Christmas Journal 2007

I created my Christmas Journal cover yesterday.
I used Making Memories St. Nick paper, Making Memories ready-to-glitter stickers, A Rhonna Christmas buttons and the label is a stamp from Pink Sugar Pop which you can buy here. Love their stamps.

Just a little side note, I purchased my buttons from Acherryontop.com and they shipped the items promptly. It was my first purchase from them and I was extremely pleased with the service.

My first page was also made with mostly Making Memories products. I used one of their chipboard trees from their Christmas Chipboard value pack that you can find here. The date stamp is a fontwerks datekeeper stamp. Love their stamps too! That will be my unifying page element this year along with 3 buttons. I used the prompt for this year but changed a few "I may"s to "I will".

My day two page uses St. Nick paper again. I cut out a little snowman from some Basic Grey Frosty paper from last year's Fruitcake collection. I outlined the snowman with Crystal stickles which I just started using and LOVE! I hand cut the scallops on my page. The snowflakes on the red paper are stamped with Snowflake stamps from the Snowburst collection from Stampin' Up.

The journaling from this page reads:

To me, the perfect Christmas weather is a fresh blanklet of snow with the sun shining. Since we live in Spokane now, the chances of that are much greater. I don't enjoy driving in it but it is so pretty. Crisp and white... it just nakes every thing feel clean and new. The kids love playing in the snow and as soon as the first flake falls, they are outside.

Christmas Journal 2006

I never got around to posting all of my photos for last year's Christmas journal so I thought I would post a few shots that I took today. It ended up being very thick because of all of the pockets, chipboard, etc. One of the pages was a photo printed directly onto a transparency. The photo wasn't related to a specific prompt but it was a really great photo of my daughter in the snow so I couldn't resist using it. I have always thought that Rhonna Farrer's photos printed onto a transperancy were cool so it was my first attempt and I loved it.

This was the cover. I love the "joy" bling.

I love this side view of the journal. You can see the ribbon and tags I used. I also did some other elements that extend off of the page. I really experimented with different techniques that I had seen others use but that I had been afraid to try. You can see in the side view that I painted the edges of the inside covers. That was a lot of fun too.


This photo is a random shot of two of the interior pages. The date stamp is the same on each page. I got it in a kit from Jenni Bowlin. You can buy it here. Love it! The circle stamp around it is a 7Gypsies 97% complete stamp, I believe. Using the same date stamp on each page gave the journal a unifying element. I also used a lot of Basic Grey papers but mixed in other papers that complemented them. The main reason I chose a paper was that I liked it so I didn't get to caught up worrying about whether or not it matched all of the rest.

Christmas Decoration

I love this! Not a very good photo but that's okay. I have been meaning to make a Christmas collage since I saw the fabulous one Ali Edwards did that you can see here. I bought a few extra frames so that I can make some smaller pages. So easy and so fun.

Its That Time of Year Again...

And I am sooo excited! What time of year, you ask? It's time for Shimelle's Christmas Journal! I finished last year and had so much fun doing it. This year, I am going to go with a completely different look and size. Last year my journal was approximately 5"x7 1/2", if I recall correctly. I am considering doing 6"x12". I haven't worked with that size before and it seems like it would be fun to do that. The daily prompts start Dec. 1st. Join us!

We've started getting into the holiday spirit at our house. I took Lisa Damrosch's Make it Merry class at
Big Picture Scrapbooking and our first project was to make a holiday planner. Lots of fun. Now I am slightly more organized... I just need to actually start planning! Emilie and I are working on week 3's project which is a countdown calendar. It's great fun to have a little one to work on Christmas crafts with because she really enjoys it.

Another project we have started is Tia Bennett's Button Tree. Thanks to Ali Edwards for posting this project. Love it and very simple to do. Emilie is 7 so project is very easy for her. We are waiting for more buttons so that we can finish. We actually bought 3 styrofoam trees and weren't able to finish one! I thought I had so many buttons that we could do all 3 but apparently not.

Tis the season for crafting!

Days 16-19

I love the cute Santa. It's from Jenni Bowlin from her Mistletoe Junque box.

This was all about the perfect gift. I had professional black and white photos of the kids taken and gave them to my parents and both grandmas. The photos turned out well.

This page is also about perfect gifts. (sorry about the glare on the photo.) I saw someone else put photos off the page in their work and liked the idea. I think it was Stacey.

This page is about the Christmas menu. It's actually a smaller side pocket page with a few tags for journaling.

This was a fun one to do. I cut this Santa out of a store bought Christmas card. My letter to Santa is tucked inside the green pocket. Thanks for looking!

Happy New Year

I know, I know...I'm a bit behind the times. I have finished my Christmas Journal. I decided to end it with New Year's Day. My journal is getting huge! I already moved up to 2" binder rings! This has been such a great experience. Thanks so much Shimelle for such a great class. I have really enjoyed seeing everyone's journals as they progress. I haven't had time to comment but everyone's work is wonderful. Here's days 12-15. Sorry the photos for day 12 & day 15 are blurry.