Layout Design Process by Lynn Shaffer

Lynn Shaffer is featuring our December Main Kit today with a look into her design process!

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Hello Friends, 

Today I am sharing how I built my Joy layout. I will focus on the back details.

I have to admit I am a paper hoarder! I love paper so I try to use it to the max. Using a piece of kraft cardstock I create a 10x10 square in the middle of my cardstock. I then cut out the center piece out. The 10x10 square will be used to matt my picture and use the remaining for background layers. The outside square will be later painted gold to change things up. I cut my pattern paper down to 11x11 and misted the edges with water. Once my paper is a little damp I crinkle the edges. 

While my edges dry I then apply a little modeling medium and some fun sparkles. Let dry. I then cut stars out from various left overs of pattern paper from the kit. I painted the edges gold. I randomly dabbled gold paint around the edges of where my gel medium was. 

Using texture paste added a few white stars. 

Then added the various layers and voila we are done!

Here are a few more of my layouts

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Here's the December Main Kit:

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Start to Finish Collage Canvas Video Tutorial by Marta Lapkowska

We hope everyone has been having a very enjoyable holiday season!

To help make the week even sweeter, Marta Lapkowska is treating us to a step by step video tutorial featuring our Off the Page Kit. Sit back and enjoy as you watch Marta design a gorgeous canvas project!



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December Daily Design Process by Lydell Quin

Lydell Quin is back today to show us how she created her December Daily album with our December Main Kit!

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I loved working with this December Main Kit!

I decided on a December Daily.  I am falling behind my Project life dismally, and I thought this might be a way of recording the weeks leading up to Christmas a little easier!

So here's how I did this.

Very simple with no real over the top embellishing.  

I figure I would add a little more once I sort out my photos and journaling.

'Keep it simple' was my motto.

Check out How to Create a Simple December Daily Album! by Lydell Quin on Snapguide.

Hope you will give this a try sometime.

Doesn't even have to be a December Daily....any album you feel like making would be fine!

Have a great day!

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Here's the December Main Kit:

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December Daily Album, Christmas Project Life Spread, and Christmas Tags by Lydell Quin

Lydell Quin is featuring our December Main Kit today with a gorgeous assortment of Christmas-y creations!

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This month I made my first ever December Daily album.

I have resisted for years, and decided with these lovely papers, that this year was the time!!!

Here's a few of the inside pages, just waiting for photos!

I decorated them simply to allow for variances in photo sizes and added journaling

....Cant wait to fill this in.  I have been dutifully taken pictures each day.

I also created a Project Life spread just for Christmas Day.  

We are having Christmas at our home this year and we will have lots of family here, so it will be nice to have something ready for all the photos!

next I made a whole bunch of tags for the gifts.......

(I liked this one, so I cut it apart and added it to my pocket page above!

Here's some of the others.

So that's all my Christmas tags done, and they are keepsakes as well!

.....and that brings me to the end of my December kit productions!  As always I could totally keep going and make more if time permitted!  

Check out the December kit HERE and have a great time creating!

Thanks for stopping by today!

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Christmas Mini Album by Kristin Greenwood

Kristin Greenwood is walking us through the pages of her mini album created with our December Album Kit!

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I had so much fun creating the mini album this month!!  I want to share with you some tips on some of the techniques I used!

For the cover I layered some of the embellishments!  Did you know that if you use your heat setting tool on the pearl flourish, it will stick better?  

I wanted to be able to add some extra photos on this page, so I did a waterfall technique!

Snow globes are one of my favorite Christmas decorations, this one was a little plain....so I added some glossy accents and glitter!

Layers of embellishments and a Santa I fussy cut from the pattern paper!

A black outline makes everything pop of the busy pattern paper!

Don't forget the pop dots! 

Ribbons are a great addition to any page! I used this one on the photo mat, it is going to hide something in the background of my photo!

I love the black in this kit!  I used my black copic marker to color the Pink Paislee elements!

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Its ok to layer your photo mats over your embellishments! 

I used a simple (nice word for plain!) embellishment sticker as a base for my busy cluster!

After I thought I was finished with this page, it just didn't look complete!  So I added some banners!

I only wanted to use the SANTA word on the black sticker, so I layered it behind my cluster!

I wanted the last page of the album to mimic the front cover!

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Here's the December Album Kit:

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