good morning all! how are you all doing on your journal your christmas projects? i know some of you are doing december daily instead and, as you know, i am doing both this year. i have done them both before, but in a combo album (2009). this year i am doing 2 different books. and, i am almost caught up. yay me!
today i want to share days 2-4 of my JYC book. for awhile now i have been dropping hints about the size of this book. the size will explain why i will be posting days 3 at a time. you see, julie and i found these really cool vintage binders at an antique show in october. they are standard 3 ring, but they are unique in their size. instead of 8.5x11, they are 17x11. wow! right? well, i could not do 17x11 size pages each day. so, after a lot of thought and brainstorming with julie, i came up with a plan. we found some thin chipboard perfectly sized to fit in the binders. 17x11. good start. i decided that i could do 3 pages on the front and 3 on the back of each of these BIG pages. i wanted to add a little variety, so, i added some 8.5x11 baseball card pages in between and a 6x12 (stitched and cut down) to the front and the back. make sense? LOL! i know it's a lot without seeing the pages.
here we go!
day 2...
i used the stencil from the merry & bright kit and just covered it in versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder. it's messy, but i LOVE it!
i'm thinking you are going to see a lot of this red tape from hambly. :) (wish i had more)
i don't have my cards done yet, but they will be handmade. journaling is inside of the card.
photo from the november anthropologie catalog.
and, here's what it looks like all together.
my december daily is completed through day 3. i will post photos of it in the next day or 2.
have a fabulous day!
peace, lovelies...
