Good morning all! Well, yesterday evening I got confirmation that my cousin had received her package, so I can now show you the Christmas chipboard album that I made for her! Unlike the one I made for my grandmother, I left this album empty of pictures so that she could fill it up with her own pictures from their family Christmas.
Supplies:
Paper: I used papers from several different paper lines - the dollar aisle at Target, Jillibean Soup, a Winter Wonderland 12x12 paper pad (incidently, my cousin gave me that paper pack!), plain Recollections cardstock, some loose lead Recollections 12x12 papers, a Christmas My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pad, a 4x4 paper pad from Hobby Lobby and several scraps that I had leftover from last year's Christmas cards.
Embellishments: I also used the opportunity to play with some of Recollections new decorative tape that I scored 5 packs of for 1.99 (with 2 rolls in each - packs that are regularly 4.99 - I couldn't pass up the deal so I stocked up!) Gems and pearls from Q&Co, silver foil snowflake stickers, Christmas colored twine (found in TJMaxx for 50% of regular price in other stores) some foam mounted embellishments recycled from a Christmas card we received this year and some sparkly silver ribbon leftover from another Christmas project.
Other Supplies: EKSuccess Evergreen Tree landscape border punch, several Spellbinders dies, Inkadinkado mini ink dots, Tonic mini snowflake paper punch and a birch tree embossing folder from a company I had never heard of before, but I had wanted one forever and I finally found one for super cheap on black Friday - I have only used it once for this project, but so far I likey. :) I think that pretty much covers the supplies I used. If anyone is interested in the specific lines of paper that I used or the specific Spellbinders dies, let me know and I will go dig my papers out of my Christmas box and go find the die names. :)
Without further ado, some pictures!
Hello all. I hope that you had a blessed Christmas and New Year. Like most of you, I took a break from blogging over the holidays. There was so much going on and while I was working on many craft projects (one I will show you today, one I can't show you until the intended recipient get their package), I just didn't have time for everything and editing pictures and posting to the blog just had to take a back seat to everything else.
But now the holidays are over and I am confined to the couch because I did something to my neck and shoulders so I cant move around very much... Not the greatest of things to happen, but hey, it gave me a perfect excuse to work on getting some pictures edited and some blog entries posted!
This Christmas, I wanted to make as many Christmas gifts as I could, but to be honest, my husband and I were away for the first week in December on a missions trip to the Dominican Republic, and then I spent an entire week making all of my Christmas cards so I got a bit of a late start to the gifts. In the end I made a gift for my sister (the mixed media canvas I shared earlier), a gift for my grandma, some small gifts for my little 4 year old cousin, and a gift for another cousin and I gave something to my mom that I had made quite a while ago - just a small part of her overall gift. Today I am going to be sharing what I made for my grandmother.
My grandma loves handmade gifts and she loves photos of her family, so I thought I would try my hand at making my first chipboard mini-album. This was a holiday for branching out of my comfort zone!
Anyhow, I used a number of Cosmo Cricket papers that I received from my sweet cousin Christy, over at Christy Gets Crafty, as well as some lace and burlap flowers, some recollections brads and gems, as well as Q&Co gems and pearls. Other papers I used came from a blog giveaway - I don't know where they came from. I also used some paper doilies from the dollar store and paper flowers from Michaels - Calypson Tin flowers and Recollections flowers.
I would definitely make one of these again - however, I would NOT ever use scalloped edges again! They are a pain in the neck. I think I spent more time cutting down patterned paper than any other part of the album... but otherwise I enjoyed making the album - my apologies to my relatives for Facebook-stalking you to find enough pictures to go in the album. :)
