2010 Holiday Card Layout

I love the one with your niece and she is so cute. This is a great idea to use your cards. Thanks for sharing. Happy Weekend!

Umm, I'm first? Love this. Just wish I could get my friends to send me photo cards...

i love this! i've doing something similar since you showed it years ago and i love it in our albums.

Love this idea. You are SO CREATIVE!

I just did this for 2010 ...was quite fun. I just used the cards with pictures and decided these were SO nice I just could not throw them in a box. So I simply scrapped them in a 8x8 Christmas Album, with very few added embellishments. But your layouts are quite refreshing. Like...thanks Ali

Wow, photos cards are really popular in the US, aren't they? Not so much here in London/UK.

I have done this every year since 2005 and love it. I take my current year layouts and have them in two frames by our front door. When the year is up, and the next year is in - I take my pages already completed and slip them in my 12 x 12 album. Everyone loves to look at these during the year
Love looking back on these.
Your niece is a doll!!

~this has to be the most creative way to savor those moments given from loved ones near and far...year after year...i am left with what should i do with all these cards and all to soon they are left to be stored along side our holiday decor...you have given us a beautiful way to cherish such cards...thank you so...much love light and blessings be with you and yours~

I love this idea. Thank you so much for sharing this. I now know what to do with the Chrstimas cards I have been saving for years.

I also love this idea Ali and will try to do it this year. One other thing - I noticed that where you have the "filed under" part, it looks like you've labelled this "traditional CRAPBOOKING" ...lol. Have we renamed our beloved hobby??? :-)

I do this every year too, but since we don't get too many photo cards here in the UK I punch out part of the actual Christmas card. It works well and goes straight into the December Daily album.

Ali... I did this last year after reading your post and I love the way it turned out! I just started punching out my cards this week to get this year's layout ready... and I LOVE the idea of doubling the size of a few of the squares (rectangles). I had a small pile of cards that I wasn't quite sure what to do with b/c i really didn't want to cut someone's head in half;) Thanks for sharing!

SO Funny! I just did this YESTERDAY---I saw Becky Higgins' post about finally throwing away all the saved Christmas cards of other families and I thought---So should I! So I pulled out the 5 bags I had (from 2006-2010), and realized in one night I could make the 5 pages I've wanted to add to our Christmas album.

I searched your archives and found your old layouts for inspiration--and now I'm done! And then today this post! Life is funny (though I have to say...your margins around the photos are much straighter than mine, even though I drew lines---is that just a gift?!).

Geeat idea - thank you.

Wow, that photograph of your niece is spectacular - like a Gap ad! Do you happen to know who the photographer is? Thanks again for sharing.

I love this idea. I know you can use regular cards but I love the idea of the pictures. I need to bug people about sending pictures every year. I like seeing the progression.

Only YOU can get a large photo of the one person you wouldn't want to cut up ... AND in the picture is a perfect square accent!!! Serioulsy, I think I'm jealous! ha. Maybe I should just say that I'm in awe of your luck and inspired by your eye for design! :)

Love it!!!! You're the bomb!

looks awesome Ali. and I was excited to see Paul and I on there!!

Young families are so fortunate to have you share your creativity with them. This is something I would have loved 48 years ago. I have the cards in the dreaded magnitic books but this is so much better.