That Time Again

So the first day of my chill out weekend has gone exactly to plan if not better. I started with a bit of scrapping and then decided I wanted to get out for a bit so I nipped to the Range and bought some white cardstock and some Acrylic covers for my Christmas journal.

When I got back this had arrived to make my day even better.........
It's not out til Monday but I pre ordered it and it came early, so not only did I have endless scrapping time but also the company of four of my favourite boys! It is AWESOME, so colourful and clever and the boys are more gorgeous than ever.

So I decided as there is less than a fortnight left of November (how did that happen?) I'd better get on with my Christmas Journal. I don't join in any classes for this, just do my own thing, I'm no good at keeping up with prompts I just end up feeling under too much pressure. So I'm really pleased with what I got done, it came together pretty quickly. I've used OA Good Cheer but hopefully the new Very Merry will arrive soon so I can add a bit of that in too.

I decorated the acrylic by stamping snowflakes on the back with white Stazon and added snowflake rub-ons on the front.

I wanted it to be a bit more ecclectic this year as it's my second year doing a journal I thought I should be a bit more adventurous so I've varied the shapes and sizes of the papers.

I used my scallop punch.

Used die cuts and cut around them to shape the pages.

Used a template.

More die cuts.

I have a few pages that I still wanna do but am gonna borrow some different edge punches to do those. I have also added in some OA journalling cards into the binding, they have lovely patterned backs so make good pages.

And the back cover was done in a similar way to the front.

I love it and can't wait to get filling it now! I also did a layout which is still drying so I will share that tomorrow. Am hoping to spend tomorrow finishing a Christmas present. I might have to watch the Circus again too!!!!

Night xxxx