Christmas Book

Hello everyone. I have been holding back on sharing this project with you as I wanted to do it as close to Christmas as possible. I start my vacation next week and will not go back to work again until January 5th.

I get to start my wonderful vacation by having a wisdom tooth pulled. I am not looking forward to that at all and will probably be down and out for a few days.  So I thought this day was as good as any to share my project.

This is the second Christmas book I made this year, and I sold both of them at craft shows!

I loved making them, but boy they are a lot of work. Now when I say work, I do mean fun work. There are so many pages to decorate and design, and my craft room looks like a tornado hit it when I am done.

I created a pocket page to insert a gift card or fun tag. I thought this may be used as a gift so wanted to make room for a little extra insert. 

With both books, I created matted pages which would be perfect to add pictures. My other thought that this may be used as a holiday album keepsake where a few holiday pictures could b e added.

Journaling is also very important. Many people forget to document the event, I  made sure I left plenty of room for journaling. I created a Naughty page and a Nice page.

I also included a little December calendar. I thought that was a nice touch. 

Here are a couple more matted pages for pictures. The one below is light enough where you could even write a little paragraph or funny story, if one so chooses.

Well, I hope that you like my share. I was foolish and did not take pictures of my first one before it got sold, I made sure I took pictures of this one right away. I am hoping to make a few more of these in 2015. I figure the more I make, the better they will be.

I would love to hear your thoughts on my Christmas book. Thanks for stopping by.

I would like to enter my Christmas book into the following challenges:

• Cuttin and Stamping Challenge  - Christmas (Week 2)
• Cuttlebug Mania  Anything Christmas 
• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge Must be Christmas - Anything Goes -c
• Tuesday Throwdown  #225 Christmas
• All Crafts Challenge -  NO CARDS - (Dec/Jan) Anything but a Card
• Artistic Inspirations -  Anything Goes and/or Merry Christmas
• Simon Says - Monday Challenge Anything goes
• Dream Valley Challenges  Christmas
• Imagination Crafts -  Always Anything Goes
• My Craft Creations - Always Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - ) Always Anything Goes
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Gift Card holder
• Use Your Stuff -  - Anything Goes
• Scribbles Designs - Tis the Season
• The Outlaws Saturday Challenges