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| I'm excited to share this fun craft with you today! I learned this idea from Angie at Echos of Laughter last year. She is such a creative girl! Be sure and check out her delightful blog for a full tutorial on this little scrapbook. |
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| This Starbucks cup was my holiday drink from last December...white mocha I think! It's fun b/c the markings on the front of the cup are a remembrance of what I had that day while Christmas shopping with my mom. :) I brought it home, washed it, and saved it for making a cute December scrapbook. |
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| You cut the bottom of the cup off and then cut the cup down the seam to make the cover of your book. |
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| Then you make a template for your pages. I covered the inside of the 'cover' with cute paper and then made double page spread pages for the rest. |
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| Since my b-day is in December, I decided to make my book about all the festivities of December rather than just Christmas. Because the pages are small I had to get creative with the photos...cropping them when I was able, or cutting them and squishing them together. |
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| It's cute to use as many 3D touches as you can...so I used foam dots under embellishments and little photos. |
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| I also put photos of a craft I made for gifts and of some decor I used for a dinner party. Note the C'mas tree embellishment with a button on top. |
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| Our Christmas Eve appetizer buffet...I had to cut part of the photo and superimpose it over the main part of the photo to get most of it on this page. |
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| Using a circle punch I was able to put all of the photos of our family that were together for Christmas on one page even though the page was small. And I put a foam dot under three of our photos for some depth. |
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| Our puppy dog's stocking! And I found that one of my photos had this picture of my Gooseberry Patch calendar in it, so I cut it out to add to the book. :) |
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| We had a white Christmas! |
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| My sweet puppy-girl...Gracie. She was enjoying Christmas Day! |
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| Here you can see that I cut the photo in half and spread it over two pages. |
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| The back of the book is where I attached the baker's twine to be the little closure for the book. A circle of paper hides the attachment. A button on the front is perfect for wrapping the twine around to keep the little book closed. |
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| And I used a pick to poke 2 holes in the middle (folded part) of the pages and the cover. This baker's twine ties it all together. Worked out really well. I hope you enjoyed this little sweet idea! And thank you Angie for this adorable, brilliant idea! I really love it! Merry Christmas!! Donna Linked To: Whatever Goes Wednesday My Romantic Home Tip Junkie Here's to Handy Andy |
