Mintay Papers - Christmas Blessings - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Today I'm starting to get in the Christmas mood with a layout to share  using the new Christmas Blessings collection from Mintay Papers. I was really drawn to the unusual colour palette used for this Christmas collection - beige, brown and muted blues. It has a warm and cosy feel to it which is perfect for scrapbooking a warm, homely Christmas vibe. For this layout I chose to use some photos taken of the shop windows in a nearby market town in the lead up to Christmas a couple of years ago.

I started with a sheet of beige cardstock from the Bazzill Matchmaker Pack and onto this I layered a slightly trimmed down sheet of smooth white cardstock to leave a narrow border. In the centre of the layout I added a 10" square piece of paper #5, which I had inked the edges of with a Vintage Photo Distress Oxide inkpad, and using my sewing machine and white thread I stitched a straight stitch round the edges.

I cut three strips of paper #4 roughly 1" x 9", inked the edges and placed these horizontally on the layout to create a series of shelves.



I then set about creating a cluster of embellishments and photo on each shelf.



Each cluster contained a 3 x 4 photo and images fussy cut from paper #9.



Some of the images were mounted on 3D foam to add some dimension.



I also added a pale green doilie into each cluster to give the layout a more homely feel.



In my stash I found some wood veneer stars in various sizes and added these to the clusters as well as some blue and beige sequins.



Finally I die cut on the Silhouette Cameo the word Christmas from a scrap of brown card and added this to the bottom of the layout and completed the long title with some very old teeny tiny letter stickers.