I love Christmas...I do not love Christmas layouts. Recently I finished 3 Christmas layouts. This one I LOVE. I love the layout, the color combination, the journaling, all of it!
I decided I wanted to use this sketch for my Santa layout. I picked the red patterned paper and spent quite a bit of time deciding what color cardstock I wanted to use. I finally went with this gray. It's not your typical color choice for a Christmas layout, but I love that.
The layout inspiration came from a layout done by Autumn Baldwin at Write.Click.Scrapbook in their July 2010 Gallery. As you can see I stretched the layout across two pages. I even made some changes from my original plan. I had thought I would do a large journal block with a small photo on the right page, but I ended up switching that around.
To understand the title you would need to read the journaling. I talk about how my boys want nothing to do with sitting in Santa's lap. They are only barely willing to sit at his feet with Mama and Dada. I enjoy the look of placing the pic off center on the mat. I find that visually pleasing.
I decided to use some photos of the boys at the Christmas party...the part where they enjoyed themselves. :) I chose to make one circle red and add the year in it.
I wanted to have fun with the shape of my journaling tag. So I repeated the shape found on my patterned paper.
Using my SCAL software I combined an oval with a rectangle to create the shape. I then used the shadow function to make a slightly larger one out of the patterned paper. I printed the journaling onto the shape using the technique blogged about here. I added some gems and ribbon for visual interest. I always like to tie my title into my journaling in an interesting way. I think it makes it more fun to read.
I'm so glad that I found a way to have fun with a Christmas layout. All it took was finding ways to take a twist on the traditional layout by tweaking the color combo, the title, and the journaling. Merry Christmas!
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