"December 25th" by Megan Smith

1. Gather your supplies: Crop Addict December 2010 Monthly Kit, Crop Addict December 2010 Monthly Kit Option, five photos (one 2¼” x  2”, one 3” x 2”, one 2” x 2”, one 3¾” x 3” and one 4” x 3”), scrap of tan cardstock, white mini brads, pink embroidery floss, red and white Stickles, a black journaling pen, a border punch, a Cuttlebug embosser & template and various adhesives.
2. Use the light blue cardstock as your base.  Using your pink embroidery floss, stitch a straight-line border around the outside of your layout, about a ¼” from the edge of your layout.
3. Adhere your photos to your layout. Place the 4” x 3” photo ½” from the right edge and 1¼” from the bottom edge of your layout. Next, place the 3 ¾” x 3” photo ¼” from the left edge of the 4” x 3” photo and 1¼” from the bottom edge of your layout. Next, place the 2” x 2” photo within the small green chipboard frame and adhere it 3½” from the top edge and ½” from the right edge of your layout. Adhere the 3” x 2” photo 1/8” from the left edge of the chipboard frame and 3½” from the top edge of your layout. Next, adhere the 2¼” x 2” photo ¼” from the left edge of the 3” x 2” photo and 3½” from the top edge of your layout. .
4. Embellish the chipboard frame with a holly rub-on and holiday sentiment (which will serve as the layout title). Dot the holly rub-on with red Stickles.
5. Create two border strips to place between the two lines of photos. Trim a 8” long, ¾” wide strip from the Dream Street Paper (DSP) pink snowflake paper and a 5-5/8” long, ½” wide (border-punch one edge) strip from the DSP white flowered paper. Adhere the white flowered strip (border-punched edge down) so it’s ends are in line with and about ¼” below the top line of photos. Adhere the pink snowflake strip so it’s ends are in line with and about ¼” above the bottom line of photos.
6. Create your Christmas tree. Cut five non-perfect triangles of varying sizes ranging from 2½” to 4½” wide from the green criss-cross/green with red polka dots double-sided DSP paper. Adhere these triangles from largest to smallest going up the left side of your layout, leaving space at the bottom for your tree trunk. The triangles should overlap each other and should be slightly angled for added visual interest. Cut a “tree trunk” from the scrap of tan cardstock and run it through the Cuttlebug embosser. Adhere it to the bottom of the tree. Add a Basic Grey chipboard ornament to the ends of each triangle on your tree and a chipboard star to the top of the tree. Add white mini-brads to any of the chipboard ornaments that have a hole in the top of them. Add white Stickles to the star and a few of the ornaments.
7. Fussy cut one snowman, one reindeer, one hat and one pair of mittens from the Winter Wonderland DSP paper. Adhere the reindeer near the lower left corner of the chipboard frame and adhere the snowman to the left of your tree trunk. Add the mittens and the hat to the snowman (use foam adhesive for added dimension). Add red Stickles to the snowman’s scarf and reindeer’s nose and add whit Stickles to the snowman’s hat.