10 Days of Challenges | Day 9: Christmas with a Twist

Welcome to Day 9 of Christmas in July scrapping fun!
(it's ok, we aren't following the 12 days of Christmas format so you're nearly there!)

Today is hopefully going to help you create a fun and different page for your album!
Today's theme is Christmas with a Twist!**
(**alternatives to Christmas are acceptable as noted in the 10DOC guidelines here)

What do I mean by that?!
Well, every year I make pages with the same titles and essentially the same pictures and from chatter, I know that I'm not the only one that finds the repetition stifling to creativity and that making recurrent event pages is almost a chore. I also know I'm not the only one that has 'non-traditional' parts to my December and Christmas.

So here's today's instructions:
Add a twist to your title or journalling to make it more fun, unique, or modernise/modernize something traditional.


Tips on how to add a twist:

* Use a known parody of a traditional carol
- maybe instead of 'Jingle Bells', you call the page 'Jingle Bells, Batman Smells'.
- Christmas dinner photos would work well with the title "All I want for Christmas is Food!" (parody of the modern classic on high rotation at every mall "All I want for Christmas is You')

* Create your own parody or version of a well-known traditional carol to use as a title and/or journalling
- You could change up a single word in a traditional carol "I'm dreaming of a [almost anything would work here] Christmas" (sometimes we sing 'Oh Christmas Stick', instead of 'Oh Christmas Tree' which is how we think of the decorated, most definitely non-traditional, bare branched 'tree' some family has every year).

* Change up a letter or two to make a new title
- maybe instead of Jingle Bells, it's Jangle Bells or Jingle Balls (keep it PG please ;-))
- for before photos: Deck the Halls -> after photos: Wreck the Halls
- Noel -> No-elf! (for that first wonderful year when the elf on the shelf does not make an appearance!)
- Holiday! -> Holi-yay! ... getting the idea?!

* Use a traditional word to make an acrostic poem or phrase
- 'Twas' written vertically could say "The Worst Afternoon Scramble" if you braved the mall on Christmas Eve;
- 'Joy' could become "Just Opened! Yeah!" for Christmas morning happy unwrapping pics.

* Use an existing wordart/traditional carol with ironic photos and journalling to tell the real story
- "Oh What Fun" means something different to the responsible adult that has to clean up the Christmas morning wrapping & cable tie mess (I think I have a page called 'Xmess' instead of 'Xmas'!) and prepare & washup a full-on meal for many!
- 'Not a creature was stirring' could be followed by journalling like 'Yeah right! Both kids got sent back to bed 3 times after 9 o'clock, needing drinks of water and to tell me all manner of random things and ask did i hear a sleigh'

If you want some extra inspiration (or just a bit of a giggle!) ... here's a handy dandy link to a parodies site - https://christmas.lovetoknow.com/Christmas_Song_Parodies


Here's my page. The parody chorus is incorporated into a loose Christmas tree design with the tag as the trunk & I mixed Kate's Super Duper Doodles with various Christmas & Document Your December products to come out with something very different to my normal Christmas morning pages that still tells the story of joy!

(full credits in gallery)

Reminder: Your page must contain at least 75% current Lilypad product. Your page should be posted to the Lilypad Gallery, your tracking thread, and to this thread.

Everyone who completes all 10 of our challenges will get a $3 coupon. And one random "10 challenge finisher" will get a $10 coupon. Challenges close Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 11:59pm EDT.

 

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It's so great to wake up & see everyone's been busy creating! Will be back with comments on them all later today!

 

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