December Daily 2021: Day 4 | December Joy
You know how sometimes things flow easily and sometimes a page just turns into a hot mess? Yeah, this page was the latter, as you’ll see if you watch the process video, but in the end, it came out beautifully so that’s all that matters!
I haven’t been getting out of the house as much as I’d like recently due (mainly) to work and (sometimes) pure laziness, so one day I got out of the house just to improve my mood and someone had decorated a random tree on my usual running path with just a few ornaments. It was a sweet and unexpected mood-lifter, so I thought I would scrap a page about it.
I designed this layered tree and cut it out with my silhouette on patterned cards from the Candy Coated Christmas Collection and you’d think that would be enough of a centerpiece for me, but nooooo, I decided that I also wanted to use one of the 6x6 stencils from the collection + color pops from Scrapbook.com to create a messy background behind it….and that’s where things started going a little south.
The background had a few mistakes that I needed to cover up a little, but my main problem ended up being that the left hand side of the page was too blank for my liking (it was originally plain white) and I made the grave mistake of trying to stamp a title AFTER adding all that texture like tulle, wood veneer from Freckled Fawn and enamel dots from Cocoa Daisy.
As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman: “Big Mistake. Huge.”
In order to save my page and not completely start over, I ended up trimming off the left half of the background and instead added a plaid border. I think it ends up probably being a stronger design anyway, since the other side of the spread has a strong vertical block of color with the tag I made out of a Traveler’s Notebook Signature page + Daily Ledger Pocket for my journaling (both from the Candy Coated Christmas Collection) so it turned out alright, but it’s true that sometimes you just have to roll with the punches!
The last thing I added was that large enamel number from Color Cast Designs that I think really grounds the whole spread!