Keeping with my New Year’s Resolution to do at least 1 scrapbook layout a month this year, I scrapped\u00a0the family portrait we took of me, Mr. CraftyPaws (face covered to protect his privacy), Biscuit and Bandito on Christmas day last year. The pups are wearing their little Christmas jackets that I made out of Christmas stockings (see post HERE<\/a><\/span> for details).<\/p>\n

<\/a>Given the color scheme of what we were wearing, I looked through my stash and found a 2013 Recollections Christmas paper pad\u00a0called “Watercolors” that seemed a perfect match. To carry through the citron green color of the pups’ coats, I used a plain card stock (this might be 10+ years old!) to frame the whole layout as well as a 1\/8th\u00a0border on the 4th mat around the photo. For the main background, I used a fun jingle bell patterned paper\u00a0from the paper pad. I also used a crimson text patterned paper that repeats, “jingle all the way” in white, a crimson, green and cream stripe patterned paper, giant jingle bell ornaments that I fussy cut from another paper, and a few of the images from the cut-a-parts page–all from this collection. It is hard to see in the pictures, but I also coated the small fussy cut bells and bows with Clear Wink of Stella to add shimmer and sparkle.<\/p>\n

To add a contrasting vintage feel to the fairly modern and playful patterned papers, I also layered in some vintage music paper that I inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo as well as some torn black card stock to help the photo with all its mats pop from the busy background pattern. For the “JOYFUL” title, I used Fancy Pants Designs Black Chipboard Alphas, which tied in well with the torn black card stock matting.<\/p>\n

For finishing touches, I added DMC metallic gold embroidery thread that I bunched up and tucked behind the music paper in two places as well as some vintage black, cream, and rhinestone (for SPARKLE) detailed buttons (the black and cream were used to maintain\u00a0a consistent color story). Lastly, I decided to add some snowflakes die cut with\u00a0Diemond Dies Icy Snowflakes Die Set<\/a><\/span>, Winter Snowflakes Die Set<\/a><\/span>, and Snowflake #1 Die<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and punched out with the\u00a0Martha Stewart Himalayan Snowflake Punch<\/a><\/span> in unexpected black card stock to tie in with the black accents throughout. I’m still super rusty at layouts, but I’m trying to keep my new years resolution and really enjoying the process.<\/p>\n

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The following is a process video sharing how I created this layout:<\/p>\n