Christmas Album pages

I sent the early hours of Tuesday looking on Pinterest via my phone while laying in bed relaxing on my day off.  There are a few modern gadgets that can be wonderful, especially when it comes to wasting spending time on the world wide web!  After some inspirational browsing I felt like finally tackling some Christmas scrapping and I made the pocket page on the previous post followed by the pages below.  With the exception on the title page the rest will be completed when I add the photos as I have no idea what will go on each page.  It is quite relaxing scrapping this way especially on the smaller size.  You may notice that there are occasional gaps in ribbons and cardstock, these will be covered by the photos.  A4 card is frustratingly smaller than 8.5in so my metallic cardstock is just a tad too short width ways!

Two of the above pages can even be turned, so who knows how they will turn out!  I then spent the afternoon of my day off sorting out all the sites I had found in the morning and pinning to my new board.  Who knew one could lose oneself 'pinning' for 5 hours!  But it was a lovely way to spend a day to myself :-)

Happy Crafting,

Chipper

Pocket page Challenge

I made the first page today for my Christmas album.  I also used it to complete the pocket Challenge over at Shimelle's for her Christmas crafting weekend.  I used an acetate sheet from a Making Memories journaling book to make my pocket.  We are back in the land of HOT Christmases and I REALLY, REALLY miss the thought of snow at Christmas.  I am going to use this page to write down some of those thoughts.  But first I will wait for it to get really hot as that is probably when I will be most honest!!!  I also added some buttons, stickers, punched snowflakes and Cricut snowflakes.  Along with some stitching and the obligatory bling, cause it is Christmas after all!

Thanks for stopping by,

Chipper

Thank you :-)

Thanks for the comments left on my previous post.  Sometimes gift selecting can be a challenge ... especially when I don't like to just give a gift certificate.  I took your advise and looked at Pinterest.  I had looked there before but I think I was looking with blinkers on.  I never thought to actually click through to the original sites and that they would have even more info.  What a few days I have had!

Well I have found some things to make and now I have to go off and price the needed materials.  If any of you are interested I have pinned what I have found so far HERE.  I shall keep adding to it as I am still looking for more beauty product recipes.  Instead of making all of those beauty products, which would kill the budget, I think I might compile them all into a mini book for my teenage niece to make herself after Christmas.  Sort of like a recipe book for beauty :-)  My favourite find of the day was THIS for the small people in the family.  Lets hope I can find some great value fabric, even better if it had a Transformer print!

Thanks for the pick me up :-)  I really appreciate it.

Chipper

Journal Your Christmas 2011

Over at Shimelle's she is asking what your favourite size is when it comes to Christmas scrapping.  Well to be honest with you I haven't scrapped very many Christmas photos in the past but I want to change that RIGHT NOW!  I can however tell you what my favourite scrapping size is ... 8x8.  This is currently a very unfashionable size where I am living right now, but I love how fast it comes together.  I am not a scrapper who believes that every page must be a masterpiece that takes days to come together (I do however know lots of people who do LOL) and 8x8 pages can look like a 'masterpiece' without taking so much time.

All of my earlier scrapping was given away to the multiple sets of Grandparents and Great-Grandparents that my children are blessed to have who live all around the globe.  I can't even remember what most of the albums looked like now.  So this Christmas album is going to be for us to keep just like everything else I have scrapped so far this year (no more whole albums for Grandparents, just pages here and there!).  When unpacking my stash earlier this year I came across this kit by K&Co's Tim Coffey and put it aside thinking that I really need to use it.  So I shall use it for this years Christmas album.  It is an unusual size of 8.5x8.5 but that is close enough to my favourite size :-)  When I opened the box the album is quite luxurious as the red is flocked!

It came with 20 page inserts (thank goodness for that as I don't think I would find refills anymore for that size!), a pack of Grand Adhesions, a pack of Epoxy stickers, and a pad of 8.5x8.5 patterned papers.  So this is a great start for me to add to.  I have added some brads, HOTP brad buddies, ribbons and buttons so far to my kit.  I am off to get matching Bazzill today and I think I will limit this to a co-ordinating red, green, purple and white/silver.  Purple you may be asking? One of the pages has a hint of purple and I think a little of it will contrast nicely.  There are also a few blue pages, but this time around I don't want to add too much blue.  The page below is one of my favourite from the stack.  I think that is because I love traditional Christmas colours and I LOVE candy canes!

Now that I have the basics put together I am ready to go!  I am not actually doing Shimelle's class as it isn't really in the budget especially as I have yet to finish the last two.  But I will be making a Christmas album and documenting our Christmas this year.  It won't contain daily entries, just the events that make Christmas one of my most favourite times of the year!

Chipper