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Post by breetheflea on Apr 1, 2022 18:00:23 GMT
I either take the wrong photos for my Christmas scrapbooking embellishments, or manufacturer's aren't making the things I need to scrap my photos...
I have what feels like 25,000 embellishments with Merry Christmas on them (really, I will only use one per page), and nothing that says Advent...
Also, how exactly do you use the words 'silent night' on a Christmas layout? Do you take photos of people sleeping, or am I too literal?
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Post by jenna on Apr 1, 2022 18:05:29 GMT
I throw embellishments on pages all willy-nilly and without a care in the world but if I wanted to keep a little more on theme, if you had any photos of a night in I could see 'silent night' on that layout. Or any other photos taken during a quiet time -- reading, watching a movie, relaxing maybe?
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Post by infochick on Apr 1, 2022 18:08:42 GMT
LOL...I struggle with scrapbooking Christmas in a huge way. I never know what pictures to take, I am generally kind of grinchy about the holiday and the photos I do take tend to be awful. I was really geared up to do a Christmas album this year but it fell flat due to a number of things. For the photos I did take, I dug out a very old Crate Paper Collection (snow day). It is generic, whimsical, and crazy bright. So far it has been working great with the photos I did take, but I know that next year I will be back in the same boat struggling to make the photos work with my supplies.
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Post by Linda on Apr 1, 2022 18:37:32 GMT
I struggle with that also - I document all of Advent through Epiphany and yet everything is very Christmas specific (ok - there's usually a wisemen/camelfor Epiphany available in the religious themed collections). I think a lot of the collections seem to work better for cards than layouts as far as the embellishments go
Silent night I've used for Midnight Mass or for photos of the tree late on Christmas Eve
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Post by kmage on Apr 1, 2022 19:44:41 GMT
All my Christmas pics tend to be yellow, or if I am being poetic, golden.  And no one looks good. Especially me. Or I am stressy, trying to corral everyone. Last year we finally got everyone all in a bunch, pulled masks down for a quick pic and later my mom says to me, "Do you think we could do it again? I don't really like my neck."  If anyone has advice for better Christmas pics, I am all ears. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 1, 2022 20:37:19 GMT
I haven't scrapbooked a Christmas page for awhile, but I find that I have the same hangups with scrapping holidays as I do sports...I feel like the photos are the same year after year and I need new ideas on photos to take, journaling, etc rather than just showing people eating or talking to each other.
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 1, 2022 22:13:53 GMT
Try living in the Southern Hemisphere where it's summer at Christmastime, and 99% of the Christmas kits have frigging snowflakes! And most of them are dark drab colours. I get so excited when I find a warm weather themed Christmas kit.
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Post by Linda on Apr 1, 2022 22:37:21 GMT
Try living in the Southern Hemisphere where it's summer at Christmastime, and 99% of the Christmas kits have frigging snowflakes! And most of them are dark drab colours. I get so excited when I find a warm weather themed Christmas kit. I'm in the Northern hemisphere but it's much more likely to be in the 80s (27+ C) for Christmas than it is to be cold and there's nary a snowflake to be seen here either. I do like the traditional red/green colours but a few less snowmen and snowflakes wouldn't go amiss. (I say this while working on my second snowflake themed layout of the day, lol) |
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Post by Ryann on Apr 1, 2022 22:42:08 GMT
Try living in the Southern Hemisphere where it's summer at Christmastime, and 99% of the Christmas kits have frigging snowflakes! And most of them are dark drab colours. I get so excited when I find a warm weather themed Christmas kit. As a southern California dweller, I heartily agree! I love a bright, non-traditional color palette. I don't know why christmas = extreme winter weather. I don't need Santas in pool floaties but a blizzard of snowflakes doesn't seem right, either. It reminds of the Hallmark Christmas movies. Every! Single! One! is set in a snowy location. Like only snow = christmas. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2022 23:59:30 GMT
