Page Toppers

Quotes

• Believe in the magic of Christmas
• Christmas is the time to remember that we are all in the world together.
• The children's eyes on Christmas night could light the town with sparkling light
• Christmas cookies and holiday hearts. That's the way the holiday starts
• Christmas is family near, words of good cheer, memories dear.
• Christmas is the time when everyone gets Santamental.
• Do you recall the most famous reindeer of all
• Don't peek, don't sneak, til Christmas
• Even when it's cold outside our memories keep us warm
• Families are a special part of Christmas
• Family and Friends are the True Gifts of Christmas!
• Follow the star, He knows where you are.
• For Christmas, give your heart.
• Friends and Family, that's the meaning of Christmas
• Giving feels even better than receiving.
• The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. (Luther)
• Holiday memories warm even the coldest of days!
• How much longer must we wait? Please, Santa don't be late!
• I hope your holidays are 'tree'mendous
• It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
• Keep the spirit of Christmas through out the year
• Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
• The magic of Christmas has one simple part.
  It starts with the love that lives deep in your heart!
• May our Christmas cheer last throughout the year
• May the light of your Christmas candles bring joy and beauty to your heart.
• No matter what I get for Christmas you're all I really need.
• The ornaments of our home are the friends that gather there.
• Remember the reason for the season.
• Sheep Christmas Greeting: Fleece Navidad
• Snow days are Mother Nature's gift to us!
• Somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through,
  The joy you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.
• The sparkle in my child's eyes, of wonder and delight, shines brighter than any Christmas lights.
• The spirit of Christmas is the laughter of children.
• There's no place like home for the holidays.
• There's no place like a kitchen at Christmas!
• The true joy of the season is in the love shared with friends and family.
• We gather round the Christmas tree,
  to thank with grateful thoughts of Thee!
• While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.
• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (substitute any name)
• You are my joy, my song, my Christmas...every day of the year
• You are the Christmas of my life...every day of my life.

