Christmas has come and gone .. but I’m sure if you are anything like me, you’re just getting started on scrapping your holiday photos and stories. I’ll be honest, I have yet to finish any of the Christmas related scrapping I started … I have lots of projects in various stages of readiness. I was looking at Grace’s pages below and was feeling a tad but guilty I haven’t done more, but mostly feeling motivated to commit my stories to something permanent … since my memory will fail me sooner, rather than later.
So if you’re a little like me and need a crafty kick in the pants, check out what Grace Tolman did with our December Main kit. Then, get out your photos. Start journaling. And remember all the wonderful things that happened over the last month. Isn’t that what scrapbooking is all about?
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1. Christmas baking
“The kit definitely helped me feel the ‘festive’ appeal of the season with its bright and fun colors and products. This page was brought by that inspiration. I used a lot of the products in the kit here like the papers, Prima letter stickers, flower, brad, the fun Kaiser scrapbook rubons and the stamp set.
I used the rubons to create my visual triangle. I love the ease to transfer of these rubons.”
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2. Light show
“Continuing my goal to show you that the products in this kit can absolutely work with double page spread, here’s mine for this month. I love that the papers are double sided and provides lots of ways to add them to the layouts.
Since my pictures were on the dark side, I used a white background and kept the pattern papers to simple designs so they don’t overpower the pictures.
I used the Kaiser rubons to hold my journaling and played around with my stitching as well combining the zigzag and regular straight stitch.
I also created a cluster of embellishments on the right corner of the two page spread to add some interest.”
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3. Santa and Me
“This page is about my daughter’s preschool party last year. I love that this kit contained so much products and inspiration that I was able to dive into a lot of my last year’s Holiday pictures and get a lot of them scrapped.
The Santa ribbon was perfect for this page. I also used the ornament glitter stickers to emphasize the theme.”
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4. Trimming the tree
“This one was inspired by the big ornament design on one of the Making Memories Mistletoe papers. I cut them out and used them as accents on the page. I also loved the Christmas tree ribbon which I used as a border here.”
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5. Splish Splash
“Who said that you can’t use a Christmas kit for a summer page? Well, I sure didn’t listen. LOL.
I was inspired by the green scalloped paper, I cut the inside part and used the outside as a frame for my pictures and papers. It was a little challenge to get the pictures on there and trim the edges but with a few tricks with the adhesive, I was able to get them to stick together seamlessly.
I added a cluster of embellishments on the top corner so the eye can go all the way around the page.”
Are you ready for some Guest Designer goodness?
but it is true! i still love it as much, if not more than i did in the beginning. i love to spend time in my studio making pages about us. i also have a passion for photography, so it’s the perfect combination of interests for me.”
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