Christmas is a lovely time to scrapbook. Partly because it's nice to be cosy inside, snuggled on the sofa surrounded by craft supplies with something good to watch and a cuppa at my elbow. But it's also partly because I like to relive stories from previous years as I scrapbook them, with a little bit of sparkle thrown in for good measure.
This is a page I made about a lovely Christmassy weekend spent with friends last year. I took lots of photos and it's great to be able to start getting them in my album now (I'll be blogging about the actual weekend later this month).
As I have a ton of pictures, I decided to just choose one for this page, and the put the rest in pocket pages. That's a good balance for me, allowing me to have plenty of white space on the page and choose a single print to focus on.
With my photo selected, I ended up designing most of this page around the title. I sketched out the words, and then cut myself out a template. I traced around the templates onto white cardstock and used a craft knife to cut them out. I love the white on white look for titles, and they feature a lot in my pages as I think it makes the titles look delicate and lacy. However, as this was a Christmas page, I felt it needed a little something extra, and so I used a gold gel pen to colour the lower half of each letter to create a gold-dipped feel.
I then started to build up layers around my photo and title, and it was a lovely opportunity to use some new papers from Felicity Jane. (And for any UK readers, they shipped to the UK in less than a week - really great service!) I loved the colour palette and it fit well with my photo. To anchor the whole design, I used a long vertical strip of black and white paper. It's quite a strong statement, but it doesn't add anything more to the colour scheme which I quite like, and black and white is often very striking!
A journalling card allowed me to add a little dash of story to the page, although there is more to come and that will fit nicely in a pocket page with the other photos. It also added to the black and white accents, linking to the background patterned paper.
To finish the page, I framed the design with little details: punched stars and sequins, a little camera, washi tape - black and white to continue a theme - and fussy cut flowers. I punched pinked circles to use as accents and added labels with the names of my friends. Finally, a little splatter of ink here and there and a hand-drawn border drew everything together.
I really enjoyed making this page and thinking back on a lovely Christmas with lovely friends. Here's to similarly lovely adventures this year - in fact this very evening we are having a get-together of cocktails and dinner and I can't wait to have a good catch up.
Oh, and here's to some scrapbooking time as well!
A journalling card allowed me to add a little dash of story to the page, although there is more to come and that will fit nicely in a pocket page with the other photos. It also added to the black and white accents, linking to the background patterned paper.
To finish the page, I framed the design with little details: punched stars and sequins, a little camera, washi tape - black and white to continue a theme - and fussy cut flowers. I punched pinked circles to use as accents and added labels with the names of my friends. Finally, a little splatter of ink here and there and a hand-drawn border drew everything together.
I really enjoyed making this page and thinking back on a lovely Christmas with lovely friends. Here's to similarly lovely adventures this year - in fact this very evening we are having a get-together of cocktails and dinner and I can't wait to have a good catch up.
Oh, and here's to some scrapbooking time as well!
Kisses xxx
P.S. This post is part of a series I'm writing throughout December in response to Shimelle's scrapbooking class, Journal Your Christmas. By blogging each day, I hope to savour each and every lovely moment of the most wonderful time of the year, and have some great memories to look back on.
P.S. This post is part of a series I'm writing throughout December in response to Shimelle's scrapbooking class, Journal Your Christmas. By blogging each day, I hope to savour each and every lovely moment of the most wonderful time of the year, and have some great memories to look back on.
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