Hello everyone! This is Shelly here today to share with you this month’s double page layout.
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! Last week, I shared a few Project LifeⓇ layouts documenting Christmas for my son’s album HERE. Today, I am here to share how I finished off the Christmas season documenting. With his album already in progress, I had two single 12x12 open canvases to fill up before and after all of those pockets. We have lots going on before and after the actual Christmas holiday so, I decided to document those pre-Christmas and post-Christmas events.
Supplies: Sleigh Bells Ring: “Reindeer” Paper, “Noel” Paper, “Christmas Tartan” Paper, “Branches” Paper, “Christmas Confetti” Paper, Gift Label Stickers, Designer Brads, Mixed Bag Diecut Pieces, Decorative Tags; Joyous: “Noel” Paper, “North Pole” Paper; Just Sayin’: “Garden Party” Paper.
As with all my other pages, I pulled out my favorite pictures that I wanted to tell my story. My sketch came together after choosing my favorites. With any work in progress, this was not set in stone. You will see how I changed and modified my plan as everything started to take shape on my table.
As you can see, once I had my pictures in place. I played with my initial plan just a touch. I wasn’t falling in love with the very linear look that was initially happening. That is one thing I love about sketches. They can always be changed to make them work for what you need.
I also wanted each side of the layout to stand on its own. I kept a title and a little bit of journaling to explain each picture.
When it came to the title, I pulled out my die-cut machine. I love the gold stripe patterned paper from the Just Sayin’ Collection. AND it is such a bonus that the gold is glazed, so no mess! I trimmed a piece off and ran it through my die-cut machine.
I layered a few random letters with the red gingham that I used on the right side.
As for the papers, I kept mostly with the same patterns I used in the Project Life pages. I did however choose to add in that lovely blue with stars pattern from Joyous Collection. I liked how it added just a touch of non-traditional Christmas color to these pictures.
For the title on the second half of the layout, I did a flip-flop reverse. After finding the “Christmas” die-cut in the Mixed Bag, it made creating this title easy.
Once I had the pictures and title in place, I found that there was just too much open space on the blue pattern. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with that space at first, but after seeing the big circle Decorative Tags and the bell from the Mixed Bag, I thought they would make cute ornaments to hang. I just love it when things fall into place sometimes.
Again, I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season of celebrations! Thank you for stopping by, and I hope I have inspired you to document all of those other events that tie into your Christmas fun.
Shelly
