Hello Friends! 

It's Kristine with you today and I'm here to share a pocket page spread featuring the Claus & Co. Collection.

I am honestly not much of a December Daily kind of scrapbooker. I feel overwhelmed when I think about it, instead I created this 2 page pocket page spread to showcase my entire month of December. I have space for all my pictures, a few journal cards and I am happy with that. I can always add more page protectors to add tons of pictures of just leave it as is.  It works for me!

This was one of my favorite spreads to create. I was so consumed in decorating, matching, and creating - I had a blast! This Christmas collection is perfect for creating cards, mini albums, layouts, projects and so much more. One of my favorite Christmas collections ever! 

I created tons of layers in my spread using pop dots, washi paper tape, and sewing of course!

You'll see on my spread that I haven't added photos yet. That's because I wanted it left blank so I can add my own when the time comes. I have a few dates added by inserting 3x4" filler cards and I love that!

 Here are a few details of the left page

Adding washi tape and a few stars finished this 3x4" card perfectly. Of course I added sewing for some texture and fun detail. The little enamel dots created great little embellishments for my tree! Cute right?!

I created this next card with the snowman chipboard piece and the "cheers" from the bits and pieces. I added some pop dots under the cheer so I could easily add my 3x2.5" photo when I have it printed.

This next one was a cute filler card but I needed to add more. So I added some washi paper tape, a brad, enamel dots and some word strips. It just worked so well. You can also add this to a card and voila - a Christmas Card is done ;-)

Here are a few more photos of the inserts

The next few photos are of the " right side" of my spread

I added more cut out pieces and bits and pieces from the collection. I often add 2 - 3x4" cards into a 4x6" pocket insert. It gives me the opportunity to add a full 4x6 card of more of the same 3x4. I like that option. It fits more photos and of course more decorated cards ;-)

Now this next page is a little 6x8 insert. Yup, I added a December Calendar in a 6x8 pocket page to fit into the middle of my 12x12 spread. It works well. It's a calendar of the month showcasing important dates and I can add things to do on here as well; such as baking, shopping, visiting, etc ..

On the back of this calendar I added one of my favorite Christmas Songs. You can add a recipe, a large photo such as a pic of your Christmas Tree, the house decorate, a family pic or a Christmas card. So Many options for this little pocket!

Here is a picture of the 6x8 insert inside my spread.

Isn't that a great idea!?  

You can see how much I really enjoyed creating this spread - I will use this to document my December for sure!

Try and create your own little spread to add in your pocket page albums. Don't feel overwhelmed and pushed to document your entire month of December. Create a spread and add all the small details you'd like to remember for this holiday season.

I'd like to wish you "Happy Holidays" to you and your families.

4831 Enamel Dots, 4832 Stickers, 4835 Washi Paper Tape, 4837 Interactive Elements, 4838 Chipboard Fames;

 

Pocket Pages: 4053 Design 6, 4043 Album Black

 

I hope you enjoyed my Life Documented post today and I hope you enjoy creating with your favorite Simple Stories Products!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I even created the start of a December album. I have everything ready to go in my album and now that December is finally here, I can begin to add my photos and stories!

 

 

I have loved using this collection and will continue to enjoy making holiday decorations, teacher's cards and more this month with it! If you haven't already, go run and get yourself some Claus & Co. and have fun creating during the holiday season!

Teri here, and I'm happy to be bringing you some fun Winter-themed cards I created with Simple Stories' Snow Patrol collection.

 

I love this collection because it's got all kinds of traditional Winter icons - snowmen, mittens, snowflakes and much more. You can easily use this collection to make cards to send out for Christmas. You can also use it to make a lot of general occasion but seasonally appropriate cards to send throughout December and well into January. 

 

I can't wait to send this card to one of my friends. 

 

 

You can easily make one like it. Cover a card with patterned paper. Then take a circle punch and cut several circles from some of the Snow Patrol collection's other patterned papers. Adhere them to the card. Then take some of the Snow Patrol stickers and decorate each of the circles with them. It really is that easy! 

 

 

Another card I can't wait to get off to a good friend is this one. 

 

 

I just love the sentiment. I created it by mixing together some of the collection's different stickers. The "snow much fun" stickers started out as one sticker. I turned them into three with my trusty, old scissors. Two snips and I was good to go.

 

 

Speaking of "snow fun" cards, here's another card featuring a snowman.

 

 

Snow cute!   Again, I created a custom sentiment for my card. Again, I mixed together a bunch of different stickers.

 

 

I wanted the snowflake to stand out so I slapped an enamel dot in the middle of it. I think it just adds a little pop to the card. You just need that little pop sometimes.

