Santa Came - Layout #8 of the 365 scrapbook challenge and what lessons I learned with this layout

Hey Newbies,

I'm here working on number 8 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.

Today I'm working on a 12x12 Christmas layout.  It's an oldie but one of my favorite pictures of my son at Christmas, in his little feet-sy PJ's, so cute!

I started with a 12x12 Christmas paper from Lawn Fawn that I got from Acherryontop.com I know I have said it before but I have to say it again...all of these non-traditional Christmas colors that are out this year, I'm in love with!  Don't get me wrong, I love a good red and green Christmas but these colors this year are amazing!  Lawn Fawn had a pack that I fell in L-O-V-E with so I scooped them up.  This particular one has little tiny white snow flakes on a blue background.

I used the tear technique when backing my photo.  I like the look of it and use it on about half of my layouts that I do.  I had some scrapes left over from a previous layout using these papers and chose 2 more of Lawn Fawn's Christmas papers in those awesome non-traditional colors. I also used a piece left over and put it down about a 1/4 into my background just to give some more color to it.

I had these paper silver glitter snowflakes in my stash and decided to use a few of them.    The trees are made from a die that I got at Hobby Lobby using my Big Shot.  I used parchment paper (cutting it with the same die) and overlaid it to the top of the Christmas trees.

So, here is LESSON 1 for this layout.  Using parchment paper is cheap and looks kinda cool I think, but using adhesives on it is a bit tricky so I ended up using my Sharpie permanent marker in GOLD METALLIC to make "ornaments" on the tree to cover the adhesive up.  Easy, peasy....

I added some Echo Park sticky brads to the layout and I fussy cut a reindeer and a penguin from a Christmas note pad I had laying around the house and used my X-yron sticker maker to make them into stickers.  The colors work and they are Christmas characters🤗  Which brings us to LESSON #2 for this layout, just because it isn't "meant" for scrapbooking or bought in the scrapbooking isle doesn't mean you can't use it for scrapbooking!

I wanted to break up the color in that strip I laid down with the colored snowflakes so I added some tear drop shaped plastic rhinestones.  Here comes LESSON #3, after painstakingly glueing each and every one of those down, I didn't really like it...but I didn't hate it.  Since it was almost the last thing I did and I didn't absolutely hate it, I lived with it and didn't trash the entire layout.  So, if you DON'T ABSOLUTELY hate it, keep it, because this is not a cheap hobby!

Lastly, I used a cool script font from PinkFresh Studio to do the Title - SANTA CAME - (although it's hard to read the single letters and you almost have to guess at them, but once they are together they look amazing)!  I believe I picked those up from Michaels.

Well, there you have it...number 8 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!  Please subscribe if you like this post and to see if I make it to number 3-6-5 by the end of this year!

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Happy Scrapping🤗

Kimberly