Christmas Card Scrapbook Page

Sometimes the simplest layout can be the one you like the most. 

Several years ago when I started making photo cards for Christmas, I started scrapbooking them as well. I usually use this single page as the back cover page for that years album. They are usually really simple layouts - just the card and some accent paper, maybe a couple of stickers. This years Christmas Card page was no different.

I found this beautiful piece of paper that was left over from the paper stack I used for Christmas photos two years ago. It's from a DCWV stack called Winter in the Woods. I didn't use it before because all of my Christmas layouts had more than one photo on them. But I thought this paper was so pretty, so when I started looking for paper to use for the card page, it jumped right out at me as completely perfect for this layout.

Once I had the card and the sheet of paper, it just needed a few accents. I highlighted the photo by matting it on grey and brown to compliment the colors in the wreath pattern, and added in a few green accents as well. I also added double layer triangle shapes on each of the corners to mimic old-fashioned photo corners. Even with those additions, it needed something else. Maybe a little bit of bling.

I don't usually use a lot of sparkly or blingy material, but I happened to have some clear crystal snowflakes and added one to each corner and one to the center tag. It was just enough to give it some sparkle and detail.

Here is the final Christmas card layout:

Do you scrapbook your Christmas Cards?

Thanks for looking!

Christmas Morning Layouts

Since I'm trying to finish up all of my photos from 2015, it was time to tackle the Christmas photos. I had previously worked on the Christmas Eve photos, so I just had photos from Christmas Day left to work on.

I had recently been looking at some online galleries of other peoples scrapbook pages, and had come across a layout that I really liked, so I decided to try to re-create it with a few of these photos. It required scaling back a bit on the number of photos I use on each page, but I was ready to try something new and a little different from my usual layouts. So I gave it a shot.

Here is the page that I re-created from another:

And this page I made on my own to compliment it:

I had a large collection of Christmas papers that I had received as a gift and they all coordinated together, so choosing papers was a pretty easy process. All I needed to do was figure out the photo placement for the second page, since I was using that other layout as a guide for the first page. I added a few stickers that I already had and it was finished!

They turned out pretty nice and in the end I'm happy that I tried something new and different!