Day 331: Nine Piece Christmas Quilt Card

Tonight I was looking to make a really quick Christmas card, so I cut some scraps of nine different Christmas papers into 1.25 inch squares, punched out a square of  1.50 inches as a pink background, and adhered them all to a pretty green card stock.  Christmas papers by K & Co.  Plain card stock by Stampin' Up! Polka Dot ribbon by Oriental Trading Company.

Day 328: Holy Triptych Christmas Card Day 2

Today I used Smooch Accent Ink in gold and silver to highlight the gifts of the wise men, the star and halos, and the angel's wings.  I also cut out all the sections of the triptych.

Day 327: Holy Triptych Christmas Card Day 1

Tonight I stamped and colored images using Stampin' Up's Holy Triptych nativity set.  I stamped the images on Neenah paper, using Memento inks and my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line them up, and then I colored the images with Copic markers.

Day 294: Jesus is the Reason Card

I needed to make a quick card to enclose with an early Christmas present for my parents.  I chose to use this stamp from Paper Inspirations as the main sentiment.  I stamped it on craft card stock (Recollections by Michael's) in red StazOn ink, added some paper with the names of Jesus on it (Hobby Lobby), and added a burgundy ribbon from my stash.  A quick but meaningful card.

Day 234: Calendars for Christmas: Green Gifts

I bought some blank calendars from Current Catalog a few years ago with the idea to make photo calendars as gifts for my kids' grandparents, but I never got around to it until now.  I have lots of extra photos left over from the kids' birthdays and extra school photos that I am using. I am using strips of scrap paper behind the photos to add color to the calendar pages. I can use up excess photos and paper scraps to make gifts!  How great is that!

Day 202: It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Yes, I know it is July, but I needed to make a page for a picture of my kids with Santa. I used some designer series paper from Stampin' Up!; snowflakes, title, and journaling stickers from October Afternoon; and red "dew drops" from The Robin's Nest. The aqua and red give a little lighter twist to Christmas pages, and the patterns of the papers meld well with the colors the kids are wearing and Santa's patterned vest.  This page is for my son.  I made a similar page for my daughter, see Day 141, A Pastel Christmas.

Day 141: School Portrait and Christmas Side By Side

I scrapbook chronologically, and I generally only scrap portraits, because I take way too many photos to scrap them all!! So, there are times when I have to get creative when I need to scrap two pages that don't really go together.  Tonight, I have to scrap my daughter's school portrait (page left) and a picture of her and my son visiting Santa Claus (page right).  Since my daughter was wearing a pink sweater in her school photo and was wearing a peach top in the Santa photo, I decided to use a pale color palette for the two pages.  I selected some pink papers for her school photo and aqua papers for the Christmas photo.  I will start designing layout tomorrow.

Day 114: A Visit With Santa Page: Day 2

After a weekend away, I finally got back home and back to my son's scrapbook page.  I cut a title from Santa words paper by October Afternoon.  I used the Curlie Girlie alphabet die set by Sizzix and my Big Shot machine to cut the letters for the first part of the title, "A Visit With".  I ran the letters through my Xyron and attached them to Cherry Cobbler card stock from Stampin' Up.  I used a "Santa" crystal embellishment from Me and My Big Eyes to finish my title.  In order to further decorate the page, I added a Santa metal sign embellishment by Tim Coffey and tied a scrap of ribbon to it.  I also added a Santa scene from Jolee's, and even wrote my son's name in the "nice" column.

Day 45: Two At a Time

I have two kids, therefore, I have two scrapbooks that I am constantly working on.  Since I have a son and a daughter, my scrapping is usually pretty gender specific.  However, I can sometimes design one scrapbook page and use it for both of the kids, as I did on this scrapbook page of the photo Christmas card we sent when we bought our new house.  I usually double up on my Christmas scrapbook supplies and make the same page twice.  Once I have the initial design figured out, it only takes a few minutes longer to make that second page,  and it is one less page I have to think about designing.

For this page, I used "Mary" by Melissa Frances as the background paper. Since my kids are featured in the photo Christmas card, this paper with the print of children is well-suited. I had a background paper that I had made using the polished stone technique tucked away with my stash of Christmas papers, so I trimmed it to use as a mat for the photo Christmas card, then layered a piece of green vellum (Hot Off the Press) underneath as another mat.  As the vellum is opaque, it allows the design of the paper to show through, yet adds size and color to the page.  Stars at two corners of the photo help the eye to focus on the photo. I used snowflake ribbon (Brenda Walton for K & Co.) at the top and bottom of the page.  I also twisted some blue pom pom ribbon with silver garland (both from Lost & Found by Jen Allyson, for My Mind's Eye) to add some weight and color to the bottom of the page .I didn't know how I could attach the garland other than staples, so I just stapled all my ribbons on.  I love the vintage feel using this paper and trims contributed to the page.

Christmas is one of my favorite holidays and I had a lot of fun designing this page.