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Jan 12

Journal Your Christmas~ Finale

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Journal Your Christmas album cover

Here is is, the conclusion to my Christmas Journal. As I was finishing up I found myself adding lots of pink and hearts to my final entries. Already thinking of the next Holiday! Funny how that works. I do have to say this project has inspired me to journal more. I find it challenging to write exactly what I want to say and in some cases I do not leave enough room to journal on my layouts. So to WRITE, to JOURNAL, To be a STORY TELLER with words is one of the things I’m going to strive for in 2013. But foe now shall we walk through the last weeks of December? We’ll let’s go!

Dec 22~Day 22

Dec 23~Day 23

Dec 24~ Christmas EveDec 24

Dec 25~ Christmas DayDec 25

Dec 26 and 27~Dec 26 and 27

Dec 28, 29 & 30~Dec 28, 29 and 30

Dec 31 and January 1st~Dec 31

Last Page~ Looking forwardLast Page

And there it is, how lovely!Album

Hoot-a-loo, Rebecca

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Dec 28

Journal your Christmas~ Week Three

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With all the anticipation and planning of Christmas Day it seems to get here “before you know it” and then it’s over right? No, not with this project, it actually extends out to January 6, 2013. This class has prompt me to want to write more, journal everyday events, quotes and even the weather. Let me take you through week three of December…

December 15 and 16~ I included a drawing that my daughter created about the Nutcracker. Yes we both are still dreaming of the wonderful performanceDay 15 and 16

December 17 ans 18~ Ah yes the to do lists are documentedDay 17 and 18

December 19 and 20th~ The visit to the Jolly Old Elf and document Touristy Thursday of thre Texas State Capitol tree008 (525x325)

December 21st~An Additional photo of our spoiled cat Maggie and a ‘Right Now’ page layout with pictures.Day 21

Stay tuned for Week 4 of Journal your Christmas.

Hoot! Rebecca

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Dec 12

Journal your Christmas ~Week One

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, every where I go….I introduced you to my Journal Your Christmas album a while back and now it’s time to fill it up, I am really enjoying this project by Shimelle, I love the fact that I’m writing, documenting and crafting my Christmas as it’s happening. I am a BIG journal keeper, so this fits perfectly. First I would like to take you through the Manifesto stage of my Journal. I really had my eye on using this vintage monogrammed letter M

So cut strips of Nutcracker Sweet by Graphic 45 paper

Then some Red, Green and sparkly punches

This black lace will come in handy

Let’s Manifesto

Day 2~ Loving this full page of journaling

Day 3~

A flip pocket insert to tell another story

Day 4 to the left and Day 5 to the right~

Day 5~ Used an envelope as my background

Day 6 Grandfather Clock is Nutcracker Sweet by Graphic 45. White kraft envelope holds a list~

Day 7~ More Journaling

Picture on the right is using a really fun phone app called PhotoJus and the houses below are from a Christmas Card we just received in the mail

Some of the journaling in the album is daily happenings, some is reminishing. I have additional photos and journaling that I am putting into my Project Life Album. This seems to be a good balance for me.

Hoot-A-Loo, Rebecca

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Nov 27

Journal Your Christmas/ December Daily Scrapbook Album Cover

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“Bells will be ringing”…oh the Christmas music has started, the lights are twinkling, the feeling of love, family, giving, thankfulness, happiness, forgiveness, wanting to bake, and add sparkles to EVERYTHING…yes traditions. Tis the season for all of these. Over the past couple of years one of my favorite traditions is having a scrapbook completely dedicated to life in December. I have participated in December Daily for the past two years and my family enjoys flipping through these albums remember Christmases of the past 

(Starting the cover with a little Gesso)

Last year I signed up for Journal your Christmas by Shimelle which I read and enjoyed each of her daily prompts and incorporated some of them into my album. This year my plan..Well, I don’t have one…HA! No really my plan is to experience Christmas and focus on LOVE and capturing the moments with words, pictures and crafting

(Add WILD PLUM mist to some tags)

I encourage you to do the same, I went back and looked at Shimelle’s first prompt from last year and I quote her “In truth, what you need for this project: a pen, some paper. A camera would be nice. Everything else is icing on the cake.” I love this! Basically your goal is to  document your December, even if it’s a spiral notebook and pen…. so check out Ali Edward’s December Daily or Shimelle’s Journal Your Christmas. I guarantee you’ll be inspired to capture your December as well. 

