Fresh Face Designer: Lowri McNabb Post #4

Welcome back to another post hosted by our amazing Fresh Face Designer Lowri McNabb. Lowri is sharing her last post for the month. We want to thank her for sharing her amazing talent with our readers. Be sure to follow her blog for additional ideas as she has a fantastic eye for design and uses her design talent to create amazing things! This week she has created three amazing holiday projects. Be sure to check out all her amazing photos and ideas!

Hi Everyone – Lowri here to share some Christmas ideas today. The Season’s Greetings Collection offers heaps of opportunities for creating some colorful festive projects.

Advent Calendar

This fun project was a lot of work – but really worth it! The fabulous mix of colors in the collection make for a nostalgic feel and I am really excited about using this as a home for little treats during the Christmas countdown!

Continue reading for additional information about this and other projects created by Lowri!

Each drawer front is decorated with paper squares, stickers from the Element Stickers Sheet and a Brad. To create the centerpiece I have layered more stickers and made the little 3-d trees using symmetrical die-cuts I cut from the papers using Spellbinders. A chipboard “Merry Christmas” painted red completes the scene. I really wish you could see and touch this project in person - it was very hard to photograph and get a sense of dimension and I don’t feel the pictures do it justice!

There are heaps of this type of project available now and a little internet searching will give you plenty of ideas for making your own. Here are a couple of  additional ideas for using up those scraps at the end of a big project.

Christmas Journal

The base for this journal is just one sheet of paper – Journaling Cards. I have cut apart each individual element and then rounded all the corners. Using a single hole punch and a binding ring, I started to put all the elements together.

The album is basically made from scraps I had left over. I layered some stickers onto scraps of paper, hole punched the corner and added them in. With the chipboard pieces I hadn’t used, I simple peeled off the adhesive layer, punched a hole and added them as well. It will be great for keeping all my little notes and lists organized, and after Christmas I will just add a few photos for a great snapshot and keepsake of Christmas 2011.

Super Quick Card and Tags

I put these together with a few more of the scraps I hadn’t used. These are very simple ideas, but they show off the elegance of this collection. With papers this gorgeous and sophisticated half of the work is done for you.

It has been a real pleasure to work with Echo Park this month. Please stop by and become a follower of my blog as I will be showing heaps more Christmas projects over the coming weeks.  Christmas is in the summertime here in New Zealand so there may be a few surprises too!

Please post a comment if you have any questions.

Lowri

Supplies List:
Echo Park: Season’s Greetings Collection Pack, Season’s Greetings 6x6 Paper Pad, Season’s Greetings Assorted Brad Pack, Season’s Greetings Chipboard
Other:
Dusty Attic Advent Calendar, Spellbinders Holiday Trees 2010, small hole punch, binding ring, chipboard “Merry Christmas”, decorative scissors