Christmas Morning 2020

This year I hope to use up more of my stash and the items I have available to me that are already in my craft room. I started this process with my 2020 Christmas layouts.

I have been saving this gorgeous velvet peppermint striped paper for many years. Today was the day I was determined to use it. I also love using poinsettias and snowflakes on my Christmas layouts but I have been overusing my Spellbinders poinsettias dies and my snowflake dies were too small for this layout. I decided to open up Cricut design space so that I could size the flowers and snowflakes to exactly what I needed. I wanted to keep the layout in traditional Christmas colors. In order to bring green into the layout, I also cut some pine needles to nestle behind the poinsettias.

The layout came together pretty quickly. I wanted to keep the background pretty simple so I chose a piece of wood-grained paper to serve as my background. I cut a large circle out of the velvet paper and backed it in black cardstock. I cut a large rectangular strip out of a second piece of wood-grained paper and backed it in the same black cardstock. I die cut the title from white cardstock and used my Cricut to cut the script font from red cardstock. The photos were double mounted in red and black cardstock.

After adhering all the pieces to the layout, I added some iridescent rhinestones to the poinsettias and snowflakes and stamped the date at the bottom right of the layout.

This is one of my favorite holiday layouts that I have ever done because it combines all my favorite Christmas elements and the best part of all was that the coveted red velvet paper now has a beautiful place in my scrapbook.

Christmas Morning 2020
Supplies:

GCD Studios Item #860 - Peppermint Joyful Peace Collection 2009
Recollections Farmhouse Paper Pad (wood-grained paper)
Tim Holtz Thinlits - Mini Paper Snowflakes
Tim Holtz Thinlits - Alpha Numeric Classic Upper
Cricut

Snowflakes (M3C041, M3E4F8, M3E5FA)
Pine Needles (M113A7E6C)
Poinsettias (M100DAF8E)
Font (Opposites Attract)

EQ Success Curvy Cutter
Want 2 Scrap Irredescent Rhinestones
Date Stamp
Vera Fine Onyx Black Ink

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