(Add Turquoise paint with a number stencil to the cover)

Here is the cover to my December Journal. The Nutcracker Sweet by Graphic 45 will be used throughout my book and for the album I’m using the SN@P Studio and page protector’s by Simple Stories.

Hoot-A-Loo, Rebecca

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Oct 07

Finished Mini Album ~Learn Something New Everyday 2012

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Are you ready to see the things I learned in the 30 days of September 2012? Alright then, let’s get started….Front cover

September 1:

September 2:

September 3:

September 4 and 5:

September 6 and 7:

September 8:

September 9 and 10:

September 11:

September 12 ans 13:

September 14 and 15:

September 16:

September 17 and 18:

September 19 and 20:

September 21 and 22:

September 23 and 24:

September 25 and 26:

September 27 and 28:

September 29 and 30:

Final Page:

Love, Love , Love this project! You can find out more about it here. Once you purchase the class, your a member for life! Every September! Coming up soon is Journal Your Christmas, I’m already thinking about my album for this year. I signed up for the class last year but geared more toward December Daily…Both projects help in creating the documentation of memories for the most wonderful time of the year. I’m really liking the Graphic 45 Nutcracker paper!

Hoot-A-Loo, Rebecca

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Sep 16

Frisco Trip~ Mini Scrapbook

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I’ve been working on this mini scrapbook for a while. It’s not that the project it self was long, it was all done in stages. The album itself was inspired by this post be Ashli over at Purple Mailbox. If you haven’t visit her sight, please do. She is an amazing artist, I am continuously inspired by her creativity. So let me walk you through the steps I took to document my fun Girls weekend. To make the cover, I started by stamping a piece of 6 x 12 canvas with white acrylic paint. 

Sprayed with some Mister Huey

Since we were visiting our friend Sunny in Frisco, the theme for this trip was “It’s always Sunny in Frisco” So to coordinate with the theme I cut a sun from yellow felt? Perfect!

Stitch the felt pieces to the canvas, added a  title with Felt Letter by The Paper Studio, twirly twine and a blue button flower

Sewed the canvas to material, nothing fancy just a zig zag stitch around

All those differnt lengths and widths of paper scraps from past projects came in perfect for the pages.

to attach the papers to the cover

Ready to add pictures. I used lots of Washi tape, paper flowers and gems to embellish

 

 

 

ribbon on to tie

Mini scrapbook filled with a great trip with my YA YA Sisters!

Hoot! Hoot! Rebecca

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Aug 31

Learn Something New Everyday~ September 2012

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Last year I took this class by Shimelle for the first time… I have to say this is one of my favorite mini scrapbooks. You can see it here. So I’m ready to get back to school and learn something new everyday.Wanted this year’s album to have a vintage feel in Hello Yellow!

Thanks to my very good friend Terri for this old Reader’s Digest Book. I used the cover and some of the pages inside that described SCHOOL..Perfect!

If your interested in taking the class and learning something new everyday, check out her blog here. It starts tomorrow…September 1st.

Hoot-A-Loo, Rebecca

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Aug 06

Altoid Tin Mini Scrapbook~ “10 Things I Love About You”

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I have to say this was a really fun project to work on… it’s so little and cute! This seems to be the year to give mini scrapbooks for birthdays. I wanted to make my son a “10 Things I Love About You” scrapbook. For a boy that collects “stuff” this was perfect! Here is a how I put it all together:

Took a 12×12 piece of card stock and used my Martha Stewart Scoring Board to score TWO strips measuring 3 1/2″ inches. Cut along the score.

Take the two strips and score every 2″ inches. Fold back and fold like an accordion.

I then glued the two end pieces together.

Printed out pictures and cut to the size to fit.

Ready to embellish and add journaling cards. Used several stickers from echo park paper “This and That” Cute! All about boys of course!

Now ready to decorate the tin. Basically used the Altoids tin as a template to cut the top and bottom from card stock. Then measured the tiny strips and cut them to size.

Used Modge Podge for the adhesive. Modge Podge the tin, added paper and then modge podge on top of the cardstock. Let dry.

Fold mini album, tie with twine and place in tin. Is this sweet or what?

Have a great Monday! Hoot! Hoot! Rebecca 

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