Christmas Embellishment Sale!

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Christmas Gift Layout

The presents are all opened, the food is all eaten, and you have a ton of new pictures just waiting to be scrapbooked!

Here is a quick layout for you to make that will get you started... 

Get a 12x12 piece of Christmas or Winter scrapbook paper and a coordinating piece of 12x12 cardstock. You will also need a small piece of white or cream cardstock... smooth texture would be best.

First, cut 2 - 1 1/4" strips of your coordinating cardstock and ink the edges if you like.

Next, save the bow pattern and open it in a photo-editing program, or Word. Adjust the size to 5.61" high by 7.21" wide, so the bow is 5 5/8" wide. I know, weird sizes by that's how it worked out. =0)

Print, cutout and trace the pattern onto the back of your coordinating cardstock. After cutting out the pieces to your bow, you can choose to ink the edges... this will give it a little dimension and make the layers stand out. Next, glue the pieces of your bow together.

Cut a 2 1/2" x 4" rectangle out of your white cardstock... I like to ink the edges with silver. As you can see, my silver gets a LOT of use! 

Next, write "From: Santa" on your rectangle to make it a tag. Or, you can write To: and put the name of the person or family that are the subject in your pictures.

Now it's time to put everything together!

Place one 2 1/4" from the top, and place the other 2 1/4" from the right side (or left, if that is what you prefer).

Next, WITHOUT any glue, take your tag and lay it on the page and then lay your bow over it. Get the placement of the tag that you like and glue it down. Be sure to not glue next to the edges, that way you can slide your pictures underneath when you place them.

I like to use foam adhesive or pop-dots for the bow so that it gives it extra dimension. Whether you decide to use that, or to glue it flat to the page is up to you, and great either way. Just like the tag, you just want to be sure to not glue the ends of the "ribbon" so that you can slip your pictures underneath them.

Last, but not least it's time to add in your pictures. You can either place 3 - 4" x 6" pictures like I did, or you can cut them smaller and add more photos to the page. 

I would love to see your version of this layout! Send me pics!!

*** All free layouts and patterns are provided for personal use only and copyrighted by A Scrap of Time! Do not recreate for commercial or resale purposes.

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Free Christmas Stocking Paper Piecing Pattern

The countdown to Christmas is in full swing! If you are like me, you are already scrapping those Christmas pages, getting them ready for the pictures you are sure to take. Here is a cute stocking embellishment you can make yourself and add to your layout.

Click on the image above and you will be directed to a version that you can print. Or, copy it into an image editing program to re-size.

Enjoy!

*** All free patterns are provided for personal use only and copyrighted by A Scrap of Time! Do not recreate for commercial or resale purposes.

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Using a Holly Leaf embellishment

Here's a way we used a Holly Leaf embellishment to create a nice Winter Holiday or Christmas layout, ours turned out to be the Christmas one. We dug through a Christmas stack that we had laying around and found some paper with a holly leaf print. The holly print was too busy to use as the background, so using just a portion of it still catches your eye.

Our Holly Leaf Embellishment Set has two purposes, one is to embellish the pictures, and the second is to serve as photocorners. Putting it together we added a vintage snowflake print as a base, a simple striped print as a runner, and a matted "Merry Christmas" to finish it off. Here's the final product:

Happy Holidays!!!

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New Stuff!!!

We have a bunch of new holiday single page layouts in our online store! Single layouts are not only great additions to your scrapbook, but are also great for framing. The one pictured above is our December 25th page... you can get it here.

In case you were wondering, the cute kid in the picture is none other than my son Tyler... isn't he handsome? Takes after his Daddy. =o)

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A Santa Craft

I know that Christmas is over, but I just came across these super cute Santa decorations on a great blog called Thrifty Decor Chick! You can use your "scraps" of red fabric, or you can use red cardstock to make it a paper project.

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Merry Christmas

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! We just got back from visiting family, which was so much fun! I haven't gotten into my scrap projects yet, but I took a picture of my Mom's Christmas tree, and just had to share it! Isn't it pretty?

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New Christmas Tear Bears

We just added 3 absolutely adorable Christmas tear bears! These will make a great addition to your Christmas scrapbook pages, or even a special card. Get them here...
http://www.scrap-of-time.com/holidayembellish.htm

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