Christmas Scrapbook Page

Christmas Angels

An easy to do scrapbook page! The Cliptures clipart is imported into a page layout program, positioned, and scaled to size. The layout is printed, trimmed, and attached to a background sheet of paper. Frames are cut for the photos and then the frames and photos are attached to the page.

Materials:

- Cliptures: All images from Cliptures #16 Occasions 2

- Paper: White for printing images, light blue for background sheet, and pink for photo frames.

- Paper cutter or straight edge ruler and craft knife for trimming inner layout sheet.

- Scrapbooking glue or adhesive.

- Decorative edge scrapbook scissors for cutting photo frames.

Directions:
1. Start a new document in your layout program.

2. Create shapes to use as temporary place holders for your photos. (See Temporary Shapes.)

3. Import the manger image and scale it to about 2 1/2" tall.

4. Import the boy angel and scale it to about 3" tall.

5. Import the girl angel and scale it to about 3" tall.

6. Arrange the images and the temporary place holders for your pictures on the page.

7. Add any text you might want.

8. After everything is in position, save the layout. (In case you want to modify it or use it again.

9. You saved it right? OK, delete the place holders from the layout.

10. Print the layout on white paper.

11. Trim the unprinted edges (1/2") from all 4 sides of the sheet.

12. Center and attach the trimmed sheet onto the background paper with scrapbook adhesive.

13. Cut frames for your photos with decorative edge scissors.

14. Attach the frames and photos to the layout.

That's it!