I have used silent night on layouts of our Christmas tree at night. I love to take one after its up and decorated at night to show it glowing in the photo.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2022 0:04:20 GMT
Try living in the Southern Hemisphere where it's summer at Christmastime, and 99% of the Christmas kits have frigging snowflakes! And most of them are dark drab colours. I get so excited when I find a warm weather themed Christmas kit. As a southern California dweller, I heartily agree! I love a bright, non-traditional color palette. I don't know why christmas = extreme winter weather. I don't need Santas in pool floaties but a blizzard of snowflakes doesn't seem right, either. It reminds of the Hallmark Christmas movies. Every! Single! One! is set in a snowy location. Like only snow = christmas. I would love to have some Santa's in shorts and a Santa suit tee shirt lol I live in an area of southern Ca that gets cold and wet Christmases (if we aren't in a drought year) but also we have had 85 degree sunny Christmases too. I would love to have embellishments about baking, lights drives, decorating the house and tree, outdoor decorations. |
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Post by chendra on Apr 2, 2022 0:27:45 GMT
Every few years, I try to create some sort of December Daily/Christmas album and it generally turns out to be "things I did in December that have nothing to do with Christmas".
One year, we actually had some snow, and as my sister reviewed my album, she observed that I had used "baby, it's cold outside' embellishments on four different pages. I hadn't even noticed. I guess I was excited to finally be able to use the phrase that's in seemingly every collection.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 2, 2022 0:49:32 GMT
Also, how exactly do you use the words 'silent night' on a Christmas layout? Do you take photos of people sleeping, or am I too literal? I like to use that for photos of my son sleeping. Maybe even for camping photos? Pictures of stars? I have a Christmas roller stamp with the word naughty I use for pages other than Christmas. |
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 2, 2022 0:55:56 GMT
I think a lot of the collections seem to work better for cards than layouts as far as the embellishments go Very true! I have a hard time finding Christmas stamp sets that don't contain a lot of sentiments. Paper Person and Everyday Explorers have good ones. They are a bit more, but I'll actually use most of the images!
Try living in the Southern Hemisphere where it's summer at Christmastime, and 99% of the Christmas kits have frigging snowflakes! And most of them are dark drab colours. I get so excited when I find a warm weather themed Christmas kit. If it makes you feel any better, summer lines rarely work for me. Have you seen Napoleon Dynamite? That's basically the landscape where I live, but drier, much much drier in the summer. Like light a match and that grass will easily set on fire.  |
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 2, 2022 12:14:46 GMT
You know I find religious related stuff, which Christmas is to that extent, is geared toward a generic Protestant demographic. Christening instead of Baptism, no Advent or Lent, no Epiphany. Rare First Eucharist/Communion or Confirmation. Never the less I have found enough occasional nativity scene paper to do Epiphany, Advent I just tended to use purple and pink with candle embellies. I can use letter stickers to do O' Come Emanuel.
But I know what you mean. I recently bought about 25 rub on sheets, and I hate rub ons, on clearance because one saying was A Tree with all the Trimmings. My tree is exactly that and I can use that every year now until I am 90 years old.
We also do Feast of St Nick and I have to do my own thing for that too. I have found that many of my supplies can be manipulated to work but what we need is a program to customize our own stuff and order it for a cheap price!
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Post by artbabe on Apr 2, 2022 16:24:24 GMT
My family doesn't really do Christmas events- we don't really do religion but we still do Christmas as a secular holiday. We definitely haven't been doing events since covid but I hope this year we'll add some, like Wildlights at the zoo, and the Christmas parade. I think my nephew is quitting clarinet so I won't have a Christmas concert to scrap. My extended family is finally getting together for Easter after skipping the past two years, so maybe I'll have a big Christmas party to scrap.
I do have year after year of opening presents Christmas morning and activities like building legos, doing puzzles, escape room games, etc., on Christmas day. But yes, they are all sort of the same except the kids keep getting older.
