Holly Jolly | Joyful Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello, hello. Do you feel the christmas spirit already? My christmas tree and decorations are already up and we had snowfall few days ago so world outside the window is all white and clean. Let’s hope it will stay that way for next two weeks. I still need to wrap the presents and bake gingerbreads with kids. Before new batch of christmas photos will arrive, I am reaching out to the last year pictures to scrapbook them with the brand new “Joyful” collection. I only made one page so far with it, so it’s still quite new to me.

I printed myself two photos of my girls posing next to the christmas tree. I was staring at them, thinking how can I build my page when revelation striked! I will make a christmas tree to match the photos! I started with cutting it from “Making spirits bright” paper into triangular shapes and adding fringe to them. I didn’t measured anything and free cut everything with pair of scissors. My tree has 6 layers, one slightly smaller than another.

“Desk the halls” paper turned out to be a perfect background for my composition. It’s not only decorated with tiny trees but also is not busy and doesn’t draw attention from the main composition. While I as putting my tree together, I added a layer of foam tape under each triangle to make it more dimensional. I decorated everything with tiny stars that I found in ephemera pack and on chipboard stickers sheet. I also hanged some candy canes to make it even more festive and cute.

Bottom part of the tree is decorated with a gifts because this is where they usually magically appear brought by Santa. They are a mix of paper ones from ephemera pack and thicker, chipboard presents from chipboard sticker sheet. Did I mentioned this is my favorite product from this collection? They are just too perfect and too cute with their golden foiling. There is also little fox watching over the presents.

My photos are overlapping the tree a bit so it’s a natural continuation with the tree from the pictures. I added few smaller inscriptions here and there as a decorations. You can also find two more critters on the page – squirell and little bird. They create visual triangle on the layout. My title is also made with bits and pieces from ephemera pack but you can choose from many more words and phrases from golden puffy title stickers. I added a lot of dimension to my page and most of the elements are raised above the level of base paper.

I finished my project by adding three woodies (they also create a visual triangle) and some gold and red splatters. The page was done and I already cleared my desk but I felt like it was still missing something. I came back to finish it later with red stitching around the layout, that created sort of the frame. this stronger accent making it more expressive.

I love how this page turned out and I love this christmas tree idea. I will for sure recreate it in a smaller scale on cards. Yep… I still haven’t made them and didn’t mailed them. Fingers crossed Polish Post will act quickly and deliver them all on time.

That is all for today. Thank you so much for stopping by and see you again at the end of December. I will come back after Christmas so I wanted to wish you all wonderful time with your family and friends however you celebrate it.

Hugs, Anna