Saturday, December 18, 2010

Quick Holiday Page Plus Template/Sketch

As you may know from looking at my work in my gallery, I struggle to create "quick" pages. My usual page takes about two hours, Christmas pages can take me even longer. So, I challenged myself to create a quick holiday page in under thirty minutes. This was quite the challenge for me. I went with a family Christmas photo (you can see Daphne, our Great Dane, is terrified of the camera LOL).  I decided to let the embellishments do most of the action for the page. I love pages that have curves, circles, and waves. Why can't the embellishments do all of that? I created a simple background with one circle attached to a straight piece of paper and matted my photo to that. The rest are embellishments, which makes this page a quick page!! Here is the end result. Most of the embellishments are from Anna Griffin's Holiday Traditions and Calisto Christmas. The swirlie is from Prima.


Here is the sketch I created for the page.



In case you want the digital layered template, you can download it here (to learn how to use clipping masks to use this template, click here):

http://www.4shared.com/photo/4o6IlOf8/pc_christmas_page.html

Enjoy ;)

7 comments:

  1. That's beautiful! I, too, find that I usually spend waaaaaay too much time on one page. I will need to challenge myself like that also.

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  2. Wonderful page Pam! You have a beautiful Family!

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  3. What a great sketch and beautiful page =)

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  4. Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the DigiFree category today [19 Dec 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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  5. Lovely page and great template. You have a beautiful family.

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  6. I love this template! Im going to have to use it soon! Thanks Pammy!

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