Christmas Memories

Two page 12” x 12” Christmas Memories layout. Five photo mats plus a flip flap included. With a Flip flap you can add two more photos or one photo and journaling. 

 Supplies:

Stamps: Reindeer Fun, Frozen Edges Filled with Cheer and Reindeer Memories

Ink: Basic Beige and Early Espresso

Paper: Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake, Pebbled Path, Garden Green and Mossy Meadow card stock, Festive Glimmer Specialty designer Series Paper, Stampin’ Up! two tone 12”x12” Real Red and Garden Green. CTMH two tone 12”x12” Mink and Sage

Accessories: Stamp Cut and Emboss machine, Designer Tags, Perennial Postage, Reindeer fun and Peaceful Season dies, Flip Flaps, Sponge daubers, Stampin; Dimensionals, Tombo Glue, Paper Trimmer, Paper snips

 

Cutting directions

Garden Green 12”x12” two tone: Cut one mat 4”x6”, Cut two mats 3”x4”, four mats 3”x3” (if adding a flip flap otherwise you only need two),  one 7/8” x 3 7/8” (mat memories) and scrap for one wreath

Mink 12”x12” two tone: cut three ____ (die cut postage) ,  one_____(three tags) one 1/2” by 3 ¾” (stamp sentiment)  and scrap for (when, where what) and (Die cut Christmas)

Sage: ___ (three tags)

Scraps for die cut Reindeers: Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake. Basic Beige and Pebbled Path.

Scrap of Mossy Meadow for wreath

Scrap of Red Glimmer paper: nose on one Reindeer

Photos: Trim 1/8” to ¼” from one 4” x 6” photo for first page. Cut two photos to 2 7/8” x 2 7/8” and two 2 7/8” x 3 7/8” (if trimmed 1/8” off 4” x 6” photo) or 2 ¾” x 2 ¾” and two 2 ¾” x 3 ¾” (if 4”x 6” photo trimmed ¼” off). If adding flip flap cut additional photo and add journaling to fourth mat.

 

Assembly instructions:

Arrange eleven Postage pieces on the left side of first page and one small square in the top right. Arrange ten postage pieces on the right side of page two. Add two (second largest rectangle vertical and the third largest horizonal) to the top left. You want to arrange postage before stamps so you know if you need to stamp with pieces landscape or portrait. Stamp with Basic Beige ink on Perennial Postage dies using images from Frozen Edges (large snowflake), Filled with Cheer (string of lights and Presents with Poinsettias), Reindeer Fun (small snowflakes, Bells and tree), Reindeer memories (Falalalala, and dashes and dots). Sponge all edges with Basic Beige ink and a sponge dauber. Adhere to page using Tombo Glue or Snail Adhesive.

Stamp the word Memories and the When-where-what stamp from the Reindeer Memories stamp set using Early Espresso ink. I cut the word festive and memories apart before stamping. Adhere Memories panel to Garden Green mat.

Die cut the word Christmas (Peaceful Season dies) once in Basic Beige and once in Early Espresso. Glue Beige word on Espresso.

Die cut three tags from the Designer tags die set, three in Basic Beige and three in Sage. Stamp “oh so jolly” with Early Espresso on one Sage tag close to the top. Sponge edges of all six tags in Basic Beige using a sponge dauber.

Adhere 4”x 6” mat to first (left) tucking one Sage and one Beige tag under mat on the right side near the bottom. Adhere die cut Christmas above mat and stamped Memories below. Adhere 3” x 3” and 3” x 4” mats to second (right) page tucking two tags behind the 3”x 3” mats. Above the mat on the top right mat and to the left side on the bottom left mat. Note. If using a flip flap and you want to place it on the page protector you can glue down all mats now, if you plan to cut your page protector and tuck flip flap behind mat, you need to add flip flap before gluing mat.

Die cut five reindeers using the Reindeer Fun dies with scraps of Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake, Pebbled Path and Basic Beige cardstock. I die cut all five antlers with Early Espresso but alternated the other two dies with the Pecan, Crumb Cake, Beige and Pebbled Path so all five reindeers where different. I added a small piece of Red glimmer paper to one reindeer. Adhere reindeers with Tombo glue. Die cut two wreaths from same die set one in Mossy Meadow and one in Garden Green. Slip one reindeer in each wreath and adhere. I glued to the postage die four of the reindeers, the one with the red nose I popped up using Stampin’ dimensionals and put him in the top left postage piece on the second page.

Add photos, journaling and flip flap if using one.