On The thirtieth of December,

We are relaxing with a double page spread of decorative paper, placed there to house some photographs, or perhaps, a special card or two.

Room for some last Christmas thoughts and memories.

Maybe some festive poetry or comments people have made over the holidays which you would like to reflex on at some later day.

I have to confess I do fine the days between Christmas an New Year rather sad, so I much rather think about the New Year and what that is going to bring. This year I am so excited, I have so many things I want to share with you fine people, but I think I will tell you more about that tomorrow. 

On The Twenty Ninth of December

We have a whole page pocket, which will be kept only for pictures of snowmen! This page is a celebration of the wonderful chilly creatures.

A few years ago we had wonderful snow and Maisie and Andrew made four or five of these characters going down the street! It was great people came out of their homes to offer hats, scarves and carrots for the snowmen and made hot chocolate and joined in the fun.

The Snowman making team.

The three pictures down the left hand side of the page are made out of gift tags, the rest are sticker and old Christmas cards, anything with a snowman on it.

On The Twenty Eighth of December

We have the back of the long thin pocket on the left hand side, decorated with nice paper and a caption. On the right hand side we have, background paper with a red card on it this card then opens.....

.....to reveal a flag card interior. The flags are made out of red card and paper chain strips.

On the Twenty Seventh Day of December...,

My book page looks like this,

Lovely double page spread with, yes you guessed it, Cosmo Cricket and My Minds Eye papers. The right hand page is folded over to create a thin pocket for a long thin tag, you can just see it's ribbon at the top of the page. Little captions were added.

All that glitters is potential treasure.

A heap of Christmas Cracker debris.  I only buy crackers with real ribbons on and interesting motif. All this can be reused in art. The ribbons for instants can be tied to the spines of books or stitch onto other fabrics to create fabric books or decorations for dolls. The paper can be flattened and cut up for matting and layering, and they call it rubbish!!!!!!

And On Boxing Day

I hope today finds you well, and looking forward to all the left overs! For the Boxing day page I have done allot of laying. All papers used are by Cosmos Cricket and only a tiny tag pocket today.

Tomorrow we shall look at some other Christmas left overs and see what we can do with them.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE

I just want to take this opportunity to wish you all the happiest and peaceful Christmas possible.

Double page corner flip pockets!

These pages are created by using two pages in the book to form one pocket. The back of the pocket is created by selecting a sheet of decorated paper and stitching around it. I did this twice , once for each side. Then I folded over the corners of the other pages to an angle I found pleasing and made a crease. I then measured this. Next I cut two pieces of contrasting paper slightly bigger than the folded edge. Stitch these too. Next glue the decorative paper to the pages in the book. Where the corner folds down make a hole and add a brad to secure. Glue the bottom of the folded page to the other page, to create the pocket Next add three brads to the edge of each page.

I stayed up and waited to see if I could catch a glimpse of the jolly old elf. So pleased I did.....

I was a little concerned as that fire was lit, whilst having dinner a few hours previous!

On The Twenty Fourth Day

I added a big page to journal on, so I can write in detail, about the traditions and hopes for the next day. Papers are from My Mind's Eye and Tim Holtz.

The right hand side has a Doctors pocket with a stitched detail. I also created an extra double page spread with photograph book on it, to place all those special memories.

See day nine for "How To"