Holidaily: End of November to Early December with Carolee

Hello again, fellow crafters! Today I'm here to show you a few more days in my Holidaily TN!

First up is this day. It's a bit out of order since this was on the 8th but I was so excited to get this into the album, I put it a bit ahead. 

Today I went to Disneyland and California Adventure with some friends! This year, they have a food festival (AKA my favorite thing ever!) so we wandered the park, tasting various things as we went. For this one, I used the B side of Love Joy Faith on the left side with a few bits from the die cut pack to decorate the text and photo. I tucked one of the gold snowflake stickers behind the photo as well for a bit of metallic shimmer. On the right side, I cut a tab out of a scrap with a punch to make it easier to open up the map and see the whole thing.

This is a couple of days in November. The paper in the background is the B side of Oh Christmas Tree, my favorite paper of the collection! On the left, it's me making my Sim after I bought the new game during a Black Friday sale. I purposely made my Sim very fit so she could be #goals 😂 For this one, I just added a lot of the gold heart stickers and a die cut snowflake to tie in some color. 

On the right side is me setting up December in my A5 planner. I grabbed the stars off the gold sticker sheet along with the Joy. I have a lot to be joyful about in December, so I added it. 

Lastly is December 1st! The paper on the right is the B side of Happy Holidays. Since the picture was so colorful, I wanted to keep the right side soft and minimal, just the paper, some of the die cut snowflakes and my journaling. 

Hope you liked this peek into my Holidaily album. Until next time, happy crafting and Merry Christmas!!

Holidaily: Part Two with Kim

It seems like we just got together and I'm back again... this holiday season is flying by!

Well, again, here is my last two blog posts leading up to this week:

• This advent planner set up... https://andreabethke.com/fairytale-club-blog/2017/11/16/kims-advent-planner?rq=kim 
• My last 2 weeks completed....https://andreabethke.com/fairytale-club-blog/2017/12/16/holidaily-with-kim

And of course I'll be continuing to use the generous Jolly Kit and If you haven't seen that, here is an unboxing video for you! https://youtu.be/n8qVw6fneac 

Where we left off was a candy cane sweet treat paper I punched for the rings and on the opposite side is a picture with one of the foiled sticker snowman hiding in the corner.

I finished off last week's spread with a cute pair of snuggle bunnies!  The bible verse was so appropriate for that day, talking about Joseph waking up from his dream, and it was just so perfect!  To cut down on the space lost, I fussy cut out the words and the pictures and overlapped them a little nestled in the corner.  

In the far opposite corner, I put a bag pocket to hold some more journaling.  This is my go-to for times when space is at a premium and writing is at a max.  That bag can hold quite a few scraps of Fairytale Club patterned paper but this one has a tab on top for easy access.  The far corner also has some of the cast-offs from the dreaming paper as well. 

As we turn over the page, again, I fussy cut out the bear and was more strategic about my writing so there would be a lot more white space for the eye to rest.

I took the personal planner divider and trimmed the tree. While she is held on with the planner rings, I did end up adhering the tree to the facing page.  For the last little bit, I used the tickets for ring reinforces and added a few gold stickers for an added touch!

Stay tuned for next time where I will have the last week finished and a flip through on my YouTube channel to see the whole shooting match!

Thanks for stopping!
-Kim

Holidaily: December 8-11 with Enza

Hello friends! It's Enza, and today I'm back with my Holidaily album to show you a few new spreads. If you are interested in taking a look at the first pages, you can find them here. As always, I'm trying to keep things simple: one photo a day plus some journaling. I'm mainly using the “Jolly” kit, with bits and pieces from previous kits. 

For day 7, I just adhered a photo onto patterned paper and created a layered cluster for the number. You can notice the glitter cardstock right below the photo. This is one of the elements I repeat throughout the album, as I like to add a little sparkle wherever possible ;)

Day 8 is all about how cold it gets here sometimes. The photo shows some frosty leaves, so I thought snowflakes would be perfect for it. The Winter Wonderland transparency included in the “Jolly” kit served as the perfect base for my journaling, which was printed on vellum. I opted for a tag shape that could be easily stuck in the page protector. The cute little snowman was adhered to the outside of the pocket with some double-sided adhesive. 

The spread for day 9 documents a fantastic class on bookbinding I attended that day. You can see some ephemera pieces from the “Jolly” kit, as well as the puffy word sticker and hearts from the “Take Note” kit. I used three of the tickets to create a border for my journaling page.

I love including everyday pictures in my December album. Here's day 10. Simple and easy. For the page on the left, I just used washi tape from my stash to frame the photo. For the one on the right, I cut a 4x4 patterned paper to fit the 2x2 squares of the page protector and adhered the journaling card on the outside of it.

