I have not been doing a very good job of keeping up my blog lately. I don’t have any excuses…just busy with regular “life” and “work” stuff. I’ve even pulled a couple of all-nighters over the last few weeks (you know, this is getting more and more difficult as I get older!). Anyway, I was putting up some ribbon on my kitchen cabinets so I could hang the holiday cards we’ve started receiving and it made me think of this little album I put together for Creating Keepsakes. It’s a little album holding all of our cards from last year. The front and back covers were made from a gift bag…I LOVED this bag and I was so excited to be able to incorporate it into this project!
It’s in the current issue (December 2011).
The first page is OUR card…
And then I started adding cards from family and friends.
The little tag/envelopes each hold a journaling card about how we know the family the card is from.
And this is a page with a little envelope holding a “Christmas letter” type of holiday greeting (it was printed on both sides and too wide to adhere directly to the page – I thought the envelope was a fun way to add it. :)
The tags are actually from an advent calendar kit by Making Memories.
Do you save your holiday cards? I just can’t part with them after the holidays…usually I put them in a big envelope and tuck them away, but I think I’m going to start putting them all in little albums similar to this one… It would be fun to have a basket full of these to put out each year with our holiday decorations. :)
Wendy, just love what you've done with the Christmas journal, it is certainly a beautiful keepsake :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic idea!!! And I adore the little envelopes.
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