Christmas Past – scrapbooking your older Christmas photos.

Today we look at scrapbooking your older Christmas photos. Some may be torn, tattered, faded or just plain “yuk!” But we’ve got a few tips to help turn them from drab to fab!

Our first layout is from Rona, “1992″. We love her unique circle feature and lollipop flowers.

Here are a few tips from Rona about scrapping your older Christmas photos:

“I scanned all my older photos into my computer and made them sepia, the papers I used also suited the photos better.Although the photos are not perfect, the memory is still preserved because now the photo is scrapped and not still sitting in the shoe box.”

Layout by Rona Bailey: Dear Santa papers, Kaiser craft chipboard alphas, Dear Santa Inks, Dear Santa Stamps, Dear Santa Die cuts, Dear Santa Rub Ons, Making Memories Mini Alphas, Wooden Buttons, Calico,embriodery thread, puff paint.

And next it Christine”s layout – featuring a photo from an era gone by.

A few tips from Christine:

“Photos from the past are not always the best quality, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t bother scrapping them.  This photo of my two oldest sisters sitting on Santa’s knee is very special to me, despite Santa having his eyes closed, the fading colours and the scratches across the left side of the photo.  I could have fixed up the scratches and converted the colour to black and white in a photo editing program, but I decided that I preferred the “well loved” look, scratches and all, and that the colour should stay because they depict the colour of kids clothing in the early 1970′s. I chose a simple layout design to keep the focus on the photo and made the date a prominent feature.”

Layout by Christine Rumley: Dear Santa paper collection, die-cut tag, colour rub-on, alpha stickers and chipboard alpha; Other: embroidery thread, staple.

Have you scrapped some of your older photos? How have you done it? We’d love to seem them!