Tis the Season …

This is it ... the First of December is just around the corner and it's well and truly time to get cracking on Christmas shopping, Christmas decorating, Christmas cooking and Christmas crafting 💚

We absolutely adore this season in our home and every year I take photos

 with next years layouts in mind lol 😆

This year I've been having a ball with all the traditional Christmas colours and some gorgeous templates. Here's where it all started - with fairy lights and stars...

I love fairy lights and the warm glow they bring to everything, to emulate this effect I decided to use Inka Gold wax with some of the different size star templates that Scrapmats sell in a set... 

I find the cheap make up brush applicators that you can buy in sets from Kmart do a fabulous job of gently working the wax into the fine corners of stencils. 

I also added extra chipboard stars to the mix to compliment the chipboard title.

 

And of course I just had to toss in some Christmas pine and holly decorations ... all of which I inked simply while they were still sitting in their chipboard bases.

  

 

These wonderful holly flourishes are gorgeous embellishments that colour up beautifully! 

For the next layout I leaned into a red and raw colour scheme, 

using all the white coated chipboards as they came...

I stole the pine needles and pine cones from this gorgeous circle set ...

... and mixed up different styles of chipboard words to create my title again

  

I also inked in some red hearts for a bit of background action...

 

... then I used this ink to cut in around the outside edges of the whole page as well... this pulls the page together by ensuring the same colour used in the centre appears around the edges.

 

More beautiful Christmas themed flourishes 

And last but not least we have the start of the 'special' Christmas cards... I always go to trouble for a few close family members and make sure they get beautiful unique hand made cards.

This year I chose a simple paper and dressed it up with Christmas tree and star stencils ⭐  topping it all off with some of Scrapmatts' divine reindeer chipboards.

I used different size trees from all 3 stencils.

  

  

A bit of Gold ink on the title tied all the elements together nicely.

and these gorgeous reindeers only needed a small amount of Crystalina Kindy Glitz to finish them off.

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Have a wonderful Silly Season everyone ... 

stay safe and have a very beautiful and blessed Christmas 

Cheers from Kel xo

 

December Creations with Tania

Hello there!

Tania joining you today to share some projects I created for this month using lots of gorgeous Scrapmatts goodies! 

First up this month I have a layout.....

"A Perfect Day"

I added texture to my background page using the Damask template with texture paste.  Once dry I added some colour.

I used lots of paper layers and fussy cut flowers on this page and added one of the string star circles to frame my photo.  Finished the page of with a flourish or two tucked into the layers and some Scrap Word titles.

A few close ups......

CB5138 String Circles 02

CB2008 Page Borders 07

CB1240 Scrap Words 26

ST9029 Damask

My second share for this month is a couple of Christmas cards.

As you know by now I love to add layers to my cards.  Once I had my paper layers I added some of the white finish Holly chipboard to each.  I used chipboard stars on both cards which I altered with purple glitter and finished of each card with a Christmas sentiment.

"Merry Christmas Card"

Some close ups......

"Tis the Season"

Some close ups......

CB5163 Holly 04

CB1227 Christmas Ornaments 13

CB1213 Scrap Words 15

CB1223 Stars 03

Well that's all from me today!  I hope I have inspired you all a little.  Don't forget to check out the store here for all your Scrapmatts goodies, and also pop back to the blog to see the gorgeous creations from the other DT girls.

 Until next time, happy crafting Tania xx