Christmas Is In The Air!

Each year makes Christmas memories more and more special. I love any occasion that allows me to get out the camera to snap a few pictures. Last summer as I was looking through magazines I had seen a picture of mature women taken with Santa Claus and I thought "Why not!" I had never had my picture taken with Santa, neither had my mother, and I certainly have never seem a picture of my sister with the jolly guy.

What a fun memorable picture to have in my scrap books.

I had just received my kit of the month from My Creative Scrapbook. I found these fun and festive papers from Echo Park. They are double sided so two sheets of paper gave me the three designs I have on this page. I love the vintage Santa with poinsettia along the edge, I did not want to cover too much of the paper, nor did I need to add too much for embellishments. I know, there a number of embellies on there but for me that is not much.

I added a little stamping along the edge and in the journaling box, but that is so light it is hard to see with the printing. I found a great hint when stamping from Linda Duke's blog yesterday. She said she always tests the color of ink she picked out to make sure it is the right color or shade she thought it would be.  I did that today with SU sahara sand and Memento's desert sand. She said to test it on the same paper you are using, if possible. Which I did, on the strip I cut off the edge. I was able to see that Desert Sand was going to be the better match. Don't you just love the font used for Believe and Ho Ho Ho? It came from Flourishes Santa I Believe set.

Supplies used

Paper, Echo Park -Vintage Santa collection Chip Board Accents, Echo Park-Season's Greetings Lettering, Authentique- Classic Type Flowers, Petaloo Stamps, Flourishes- Santa I Believe Fibers, cotton trim and gold sequins.

Hope ya'll are enjoying the Season!