I was just visiting Melissa’s blog where she has posted photos of her lovely Christmas Journal as well as some other great ideas for documenting your holiday. It reminded me that I have never posted the last of my Christmas layouts which I finished last week. I was really ready to put away all the Christmas papers and embellishments that were cluttering up my studio!
The first layout is one I did for the Scrap-Mart blog about the food styling session Matt and I had. First I arranged my photos in PSE 9. This time I didn’t use a prepared template since it was easy to get all the photos into a grid myself. I used my Silhouette to cut the title as welll as the corner embellishments for the layout. I used red pearls for the berries in the corners since red paper wouldn’t have shown up on the background. The layout came together so quickly. The rest of the patterned papers and the alpha are all from Girls Paperie collections.
I printed about seventy photos from our Christmas celebrations this year and wanted to get them into the 2010 album. I picked six from Christmas Day that represented some of the highlights of the day and did a two page spread.
All the papers are from Girls Paperie as well as the alpha. I used the Silhouette again to cut the gorgeous stylized tree and added silver and gold gems to it. I love that you can resize any of the images to exactly the size you need for a project. I didn’t include the journaling here since both layouts are summaries of information I shared on the blog previously.
When I was in Atlanta, I made a trip to Archivers, the best scrapbook store I know. I picked up a variety of the WeRMemory Keepers Easy Scrapbook protectors. They come in a variety of sizes and make adding extra photos to your album so easy. Here are two of the six I put together. Some pages are all photos, but when I didn’t have enough photos to fit the design I used some patterned papers.
Melissa shared some information about using Christmas cards. The stocking embellishment here came off a Christmas card we received two years ago.
Just when I think I’m done with Christmas, I see a lovely post like this and it makes me miss it a little. :o) Your pages are fabulous, as usual, Karen, but I have to say that I really love the last layouts with the happy photos. Photos of people laughing and having a great time are wonderful keepsakes and you have created just that.
Have a great weekend!
Love these pages,Karen….agree with Deb about the last page….but also love the layout of the first one.
Very stylish food photos! Wish I could make plates which looked so attractive :). Love your multiphoto pages and the laughter and the smiles in your last one is very infectious. The papers-instead-of-photos work really well too.
I’m so glad you were reminded to share your layouts. These are great; it looks like it was a fun Christmas Day. My favorite is the food styling layout – I just love those photos! Thanks for the link to my blog, it always makes my day when something I’ve posted inspires someone else!
Love your Christmas layouts. I’m still working on my JYC – it’s almost done and I should be able to share soon!
These pages have come together beautifully Karen … I will need to track down those WRMK page protectors – they look very useful!
These are lovely, Karen. I do like the food styling shots grouped together like that – they look so effective 🙂
These are fabulous pages, Karen! Love the food pics – yum! And your use of the We R Memory Keepers page holders is so fun! Those are great protectors and they make for some lovely pages!
These pages are fabulous, I love the way we can see how much fun everyone was having in the last two pages. The food pics are so stylish – they could have come out of a magazine layout 🙂 xxx
I love how you were able to use traditional colors without the layouts looking dated or cliche. Great job!
Rinda
what beautiful layouts to document your Christmas season. I like them all. Looks like you made lots of wonderful memories!
Beautiful layouts, Karen! What precious moments you captured and love those food shots, lol!
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