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!

Snowshoeing Layout

I'm finally moving forward on some 2016 pictures again, and have 2 sets of photos from some winter activities we did that I started to scrapbook. The first set of photos is from when we went snowshoeing in February. I don't usually have a lot of winter themed supplies, because honestly we don't go out and do many winter activities, so I had to buy something to go along with these winter photos. I came across the Simple Stories Snow Patrol kit and just loved it!

In addition to the kit, I added in one sheet of red paper that had trees on it that I liked for this layout, and the colors matched so well that looks like it's part of the kit. The layouts came together pretty easily - very geometric and balanced. I had lot of photos to use and ended up having a few extra, but I got on as many as I could.

I have plenty of supplies from the kit to also use it for our ice skating photos - which will be the next layouts that I work on. After these I can start looking forward to spring!