Holiday Memories FINALLY FINISHED

So I finally finished my Holiday Memories Album. I have had the photos together for a long time and the guilt was starting to get to me so I sat down and wrote in all the journaling.  I feel so good now that it is finally done. I am so proud of how it turned out. Sure there are somethings that I would/are going to do different next time. I hope you enjoy seeing it all together in this little video. I have started new project and I will be back with details soon and I hope to see you then. Thanks for joining me today. Tomorrow today will be the past, so start saving your story today.

If you want to see the individual photos for the pages you can find them in their own flickr set here.

Holiday Memories Cover

I knew I would need a more substantial cover for my album so I got 2 pieces of chipboard and painted the red. I added a boarder sticker from a K&Company to the right side of the front cover and the hand and ornament sticker came from the same sticker sheet. The Holidays chipboard sticker is from WeR Memory Keepers. I love how the cover turned out.

For the inside of the covers I added a polka dot paper and some stickers from the same sticker sheet above.

And on the back another sticker! I love it! 

Cardstock stickers are amazing by the way. I had no idea!

I would love to see how you are documenting your Christmas Memories. Please leave a comment with a link to your scrapbook page, blog post, or photo album.

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Holiday Memories 1 & 2

I finished my first few pages are done and I love how they turned out.

First is  my title page. I added a glitter snowflake sticker that I got at Michaels. I believe it was their recollections brand. I thought it really added! 

I started my Holiday Memories with Thanksgiving. We were with my husband's family this year. I made a 5x7 photo collage for the left side. For the right side I cut a 8.5x11 divided sheet protector down to 4 pockets instead of 9. I put in our place cards and a pics of some food coma nappers.

Next page is more thanksgiving. On the left is the back side of divided page protector from the previous page. Another place card and a few more pics form the day. On the right is my journaling for the day.

The left side of this page is one of my foundation pages and on the left is a pic of my Dad's Christmas Village   that I help him put up.

On the left here I have my journaling about my family Christmas Ornament exchange. On the right our group shot of all the girls at the ornament exchange and a pic of my precious new niece. She was only 5 days old here. And those pics are on top of another foundation page.

On left another pic of my cute little niece and on the right a pic I took of my sister's cute family.

I had so much fun putting this together. It has been a long time since I have worked with paper and glue when I scrapbooked. I can't wait to see how the rest of this book turns out.

So, are you doing a December or Holiday Album. It so I would really like to see it. Feel free to leave a link in the comments.

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Did I mention . . .

Did I Mention that I am doing a December Daily Album!?

Well not exactly December Daily. I tried December Daily a couple of years ago and failed. Miserably! I made it half way to Christmas and got sick of doing a scrapbook page every day and finding a story to tell. I didn't do any foundation pages and that definitely contributed to my downfall.

This go round I am taking a very different approach. A couple of weeks ago I saw Nettio Designs' Holiday Favs album from last year and her templates for this year. I saw those templates and knew exactly the approach I was going to take. I bought them that day and download them as soon as I got the links. I made all of the foundation pages and had them printed within 5 days. I also decided to go with an approach that did not require me to have to tell a story every day. That was very overwhelming on the weekdays when we came home from work and just watched TV. Right now I have 13 pages devoted to journaling/story telling and I think I might have a hard time finding stories to fill all of them.

I will be back in a few days with the first few pages of my album! Until then enjoy looking at my foundation pages. You can find them in my flickr stream here.

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Busy Times

Wow life gets busy during December. Especially when you have final projects, papers, and tests in the mix. I finally got the tree up Saturday at like 11:00pm. I was shooting for a week earlier. I actually don't even have all the ornaments on.

I am attempting to do December Daily. I haven't completed any pages, but once I do I will post them here.

I may have an additional post up this week, but for now I am just sharing the craziness and this photo. One of my favorite Christmas photos.

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Holiday Prep

So the holidays are fast approaching. Have you bought any gifts yet? Are you almost done with your shopping? Or have you even started? Are you making any of your gifts? How many parties do you have to go to? Are you hosting any parties?

There is a lot of stuff to worry about over the Holidays. So many things need to be prepared and organized. Are you ready? I know I'm not. On top of all the regular Holiday stuff I am not done with this semester of school till 16th. I don't know how I am going to do it all. So I was really excited to see Heddy's post yesterday on The Daily Digi all about "Surviving December." You can find her post HERE.

I started preparing clear back in the Spring. We made our neighbor gifts with fruit that was in season. Now all I have to do is put a tag on them. I am so glad that is one less thing I have to do this month.

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