Crafty Goodness

I have decided to take on a big-ish Christmas project. So completely inspired by Ali's( www.aliedwards.typepad.com ) December Daily Album. The point behind it is to have it ready to go by Dec. 1st so that you can spend the holiday capturing the moments. Finding something to record even on the ordinary days of the month. I am going thru Jan 1st(I think). This is also meant to be very simple, words and photos, keeping embellishments to a minimum. I wanted to stay up and watch Leno last night and here is what I got done: I used a Tim Holtz Grungeboard tabbed album(5x7) and added lots of extra pages to get 31. I used felt, transparencies, tags and pieces of other albums(all different sizes) for all my pages. I am sure I will also just use entire 5x7 pics as pages too. Each page will be numbered for the day of the month.

A couple inside pages.

A bunch of inside pages.

Besides the album, this is all I purchased specifically for this album. I liked the classic and graphic nature of this line(Theresa Collins) and used it as a guide to pull out supplies I already had.

Which this is only a sample of.

But I am trying to keep organized! Stuff for the book will spend the month in this holder. The point is to not spend all day on each page.

What I want to document:

TRADITION!

The big stuff(Cookie Day,School Xmas Program,parties, gifts and opening,family pics etc)

holiday movies

decorating

baking

cards received

shopping

reading holiday books

Xmas music

and more, but I am still brainstorming.




And while I'm at it, here are a few other things I've been creating....

This is a Jenni Bowlin project. It has much more sparkle in person! Everything shimmers...

As always, her projects have fabulous vintage elements. this one came with some old ledger paper, crepe paper, vintage wallpaper, seam binding(a personal fav)and German glass glitter. Stunning!

Photo credit goes to Donna, my mother-in-Law. She took these as an anniversary gift when we left her with the kids for Wheatland. They are simply beautiful.

And lastly(for this post anyway) is my new kitchen banner. I actually made 3 of these and gave 2 away. Sorry about my pics, I am not sure we will see the sun again this year.

This one is all Grady. The kit was supposed to include a few pages out of an old book, but I didn't get them. So I improvised and tore out a page of a baby name book(actually found Grady's name!)And used it on the chipboard that has Grady's face in it.

Lots of fun cutting up and sparkle and vintage and just good stuff on this one.

Thanks for looking. I have another banner I'll share later so I don't bore you to death;) Its more of a Thanksgiving theme.

I am wondering if my house is starting to look a little crazy with all the banners everywhere!