I can say for sure that this holiday book is coming together much better than in years past. One thing that has really helped is my box of embellishments. I don't have to do any searching to find red & green odds and ends which means the books is getting more extra details than usual. I'm a fan. I hope the ease of filling this book continues because it is keeping this project very enjoyable.
Below is progress from the last week or so. In most cases, the image on the left is how the book looked before I added to it. As always, click any photo to enlarge.
As mentioned in the last post, I flipped the silver patterned paper over. The label on the left was wrapped over the top of the page already. The second label was already cut and left over from another time that I messed up while writing on it. (You can always use the other half! Save the mess ups!) I added some text to both labels from December 8th. Into the gold evelope, I added a tag with a lot of journaing. Envelopes are perfect places for "hiding" more personal stories.
If you looked back, you'd see I didn't do any writing or take any photos for this book from Dec 4-8. This is how it works best for me. No stress. At the end, if I end up with extra pages, I just pull them out of the book. But at the rate I am going, I think I'll have to add more. Some days take up a few pages.
I adhered a half a 6x8 photo to the back of the gold envelope and backed the second half of the photo with a piece of wrapping paper. There was a blown out bright spot from the window that was a perfect place for another label sticker with some handwritten text. I stuck a polaroid photo of my paper snowflake right into the book rings.
I ended up moving the dark green card futher back in the book and added a few labels and tags to the green circle piece. The brown sunburst label on the back of the polaroid is from Knot & Bow.
A photo of our gift tags was added to the back of the green circle paper. I clipped a small tag with text right onto the page with a spiral paper clip. I wrote out the gifts we are giving and tucked them into the striped envelope. The tape sealing the envelope is from Martha Stewart Crafts line at Michael's.
I have a few more pages added already, but they are about our Christmas cards and I want those that are getting them in the mail to be surprised - so I'll share more next week!
See more pages from this book here, here, and here. And in case you still want to start - I do have a few more holiday books available.
