Hey everyone! I have a few new projects up at Kerri Bradford Studio today, as part of her 12 Days of Christmas event! Each of the 12 days, there is a new design that you can download for free - for that day only. If you happen to miss out on any of the free downloads, you can still purchase them for a very low price starting the following day ;)
Very Merry Christmas is the today's free design (Friday, December 4th only), and the first design that I picked to work with for our little event. I had full intentions of using the "Very Merry Christmas" phrase to create some holiday cards, but then came up with a new plan once I started die cutting the words.
I love to watch everyone document their Christmas holidays in projects like December Daily, but I have to admit that I am not one to create many holiday projects (other than a layout or two each Christmas).
One Christmas project that I did participate in, way back in 2007, was Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas. The album that I created didn't contain a single photo - just pretty paper and little stories to document the ways that we celebrate the holiday.
I thought it was about time to create an updated look at some of the same topics I included in that album, all those years ago. I decided on doing Travelers Notebook sized pages, which I'll add into a Life Crafted album from Citrus Twist. I used Kerri's Very Merry Christmas kit to create two spreads for this album - an intro spread and a spread about our holiday photo tradition.
I die cut both words included in the kit - "Very Merry Christmas" and "Holiday Photo" - from black cardstock using my Cameo. I also die cut a circle background from white cardstock, using the Background Basics kit, so that I could create white-on-white background on which to adhere my die cut titles.
My pages are 4" x 8.25" in size, and I dug deep into my Christmas supplies for patterned papers to add to the pages, along with my title pieces and my journaling blocks.
I have jars and jars of ribbons that I haven't used in years, and added a piece of ribbon to each spread, adding metal brads to the ends of the ribbons.
I came across a die cut rose (from Kerri's Roses kit) on one of my cutting mats that I didn't end up using on an old project, and figured I would toss that onto my "Holiday Photo" spread.
I also printed a few elements from Kerri's Fa La La Labels kit and her Merry Little Words kit to help embellish the spreads.
These little pages were so fun to put together, and by not worrying about including photos (although photos would be a great addition if I had them), they came together in no time.
I love your work! I am wondering how you printed the Fa la la labels. I would love to be able to select just some of the images off the png (in PSE13) and then print them, but when I went to do that my image looks fuzzy. I'm learning hybrid and PSE so I probably just don't know what I'm doing. I'm not familiar with what to do when there are several images on one layer. If you happen to have any tips I'd greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
Posted by: Anne McColley | December 12, 2020 at 07:03 PM
Awesome! You are so talented and inspiring, love your work. May I ask what is that font you use?
Posted by: Merja Laurila | December 29, 2020 at 03:09 AM