I don’t know about you, but while I do enjoy being an introvert and all its luxuries, there’s nothing quite like getting a bunch of friends and/or family together, especially during the holidays. The more the Merrier, right?

Let’s take a look at all the merriness that Laura has for us today!

 

 

There’s a whole lot of festiveness happening here. The combination of Merrier and The Nice List goes perfectly! I love documenting simply and Laura has done a terrific job of it here.

Here’s Laura to tell us about it.

Happy December everyone! I have to admit, I don’t do a ton of decorating when Christmas rolls around. I like to keep things fairly simple. I add a few decor pieces to my mantel, where I also hang the stockings up. I hang a wreath on the front door. I display a few simple decor pieces in the entrance, by the front door. And of course, I have a Christmas tree. I even added a second tree last year!

I guess my decorating style is sort of like my scrapbooking style these days – clean and fairly simple. I have really fallen in love with pocket pages, and not just for doing Project Life. I have several albums, in different sizes, where I create pocket pages on the regular. I love all of the fun new printable cards that Kerri’s been designing, and decided to use her new Merrier cards to create a simple 6×12″ pocket page spread to document some small glimpses into my holiday decorating. 

While I haven’t actually finished putting my decorations up this year (why does it take me so long, when it’s all SO simple?!?!), I pulled up a handful of photos that I had taken last year and printed them as 3×3’s and a few 3×4’s. I usually print my filler cards on presentation paper, but ended up adding the three Merrier cards in with my photos, so they’re printed on photo paper. I also printed a few cards, using The Nice List kit, printing those on presentation paper. Once I had played around with my photo/card placement, and settled on where they would all go, I ended up trimming a few of the filler cards to 3×3″ squares to fit the smaller pockets on the right side of the spread. 

I pulled out Kerri’s Looks Like Christmas stamp set to add a few stamped elements to my spread. I used the larger “Merry + Bright” as my title, stamping it onto a white shipping tag. I used my finger to swipe a little bit of forest green paint around the edges of the tag, before adhering it to my 4×6″ title card. I found this older, black corrugated paper in my stash and decided to use it for my 4×6 card, adding the red/white diagonal striped printable card along the left side. 

I love how easy this was to put together. And hopefully, when I get around to finishing my decorating, it will be just as easy to put together ;)