Hello again, Julie here with Christmas in July! I know it is rather early to be starting on Christmas but the scrapbooking industry is already releasing their gorgeous new Christmas collections and I thought it would be a great idea to get ahead before things get far too busy in December. Do you, like me, look at other people's December daily journals or Christmas scrapbooks and wonder how they ever have time to complete them? I am here to try to inspire you to get ahead and to get an album made, ready for December to just pop photos in whenever you want and have space to write a line or two.
I started with a red Sn@p flipbook as my base as it already includes 10 4x6" pockets, this is a base and I intend to add my own pages but the plastic pockets enable you to simply slot in 4x6" journaling cards and add photos if that is what you wanted to do, or you can add embellishments or make shaker pockets they are a great place to start.
This blog post I am concentrating on the cover of my "Jolly Season" journal.
I covered the front cover with the beautiful Vicki Boutin Peppermint Kisses Around Town which has lovely festive houses across the page. I knew I wanted to create a wintery scene but not focus too much on my album being all about December or just Christmas, I want to dip in and out throughout the festive season. I found a lovely 3x4" journaling card which had a blank polaroid photo frame on it (Peppermint Kisses Tags) to use as a background and a tag that said Jolly Season on the Peppermint Kisses 3x4 paper.
I layered these using foam dot and wanted to add a little more embellishment so I used some pink bazzill paper and cut out a 3d poinsettia flower (similar to this) and then dipped the ends of the leaves in glue and added fine white glitter, I have found doing this really makes the leaves pop, I then added a little cascade of stars and layered a glitter mix I created on top.
I wanted to highlight the lovely festive houses and used my trusty circle dies (similar to this), cut out of white cardstock, to draw focus to each house and the pine tree underneath them. As my dies have little dots on them it looked a bit like snow to me .
To add texture to the corner of the cover I used the brilliant Tim Holtz Distress Grit Paste Snowfall, it is a dimensional translucent medium infused with a clear glitter that dries to a textured sparkle finish. I love the effect it creates, it adds sparkle without being too much, however it is difficult to photograph! You can add different colours to it to create a different effect but I love leaving it clear. I then added a few sequins on top to tie in the whole front page.
To make the final touches I used my trusty Crop-o-dile to add some eyelets and added some beaded embellishments I created but you could add anything you like. The two pom poms I added are actually hair clips!
I hope you enjoyed this project, next time I will focus on creating the inside of the album, some pages will be very easy and simplistic and others will have a bit more detail. I encourage you to get yourselves and album and make 2023 the year you are prepared well in advance for Christmas! Here is a little sneak peek of my next blog post.
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