Christmas joy

I'm getting back into moodboard challenges... I love how a selection of images and colours can kickstart my mojo!  This one at Sassy Scrappers caught my eye:

We don't decorate our home like this at Christmas, but I immediately thought of the giant decorations that we saw in the city on our recent visit.  I used my new Fancy Pants Christmas papers and also used the sketch on the Fancy Pants blog as the basis of my layout:



I really love how the grey balances the other colours.  I was a bit worried about such busy patterns at first but I love how they came together.  This layout is a bit 'flatter' than my usual layouts but it still has quite a few layers:

I also added stitching:




LINKING UP at Paper Issues for the Making it Merry theme.

Materials:
Fancy Pants Oh Deer - Wonder patterned paper
Fancy Pants Oh Deer - Santa's Team patterned paper
Fancy Pants Oh Deer - Sticker Fundamentals title sticker
Ranger Adirondack Metallics - Silver acrylic paint dabber 
Nylon gift ribbon

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