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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Begin at the Boots

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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