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Hi crafty friends, today I’m sharing a Christmas layout I know it’s not Christmas yet but it’s heating up in Australia and where I live it’s tropical heat so sweaty weather!! So Anyway I’m using the beautiful collection go the scenic route for my layout and the photo was taken last year of Luna kitty enjoying a nap near the Christmas tree on her scratching post.

You know me white cardstock background to start with I always love how the bright colours pop on it I guess that’s why I’m drawn to it...then using my Silhouette Cameo 3 and a snowflake cut file and a pattern paper from the 12x12 Paper Pad i cut it out and adhered it in the middle of the white cardstock , then decided I needed a touch of colour on the edges so I us a border punch and added 2 pretty punched borders down the left and right side of the white cardstock then ran it through my sewing machine to add some stitching and using the leftover from the snowflake cut I adhered that to the back to add that pop of pink.

Next I cut out a mitten and used Paper 13 and Paper 22 to back the main parts then I cut 2 bits of vellum to add the the back of it to create a shaker mitten to add some sequins in then machine stitched it and added it to the left side of the snowflake then I used Paper 4 , Paper 15 to Matt my photo and a piece from the ephemera pack to tuck behind the layers and adhered it beside my mitten

Then I started adding flowers from the Floral Die Cuts and Ephemera Die Cuts around my photo and then a few more flowers around the layout I also added a few little bits from the Chipboard Stickers to the top of my photo and to the flowers in the middle of the mitten then I added a few little dots from the Puffy Phrase Thickers

Then a few of the Cardstock Stickers tucked in around my layers

Then I added my title using the Puffy Phrase Thickers and the colourful Foam Thickers

I hope you have enjoyed early Christmas my inspiration today happy crafting ..

SUPPLIES: Silhouette Cameo 3, white cardstock , 12x12 Paper Pad , Chipboard Stickers ,Ephemera Die Cuts , Foam Thickers , cardstock stickers , Puffy Phrase Thickers , Paper 13 ,Paper 22 ,Paper 4 , Paper 15 . Floral Die Cuts

CUT FILES: MITTENS 335745 , SNOWFLAKE 335743

BY PAIGE EVANS

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Hi there crafty friends,

sharing a layout using go the scenic route collection full of beautiful bright colours so for my layout I’m using a photo of my youngest daughter when she was younger... still can’t believe she’s going to be 16 this month...yikes lol well anyway I decided on this envelope to start with then wanted florals to be around it.

I started of with a design in mind using my Silhouette Cameo 3 and cutting out all the ,FLOWER 276425, LAYERED FLOWER 328337, LEAF 330593 cut files in white cardstock and then using the 12x12 Paper Pad and 6x8 Paper Pad to cut out the ENVELOPE 278651 for the centerpiece of my design.

I backed the flowers with with 2 different shades of yellows and pinks for the flower petals to go from light to dark

You probably wouldn’t notice it but that was my idea to do shades of colour around the layout.

And I thought wouldn’t it be fun to mix up the colours of the leaves since we are enjoying spring and the other side of the world is enjoying autumn I absolutely adore both seasons. Well back to my layout I used the 12x12 Paper Pad andPaper Pad ,Paper 7 , Paper 8 ,Paper 16 to add more colours.

And started adhering them around the ENVELOPE 278651 as I liked the idea of tucking in the photo in the top of the open envelope with flowers and leaves tucked around the envelope and then I add my title using the Puffy Word Stickers and Puffy Phrase Thickers and adhered them around the top of all my flowers and leaves.

And I add another floral that I have leftover from my last layout I add it to the bottom of my envelope clustered on top of the other floral to add another pop of yellow and pink and as I didn’t have a Chipboard Stickers mini circle I add a brad in the same dark pink colour..then it was time to add my photo layered with ephemera tucked behind into the envelope to one side and I finished of the layout by adding a few of those little puffy dots that come from the Puffy Word Stickers.