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.