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.