Christmas mini album

My December Daily Traveller’s Notebook | Joyful Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, it’s Melissa here and I’m so excited to be sharing my first project with the beautiful new Joyful Collection!  We’ve recently moved house again and life has been crazy busy.  For my December Daily this year I’ve decided to keep it super simple (well attempt to!) and work with a handmade homemade Traveller’s Notebook.  Joyful is so perfect to document my December and I have everything I need to make a cute TN!

I went through the beautiful papers and just had to make my cover with Tis The Season, the florals are just so gorgeous!! I added a Pocket Card for my title, and hand stitched around the edge of the frame for added texture and interest.  I used some number stickers from my stash for the “25”.

I embellished with a Puffy Star, Accessory Sticker and one of the Die Cut Ephemera.

My first inside pages of my December Daily are always the same, I have our names and ages and oh boy time seems to be flying by!  I’ve been doing this project for 10 years now!!  I used another Pocket Card for my journaling.  I embellished with a tab from the Die Cut Ephemera and some fussy cut flowers from Tis The Season.

My first page is always journaling the reason why I create my album, which is very much inspired by Ali Edwards (the creator of December Daily).  I Used a piece of paper from the A5 Paper Stack which I tied a bow with twine from my stash.  I wrote my journalling on some white card stock and created my title with a phrase from the Puffy Title Stickers.  They are gold and so pretty!

I finished with a tiny Puffy Sticker Christmas tree.  I outlined around all of my pages with black pen, and no its not perfect but thats ok!  I hope you enjoyed seeing the first couple of pages of my December Daily!  I’ll be back later in the month with some more pages that include photos of the days.

Enjoy the season of joy!

Melissa xx

 

 

 

Joyful | Mini Album | Rachel Lowe

Hello CVS crafty friends! I was super excited when Joyful arrived at my door and I totally love it. I don’t know about you but by the time Christmas is over I am a little over it. Also my Christmas photos always seem to be taken in a rush and therefore are usually quite average and one’s I probably wouldn’t put on a layout.

So making a Christmas mini album in November makes sense, its already to go and it doesn’t matter if photos are not perfect!

I used a Christmas tree cut file from the Silhouette deign store. I cut extra pages in paper and vellum, all in all I can add about 12 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch photos.

I used a coloured O ring to secure my pages and added some die cut banners finished off with some machine stitching. The top part of the tree is too small for photos so I added a scalloped border, a vellum cut and fussy cut some flowers to create a feature.

Under the vellum I used a chipboard piece. You will see that I have added machine stitching to my borders to add texture. I have also used foam tape to add dimension. I like my albums to look a little chunky.

So I can add numerous photos I always create an accordion paper piece, which I use a bone scorer, here I scored at 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Here I added the chipboard bird with foam tape but in a way I can use it to also lift the accordion in and out.

I love to use vellum to soften and break up the pages. I added a border and attached with machine stitching, this not only looks pretty but will stop the vellum for curling up.

The embellishments of Joyful are beautiful and plentiful, chipboard, die cuts, puffy alphas, puffy stickers, glitter stars and wooden flairs. I have used all of them on my mini album!

The larger back two pages I cut from 12×12 papers but every other paper is from the 6×8 inch paper pad. I always purchase a 6×8 inch paper pad exclusively to create mini albums and cards, saving my 12×12 papers for layouts exclusively.

There are many Christmas mini album options and that can be put together quickly, especially when you have such fab embellishments like Joyful does. I can now tick this off my Christmas to do list!

Thank you for stopping by and if you have any questions on my mini just leave a comment.

Rachel X

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