Two of the places we celebrate
Christmas are my parents' and my grandparents' places. I chose to
make a layout honoring the magnificent trees we have decorated and
filled from the floor to the bottom of the tree with presents. I
love Christmas and for me, one of the most important things to do
is to put up the tree and decorate it with ornaments that have been
made, bought and collected over the years.
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| Scrapbooking Notes:
I used green photo mounting paper as a background for the green
trees, which provides a little contrast, as well as being a traditional
holiday color. I continue using a traditional holiday green to write
the words "O Christmas Tree" which is a play on the words
of the song with the same name. I use the traditional holiday red
for the journaling below the photos to indicate where the individual
trees resided and once again adding contrast to the green of the
trees and the photo mounting paper. The ornament shaped die cuts
fill in space on the page above and below the photos as well as
tying in with the Christmas tree theme. I also used the pieces punched
out to create the designs of the die cuts ornaments to fill in the
space between the photos as well as adding a unique design to a
space that otherwise would have been empty. Leaving the space empty
would have made the layout seem unbalanced whereas now it looks
like red flows from the ornaments at the top all the way through
to the ornaments at the bottom.
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