Sometimes documenting your Christmas means you don’t have photos, just stories…and that’s okay. After all, it’s the story that truly mean the most anyway.

Today we have the lovely Miss Laura showing us how you can do that beautifully using today’s 12 Days kit, Very Merry Christmas. And I have to say…that rose for Christmas? I love it! These two spreads are just gorgeous!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey everyone, it’s Laura here. 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.

( Stamps: Year Round )