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Tia Bennett made this beautiful book as her Christmas journal. She’s sharing all her secrets about making it here. Go look at all the pages of lovely. So pretty.
xlovesx
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I haven’t managed to get the Christmas decorations up just yet, but these numbers are making me feel very festive indeed. They were designed by Jen of Hey Jen Renee and they fit perfectly with Journal your Christmas. I’ve screen printed her design on cardstock and vintage dictionary pages for a little extra imperfect fun.
Real decorations to come soon, including some advent calendar goodness. A few days late, obviously. But always appreciated.
xlovesx
PS: adorable frame available here
PPS: Did you know that if you buy a product to be delivered by email but pay from an old email address, it’s very difficult to track you down? I’m still searching for about a dozen people who have signed up for Journal your Christmas in the past two weeks but paid with invalid email addresses. From the email addresses, it looks like I’m looking for a Tracy, a Mary, a Gertrude, a Donna and a few others that are anybody’s guess. :) If one of these could be you, please email me—I’d love to send you your class materials! If none of these are you, do yourself one tiny favour before you order all your Christmas presents: make sure your email address is up to date at places where you order online so retailers can get in touch with you if they need to. It might save you from a saga of a prezzie that never shows up—and no one likes that to happen!
And thereby ends my online Christmas shopping public service announcement.
I made this little box a few years back for a Christmas issue of Scrapbook Inspirations and it’s one that I have continued to add to every year since. It’s super simple—a plain white box like what I kept my pencils in as a child covered with pretty papers and filled with recipe cards. You can download the recipe card template here and just print it out on the colours of cardstock you fancy. What makes this box a little different than a notebook filled with scribbled recipes (and there are a fair few of those notebooks in my kitchen!) is the size of the cards—they are just perfect to hold a photograph on the back. So recipe on the front and photo on the back once you’ve made it, and it’s a scrapbook in a box that can live in your kitchen every Christmas.
There are a few kits for these in the shop if you fancy a box to make yourself. Or if you’re one to save nice gift boxes every year, have a look to see if you have something in a suitable size. You can keep the box yourself and add recipes every year or fill all the cards straight away and give the box as a Christmas present to a friend who would appreciate a cookbook with a difference.
xlovesx
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Just two days of November left, which means Journal your Christmas starts on Monday! So, so excited for all the new stuff going into this year’s class.
Must get back to work so I can find some time to put up the Christmas decorations!
All the details for the class are here or check out pages from years past by Julie Ann, Nat, Ali, Alissa, and Karen.
xlovesx
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Hey hey Scrap-your-Day fans! It is once again the 25th and we’re taking pictures for month eight of our twelve month project!
This month the 25th falls on a Tuesday, so it’s Scrap your Day meets Self Portrait Tuesday! See the Photo Fact Sheet for more details.
And the album prompt is here for you too!
Happy scrapping!
New to the project? You can still join in. For more Scrap your Day information, check out:
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Getting Ready
Photo Fact Sheet #01
April Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #02
May Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #03
June Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #04
July Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #05
August Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #06
September Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #07
October Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #08
November Album Prompt
Our Flickr group
UKScrappers discussion thread
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xlovesx
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Tomorrow is the 25th, so it’s Scrap your Day time for November…and here is this month’s photo fact sheet to get you rolling!
The album prompt will be online tomorrow. Happy snapping!
For more Scrap your Day information, check out:
About this project
Sign up for reminders
Getting Ready
Photo Fact Sheet #01
April Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #02
May Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #03
June Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #04
July Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #05
August Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #06
September Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #07
October Album Prompt
Photo Fact Sheet #08
Our Flickr group
UKScrappers discussion thread
Small image for signature files
Blinking image for blog side bars
xlovesx
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The holidays are just around the corner and in my world that means one thing for certain: it’s time to journal even more.
It’s something that started small. One year it was just me and my pen and my book, trying to take back Christmas and rediscover my love of the holiday after a few years when Christmas lacked a certain sparkle. The second Christmas, I shared the idea with a small group of crafty friends, just to see if this reclaiming idea was something that made sense outside of my head. It did. And from there, Journal your Christmas became an online class that I shared with the rest of the world. And by ‘rest of the world’, I mean we now have Christmas journallers from more than forty countries.
This is the most magical time of the year, so it’s time to make Journal your Christmas just a bit more magical yet.
Like every year, Journal your Christmas includes daily prompts from the 1st of December to the 6th of January, the twelfth day of Christmas. The 37 illustrated PDF files are delivered straight to your inbox so you can read them over your first cup of coffee and mull over each topic for a full day. There’s also an archive of the class materials online in case you can’t get to your email or in case something dreadful happens to your computer. And like every year, you can go it alone or be as social as you like, with a private discussion forum where you’ll find other Christmas journallers who will cheer you on and share your excitement, but if you prefer to stick to the prompts only, that’s completely fine too. And like every year, if you’re participated once, you can join us every Christmas for as long as you like at no extra cost.
But what’s not like every year? Well, there’s definitely a bit of extra kick this year. A few kicks, perhaps.
A kick-start for your writing…
Journal your Christmas isn’t just for crafty types. If you love to write or want to improve your writing, you’ll have thirty-seven different topics for daily journal entries, whether you use your favourite pen, a typewriter ribbon or a blog to compile your stories. Each prompt offers a few quick tips for making your story that little bit more memorable.
A kick-start for your photography…
Rather document Christmas through your viewfinder than by picking up a pen every day? Or just wishing your Christmas photos had a bit more sparkle? This year we’ve got experts on board! Fabulous photographers share their secrets for taking your holiday photos to the next level, from family portraits to Christmas lights to making Christmas morning photos into works of art.
A kick-start for your crafting…
For the past few years, the daily prompts have featured one or two scrapbook pages per day to provide visual stimulation for you crafty types. This year the visuals get a big kick: you’ll see more than 250 amazing pages over the 37 days, and that doesn’t include the hundreds more you can view in real time as participants share their work online.
So can you handle all that kick into the best Christmas ever? Sign ups are open now. I hope you’ll join us this Christmas — or gift the class to a friend!
xlovesx
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