Is anyone really caught up and scrapping current photos because the old ones are all in albums? I can't imagine - so when I had the urge to pull together a Christmas layout, I dug out a favorite photo from last year.
My husband has read The Night Before Christmas right before bed on Christmas Eve since our oldest son was 6 weeks old. He uses the edition I had when I was growing up with Grandma Moses illustrations - this is one of my favorite holiday moments each year (and the reason this photo will show up in my December Daily, my family album and my daughter's album). Last year only my daughter showed up to hear the story.
I didn't have much time, so I knew I wanted to use a sketch as my starting point - it makes everything faster. I started with the current sketch at My Creative Sketches.
It had lots of layers so I knew it worked well with my style. And I really liked the banner detail. I used papers from a basket of small scraps on my desk - I'm not sure why but more and more I prefer using papers without a holiday theme on my layouts.
I finished my layout off by layering some vellum banners from an older Pink Paislee collection.
The last detail was the title. One of the Christmas caroling challenges at My Scraps and More asked that you use words from the Night Before Christmas poem as your title. This was the perfect inspiration here and I chose "The Night Before."
Hope you had a great holiday. I really enjoyed all of our celebrations, but have to admit that I am looking forward to the new year and having more time to scrap. Thanks for stopping by - I will have more to share soon.
My husband has read The Night Before Christmas right before bed on Christmas Eve since our oldest son was 6 weeks old. He uses the edition I had when I was growing up with Grandma Moses illustrations - this is one of my favorite holiday moments each year (and the reason this photo will show up in my December Daily, my family album and my daughter's album). Last year only my daughter showed up to hear the story.
I didn't have much time, so I knew I wanted to use a sketch as my starting point - it makes everything faster. I started with the current sketch at My Creative Sketches.
It had lots of layers so I knew it worked well with my style. And I really liked the banner detail. I used papers from a basket of small scraps on my desk - I'm not sure why but more and more I prefer using papers without a holiday theme on my layouts.
I finished my layout off by layering some vellum banners from an older Pink Paislee collection.
The last detail was the title. One of the Christmas caroling challenges at My Scraps and More asked that you use words from the Night Before Christmas poem as your title. This was the perfect inspiration here and I chose "The Night Before."
Hope you had a great holiday. I really enjoyed all of our celebrations, but have to admit that I am looking forward to the new year and having more time to scrap. Thanks for stopping by - I will have more to share soon.
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Great layout, love the layering, the little baggie peeking out from the bottom. Loved reading a bit about your holiday traditions. Michelle t
ReplyDeletePretty layout and I love the tradition. The papers you chose look great and I love how you don't use themed papers in your layout.
ReplyDeleteSWEET layout! Thanks for Playing at My Creative Sketches...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful layout
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