Christmas is such a special time of the year with all the activities and gatherings of family and friends. Keep the memories of your Chistmas holiday each year by journaling in a Christmas journal.
Our 4th week of the Sizzix Triple Play blog hop is the Frame and Frame back die by Eileen Hull. There are so many uses for this die, especially this time of the year for Christmas photos. I chose to use it to create and decorate a Christmas journal.
To make the journal, you will need the following materials:
Frame and Frame Back, 3D Pro Scoreboards Die #656835 by Eileen Hull
Heavy card stock
Journal
Green fabric
Red and green acrylic paints
Adhesive – Zip Dry by Beacon
Instructions:
Cut the fabric 2″ larger than the opened journal on all sides. Center the journal and fold the fabric edges to the inside the cover, fold the raw edge back and glue. Cut fabric pieces out along the edge of the spine.
Paint the frame pieces solid red, red stripes and red dots.
Paint a Christmas tree or other motif centered on the bottom frame. Align the frame pieces and glue them together. Turn the small red frame turned catercorner. Glue the completed frame centered on the journal.
Be sure to hop to the other blogs to see an assortment of outstanding and unique uses for this die. Just click on the Sizzix button in the sidebar and hop forward to the next blog.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the hop!
Phyllis
what a great way to keep all of those christmas memories! I think making one each year is a great idea…especially to keep track of what you gave to people and received each year…wishing I’d been better at it the last few years!
Love how you made this into an album Denise! Cool project! Thanks for working with my die! Happy Thanksgiving…
Oops sorry I meant Phylllis! I was reading Denise’s comment… not enough turkey in my system yet!
Phyllis, just when I decide that in am a totally grunge girl, I come upon your project and fall in love all over again with clean colors. This just screams CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
I love your project. What a great idea to create a journal for all those precious memories. It came out really cheerful and bright! Happy Thanksgiving.
cute project, very festive and a creative way to decorate the cover of a journal!
Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving – sorry about that ‘Bama”-Auburn thing today…; )
This is a great idea- love the way you painted it- the tree focal point is adorable
I love the candy cane color scheme. Great idea to make a journal!
Love your journal idea and the colors are so festive!
A journal! Who would have thought! Bright holiday colors! Mahalo for a great idea.
Great idea and this would make great gifts too!
Super cute!
Cute Phyllis. Looks like you’ve been busy, I’m catching up today.