Hello lovely ladies, I’m up on the blog today sharing my
first project using the October 2018 kit. For this first project I
wanted to make a really simple Christmas album because I’m not doing December
daily this year, but I still want a simple way to document my Christmas
memories. I grabbed two 12x12 kraft cardstock sheets, two 12x12 white cardstock
sheets and a few random green papers from my stash. I then cut down all the
paper so they were all 6x6. I just arranged them in any order, but I knew I
wanted kraft to be the first page. 
Next I used my hot glue gun to glue down the green pompom
trim from the kit around the front cover of the mini album. This took a little
bit of time but using a hot glue gun makes it so much easier then standard wet
glue. 
Next I took the chipboard Christmas word from the kit and
painted it gold. This took a few coats but because they were very thin it dried
very quickly. Painting chipboard or wood veneer can add a really nice textural
element in a paper craft project. I then glued it down onto the front cover
using wet glue. 
I took the silver flower from the kit and hot glued that
onto the middle binder ring of the mini album. I then took the red twine from
the kit and tied little bows on the top and bottom binder rings. Adding different
trims and ribbons to binder rings on mini albums can really add a little bit of
softness to the metal binder rings.
Next I just went a little embellishment crazy over the
cover. I hot glued the green fabric flowers from the kit on top of the green
pompom trim. I also used the hot glue gun again to put the adorable little Santa
hat on the top right corner of the album cover. I put a label from my stash and
stamped on the December 2018. Finally I put some white splatters all over the
page.
I’m really excited to fill this mini album with all the Christmas
memories this year. I’m also so happy with how this mini album cover turned
out, I haven’t made a mini album not in binder in 5 years so this was really
fun to make. Go check out some of the other ladies projects using the October embellishmentkit.
Thanks everyone bye.
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