Hi everyone, hope you’re all having a great start to the week!
Personally, I am having a good start as at last the sun is shining here again. Last week we were reversed into Winter all over again with really cold and wet weather, so strange for this time of year here in my end of the world. I have a template for you today which will hopefully brighten your week even more! For my own layout, I chose to go with some old Christmas shoot photos of my kids. I’m really starting to feel the Christmas spirit now, so please forgive me if you think this Christmas layout is a little premature, but I simply could not resist it.
I have used a ‘colour block’ style template. Colour blocking has been around in scrapbooking for ages and I feel it is a classic scrapbooking technique which won’t date. I absolutely love it! Colour blocking simply means you use blocks on your page and they get filled in with colour.
I like to interpret these blocks in various ways. For instance, if you look at the layout I did, I used photos in all the small blocks along the bottom as well as the large one. If you prefer, you could replace the top large photo with journaling, if you have a lot to say, and then only have the small photos along the bottom. You could replace the bottom photos with elements instead of photos, if you prefer. The strip where the journaling goes can be omitted (as I did). I moved my journaling onto a tag on the large photo instead.
To make it even more versatile, you can also turn the entire template on its’ side or upside down, then you have an entirely new template! My template here is symetrical, but if it wasn’t, you could even do a mirror image of it for another template. You get the idea, I’m sure, that the possibilities are virtually endless.
Remember that each ‘block’ can be replaced with patterned or solid paper and you can the place your photo on top of that. Use all sorts of elements to embellish your page. I love to use elements that say something about the photos or enhance the theme of the page. Don’t you just love the cute Santa & Snowman which I’ve used from the Jolly Holiday Collection here at W&W? In fact everything I used here is from the Jolly Holiday Collection. The font I used on the template title is called “Pea Missy” , and I used “Dymo” font for the dymo tape wordart. Journaling is in “Century Gothic” and the quote on the photo is called “Traveling-Typewriter”. The clock is my own design.
Hope you have fun with the template. If you use the template, please leave a link here so we can see what you create! I will select a random number next week and send the lucky winner a little surprise!
34 Comments on “Monday’s template”
Jazzy
November 23, 2009 at 10:42 amThanks for the fab template, it’s so versatile, I already have lots of ideas of which photos I could use with it.
Carol
November 23, 2009 at 11:16 amVeronica, what a darling page. Thanks for the template.
Soffya
November 23, 2009 at 12:32 pmthanks a lot and so pretty layout and template!
a hug from Colombia
hsmema
November 23, 2009 at 8:57 pmFabulous template, thank you for sharing.
Tracey
November 23, 2009 at 10:59 pmThanks so much! My Christmas card photo shoot will look great using this template!
Natalie
November 24, 2009 at 12:19 amThanks for the template – awesome!!
puce
November 24, 2009 at 3:06 amThanks !!!
Terri
November 24, 2009 at 5:23 amThank you
Simona
November 24, 2009 at 5:55 amThank you so much for sharing!!!
Simona
November 24, 2009 at 6:15 amThank you, love the template and your inspiring layout!
Kristen
November 24, 2009 at 12:54 pmAbsolutely! I totally agree with you that this is such a classic technique. Thank you so much. 🙂
Batya
November 24, 2009 at 1:08 pmThanks a lot ♥♥.
kim
November 24, 2009 at 5:07 pmlove how there’s room for lots of photos! my kind of layout!
thanks for sharing. i’m sure i’ll be using this one a lot!!!
Cherbear
November 24, 2009 at 5:11 pmThank you!
wilted mum
November 24, 2009 at 5:58 pmI really like your LO. Great inspiration. Thanks for a fun template.
ConnieC
November 24, 2009 at 9:55 pmThanks so much and you are so right about it being versatile.
Katie
November 24, 2009 at 11:51 pmThank you so much for the great template!
Becky
November 25, 2009 at 1:45 amLove it! Thanks for sharing. Thanks for explaining the many uses as well. I think that will help me so much.
Amber
November 25, 2009 at 3:22 amFabulous template! Thank you!
Blanulak
November 25, 2009 at 1:57 pmgreat template! Love the big photos!!
Melissa
November 26, 2009 at 5:44 amThanks for the template. Here’s my layout:
http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15666
Best wishes,
Melissa
Kathleen
November 26, 2009 at 8:24 amI love this template & I thought it was a great way to show off some of the bazillion photos I took to send with our cards. Thanks for the template! http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15667&ppuser=1350
Melissa
November 26, 2009 at 8:14 pmIs this a petal points challenge? If not, is there not one this week?
Thanks,
Melissa
Veronica
November 27, 2009 at 5:40 amNo, it’s not for Petal Points. I’ll check up on the petal points challenges for this week…
Denny
November 27, 2009 at 4:20 pmThank you for the template!
here’s my LO: http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15678&ppuser=1650
TerriK
November 29, 2009 at 1:05 amThanks so much!!
Tamara
November 29, 2009 at 3:10 amDont know if this is the right place to post this page but here it is
http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15690&ppuser=682
Tamara
kenandbelly
November 29, 2009 at 11:32 amVeronica– I had to play along (just for fun)! Great template!
http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15693&limit=recent
MarketaP
November 30, 2009 at 10:39 amGreat template – I immediately knew what I would put inside 🙂
Here is my layout: http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15710
Blanulak
December 1, 2009 at 8:08 pmMy Lo is not finished but I do not know when the challenge ends and I do not want to miss it. I have ill children and cannot finish the LO. So I decided to upload it as it is. I try to finish it tomorrow morning (it’s night here) and upload a new version…
http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15740&nocache=1
Blanulak
December 2, 2009 at 11:22 amOK, it’s finished. The photos were in bad quality, I worked hard to improve them…
Check it here: http://www.weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15740&nocache=1
Ângela Cristina
December 2, 2009 at 8:44 pmLindoooooooooo amei
Lovely Desingz
December 4, 2009 at 10:03 pmthanks very much for this freebie I love it..
Veronica
January 3, 2010 at 5:15 pmThis challenge is now closed. Sorry I took so long with this, but with the holidays I simply got too busy. I will post the winner of the ‘surprise’ shortly.