The last

My two final pages for my Christmas album, Dec 31st and Jan 1st, and now it´s all packed away.

New Years Eve. It included a 3 hour drive to get to Mrs S and family, meeting my newest grandchild for the first time and going to a party in the evening. This window frame worked really well for all those different things. Isn´t that baby sticker adorable?! It´s almost as sweet as Little B!!

New Years Day. It was a Sunday and therefore churchday and the big event was the blessing of Little B. We don´t baptise children until they are eight years old, but they are given their name and a blessing as babies. This funny little stamp was perfect for this occation.

My thought with this album was that I should be able to have several years in it, those years when I didn´t feel up to making a page every day, but as it gets quite bulky it will only hold one more year.

Now I will order some more photos! See you!

Dec 25th

I hope you all had a nice Christmas, I did. Since we have our big Christmas celebration on the 24th, my page for the 25th came to be about the birth of Christ. It looks like this.I talk about the fact that he really wasn´t born on Dhristmas day, but in spring, and that I´m a kind of person who´s not into pretending what I know isn´t true, but that I try very much to remember and follow him every day of the year.

I think I will only make two more pages in this album, New Years Eve and New Years Day.

I like my new tree stamp so much I´m sad that I have to put it aside now that Christmas is over, but I´m thinking of having it as a background for all my numbers in next years album. I plan on doing a bigger album then so that would work fine. Here´s a close up of the tree on my Christmas eve page. I LOVE it!! Isn´t it a nice feeling when you have made something that you are really pleased with?!

My internet conection isn´t very good at the moment, but if I can I will be back this week with some newly made layouts that is not about Christmas. Hope to see you soon!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! Today is our big day and we have had a nice day with my in-laws here and love and joy all around. Everyone also got some presents we really liked.

Here´s my page from yesterday, about everything being ready and peace and quiet in our home.

I used my little banner I made for Shimelle´s challenge.

And here´s today´s pages, before the photos and the journaling.

I have a two small pocket-page in front of the bigger page. Sorry that the picures are so blurry!
For all of you who will be celebraiting Christmas tomorrow, I wish you all a wonderful day!

Dec 17th

Yesterday we had a Christmas consert at chuch. Such a lovely time with beautyful singing and lots of friends

I made my page from one of the downcuts I made from the Websters pages paper and since it was already heavyly decorated I just added the title and the date and some journaling. I tucked the programme behind the page.

Dec 12th and 13th

Two pages from the beginning of the week.

This is our Christmas letter. I actually printed and sent it out on the 13th, but, as you will see, there where only so much I could sqeez in on that day, so I gave it the day before, it really doesn´t matter.

I stapled a strip of transparency to tuck the letter behind so as much as possibly could be seen of it.

My oldest daughter´s due dath was on the 10th but the little man arrived on the 13th, the Lucia day here in Sweden. So he got place #1 for the day, of course, and on the backside is the Lucia celebrations that the children had at their schools.

Today is gonna be a baking day, I´ve promised the children homemade hamburgers for dinner, so I will make bread for that and I will also make some bread for Christmas and also some cookies. And I have to vacum the house, so busy, busy!!

Have a great weekend (feels like I just told you that!! Time do fly)!

Dec 7th and 8th

Two days about the Christmas tree. The first one is about me going into our backyard sawing down the tree and how much I like the possibility to be able to do this. I had the oppertunaty to use my new tree stamp and so enjoyed it. I tried to get one last year but didn´t succed but now I have one and I´m so glad.

Yeasterday we put up the tree and decorated some more. I wanted the two pages to feel like a unit so I used the same journaling spots and numbers and white backgrounds.

 

Not a single photo, as seems to be the case with most days in this album, but I wanted the tree stamp to dominate on the 7th and I just "had" to have the beautyful picture of the tree on the 8th. If you want to see some actual photos scroll down!

Look who´s living under the tree.

Mrs S made these figures many years ago.

 I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

December 6th

A page about a memory from the past. My oldest daughter was always so worried that I wouldn´t be ready with all the preperations before Christmas eve, when she was little. That was so sweet.

Now she´s 28 and her due date is in two days... Her first child and we are so exited.

I really wanted the picture of the Christmas scen to be part of this page and i wanted the photo of my girl too, but first I didn´t know how to combine them in a nice way. But I´m very pleased with how it turned out. Isn´t this an amazing hobby that make you feel pleased over and over again?! (We don´t care about the other times right now!)

