advent tree

I previously shared with you here the advent tree that I crammed to complete last December.  It was one of the new fun holiday traditions we started this year.

Here is the layout I made of that...

I used Papertrey's Headline Alphabet dies, a round ephemera from Fancy Pants' Merry Little Christmas pack, glittered die cut and paper from DCWV and a 3x4 card from Echo Park.

I am also linking this to Leigh Penner's Pages with Papertrey Challenge here which is to add sparkle to your layout. Here is a close up of the sparkles. Love the shiny reds!

One of the best  things I got myself for Christmas is a wide format printer which can take in a 12x12 cardstock.  I have been  wanting to get this for a while but would always hesitate as it is quite pricey.  I finally bit the bullet and bought one when I saw that it was on sale at our local Staples.  Got it for a great price and had been very happy with it.  This was one of my biggest time savers for creating layouts over the holiday break.  And I have always loved the look of journaling incorporated into the base cardstock. Here’s a close up of how I printed my journaling directly to my cardstock…

 

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