If you’re like me, you don’t spend December scrapbooking any photos, you spend your time taking them, documenting year after year of holiday traditions. My annual family albums span two full scrapbooks, and the last third of the 2nd one is almost always just December. Last year at this time, the Creative Memories Season’s Greetings Holiday Collection came out. I ordered a set of the Fast2Fab (F2F) pages to have ready for my pictures, along with both packs of embellishments, variety mats, and stickers!
Creative Memories Season’s Greetings Fast2Fab refill pages, Variety Mats, Embellishments, Laser Border Embellishments, Stickers and some old diecuts. These are sold out, but this year’s Merry Little Christmas Collection is even CUTER! You have to check it here!The preprinted Fast2Fab pages give you a great base for your photos.
I always have more pics than I can fit, so I used my Creative Memories Power Layouts Box & Guide to lay out the pages to ensure I could fit into my scrapbook. If you need help with this process, let me know! Order Power Layouts Box & Guides here under Storage & Totes.
First step is to put the pics on the page and see how they lay out best. I usually only crop my photos if needed to fit on the page.
The first pages highlighted decorating outside and setting up our new LGB train. I used the picket fence border maker cartridge that comes with every border maker system to make a rail track. The train die cuts are old CM. I chose to cut and mat one circle photo with the circle custom cutting system. I used a variety mat for journaling and stickers for accent.For this layout, I added a gingerbread man border, a really old gingerbread man die cut, and the tag, sticker, and ‘Joy’ from Season’g Greetings. Simple and done.Miscellaneous pics come together on this page, adding a Season’s Greetings laser border, variety mat, tag, and stickers.
Gingerbread Houses~ Added Season’s Greetings stickers for corner accent along with Brown Sophisticate ABC from old CM and Mrs. Grossman’s gingerbread house stickers. The red banner is part of the printed page!
Christmas Eve got a little fancier! Added mats from Variety Mat pack and cardstock mats. A couple of stickers and embellishments complete the layout.
I love finding old papers that coordinate with new collections. The green paper matting most of these photos is from the 10×12 Cottage Grove pack, also made some cardstock mats. Poinsettias and jewels frame the pics (discontinued Poinsettia punch and Mix & Match Cranberry Embellishments. ‘Family’ is from the Season’s Greetings embellishment pack.
Using the ovals and circles from the custom cutting system can help layer and squeeze a few more pics on the page. Season’s Greetings ‘together’ and trees along with the sticker are all that I had room to add! Captioning beside the photos saves space.
I got fancy on the left layout- used the Scallop Dot border maker in red cardstock and a strip of red to add dimension to the red pinstripe border that was printed on the page. The holly laser embellishment fits perfectly. The wreath on the upper left is from the sticker pack- can make your own shape to fit! On the right, I used another laser border embellishment, sleigh, tag, and some stickers.
Each of my four kids gets a highlight page, accented with mats and stickers.
If you don’t have Season’s Greetings, check out the current Merry Little Christmas Collection here! I will be using this set for my 2017 pictures. There’s also a coordinating Album Coverset and two paper packs.
Don’t have laser border embellishments or the scallop dot border maker cartridge? The Petal Frame border punch and Crystal Chain border maker cartridge are perfect for holiday layouts, available from Creative Memories here.
Thanks for looking through some of my Fast2Fab pages. Are you inspired to grab a pack and get your photos and memories captured? Good! Order the Merry Little Christmas set then resume your holiday traditions…don’t forget to take those pics!
