A little festive thing I made

I got a little Pinterest happy and got all festive and cut up lots of small pieces of paper and this was the outcome when combined with some bells taken off a cheap 79p Christmas decoration.

I am a little bit in love with it, but more importantly loved the creation process itself, so even if it falls apart after one year up in the house (lets hope not!) then it will still have been worth my time. AND it's yet ANOTHER Graphic 45 project from me (this year I think I have been on a role creating with what I previously found a very challenging style to work with). I do think they lend themselves to plenty of fussy cutting which can be very therapeutic on a chilly winter evening.

Another floral G45 page - yes indeed!!

Sorting out my scrapbooking stuff and putting some kits together for my retreat next week and I end up playing again with left over Graphic 45 papers from the July gallery pages. 

Seeing as I had already fussy cut out all the roses it seemed a shame to throw them away and again with lots of white (ok grey!!) space and some bold black leaves cut on my silhouette this was another more graphic page with a very non-graphic paper range.

Back to my sorting I go, I have papers to pack (and not play with just yet!!)

July Gallery with Graphic 45

Not usually a big fan of Graphic 45 but I rose to the design team challenge this month and actually had a blast!

This page was lots of fussy cutting of one sheet of paper added to some card with a few extras and a little layering. It also met one of the recent Mind the Scrap challenges too to have a layout title featuring  the letter Q - there were plenty of "Quite the..... " pages!

This page led to lots of these papers flying off the shelf at ATDML as it's not often you can create such a full and colourful page with just one sheet of patterned paper!

I think I gave found the trick for me to using these heavily patterned and floral papers is to use them sparingly with lots of white space, in a more graphic style. Above I once again return to my love of the grid format.