Bella Blvd Studio Blog: The North Pole + Cut Outs

Happy New Year friends! January may be here, but I'm still working through all our Christmas photos and getting the fun moments documented. Today, I'm showing you how I used The North Pole collection with one of the Christmas themed Cut Outs. I love my Cricut, but nothing is easier to use than the Bella Blvd Cut Outs to get that cutting machine look on your layouts. Here's the layout I created:

Santa!!! We love our yearly visit to see Santa at Bass Pro. As I flipped through the papers in the collection, I stopped as soon as I saw the Here Comes Santa patterned paper! It's absolutely adorable and perfect for my background. I choose the December Cut Out and used the back side of another sheet of the Here Comes Santa to get red with white dots for the Cut Out. After I cut out each letter and added it to the Cut Out, I used foam tape to adhere the Cut Out to the layout. Then I stamped some x's around the straight parts of some of the letters.

Behind my photo, I added a couple layers of patterned paper cut to size - The Perfect Tree and Jammies. Now it was time to embellish. I got the "traditions" title from the Ephemera Words pack. For the rest of my title above and below the photo, I used my very favorite Florence Alphas in black.

I added little clusters of embellishments focusing on Santa and his reindeer along with some Christmas trees, presents and holly. All of these came from the Ciao Chipboard and the Ephemera Icons set. They are just adorable and you can't help but smile when you see them!

To finish the layout, I stamped the date and added a few more stitches around my title. I couldn't love this collection more! I hope you feel inspired to use it and get your Christmas memories documented. Thanks for stopping by!

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