Design Inspiration

When looking for inspiration while designing your layouts, you don't have to look far. A lot of those busy paper patterns on the market actually serve as a great place to start with your design. I talked about busy patterns in my blog posts "How to Use Busy Patterns" (Feb 20, 2011) For example, I found this retro ornament paper that I really liked:


Looking at the background paper, I decided to use the ornaments as my basis for creating the main embellishments...



...and if you look really close, some of those ornaments on the background paper have little snowflakes, so I used those to find my secondary papers.



To frame everything up, I once again used a snowflake paper, but chose a sky-blue to compliment the browns with an extremely light pattern so that it does not take away from the background paper. Put everything together and here's final product.

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Free Christmas Stocking Paper Piecing Pattern

The countdown to Christmas is in full swing! If you are like me, you are already scrapping those Christmas pages, getting them ready for the pictures you are sure to take. Here is a cute stocking embellishment you can make yourself and add to your layout.

Click on the image above and you will be directed to a version that you can print. Or, copy it into an image editing program to re-size.

Enjoy!

*** All free patterns are provided for personal use only and copyrighted by A Scrap of Time! Do not recreate for commercial or resale purposes.

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Using a Holly Leaf embellishment

Here's a way we used a Holly Leaf embellishment to create a nice Winter Holiday or Christmas layout, ours turned out to be the Christmas one. We dug through a Christmas stack that we had laying around and found some paper with a holly leaf print. The holly print was too busy to use as the background, so using just a portion of it still catches your eye.

Our Holly Leaf Embellishment Set has two purposes, one is to embellish the pictures, and the second is to serve as photocorners. Putting it together we added a vintage snowflake print as a base, a simple striped print as a runner, and a matted "Merry Christmas" to finish it off. Here's the final product:

Happy Holidays!!!

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