Page Ideas

• Children with Lights:
  I used the purple, light blue and green children from the 'Dancing Children stickers. Add floor lines and motion lines under feet and hands. 'String' the small Christmas lights across the page and through the children's hands.
• Using the silverware and reflections Christmas ribbon and wreaths. You make two thick lines with your calli-pens and then arrange the stickers inside and cut off the edges. It's a great page for those Christmas dinners and the silverware looks so elegant!!
• At the top left corner I put the sleigh die-cut slightly tilted upward. Then on the very back of the top of the sleigh I put the longest of the jingle bells on ribbons the bow just touching the top of the back of the sleigh. Under that I put the medium size jingle bells with the ribbons. Then in the lower right hand corner I put the shortest of the jingle bells on the ribbons! Then on the sleigh I put '98 using the silver numbers! I also had the staples on the right hand side so whoever gets the page can do a 2-page spread easily!
• "The ornaments of our home are the friends that gather there."
  I used die cut ornament shaped as frames/mats for photos of family and friends one year. It was a great looking layout when complete.
• A variation of an idea in the Fancy Pages Die-cut set:
  Memory Jar. I think it would be nice done in Xmas colors and then crop the pictures in circles to "fill up the jar" plus add some "Peppermint" round candy (you could do that with the circle cutter). The label could read. "Christmas Sweets".  Perfect for grandchildren at Xmas time. (Mary W.)
• Cut three 1 1/2" squares each out of cranberry gingham and evergreen gingham and then cut the same number of 2" squares out of the solids (or vise versa). Put the smaller squares on top of the larger squares and trim the edges of the large square with scallop or deckle edge scissors. Adhere the squares down the edge of the page point to point (diamond shaped) to look like "napkins". Now take six sets of silverware stickers and "tie" them with the photo essence Christmas bows (or regular Christmas bows). Place them on the squares.
• Christmas page: (using one black page inserted in album) I used the gold pen with a borderline ruler across the white sheet and onto the black sheet and then did silver the same way on the back of the black and - (I don't know what happened to the end of this idea!)
• (Judy) variation on "front and center". I took a red callipen for the outside edge, a green micro for the middle, and a red micro for the inside. I have a holly punch and punched a holly leaf (can use Mrs. G.'s) and put a holly branch in each corner. My kids' pictures are on the page in a family sitting on the couch so in the box I put "My Kids" in the box using the dark red letters. At the bottom of the box and where the page split the box I cut a bow (from the winter thank you kit) in half and put one half on each page at the bottom edge of the box. I then used small triangle (deep red) in the top corners. On the bottom used a square of cranberry and a square of checkered tucked under the pictures on each side of the page.
• Cut a strip of deep blue paper 4 1/4" x 11" and adhere it down one side of your page. Near the bottom of the strip group 4 Mrs. Grossman snowman stickers. Scatter the white "snowflakes" that are on the sticker strip randomly on the blue paper. Also scatter among them some of the micron music note stickers. This would be great for pictures of Christmas caroling.
• There are many stickers and die-cuts that you can use to replace the "O" in "Ho, Ho, Ho". Among them are ornaments, jingle bells, photos cut in circles, wreaths, etc.
  You can use candy cane stickers to make the "M"and "C" in the words "Merry Christmas".
• Country Christmas Page
  Use ABC stickers for the title to spell out the words "Merry Christmoos!" In the lower left corner put some grass stickers and the red cow die-cut (or a cow sticker). Put a Santa hat sticker on the cow and put holly stickers around the title and on the cow's tail. (Teri Hammond)
• Checkerboard border:
  This border can go at the top or bottom or either side of the page. Cut about 12 one inch squares from evergreen or cranberry gingham paper. Adhere them along the edge of the page in 2 rows - alternating them like a checkerboard. Put a holly sticker in each of the resulting 1" white spaces.
• Xmas Dinner page idea:
  Cut three 1 1/2" squares each out of cranberry gingham and evergreen gingham and then cut the same number of 2" squares out of the solids (or vise versa). Put the smaller squares on top of the larger squares and trim the edges of the large square with scallop or deckle edge scissors. Adhere the squares down the edge of the page point to point (diamond shaped) to look like "napkins". Now take six sets of silverware stickers and "tie" them with the photo essence Christmas bows (or regular Christmas bows). Place them on the squares.
• Another 2-page spread - Cut 6 strips of cranberry paper 1 1/4" x 12". Put along the outer edges of the 2-page spread. Cut some 1" squares from any of the Christmas looking prints (evergreen or cranberry gingham, evergreen plaid, cranberry bows, holly berry, etc.) Adhere the squares about 1" apart along the strips of paper."Stitch" around each square with the black micron pen. Use the cranberry ABC stickers for the title (one suggestion is "Home Spun Christmas"). Decorate the letters with stitches and/or dots. Add a cranberry bow die-cut to the top right corner if you want. (JoAnna M. CMC)
• Christmas Jiffy Borders:
  1. Cut a 2-inch strip of evergreen paper. Use red die-cut letters to spell Ho Ho Ho...only use circles for O's instead of die-cut letters. Place a holly sticker in the middle of each O. This would also look good with a smaller strip of evergreen gingham on top of the evergreen strip.
  2. Cut a white strip. Use Christmas-colored DL's (like the candy cane looking ones with the holly) on top and bottom. Put two elves on either side of strip, facing in. One seated and one standing behind it on each side. Write pretty large in red callipen "All I want for Christmas is..." This is great for either Letter to Santa page or kids opening gifts.
• Here is a simple but great looking 2-page spread. Cut 3 strips of evergreen about 1 1/2" x 12". Cut 3 strips of evergreen gingham about 1" x 12". Center the gingham paper on the solid paper and adhere. Adhere one strip vertically about 1 inch from the left edge of the left page of the two-page spread. Put the other 2 strips horizontally on the 2 pages 2 or 3 inches below the top of the page. Where the horizontal and vertical strips cross add a cranberry bow die-cut. Use the space above the strips for title and journaling and the space below the strips for photos.
• Borderlines Christmas Tree:
  Mark the center top edge of a piece of green or evergreen paper. Place the ocean wave borderline on the paper so that it goes from that center point to one of the bottom corners. Be sure that the "waves" point downward. Flip the ruler and cut the other side of the tree. To decorate the tree use the wavy borderline. Put it horizontally on the tree and draw lines with the gold pen at each place where the inside of the "waves" curve inward (or wherever you think it looks good). Hand ornament, candy cane and bow stickers on the gold lines. Put a star or poinsettia at the top. (Linda H.)
• The circle cutter works great for cropping photos for Christmas pages:
  1) Cut 3 graduated sizes for a snowman. Cut a black hat from paper and draw the arms with a pen.
  2) Arrange them on the page like ornaments and draw strings to hand them. Use holly or bow stickers at the top of the "ornaments" or at the top of the page.
  3) Cut 6 circles and arrange them in a tree shape. Journal with a brown pen just below the center circle on the bottom row to make the trunk. Add a star punch or sticker at the top.
  4) Form 6 or more circles into a wreath. Add a bow and some holly stickers.
  5) Try matting all or some of the photos.
• There are several Christmas ideas in the Peek-A-Boo Page Idea file.
• When you pull off the Lace stickers in the Creative Memories Holiday pack it leaves behind little "dots" on the sticker sheet. Scatter then here and there on a page and they look like falling snow. (Beth Henry, TX)

Fancy Page Ideas

Make a HALF Christmas tree template out of the cardboard that refill pages come on. The tree should be the full length of the cardboard from top to bottom and as wide as possible. Line it up along the inside jeeping of a page and trace it onto the page and cut out. The outer jeeping will be removed and the inside jeeping will be the trunk of the tree. Put one or more tree shaped pages in the middle of a two page spread.
Cover the trees with green paper (solid or print) on both sides. The tree shapes can be used for journaling, title or extra photos. You could cut small photos or parts of photos in to circle and "hang" on the tree like ornaments. Decorate with stickers or pens. You can make paper presents out of paper and place across bottoms of the pages that are on either side of the tree. Be sure to plan the layout of the pages on either side so they look okay with the inner pages as you turn them.
You can also cut 2 more half tree shapes from the same green paper you use to cover the trees. Put those 2 trees on the pages that the cut page will go between. That way the tree always looks complete whichever way you have the pages open. You could use a brown pen to color the jeeping.