Good Morning Fellow Stampers :-)
Happy Monday! One week from today is Christmas Day !! Eeeeek -- are you ready? or are you running around crazy like I am. I tried to get the Christmas shopping under control over the weekend. Ever feel like "the best laid" plans go awry no matter how hard you try to stay organized and efficient? LOL
So I'm busily trying to get caught up today, as I'm behind on about 5 things - yikes! Including our newsletter, which I hope to have out to everyone tomorrow; so just hang on everyone! In the meantime, it's time for today's MIX-it Up! MoNDaYs post, and it's time for this year's installment of my annual holiday photo album. In year's past we've had Project Life, as you all know. You can see last year's album HERE; and the year before HERE.
This year, we have a new memory keeping system called Memories & More, and this year's installment that I am using for today's album fun is called Merry Little Christmas Memories & More Card Pack. It coordinates beautifully with our Merry Little Christmas product suite in the Holiday Occasions Catalog. I've incorporated a few of those products when designing my cover for my album this year.
This is the 6" x 8" Basic Black photo album -- I love this size album for my annual Christmas journal; and this Basic Black bound edge to this Kraft album is perfect for this year's card pack and theme.
I incorporated this pretty acetate with silver foil printing card from the Memories and More pack in the center of the album; stamped and die cut ornaments with the Carols of Christmas bundle; and then cute the trees with the dies out of Silver foil for across the bottom. I added the Year of Cheer embellishments for some extra "fun."
Simple, easy, but really fun and festive!
Here's a little closer look -- I put Silver Metallic Thread thru the embellishments for kind of a fun look - like they're ornaments too.
Here's a sneak look at the inside cover page -- I still want to add the year in numbers using our Large Numbers dies - probably in a silver or maybe even a Kraft cardstock look - still deciding! LOL
Here's a look at some of the card setups inside the album -- I really love this set of memory cards. There are 4 colorways in the collection, including this black & white combination.
I'm using my leftover pocket pages from Project Life (I had a good stash); but we have a wonderful, very similar collection in the current Annual Catalog as well.
Here is a quick look at a few of the cards from this collection in the green and white colorway. There is also a nice Cherry Cobbler and white colorway.
And then there is a whole set of the Kraft and White colorway in the Merry Little Christmas collection that is just wonderful!
What I love about our new Memories & More sets is that every single card design has 2 of each, so that you can use in your album; but you can also make a card or other project!
I hope you've enjoyed getting a look at this year's album project. I'll be working on this hopefully over the next couple weeks as I record this year's fun events, and holiday gatherings.
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Until Next Time . . .