out, I had an “aha” moment, inspired by the ribbon tail on the side. I broke
out my Cameo machine and cut a few of my favorite flourishes out of chipboard
and altered them with embossing powder to match the colors in the photo. The
results were just a tad too bright, so I went over them with Walnut Stain
Distress ink and put them aside.
I added few
layers of matting under the photo and arranged it, along with the fussy cut
piece on the circles. Suddenly, those flowers seemed to be perfect, so I glued
them down and began to add filler flowers in spots.
I tucked a few
wood pieces (colored with Lindy’s Moonshadow Mist) here and there and added one
more to the top corner of the photo, then closed the gaps with a few more of
those small flowers.
I cut the
flourishes into pieces to resemble bows and tails and placed them here and
there to finish off my cluster.
I still needed a
title. I started digging into the package of ephemera and came up with
perfection: “Christmas Mayhem”, which I backed with packaging and placed on the
photo…
A few close-ups:
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*****Supplies*****
***Très Jolie December
Kit***
Blue Fern
Studios – Christmas Cheer Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Ecstatic
#BFS-P-69577
Blue Fern
Studios – Christmas Cheer Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Merry
#BFS-P-69537
Blue Fern
Studios – Christmas Cheer Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Joyful
#BFS-P-69587
Blue Fern
Studios – Christmas Cheer Collection – Ephemera – Die Cut Shapes #BFS-EPH-69617
Lindy’s Stamp
Gang – Moon Shadow Mist – Gossamer Gold
***Other Embellishments***
Prima Marketing
– A Victorian Christmas Collection – Holiday Lights #583415
Prima Marketing
– A Victorian Christmas Collection – Rudolph’s Nose #583446
Factory Direct
Crafts – Laser Cut Wood Christmas Cutouts #201503
Silhouette – Cut
File – Grape Vine – Design #20194
***Other
Mediums***
Lindy’s Stamp
Gang – Embossing Powder – Terra Cotta Red
Lindy’s Stamp
Gang – Embossing Powder – King Midas Gold
Ranger Ink – Tim
Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Mini – Walnut Stain #TDP40279
Ranger Ink – Tim
Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Mini – Black Soot #TDP39860
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As always, I
want to thank you for peeking into my blog; your visits mean a lot to me.
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