Dec 3rd

I had the oppertunaty to do some things for my fellow men this wekend and made this page about it. It´s called In the spirit of Christmas, since doing something for someone else truely are just that.

It was three things hence the 1 2 3, and since it also was the 3rd I put some red paper behind the 3 (I think that was quite clever of me...) to give it a double function. And since two of the three things involved sewing I got some good use for some of my sewing embelishments. I also used embroidery yarn to decorate the heart and fasten the ribbon on the journaling spot. I hid the journaling behind the "wooden spole".

Dec 1st

My page for today is already done, but I have to admit, I cheated, I started yesterday, I just couldn´t help myself!! The paper is one of those I precut and it´s a Websters pages´ that I´ve cut in four. Even though it is quite full as it is and also very beautyful, still you want to embellish it yourself and make it your own and I´m quite pleased with the way it turned out.

It tells about my wish list to myself for the Season, that I want joy and peace and people I love.

Maybe you want to see how my earlier page looks in the album.

Now I´ll dive into my textiles to try and find something nice for a simple baby quilt that I will make for a woman at church! Have a wonderful day!

My first page

I´ve done my first page for my Christmas album! It´s from yesterday, observing two things, that it was the first Sunday of Advent and that we at church had the yearly tradition that all the children where the ones singing and talking at the sacrament meeting. They were so wonderful and there was such a lovely spirit.

Pricut papers

Shimelle talked about different stages of preparing your album and asked us to at least pecut som papers. I had already put some papers together and they are these...

There are some Websters page´s and some Bo Bunny, cut from 12x12 pages. The frames I´ve made myself, you can read about them here.

The album I will use is a 6x6 Modern album, you can see it here.

My little banner

So it´s Christmas at Shimelle´s this weekend and I loved her challenge to make a banner. I´ve made a very tiny little one to fit my 6x6 Christmas album and here it is!

This is actually about the real size of it. "JUL" is our swedish word for Christmas, very convenient to have such a short word! The red and yellow squares and the mittens are from a REALLY old Provo Craft line, it´s like ten years old or something. I adore the mittens and haven´t had the heart to use them earlier (I´m sure you all know that feeling!). The small Christmas tree I cut out by hand and I`m really pleased with it.

I hope you like my little banner too!

Titel page 2011

The titel page for this year made me think, since it will show behind the album´s titel page. But eventually I figured out how I was going to do it and here´s the final result.

I didn´t want too much to be shown behind the album titel page but I didn´t want it to be totally emty either. This is how it looks when you open the album.

You can see the page a little closer up on this picure.

The calender tag is again from a Swedish line. The same paper that I have behind the tag I also put in the little pocket where the holes are, I will put paper there on all the pages. When I had made the whole tag thing and chosen the strip of music paper it looked a little bit to dull and I wanted a little more black to accent the year and the circle on the tag, so I made the thin black strip and put two rub ons by the tag and I was very pleased with that. Black could actually turn out to be an accent colour on all the pages.

Titel page

Since my Christmas album will be for several years I will have one title page for the entire album and title pages for the different years. I have now finished the title page, or rather title pages, since it´s a front and a back page,  for the album. It looks like this.

This is the front page and here is the back...

I like that the page is is a die cut shape so that you will be able to see the titlepage for the year behind it.
The front says Merry Christmas and the back Memories from December.

Christmas-ready

Well, at least my small Christmas album is done, so now I just have to wait for the first Sunday of Advent. It´s just 6 weeks come this week end. Yay!

My album is a 6x6 American Crafts album, my favorite album and here´s how I´ve transformed it.

I painted all the edges both on the outside and the inside, like this....

...and then I glued patterned paper on the inside like this.

This is the front. The paper is a swedish brand with different words and phrases that´s Christmas related. The back has the same paper.

This paper is a cut from a 12x12 paper from Bo Bunny.

The white heart is metal and I bought it last Christmas in a decorating shop. "God Jul" means Merry Christmas.The green ribbon goes  around to the back too. The little closter is better seen in this picture.

The big button is an old one I found in a thrift store once, the metal one I bought new. Both of the buttons and the cute little charm is threaded with linen yarn.

I very much like my little album and it will be a joy to fill it. I won´t do an everyday effort this year though, just on those days that I want to and feel I have something to say. Maybe I end up doing most days, who knows, but I don´t want to have any pressure on me doing something for every day. And the thought with this album is that it shall last for several Christmases, the years I intend to do an everday-thing I will do a seperat album, it´s fun doing that every once in a while.