Merry Christmas | Santa's Christmas Delivery Echo Park | Rebecca Bee

 Hello Scrappy friends! Rebecca Bee here with my last layout of 2025 using Echo Park's Santa's Christmas Delivery collection. 

I love the traditional Christmas colourway with reds and greens, so this collection really suits most of my festive photos from this year. For this layout I have used the Twinkling Lights paper which I offset on each side of the sweet as sugar candies paper. For the appearance of extra layers, I also added some small strips of the Happy Santa paper which I had leftover for a previous layout. 

I love the cute little Santa stickers in this collection, they very much suited my Christmas Morning photos, just after Santa had made his delivery of presents! 

Do you enjoy festive scrapbooking? If so, you definitely need to have a look at this cute, whimsical collection, it is so much fun! Until next time!

Rebecca

XOXO

December Journal With A Difference

Hello! Lisa here, is it too early for Christmas?

I don't think that's a thing when you are a crafter. We need to be organised when it comes to Christmas don't we?! : )

Well this new journal of mine was an idea almost a year ago.

Documenting Christmas can feel so overwhelming. So I decided to make it easier.

I saw this title of this book and thought it would be perfect as we moved to the country 2 Christmases ago.

The plan is to document each Christmas just over a couple of pages.

You can watch my tutorial here how I turn this book into a journal.

And to decorate inside I've used the Vicki Boutin Collection - Mistletoe Memories here. 

I love adding pom pom trims and little bits and pieces that hang over.

I cut out lots of these tags for this and stapled them at the tops and along the sides.

And they look great inside too.

And I used these Doodlebug puffy stickers.

And these Rosie's Studio stickers are a perfect match.

I made a hole in each of the tags and tied string to add another texture.

 

And to finish off I've cut off bits of fabric and stapled to the tops of the pages.

I love this look.

 

I'm so happy with how this turned out.

It's going to be so fun to fill up!

I hope this inspires you today.

How do you document Christmas?

Lisa xx

Easy DIY Pocket Mini Book (Christmas Edition)

 Hi, it's Lisa here.

Today I'm sharing with you a super cute little tag mini book.

Mine is a Christmas version, but you can switch your papers and make one to suit what you need it for.

This is actually my first Christmas make of the year.

If you are a crafter, you do need to start early.

I love making gifts, so these can't be left until the last minute as we run out of time.

So I recommend starting earlier : )

It was these tags here that inspired this new project.

From  

49 & Market Vicki Boutin Mistletoe & Memories

 You can see the whole collection here.

And I have a video making this mini book if you'd like to see the step by steps here.

To start you need to create the little individual pockets.

These are the dimensions I use. And I like to create a sample first on printer paper so I don't ruin my precious scrapbooking papers whilst practicing. 

I cut 6 pieces from scrapbooking papers measuring 10x20cm.

And then fold along the lines shown here.

 

The pockets then get stuck in place using double sided sticky.

The tags cut and I've stapled fabric scraps on to each tag.

These Rosies Studio stickers are a perfect match and I've used these to decorate my pockets front and back.

And then once finished, I've stuck the pockets together using sticky tape which you can see in the video.

Using a hot glue gun I've added a bow and some trimmings to finish.

 I love how this has turned out.

And it came together so quickly.

Because you have the pockets you can also add extra pieces when you start adding your memories.

Extra photos, stories and memorabile can be popped in.

A great little project for yourself or a gift.

I hope you feel inspired to make one : )

Have fun.

Lisa x

Echo Park ~ Christmas Joy 🎄

Happy New Year! 

It’s Anna back with you today sharing a layout using Echo Park Christmas Joy. You can find the collection in the shop here.

 

I previously made an advent calendar using this collection, so I created this layout using lots of left over papers and stickers from the collection. 

For this layout I was documenting choosing our Christmas tree.

 I was inspired by Paige Evans to create her folded paper tree that she recently shared on a layout on her social media platforms. 

I began with a sheet of white bazzill 12x12 cardstock. I then mounted my photographs on to patterned papers from the collection. 

I then set about making the folded sheets paper tree. Paige has created a YouTube process video to show how to do this as well as a blog post. So you can find the details of how to make it on her socials. But it is simple to do, just some paper trimming and folding. 

I used patterned papers ‘Christmas Time Tartan’ and the b side of ‘Red Snowflakes’ to make my version. 

After cutting all of the paper strips, I placed my photos where I wanted them first before starting to arrange the tree.

I added a boarder sticker down the left side and then added my title. 

I took a photo of a sign at the Christmas tree field, so I fussy cut it and then mounted it on 3D foam pads and added it to my layout.  

I finished the layout by adding various Element Stickers, including a snowflake on top of the tree, again I used 3D foam pads to adhere it to aline with the folded paper tree.

Thanks so much for looking. 

Don’t forget to check out the Papermaze January sale - 20% off in the shop. 

See you soon with a brand new collection. 

Anna 

@acraftylifewithanna