Joyful Days Memories and More layout!

Welcome! Today I am playing with the Joyful Memories and More card pack to create a scrapbook layout!

 

 

 

I got my layout inspiration by playing along with the Scrap a Sketch challenge #179 over on Facebook. I thought the banners would be perfect to show off the awesome patterns in the Joyful Days card pack!

 

Over at Just Us Girls they have a challenge going on to use Dies with Challenge #791 - Anything Goes and I am using my retired Banner Dies and Large Alphabet dies from Stampin. Up! 

 

 

And the Inspire.Create.Stamping Challenges has their Never to Early for Christmas challenge #200.

 

I also got out my retired Peaceful Pines stamp set and dies to create embellishments with. I love this set so did not want to part with it when it retired. 

 

 

For my left side layout I have done the traditional 12x12 layout. I used the colour palette of Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive from out of the paper for my letters and photo frames. I have made the banners using the cards from the pack as well as some solid card stock. I also created the one plaid banner using the Forever Plaid embossing fold and dragging the Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive ink pads across the embossed areas to give a two tone colour to it. The banner on the left side of the page is perfect to add the date of the photos I add and any short blurb about them.

 

The trees from the Peaceful Pine stamp and die set are adorned with some retired Cherry Cobbler embellishments I have in my stash. 

For the right side I have used a retired pocket page from Stampin' Up - sure hoping they bring them back!  I choose to cut down 3 of the 4x6 cards to put in the 4x4 pockets and I will add photos to the 4x6 frames. Again a little room for more journal writing on the bottom 4x4 pocket image.

 

 

I am way behind in my scrapbooking as well as in getting photos printed so this layout will be used for Christmas past just need to choose which photos I want to use and get them printed.

 

Are you a print your photos first and create a page to go with them or are you like me falling behind so creating the layouts and will choose the photos later?  

 

Happy Stampin'

 

Margaret 

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