Jul
29

A Christmas layout…

Posted by DeAnna

Here’s a layout I did in April for Christmas 2008. I die cut the decorative frame on the bottom left page and spread glue on it with my 2-way glue applicator and then sprinkled glitter on it. The glue applicator has little “teeth” that spread the glue (as opposed to a foam or pen applicator) so it makes the frame look a bit like wood, I really like the look of it although I didn’t intend for it to look that way. When I saw what happened after it dried, I just kind of went with it, but I do like it. I trimmed the tree and presents on the left side from a decorative paper and applied it to my red cardstock. For the other side I used the decorative paper as my background because I liked the way it framed my photo strip and the title. I tore up a piece of flocked snowflake vellum for the top corner and added a couple of buttons as accents (I think I’m on a button kick – I’ve bought tons of them lately). I also used a white pigment ink to ink up the ornaments and the Christmas morning stamps on the left side and clear heat embossed them. I hand wrote the journaling even though I HATE my handwriting. I think it’s important to see my handwriting on some of my layouts for my kids to look at – I didn’t know until I met my father that my handwriting is almost identical to his, even though I did not grow up looking at his handwriting! Must be genetic ;D