It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Layout #16 of the 365 scrapbook challenge and what lessons I learned with this layout

Hey Newbies,

I'm here working on number 16 of my 365 Page Layout Challenge 2019 (and the lessons I learned).  I will try to list everything I used below and try to link up to where you can purchase them if you happen to like any of them.

This was a super simple layout that I didn't really use a lot but it still turned out nice.  This is part of my HOT BUYS stash I purchased from Michael's.  These are really great buys and the papers are amazing and they do them either every quarter or 6 months so make sure you look for them!  

I started this 12 x 12 layout with a traditional Christmas red in a heavy card stock.  I then went into the Christmas Hot Buys pad I had gotten last week and it was all gold, black and silvers.  All of the pages are so beautiful!.  I fussy cut the center of one that had a Christmas hat in the center of the page that said "IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS"...and here comes LESSON 1; make sure you absolutely like the way it looks before glueing it down because there is no going back from that.  I'm thinking I could have fussy cut a little bit more of the words out🤦🏻‍♀️

This particular pad had a couple of pages of borders that I loved!  So I used 2 on the top and then I fussy cut the bows out from another border and used my awesome Fineline glue applicator to apply them to the page.  If you don't have one, I highly suggest getting one, it gets in the hard to reach, small pieces you are trying to get glued down...Amazon is where I purchased mine.

I punched out the photos with my 2.5" and 3" circle punch and backed them with some plain black paper and added gold dots with my shinny gold Sharpie just to give them a little pop.

The gold Christmas presents was a stamp I got from my Joann's haul!  The set had 9 little clear Christmas stamps and was perfect for this.  I used the same gold Sharpie and ran it across the stamp to give it the same gold shinny color as the dots on the photo backing.

Lastly, I used my Big Shot and a Christmas tree die and cut out parchment paper.  I use this technique when I want to either cover up journaling when I want to hide it or to use over a bright paper that I want to lighten up a bit.  It works great and is cheap!  I toped the tree with a sticky brad from Echo Park Collection 

Well, there you have it...number 16 of my 365 layout challenge for 2019.  Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way!  

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Happy Scrapping🤗

Kimberly