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.