Journal Your Christmas 2012

I started off saying that I wasn't going to do a Journal Your Christmas album this year, has I've still not finished 2011, but has you can see I'm giving it a go and I'm amazed at how many pages I've got done already.  I've not doing it solely as a JYC following Shimelle prompts, but do a mix-mash of JYC and December Daily, so some days it will be things that has happened through out the month and other days will be things that have happened on the specific date.

I've not added dates to any of the pages has I'm still undecided on how I want the numbers to be, all the same, or different Thickers, different alphas on each pages.  I will decided over this holidays and hopefully I will be able to finish this album before the end of January 2013.  So my pages are not in any order on scene, but they are in my album.



getting the tree

my visit to the ballet

A lovely cameo die cut,

A made some handmade gift bags

A selection of my cards

Posting said cards

I'd see this on someone blog, where they had added some bits to the page protector and used wash tape to seal the top - great idea and one that will be appearing in my album again.

Getting some new ornaments

a night out with friends

lunch with some of my craft buddies

the red cup

winter weather

my poinsettia - something I get every year

I have added some journalling to some of the pages, but will be adding more if I've left enough space.

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Christmas Cards & Gift Wrapping

I think I say this every year, I must start to make my cards earlier, or give up on the idea and buy them, and this year is no exception.  I had the great idea of doing several small batches of different designs perhaps 10 of each design, but it didn't work out like that.

So I started off with these.

And has the saying goes 'I just wasn't feeling it' ended up sending a photo to my friend Julie, thanks for the advice love, and I was alot happier with it in the end.

So then I decided to make this my main card design, the stamp is a Molly Blooms one that I got from Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn when I went to their opening weekend in November, love it and it stamps really well.  I stamped and embossed and even got my Pro-markers out, they had to be dusted off has I've not used them for a well.  I die-cut the image with a nestabilities die, and the red dollies was done using my cameo. A selection of papers from my Christmas box, ribbon from Stampin' Up and Wilkinsons.

These wood veneer shapes again found in my Christmas box that I added to the front 

I ended up only making a few and then I gave in and bought some from the shop.

I did manage to make some gift bags, nothing fancy but I like how they have turned out, I purchased plain some lunch bags - stamped over them and added a tag

close up of the tag - stamp from Hobbycraft, Christmas washi tape, and ribbon & bells from stash.

I have done a few additional cards that I will post next week when they have been handed over.

I hope your Christmas preparation are all sorted by now and you are starting to wind-down (or up - lol) for the big day.

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