Jolly Holiday - Take 1

Good Morning Everyone, 

Hope you are all well?

Today I have for you the first page of a double 12 x 12 layout that I have been working on for the last few days.

It has taken a long time to get this all together, but I love it! One of my favourite layouts I have done so far. 

I took the inspiration for this page from my brother, he turned up on Christmas day wearing a green jumper and a green Santa hat and he looked like an elf. So for the day he was called Elfie! 

So I took using him as inspiration and created my page with the amazing elf.

Please bear with me this post may go on for a while as I made sure I wrote down all the measurements for you, so if you wanted to re-create any of the elements you could. 

A couple of tips for you 

1. Don't make your page 12 x 12 they don't always fit in the pockets, so I make mine slightly smaller then they should be - just in case

2. If you don't have a lot of the same coloured card, and your not sure you will have enough to finish the project, then use white card and colour with alcohol pens.

First tho the pics. 

 

Now the measurements - okay here goes deep breath

White base card 11 3/4 inch

Red centre mat - 51/4 x 11 1/2 inch

centre paper mat - 5 x 11 1/4 inch

Red top and bottom mat - 3 x 11 1/2 inch

Top and bottom paper mat - 3 (minus 2 little marks on cutter - so i measure it to 3 inches then moved it down towards the 2 inch by 2 little marks.. hope that makes sense) and 11 1/4 inch

Red Photo mat (single person photo)   3 x 4 1/2 inch

White photo mat (single person photo) 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inch

Photo (single person photo) 2 1/2 x 4 inch

Elf is cut at 6 inch using the Paper doll dress up cartridge on the cricut machine

He is coloured in using promarker pens

Letters "Jolly " are cut at 2 inch using Plantin Schoolbook

JOY embellishment is from Create a Critter 2 and is cut at 2 inch

I finished the layout of with lots of glitter, glitter on the berries, on his shoes to show like little bells, and on his hat. The corners and holly are embellishments from a set I purchased many years ago and are cardboard cut out shapes I know I got these from the Range but I haven't seen them since I got them. On the elf I drew on his little face, gave him some some eye lasses, dotted a white pen into his eyes chalked Rosy cheeks onto him and gave him some freckles using a fine brown marker pen. I also went over all my layers and cuts with coordinating distress inks - eg the red was edged with red distress ink the green with green ect.

To give the elf some character I ran his clothes through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss dots embossing folder, I thought it made him looks so cute, and preferred this look to just a plain coloured in coat and shoes. 

So there you go this is the first page of the double spread layout. 

The second page is getting some finishing touches done to it and it will be up on Friday

The challenges I would like to enter this into are:

Cuttlebug Mania - Embossing - 20/8

Holly Jolly Christmas - Glitter - 20/8

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Occasion-ally - 20/8 (occasion Christmas)

Sweet Stamps - Bling - 20/8

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes - 20/8

Top Tip Tuesday - #107 Embossing - Any Kind - 20/8 - tip

Well That is it for me, I hope I haven't bored you with the super long post, but I hate it when I see a layout I really like and no measurements or cartridge names are included in the write up. 

Don't forget to pop back Friday for a peek at the second page and to see what they look like together. 

Thanks for hopping in

Crafty Hugs

Kelly

xxx