MERRY CHRISTMAS LAYOUT/A CHERRY ON TOP

Good morning, friends. Happy holidays! Today, I'm sharing ways in which you can get the most from your patterned papers. With the help of a bit of fussy cutting...you can create beautiful layers to bring your projects to life. I love playing with layers and fussy cutting little treasures to make my layouts beautiful.

To begin, I layered the floral and plaid patterned papers from the Very Merry Christmas collection from Pinkfresh Studio. I cut the floral print to measure 8 1/2"x11". Next, I cut the plaid print to measure 7 1/2"x10" and mounted it to the floral print so that there is a nice floral border around the layout.

After that, I used my scissors to cut the poinsettia, holly and candy cane from the patterned paper so that I can use them to create beautiful layers on my project. Then, I cut the holly strip from the patterned paper to use as a fun border.

I ended up not using the cut out holly on the tag so that I could fill in the space on the tag with the photo. However, I did fussy cut the presents from patterned paper and popped them at the bottom of the tag with foam squares to frame the tag. I placed the holly border below the tags and added some white pom-pom ribbon to add texture. There is so much to look at on this layout! I just love how festive it looks.

I added ribbon and string to the tags to make them pretty and then filled in the white space at the top using the die cuts.

You can hardly tell that I mixed two different holiday collections together to create this gorgeous festive layout. I used Pinkfresh Studio's Very Merry Christmas patterned papers along with Simple Stories' Hard Candy Christmas papers, Chipboard, Stickers, and die cuts.

I placed the "MERRY CHRISTMAS" chipboard title at the bottom and fussy cut the candy wrapper, presents, and tree from patterned paper to enhance the title.

I hope you found this layout inspiring, and maybe from this point moving forward, you will look at your patterned papers differently! Don't be afraid to cut up your patterns to make them work for you! Thank you so much for visiting today.

Nic