Celebrate December with Stephanie Baxter

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio! The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers. So, make sure to check the Elle’s Studio blog every day for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we are welcoming Stephanie Baxter– she has a gorgeous holiday layout to inspire us today!

First of all, I want to say a big “Merry Christmas” to all of you lovely Elle’s Studio blog readers. I hope this holiday season is filled with love, joy, peace and all the good things this wonderful holiday brings.

I most certainly have been getting into the festive spirit recently and, while I haven’t actually done anything majorly proactive in preparation for the forthcoming celebrations, I have been starting to get ready in my own special way…by pinning lots and lots of Christmassy images to my Christmas Pinterest board! This is my go-to place for a bit of seasonal inspiration and I love gathering ideas for craft projects, decorating ideas and recipes. To celebrate my love for my Pinterest board, I decided to create a layout to document some of my favourite things I’ve pinned to it recently.

As soon as I saw the chalkboard paper from the Noel collection, I new I wanted to use it as my background. When planning the page in my head, I imagined a mood board of sorts with images tacked up on a chalkboard. I adhered my photos from my Pinterest board in a loose grid on the chalkboard paper to follow the idea that I had pictured in my planning stage. I was so happy with the result…it was exactly what I had in mind!

From there, I worked on my title. I stamped ‘Merry Christmas’ with watermark ink, blocking off half of the phrase each time so that I could position the words apart from each other in the title. I embossed the title with white embossing powder and, although it turned out a little messy (this was my very first time doing heat embossing!!), I actually quite like the effect on this page as it sort of looks a bit like snow! (Or that’s what I keep telling myself to make myself feel better!) After that, it was just a case of picking my favourite tags and veneer pieces to embellish the page to make it pretty.