Christmas Confetti Title Pages
Level: Easy to Medium
The only component of this layout that in my mind moved it toward the medium level is the tool needed to make stickers. If you do not have a Xyron or other sticker-making machine, then the mounting of the punched details becomes that much harder or tedious. Otherwise, this layout is simple with a couple of details which definitely adds to the pages.
Materials:
12-15 Christmas photos (2-3 can be double prints)
1 blue 12 x 12 sheet of paper
1 red 12 x 12 sheet of paper
1 small sheet silver metallic paper
Xyron Create-a-Sticker
Blue letter and number stickers
Christmas themed punches (snowflakes, Christmas Tree, small round, etc)
Photo adhesive
Scissors/paper trimmer
Step 1:
Take 4 up-close photos of the holiday decorations. Using the blue paper, mat the two smaller photos, leaving a thin edge of the blue showing around the edges of the photo. Mount one on lower left corner of left page and one in center left of right page using the photo adhesive. Take the 2 larger photos and cut across once from side to side, then twice from top to bottom so that you end up with each photo having 6 pieces. You don't have to have each piece exactly equal to the others, but keep it close. Take the 6 pieces and mat on a red piece of paper, leaving about 1/8 to ¼ inch between each piece and also around edges. This will give you two mini-mosaics, one for the top left corner of the left page, and one for lower right corner of right page. Use photo adhesive to mount these in place.
Step 2:
Use the red and blue paper to mat the remaining photos. I double matted 2 of mine, and did a red mat with a blue strip for on of the photos just to mix it up a little bit. Use the photo adhesive to mount the main photo — of the tree and hearth — about 1 ½ inches below top edge on right side of the left page and spread the others out over the remaining space over the two pages, leaving an open are in bottom center of left page and an open area in center of right page.
Step 3:
Take the silver metallic paper and cut a small square about 2 ½ inches and a small rectangle about 2 x 2 ½ inches. Using the photo adhesive, mount the square in the open space at the bottom of the left page and the rectangle in the open space in the center of the right page.
Step 4:
Take your extra photos — I used extra prints of the decorated Christmas tree — and use the punches to punch out the different shapes. The punches I used were a Tree, 2 sizes of snowflakes, and small round hole punch used for making holes for binders — the small circle looked like a ball ornament. Try to keep an eye on where you are punching the shapes so you can get assorted colors and details on each one. You can punch as many as you want. I used more scattered around on my remaining Christmas pages for this year to tie the pages together visually.
Step 5:
Feed your punched shapes through a Xyron — or other sticker maker — if you have one. Take the shapes off the sticker sheet and scatter like confetti on the silver metallic boxes already mounted on the pages. You can have a few overlapping edges or coming over and past the edges. The sticker maker would definitely make this step quicker and easier instead of having to paste down each little punch with photo adhesive.
Step 6:
Using the blue letter and number stickers, spell out Christmas across the remaining space at the top of left page and then the year angled down from top left corner of the right page. I only used pictures of the decorated house, so I didn't feel I needed to journal anything else on these pages.
