Sunday, January 17, 2010

At Least 2008's Holiday Pictures are Scrapped

It's midway through January 2010, so naturally I am working on finishing up scrapbooking the holidays...from um..2008 that is! I won't mention that I still have a few things from '07 to do too, oh whoops, I guess I just did. To make things easy on myself I mainly used a coordinating kit I by Making Memories that's been in my craft stash longer than I'd care to admit. Some of the pages from the finished mini book are throughout this post.The approximately 5X7 inch spiral notebook has ten cream pages with coordinating stickers and patterned paper that all came in the set. As I wanted to fit an entire month of pictures into this mini, kinda along the lines of a Daily December book, I was going to need more pages. To remedy that, I pried the spiral binding open and and added red and green cardstock pages, cut to size, as well as some velum quotes which gives it a fun eclectic look. Use the cover as a template to know where to punch holes on the new sheets. It was easy to add the extras and push the spiral back into place. Assembly was really quick, pick only one or two pictures to represent for most of our events that month, lay them out in order, and then place them to get a feel for how the book would lay out. Then cut the photos and large paper blocks. The small size meant it was a great way use "okay" photos that could be cropped fairly small.I used a tape runner to stick everything down because I want the book to be handled and looked at. But I also don't want any thing falling off. Once the pictures and papers were down, time to go back and embellish. Some stuff is from my horde of crafty goodness but I tried to really use up the kit's contents. Only one square and a few random letter letter stickers are left, pretty good huh? Hmm...judging from these pics, I must really like using my large scalloped scissors to make little borders! Are you wondering...what, no journaling? To make this book go quicker, get lots of pictures in it, and have them be the focus I used a tip I learned from Simple Scrapbooks, my favorite but sadly now defunct magazine. The first page in the book is my title page and the last two are for journaling. I'll tell the longer story on those pages.Have I mentioned the one of my favorite parts is of the book is how you can see through the velum and get a glimpse of what's next, so fun! Okay back on topic...through out the book scalloped circles and paper scraps were used to make small labeling spots as needed. To further streamline the process I handwrote the journaling spots, which is hard for me.

Perfectionist that I am, I prefer typed print, but do think having some of your own handwriting in your scrapbooks is important. These represent baby steps for me. The preprinted tags and stickers from the kit also helped give the pages some related text.The glittery red poinsettia design was preprinted on the cover. I added a fun rhinestone title, 3D reindeer sticker, and a cute picture of ER in a metal frame to the front. I love having a full season of memories all in one place and more imporantly DONE. Well except for some ribbon I may or may not tie onto the spiral.
I finished 95% of this in one sitting, granted it was a long sitting but still. It's nice to work hard and have a finished product. How do you make hold onto your holiday memories? Do you have any ideas for streamlining the process? I'd love to know what you do too.

10 comments:

  1. Very cute! We usually just print our family pictures up in a photobook, but we're more than a year behind on that! I'd love to make a proper scrapbook once my kids are a little older - I have one of my childhood that I made the summer before I started college, and my kids love looking through it!

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  2. I've been making yearly scrapbooks for the past few years, but I haven't worked on it for a few months. And the last page in mine is for October of 2008, so you're ahead of me! I thought I'd be done with 2008 before the end of 2009, but that just never happened.

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  3. I have wanted to get into scrapbooking for so long now. I just know that I will have no time to even start or finish if I do get it started. Love the books they are so adorable!

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  4. Great scrapbook! ...but of course, it can't be anything but with your attention to details and with your cute little sweetie on each page :o)

    Blessings & Aloha!
    (I noticed that you were by...come back again and I do look forward to reading any comments that you are able to leave :o)

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  5. Those look great! I just finished my 2009 photo album. No crafty scrapbooking though like yours. Looks fab!

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  6. Your scrapbook looks great!

    Just wanted to let you know I sent you an email. :) Hopefully it doesn't go to spam!

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  7. Well, you know that I am waaaaaay behind:)

    The album is wonderful! You are so good to sit down and do it. I was starting a small one for summer but I got distracted by my 12 x 12s.

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  8. I love this album! You did an awesome job!

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  9. You are awesome, totally on top of things! I am still trying to get photos printed out from years ago! You are my inspiration!

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  10. I'm just catching up on old posts from when I was on vacation. I finally created a book (using iphoto) for my son's first two years this Christmas. After all of my procrastination, it took me about 2 days to finish it. I love all of your scrapbooking. I have dabbled in scrapbooking here and there, but I love all things crafty, and you make me want to do more.

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