January's Scrapbook Club's going 'green'

I usually make Christmas pages for SB Club each January.  It's still fresh & most everyone has lots of holiday photos to scrap.  Plus it's good to get it done right away!

 

I LOVE the colors here!  Real Red, Bashful Blue, Glorious Green & white. 

• I used lots of different SU punches & dies, but there are a few extras on this page too.....   Remember all those envelopes I needed to make Pat's Advent Envelope albums?  Well they came from Christmas cards I got on sale after the Holidays last year.  Some of those cards were photo cards - notice the Christmas tree frame on the left page?
  
• And the little green trees also came from another bunch of Christmas cards - they even had little sticky, dimensional pop-ups on them!  So I'm calling this page 'green'.
• I used the jumbo Whimsy wheel on the white & Bashful Blue areas.  Plus on the Bashful Blue pieces I used the 'Direct to Paper' technique where you rub the ink pad directly on the card stock.  I really like doing this technique on my SB pages - it's an easy patterned paper look.
  
• 'Merry' was cut out from white card stock using SU's Simple Alphabet letter dies & the Big Shot.  The year was die cut using my new Timeless Type alphabet jr dizzlit dies & placed onto a scallop circle from the Scallop Circle #2 die.
  
• See the 3 little scallop circles on the left page?  I punched out 3 red scallop circles & then punched three 1 3/8" circles from various family & pet photos to place in the scallops. 
  
• The packages under the trees are 1" squares & rectangles cut from Red dsp & wrapped or topped with embroidery floss as bows.  
• For those that may want to case this layout, the Real Red pieces are 8 1/2" square.  The Bashful Blue pieces are 8 1/2"X 3 3/4".  The white 12 X 12" card stock is the base of both pages. 
  

SB Club meet on the third Sunday & Thursday of each month.  January 17th at 3 pm & January 21st at 6:30 pm.  Sunday's club usually has room for guests - let me know if you'd like to come!  

Comments

[Michelle Gray]

Great layout. It's so nice to see real pages. So many are using the MDS and I just prefer the feel of using the real thing. Thanks for sharing.

[Laurel Barnard]

Great recycling idea. Love the layout.