Christmas Tradition

It feels like Fall has just started, but I am getting into the Christmas spirit by scrapbooking some older photos. This layout was created using a couple of papers from the My Mind’s Eye Cozy Christmas collection. First, I cut out the center of the green and white polka dot paper so I could conserve the pretty glitter poinsettia paper that was on the other side. Then, I took the poinsettia paper and cut off about three-fourths of an inch on two sides, and centered it on the green and white polka dot paper. Next, I cut down the wallet size photos and mounted them on the snowflake paper leaving a gap between the photos to add some embellishments. I mounted the strip of paper in coordinating red card stock and placed the strip near the bottom of the layout.

The 4 x 6 photo was double matted in the snowflake paper and red card stock. This was placed in the upper right corner of the layout. I used the Hero Arts Nested Tag Dies to cut three large tags out of red and green card stock and the snowflake paper. The 4 x 3 photo was adhered to the snowflake tag. I placed all three tags in the upper left corner of the layout. Before gluing any of the paper to the layout, I inked all the edges with Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress ink.

To embellish the layout, I used the poinsettia and foliage die cuts from the Spellbinders Ornament Glimmer Plate set. I also stamped and embossed ornaments using the Firefly ornament stamp and cut die set. I heat embossed some of the ornaments using white embossing powder. I used a combination of two stamps for the title and heat embossed it in white embossing powder.

The title strip was placed at the bottom of the 4 x 6 photo. The poinsettia foliage and ornament embellishments were glued in several places on the layout. I punched some small circles out of white glitter paper and placed them in the center of the poinsettias. I added some gray and white bakers twine to the tops of the tags. To finish it off, I added a small amount of journaling on the green tag using a white gel pen. I still have several Fall layouts to complete, but enjoyed sneaking in a Christmas layout.

Christmas Tradition

Supplies:

Paper

My Mind's EyeCoz Christmas (2015)

Christmas Poinsettia
Christmas Countdown

Red and green coordinating card stock
White glitter card stock

Tim Holtz distress ink peeled paint
Spellbinders Ornament Glimmer Plate Set
Hero Arts Nesting Tag Die Set
Firefly Stamp and Cut Ornament Set
Hero Arts Merry Stamp and Die Set
My Mind's Eye Jingle All the Way Stamp Set
Versa Mark Ink
Recollections Snow Embossing Powder
We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy Fancy Floss Bakers Twine Neutral

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