I've used silent night for photos of the kids with the Christmas tree at night. Yes, they are not very silent but I'm not really literal on that one.
My sister's Christmas tree and lights have a sort of blue cast so the green and red color scheme doesn't always work with that. Fortunately a few lines have blue in them. Remember when all of the Christmas papers were pink and teal? I definitely had a hard time scrapping with those- I need something in the photos to match the paper.
My sister also has this big rust colored couch in the tree room and it kind of dominates the photos. Not many Christmas lines in orange/brown tones. Back in the day Basic Grey had a line with those colors and I've used it quite a bit. Fortunately I still have some.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Apr 2, 2022 16:40:40 GMT
As an atheist who celebrates secular Christmas, I'm all for including 'Advent' finally in Christmas lines. Advent calendars have exploded in popularity for young and old over the past decade. We all use the term, no matter our religious background. Get with the times, scrapbook industry! And add "behind today's window", "in my calendar", "so many calendars, so little time" sentiments. Diversify!
I'm another one sitting on the Grinchy bench regarding snow and snowflakes in Christmas/December lines. It's proper winter in December where I live but no snow. I'm surprised the snow theme is used and repeated so often as the industry is based in the US and the US has a significant chunk of the country not prone to snow in December (as evidenced in this very thread). I like more generic Christmas lines. Pinkfresh does colourful, non-snowy lines so well. Wish more companies would take note. Especially Crate Paper.
Paper Person was my fave for a different take on Christmas, even offering some Festivus references and full-on grumpiness. Alas, as a European customer, I'm no longer being catered to for physical products. It'd be nice if someone else picked up some of her vibe...
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 3, 2022 9:00:29 GMT
All my Christmas pics tend to be yellow, or if I am being poetic, golden.  And no one looks good. Especially me. Or I am stressy, trying to corral everyone. Last year we finally got everyone all in a bunch, pulled masks down for a quick pic and later my mom says to me, "Do you think we could do it again? I don't really like my neck."  If anyone has advice for better Christmas pics, I am all ears. We used to take general present opening, food photos. At the end of the day I would organise everyone into family groups, photos with Nana, all the cousins etc. 2004- kids all hyped up, wandering out of photos, food on their clothes - don't get me wrong, I love these photos as they are real life. However, now as soon as family arrive ( we alternate Christmas between 2 houses) we take all the photos we need. 15 minutes and the rest of the day is ours to enjoy!  And yes, we still take random photos! We get together at our house every Easter and in 2011 decided to take 1 photo of all us on, behind, in front of our couch. Everyone sits in their regular spot. Set up a tripod/camera with a timer. Yes, this means my husband is always sitting on the edge of the couch with his leg stuck out awkwardly as he sets the camera up and has to run back to the couch. Take about 15 photos- then pick the best one to scrapbook or frame. It reflects changes in our family- my mum passing away, followed by my auntie. Then as our grandson and nieces have grown up we have squeezed their partners in! Our nieces were young when we started and they sat on the floor, back to back with their arms wrapped around their knees. They have grown up into long legged teenagers but they still keep the same pose  Corinne |
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Post by scrapnnana on Apr 3, 2022 13:39:27 GMT
The manufacturers decided long ago to add pinks, lime green, etc. variations to the Christmas collections of patterned papers, and they haven’t worked well with my photos ever since (it started years ago). In their effort to be trendy and fresh, they just caused problems for a lot of scrappers. When I scrapbook, I use colors that reflect the clothing of the individuals in the photos, which (at Christmastime) tends to be the more traditional Christmas colors.
I think this is one reason why I get frustrated with collections. They almost never go with my photos. A few sheets from a collection will work, but buying the whole collection results in a lot of unused papers. I used to live near a great LSS. Now the closest LSS is far away, and I don’t like buying paper online, because the colors aren’t always true on the computer screen.
