When coming up with my project for the new
Paper Girls challenge about Snowflakes I remembered some of the pages I made for my December Daily album I made. I never got around to blogging it and actually haven't quite finished it either. It's on my long "To-Do" list. Instead of buying a kit I bought a mist-able canvas album by Prima. I really wanted to go through my stash of Christmas papers that I already had and use some of them up. I rarely scrap Christmas and this is why I wanted to do the December Daily. I think the main reason why I only have a handful of Christmas pages scrapped is because I end up with so many pictures that I get a little overwhelmed and also wonder how many Christmas pages I can scrap per year, etc. So I think this ended up being a great compromise.
Here's the outside of the album. It started as just a cream colored canvas outside. I pulled out some of my Dylusion's mists and made a mask with some transparency and a SU snowflake die that I had from the Holiday Mini catalog. I layered the misting so some areas were darker than others and spritzed with water to blend. I also took the top off the spray bottle after it was semi dry and dripped some full strength dye on to add one more layer of depth. I think I need to add some sort of label/ title to the front of my book but still don't quite know what I want to do.
Here is a page that I haven't added pictures to but had gone through and pre embellished for a jumping off point. I did the negative effect with the SU snowflake die and backed it with a small print from OA. On the other page I had cut some snowflakes on my cricut out of vellum and added them to the misted canvas page with glue dots.
This is one of my favorite pages that I did. I created a pocket at the bottom of this plastic insert with sticky strip tape and put some wood veneer stars and glass glitter for a shaker page. I made sure to allow enough room at the top for the print of my digital Christmas card that I designed to send out this year.
The page on the right I decided to stamp and color a page to add to the mixed media feel of this book.
This page is kind of fun with the mini 8 punched center pages I added. I was running out of room for all of the things we did this particular day. They also came in handy for extra journaling space.
This is the last page I wanted to show off. I busted out my sewing machine for this insert style page. I just wanted to make some pockets with Christmas/ Wintery themed embellishments. I used some pieces from a K&Co Christmas pack and also some pieces for my October Afternoon Holiday Style flower sack. The nice thing about the OA pieces are that they are printed on both sides so I didn't need to back them with something else since the pockets show on both sides.
Sorry about the marathon post. I just had a hard time narrowing down what I wanted to show off. Make sure you go check out the other great projects at the Paper Girls Challenge blog and post your projects by March 16th!
