Showing posts with label Scrapbooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scrapbooking. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Christmas Scrapbook Pages


Christmas is my favourite time of the year. I love the lights and decorations, the anticipation, the joy of celebrating my Saviours birth. And, in 2025, I had the added joy of celebrating Mr H's first Christmas.

However, I am not a fan of traditional Christmas colours and like to use non-traditional colours where I can. In these two pages I've used blues as the background colours and then used a mix of non-traditional and traditional colours to create very different feeling pages.

I like simple layouts where the photo tells the story and like to used simple sentiments and minimal elements to enhance the story.

I have always had a Santa photo taken with my pets. I'm not someone who likes to have photo's taken of myself, so the yearly Santa photo is often the only photo of me my family gets! You can't really see it in this photo, but Mr H had his paw on Santa's boot which was very cute.

This page draws on the blues in the photo using the peaceful garden's DSP to provide a little texture and variations in colour.



This page was taken at the local Disability Trust where they set up this gorgeous Christmas scene. This picture called from more traditional colours to pick up and enhance the colours in the photo.
I've used the Traditions of Christmas DSP which had a lovely mix of Traditional and non-traditional colours in the papers.


I hope you like these pages, feel free to leave a comment below. I would love to know what you think of them.

If you live in Australia and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, please reach out, I would love to chat with you about how I can support you on your crafting journey. As usual, all the supplies I have used in these pages are below and if they are still current are available on my online store which you can access in the link below.

Until next time,

Happy Crafting.



 

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Monday, 26 January 2026

Baby Scrapbook page



I was introduced to Scrapbooking many years ago and fell in love with this form of visual memory keeping. After the younger members of my family started growing and stopped allowing me to take their photo's, I pivoted to card making as a way of expressing my creativity.

But now, we have a new generation in our family and I can indulge in my love of scrapbooking again.

I have always loved a clean page where the photos tell the main part of the story and the elements and papers enhance it.

I love the simplicity of this layout. It uses minimal DSP, and the flower element hug the photos to make them the central focus of the page.


I've added texture and depth to the flowers using tone on tone blending pens and then used dimensionals to create different layers in the flowers and leaves.

 

To create the title, I stamped the sentiment and fussy cut around it. I am not a fan of fussy cutting, I prefer to use a die to cut around sentiments, however I saw a quick tip where you lightly trace around the stamp with a pencil to create a line to cut around - this tip has been a game changer for me.
 
 

Some of the DSP and stamps used in these pages are from my stash and are no longer available, however most of the items are available from my online store using the links below.

I hope you enjoyed this page as much as I do. Let me know what you think my commenting below.

Until next time,

Happy Crafting.

 

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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Christmas scrapbook page

This scrapbook page celebrates one of my family Christmas traditions of helping out with the local community Christmas dinner. 

I have used squares of DSP from my stash and squares of card which I have embossed to add texture. 

I’ve also used a flip flap to hide my journaling and place my page title. 

Let me know what you think. 








If you live in Australia and don't already have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please reach out I would love to help you. You can also find all the items I have used listed below with links to my online store.

Until next time,

Happy Crafting