'Merry and Bright' by Vicky

Hi

Vicky continues with a fabulous LO using one of the papers from 'A Musical Christmas Collection'

'It feels a bit strange to be designing for Christmas before Halloween but I couldn't resist when I received the beautiful new "A Musical Christmas" collection from Meg's Garden. The glorious colors, the detailed graphics  - OH MY! I think I say it every time but these papers have such a beautiful hand stamped quality to them that you don't need to do much other than add fun embellishments. Look at that beautiful hand stamped feel of the papers!

 

 

This is a picture of my boys a few years ago posing in front the of the Christmas tree. The funny thing is that my own tree is decorated in a similar style as the graphics on this paper - dark red, white and gold (and a touch of pink). I instantly wanted to design with this particular paper. I actually used mini papers from the older "A Vintage Christmas" line for the photo mats since the collections blend so seamlessly.

 

I added some gorgeous 2Crafty chipboard (title and santa sleigh) and limited the flowers since it is a boy layout. Here is a close-up of the music notes on the paper behind the chipboard. On the chippies I dabbed texture paste to give it a snowy effect and then added some diamond dust (glitter glass is very similar and would work wonders too - available in Meg's shop).

 

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Vicky Albertohttp://simplypaperandcreativity.blogspot.ca'

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Fabulous LO Vicky - love the way you have distressed the papers & the matting of the pics - well done.

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com