Early Christmas with SnC's Christmas KOTM
Christmas came early for me this year, when Valerie sent me
a gorgeous festive kit to play with at the start of the month!
It was filled with goodies, and I
couldn’t wait to start playing with it!
The first things that caught my eye were the Making Memories
Traditions Shimmer Paper, with a beautiful tree and the word Believe, and the
sparkly Making Memories Glitter Bling frame.
As soon as I saw these, I was reminded of some photos of my
son meeting Santa on a pre-school trip.
The photos weren’t that good, but I thought if I used them
small (not usually my style, but sometimes you have to work with what you’ve
got!), and highlighted one with the frame, they could work well.
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At first, I tried to use the paper as the base, but the
positioning of the tree just wasn’t right for the title and photo I wanted to
use. So instead I decided to go
for a more layered look, and used the Crate Paper Snowy Day Collection Festive
as my base, with the Little Yellow Bicycle Decorative Edge Cardstock on top for
contrast.
I put lots of Crystal Stickles on the tree, and covered the
word Believe in them too. The
title was downloaded from the Silhouette online store.
There was a second photo, but this just didn’t fit the
layout, and so I mounted it on some of the MM paper, stapled a Christmassy
ribbon to it, and hid it under the bottom of the tree. A couple of embellishments – a Paperie
felt clip, also from MM, and a charm I picked up in Chinatown, completed the layout.
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Did you know you can make a whole mini-book out of just two
sheets of Simple Stories paper?
They are all double-sided, and are meant to be cut up to fit
into multi-pocket scrapbook inserts.
But this also makes it easy to create a mini album instead. I had two sheets of their 25 Days of
Christmas. One had two 6x12
elements – I cut each of these in half, giving me four 6x6 pieces which I used
to cover chipboard for the front and back covers. The other sheet had two 6x8 elements, which I cut down to
5.5” square to make inside pages.
It also had three 4x4” quotes, which I inserted between the bigger pages
for added interest.
The title was created with Tim Holtz Sizzix alpha strips
(they are perfect for mini books, just the right size fonts). The ribbon and the bow were recycled
from Christmas wrapping, and all the other embellishments have been collected
over the years – this book gave me a good excuse to use loads of them!
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I’ve still got enough of my kit left to make a good half a
dozen or cards. I’ve loved playing
with it – all that new scrapbooking stash in one go, all co-ordinated and ready
to use! – and it represents really good value for money too.
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HINTS!!! {hot tips}
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Don’t waste your gorgeous papers when you layer
them – gut the bits that are covered by other papers, and you’ll still have
enough left for another layout or a couple of cards. For example, the Crate Paper in my first layout only shows
in the corners. Before I used it,
I cut a circle, smaller than the red die-cut one, from it. Now I have another, different, Christmassy
die-cut that I can use on another layout!
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