 

This card would be fun one to give a loved one this Winter.

 

 

I mean all that cold weather makes Winter the perfect time to snuggle up! Right?!

 

 

 

 

 

The card doesn't look like much on the outside, but you'll see this when you flip it open! 

 

 

Mmm...mmm! 

 

Hello everybody ! It's Mindi here with you today, sharing a couple of pocket pages featuring some of my family's December memories from 2014. Can you believe it's already a week into December ? Boy does time fly. 

 

Every year I create a smaller mini book version of our December memories. I have yet to finish up my album from last year. Recently I took some time to get some pages done. 

Throughout my album each day of December is separated and has it's own page or pages. During day 22 I chose to tell the story of my son and his cars. We had a conversation that day that I just knew some of it would make it into the album. 

 

I printed out a photo and slipped it into the top pocket. I chose to add the photo sticker that says cheer to go along with his good cheer that day. I finished it off my adding a chipboard star and then some enamel dots for a balanced look. On the bottom of the page I started off with the adorable red truck and added some washi tape and other embellishments on the other side of my journaling card. There was a certain quote that I added in from our conversation that day. 

 

 

On the other side of day 22 I wanted to tell a longer story about our elf Harry. Here is a look at the full spread. On the right side of the album I used a 2x2 pocket page that I cut off the last line of pockets. This allowed me to have some different layers throughout my album. This size was super fun and allowed me to add in some more photos of our elf's shenanigans, some filler cards, and even a few see through pockets. Instead of using an office style tab I decided to make my own. I added the circle date sticker that shows that it was the 23rd. 

 

 

Over on the left side I printed out a larger photo and added them into the two pockets. I simply love bigger photos. My children still believe in the magic of our Elf on the Shelf. I added the word "believe" onto the outside of the page protector so that it covered both of the photos. I used a stapler to add it onto the page protector and also added the clear photo sticker. The overall look was perfect and simple ! 

 

 

Here is a look at the other side and conclusion of our Elf story. The left side I added in more photos, filler cards, ect. I got the idea to journal what our elf Harry did every night from the kids. They told me to keep track so that they could always remember. I used one of the SN@P Journal pages to keep track and it worked out great. After I had written down all my journaling I added some extra stuff to personalize it a little. 

 

 

 

This is what it looks like in the album all together. 

 

 

Moving on to day 24 | Santa cookies. 

 

On the back side of the SN@P Journaling page I thought it would be fun to add a flip up photo/journaling card combo. On this day me and the kids made Santa some sugar cookies. A flip up photo on the left and then another photo and journaling cards on the right hand side rounded out my day 24.

 

 

I printed out my photo smaller than the green patterned paper and cut the grey wood grained paper to the same width. Then I added my photo on the back side and folded it so that I could flip up the photo and reveal my journaling. Another thing I wanted to do was to add the red scalloped sticker on the bottom of the photo. I wanted to make sure it was on both sides of the photo/patterned paper. So when you flipped the photo up you could see the red sticker on the back side too. I just made sure I lined up the red scallops and trimmed off the edge after doing the front one. 

I love the holidays and once we hit fall each year, the countdown is on for when I can light up my house with twinkling lights and sparkle and pretty colors.  I've always been so inspired by people who document the holidays so fully and have so many fun activities and things to do during the holidays each day.  For a long time I've wanted to create an album focused on the fun my family has during the holidays, it's just never worked out to be a daily thing with my work schedule and school and all the crazy things that come up during the week for my little family.  What works better for me is a book documenting the highlights of the holidays - the traditions we've always held near and dear to our hearts, and the new things we try each year.  I love being the memory keeper in my family, knowing that someday my boys will look upon these albums with their families and hopefully want to carry on some of these traditions themselves.  

 

Inspired by this holiday memory keeping, I pulled out the digital 6x8 pocket pages again and of course, my love for bright, fun, and bold colors drew me right in to the Tis the Season SN@P! Set.  I kept it pretty light and simple this time, letting my photos and words take center stage, with some light embellishment to draw the eye in.  

 

 

I love the varying alphabet stickers included with this - I'm a big fan of mixing and matching and these worked perfectly.  I also "cut" the card in the top left corner to fit around the card, almost as if you would with an X-acto knife with a paper product, and I love how that one turned out.  

 

 

On this page, I ended up resizing and layering different cards to bring more colors and patterns into play, and "cutting" up cards to fit in other spots, like the hearts below the photo in the bottom left.  

 

 

I am really happy with how this turned out and excited to document the holidays in my own way.  

 

Happy holidays!