I am trying to work on my Disney album from 2017. We went at Christmastime. The Disney colors don’t work, and rarely do the Christmas collections. I am mainly using various papers from my stash, some Paper Wizard titles, and my Silhouette and Cricut.
Some like the non-traditional colors, but they have never worked for my photos. My family and I all refuse to wear pink or lime green (or whatever the non-traditional current color trend may be) for a Christmas photo.
A phrase like “Silent Night” would work well for night Christmas decorations (such as your home might have), Christmas carolers, or a photo of newly fallen snow at dusk, etc. However, we have almost never had snow for Christmas. Snow really isn’t common at Christmas for a large percentage of scrapbookers.
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Post by maryjo on Apr 4, 2022 11:53:35 GMT
I either take the wrong photos for my Christmas scrapbooking embellishments, or manufacturer's aren't making the things I need to scrap my photos... I have what feels like 25,000 embellishments with Merry Christmas on them (really, I will only use one per page), and nothing that says Advent... Also, how exactly do you use the words 'silent night' on a Christmas layout? Do you take photos of people sleeping, or am I too literal? I have come to the conclusion that I just don’t like scrapbooking Christmas or most holidays for that matter with the exception of Halloween. But I have tons of Christmas supplies. I did do a Christmas mini album one year that started out as a December Daily. My family loves that album and it comes out every Christmas! I do enjoy mini albums so I may do another one this year. I’ve also toyed with the idea of doing one continuous Christmas album that I add a layout or two to every year. Ok nothing to do with your question really but you inspired me to think about it. As for silent night, I know I did a layout of the snow outside on Christmas Eve one year. It was very peaceful. |
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Post by justkat on Apr 4, 2022 13:51:38 GMT
Here are some ideas for "silent night"....
A layout using a pic of...
Sunset
The night sky
Children looking out a window at the sky
An evening/night-time walk
Your house lit up with Christmas lights
Neighbour(hood) lit up with Christmas lights
Your tree lit up
Relaxing in front of the tree
Relaxing in front of a fire
Snow/snowfall
Child or pet napping
Nativity scene
Cookies and milk left for Santa
Midnight mass
Church during evening worship
A layout about the song Silent Night
Use silent night but add the words "not so" along with a pic of your child's Christmas concert or a pic of the aftermath of a family holiday dinner etc.
Not the most original ideas I know but I hope that helps some.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 4, 2022 17:13:29 GMT
I think this is one reason why I get frustrated with collections. They almost never go with my photos. A few sheets from a collection will work, but buying the whole collection results in a lot of unused papers. I used to live near a great LSS. Now the closest LSS is far away, and I don’t like buying paper online, because the colors aren’t always true on the computer screen. I'm terrible about seeing the real colors online. I seriously think there's something messed up with my eyesight. Like the new distress oxide that everyone describes as peachy. It looks pink to me.  That dress from a long time ago, what was the color? I was in the minority of blue and black. |
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 4, 2022 17:16:13 GMT
I am trying to work on my Disney album from 2017. We went at Christmastime. The Disney colors don’t work, and rarely do the Christmas collections. I am mainly using various papers from my stash, some Paper Wizard titles, and my Silhouette and Cricut. Missed this comment. I'd love some tips for what has worked for you. My daughter and husband went there December 2021. I found some metal dies on Aliexpress that are generic Disney related. So I can at least cut out mickey heads in various colors to go with the photos if that makes sense. |
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 4, 2022 17:20:10 GMT
I’ve also toyed with the idea of doing one continuous Christmas album that I add a layout or two to every year. I have an ongoing Christmas album. My goal is to at least get a photo of my kids together and three separate layouts of them opening presents. As they've got older, that's been harder. I'd like to throw more pages in there about traditions, but I count it as a win if there's something from each year. |
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And yes, we still take random photos!
That dress from a long time ago, what was the color? I was in the minority of blue and black.