Friday, July 29, 2011

How Much is Too Much? #176

It's Christmas in JULY!!  It's popular, you see sales, craft fairs and now scrappy site How Much Is Too Much has jumped on board...  Seriously??  Dang.  I don't do well with Christmas layouts.  First my pictures only reflect the chaos that commences every Christmas morn.   Poof done in thirty minutes, can we go back to bed?   So when DT member Fi challenges us with this... I thought crap.  But then after chatting with several participants... guess what?  I'm not the only one who has crappy Christmas pics.  Then I thought of ALL the shots I took to get ONE... A layout was born!
The challenge recipe called for the following to be incorporated into the layout:

2 + photos [at least 2]
1 x Christmas tree image, any size
5 x patterned papers, i.e., Christmas patterns,
5 x metal embellishments, and any other embellishment in increments of 5

The two COLOR shots are my pictures... After MUCH editing and photo-shopping.  (sigh)
Five patterned papers... four torn and rolled and mounted on the background patterned paper.

Five... I used five "out-takes" in a faux film strip.  I used five "ornaments" with 5 patterened papers from scraps. One contained my 1 Christmas Tree.  4 metal snow flake brads & 1 metal corner mount = 5 metal embellies. And 5 clear acrylic snow flakes.  A touch of journaling and I called it DONE.

Whew....

5 comments:

Tracee said...

Great LO I love how you have all the baubles dangling and the layers of pp at the bottom. Wish i had some "film strip" pics they look great. Tx

Jenny Evans said...

This is awesome S!! Love your ornaments and how you rolled the paper at the bottom!! Great pics and love the black and white film strip!! Great job!!

Elizabeth Joy said...

ha ha. yup, don't we all love doing christmas pictures?!?!? :P i totally love how you did the black and white film strip along the bottom of the layout, and the tree in the ornament is beautiful! you rocked the challenge!

Anna-Karin said...

Stunning layout! Love the baubles, film strip, torn paper and design of the layout. Thanks for playing along with us at HMITM!!

Papel Scissors said...

love the strip of pictures you used. i am assuming that you can have them developed like that through snapfish or photo depts. at walgreens or cvs?

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