Shine! A Christmas Page

Photoplay papers from my LSS didn't come easy

as they are all "heavy" papers.

Therefore, I rolled with white and that seems to tame 

it down. 

The mists that are in the background using

the packaging technique look closer in real life.

 Sort of.

Love the banners and the puffy embellishments

scattered about.

And Sam, the youngest grandkidlet enjoying

his Christmas presents and a snack.

Can't go wrong with that.

Photoplay Christmas papers

From my LSS, along with some do-dads.

I fussy cut the banners out from some banner papers

and love how they look on the page.

As well as that moose.

Thanks to my pal Holli who keeps me supplied.

 Went a bit of old school since the papers

were busy to highlight the

collage of photos.

I have been playing around with PicCollage ap

-they do have some free collages you can road test but

you it doesn't allow you to make many changes.

Anyone else use it???

Love to hear your comments.

Anyway cuteness overload on the grands on Christmas morning.

Making spirits bright

with candy cane striped paper and a bit of dimension

with a sort of star stencil and modeling paste.

Didn't quite work out the way I envisioned.

 I fussy cut the title from a card because it was too big

and the berries because I liked them.

 Can't go wrong with mists - it can cover a number of sins.

And that QK flower is just perfect for the sin. LOL!!

Layers and some pink fresh Christmas words and

there you have Annie (Oakley) in her

pink cowgirl hat. 

I did this page before I started running out of the Christmas papers.

Scrapping those Christmas Cards

once again, Ali E style.

I have been doing this for a number of years and if you click

on this post you can view some previous years' pages.

I picked out some Kaiser Kraft Christmas papers which were

busy busy - and decided to make a pocket page with the busy paper.

In looking back at the previous ones - I know having a pocket page will shock you.

 To the left are the pile of lovely cards we recieved and below are the punched out and/or fussy cut cards

that will be used on my page.

I used round and square punches and in some cases

just pulled pop up embellishments off the cards.

I also kept the photo cards intact.

Its great to see how people/kids have changed and grown.

 After I whacked everything up the placement drove me nuts.

Short drive I know but crazy all the same. 

I therefore decided to clump/nest them all together in a vingette type of cluster.

 And it totally worked.

I love how the clusters turned out.

And I felt like they kind of told a story.

 It ended up looking graphic on the page as

I tried to arrange them in a way that when the remaining cards

are tucked in - you could still see some of  the clusters.

I inked all the cutout/punched photos to make them pop and more cohesive.

 I decided that because of the busy-ness of all the clusters

and the fact that they are gorgeous on their own

no other embellishments were required.

I just realized that I didn't add the year in there.

I will place it discretely somewhere.

 Love how this one turned out.

A lovely way to keep all the cards and in a guilt free way

to trash the rest. As I remove the parts I don't like
I try to be on the lookout to save their handwriting or if they
added something personal or pertinent.

Holiday papers used for non holiday photos

Imagine my surprise when I completed this page and found that the patterned paper is actually Christmas paper. OLD papers but Christmas non-the-less.

However, if you look at the photos, the papers totally rock it. All colors in the photo are on the papers. Hmm...the ticket looks grayer in real life. 

Who cares at this point.

Not me. Loving the way it came out. 

And that's my grandaughter rocking the ring ropes.

Hysterical.

Love the workout duds as well.

Mine are not as snappy.

No name paper that I can find surrounded by Studio Calico.