LYB Christmas Mini Album

Hi all!
I wanted to share my Christmas mini album with all of you... Now that Christmas is over, many of us are scrapbooking the holiday events and I came up with this little mini album for all of the Christmas Concert pictures I had from this year.  I finally had a year when the kids' clothes actually almost coordinated with my paper!  Yay!

I made this Little Yellow Bicycle mini album for my cute “Before the Christmas Concert” shots.  I had two chipboard covers (6 x 6) and then just cut pages out of the paper and glued two together to form each page (then they were double-sided and thick enough).  Then I punched holes using my Crop-A-Dile and found some ribbon and voila!  I got the idea for the reindeer from Tim Holtz "12 Tags of Christmas" that I always learn a ton from reading.

I used the following supplies:

--LYB Christmas line (can’t remember the name)

--LYB Cardstock stickers that matched

--Tim Holtz vintage stains in: fired brick, peeled paint, picket fence, and vintage photo

--Tim Holtz vintage ink in Walnut Stain

--Tim Holtz Christmas 2 x 12” strip die

--Tim Holtz Reindeer Die

--Tim Holtz Accordian Flower die

--Tim Holtz 25 and Mini Reindeer die

--Tim Holtz Tattered Florals

--Tim Holtz Elegant Flourishes

--Tim Holtz baubles

--Stickles in Candy Cane

--Canvas Creations Burlap Tag

--Assorted ribbons, twine, tulle, paper flowers and bling

--garland pipe cleaners from the Dollar Store

--Harmonie circles chipboard and silver peel-offs

--Crackle Paint in pewter

--Glossy Accents

--Sookwang tape

--WRMK Sew Ribbon and red ribbon package

I am actually really surprised when I see all the materials that I used!  I die cut everything out of cereal boxes or old packaging and then coloured using the stains, Stickles, or Crackle Paint.  I coloured all the paper flowers with stain as well.  It was neat to see the variance in colour when applying stain to paper and cardboard with different colours and levels of absorbency.  Some things needed a few coats to look right!  Some never did end up looking quite the way I had imagined, but I learned a lot!  I hope you can see past my terrible photos and get some ideas for your Christmas scrapbooking.  Unless of course you are already caught up...I am usually scrapbooking Christmas until well after Easter myself!

~Candace