Scrapping Your Favorite Holiday Movies

Hi everyone! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about our favorite holiday traditions. My family loves spending time together during the holiday season watching our favorite holiday movies.

We’ve gotten quite the collection of favorites over the years. I decided it would be fun to document our ten favorites on a scrapbook layout. This was made a very easy task with Fiddle Dee Dee Design’s Merry and Bright Christmas Favorites template collection.

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This template has ten spots for your favorite movies and plenty of journaling space to write about why they made your favorites list. I also used Bella Gypsy’s Oh What Fun Bundle for this layout.

To scrap this layout, I found images of each movie’s DVD cover (on Amazon), saved them to my computer, and sized them down to fit in the photo spots.

Here are my family’s top ten favorite holiday movies:

  1. Elf
  2. The Gruffalo
  3. Coat of Many Colors
  4. The Search for Santa Paws
  5. Miracle on 34th Street
  6. Frosty the Snowman
  7. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
  8. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
  9. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
  10. Polar Express

There are a few of the movies on this list that aren’t necessarily holiday themed movies, but we enjoy them most during the holiday season.

Elf and The Polar Express are always the first and last movies we watch during this time of the year. We always kick off the holidays by watching Elf after putting up our Christmas tree and decorating the day after Thanksgiving. And watching The Polar Express with hot chocolate before bed on Christmas Eve has become a loved tradition by my children.

Of course, I don’t think any holiday movie list would be complete without the three animated classic stories of Frosty, Rudolph and Santa Claus. These get watched over and over again during the holiday season in my home.

Miracle on 34th Street is my own personal favorite and as I was putting this layout together I realized that my children haven’t watched it with me. I plan to remedy that very soon!

The “cheesy” Christmas movies that show up on Hallmark and Lifetime channels during the holiday season didn’t make my list, but I do love watching them every chance I get! There’s a great discussion of them going on in the TLP forum right now!

I would love to hear your favorite holiday movies (do we have any in common?) and if you’ve scrapped a layout documenting them!

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I’m a creative who pulls inspiration from all corners of life—both the joyful highs and the real-life moments that punch you in the gut. Honestly, I don’t think I can pin down a single scrapbooking style for myself, so let’s just go with eclectic. My layouts really depend on my mindset. If I’m in a deep, cerebral mood, you’ll likely see something chaotic and messy. If I’m more relaxed, it tends to come out clean, simple, and structured.

My brain is usually running on several channels at once, so it’s completely normal for me to be working on a digital layout, dabbling in a hybrid project, and getting messy with art journaling or mixed media—all at the same time.

Here are a few of my go-to tools: Digital: Adobe Photoshop CC + my MacBook; Photos: Canon Rebel or iPhone; Hybrid: Cricut Joy + sewing machine; Art Journaling: watercolors, stencils, and artsticks

And when it comes to embellishments—digital or physical—I’m always reaching for messy threads, ribbons, and Polaroids. Always the Polaroids.

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