Same thing with the photo on the back of that page protector. I just glued it directly to the outside of the pocket. The journaling for the day is still missing. I haven’t decided if I want it to be on top or below the acetate divider. Decisions, decisions! LOL!

I love how this album is coming along. And I hope you can find some inspiration for your December album.

Thank you for stopping by.

Enza

Holidaily with Carrie

Hello everybody and welcome to a couple more of my Holidaily pages for 2017! Today I have part of December 2nd to share as well as all of December 3rd.

December 2nd was a super fun day, and I have lots of photos as well as two stories for this day. So far I've only completed  part of the first story where we have lunch at The Athenian and explore a bit of Pike Place Market in the rain. To start off the story of our lunch I have a 6 by 8 photo of my husband and daughter at our booth. She is coloring and he is sitting next to her admiring her handiwork. Love that smile on his face. The photo is matted with one of the pretty mint papers from the Jolly collection, and a few of the gold sequins as well as a single mint sequin from the sequin pack are all thrown inside the pocket to float around on top.

I knew I wanted an insert for this story because I had so many photos, as well as the kids menu and business card from where we ate lunch. What I ended up doing was making an envelope out of one of the papers my daughter colored while we were there. I used the We R Memory Keeper's envelope punch board and then punched holes directly into the side of the envelope to add it to my album. With my daughter being a toddler she loves to disassemble my scrapbooks, so things that aren't in a page protector usually need to be reinforced in some way LOL. For the envelope, I ended up lining it with a very thin transparency so that if she decides to tear or try and yank it out of the album it will stay in one piece. It worked great! There are a few photos and the extra bits I mentioned now tucked away safely inside. Also, I love that when I lift the flap of the envelope you can see the colored boat that matches the boat she's coloring in the photo on the next page.

The next page has the same mint paper from the 6 by 8 photo which I cut into two 3 by 4 cards. One of them has my journaling and the other has the number two layered with some die cuts and a gold foil sticker. The white tag is actually the backside of one of the tags from the die-cut pack. I really loved the design on the front side but my page was so busy I knew I needed to use white, especially since I decided to layer three of the snowflake die-cuts and two of the gold foil hearts from the sticker pack. There is so much black on both photos in this spread that a tiny black eyelet finishes it off nicely.

For the photo at the bottom, I added a circle outline in pink using Photoshop before having it printed. Once printed, I layered the Christmas fawn flair so it was centered with the pink circle (which just so happens to be layered over an empty plate at our table). This is another one of those circumstances where I have something outside the page protector. My photo went inside but the flair is added on top. I used red line tape which is pretty strong but I'll still have to keep an eye out since I know my daughter has already tried to pull it off once ; ) To keep with the gold foil theme I added a small heart directly onto the photo which appears layered underneath the flair.  I think it's also good to note that I knew I could get away with using something as bulky as one of the flair embellishments on this page because it is a similar thickness to my envelope insert. Since they lie side by side it doesn't add any extra bulk then what would have already been there from the envelope.

And that's it for December 2nd. I have a few more photos from the same story but I still need to decide how I'm going to add them in. For sake of simplicity and time they will probably just be part of another spread but with only photos and little or no embellishments.

December 3rd is a simple story, however, it has ended up being one of my favorite pages so far. It's the story of how we ended up adding exterior Christmas lights to our house. We hadn't done this in years past because of there being no electrical outlet in the front of the house. The fact that we were able to get lights up this year makes me really happy!

By now it's probably no surprise there is another 6 by 8 photo to start off December 3rd's spread. Again, I layered it with one of the beautiful papers from the Jolly collection this time white and pale pink. Super simple but the light colors really make the dark photo pop.

Since I received both size planner pages in my Jolly kit I knew at some point I was going to want to use the smallest size as an insert. The designs on these papers are so cute I am sure I will be doing this a few more times in this album. For today's spread I decided to make the "Christmas dreaming" paper into a tag. The two people snuggled up in their bed goes perfect with my nighttime photos of our Christmas lights! To make it into a tag all I did was cut the top corners and punch a hole towards the top center, adding another eyelet. Then I punched holes in the side and added it directly into my album. 

Normally I would layer a piece of thin transparency in between this tag and another piece of paper on the back side, however, I loved that the back of this paper matched the paper I had matted my 6 by 8 photo with. So I decided to risk it : ) I used my typewriter to add the journaling for this day on the back, and then popped up the happy Santa and pink heart both from the die-cut pack.

On the opposite page, I cut down another one of the beautiful bow papers into two 3 by 4 cards. I used my typewriter to add some journaling at the very top of the card on the left. Underneath the journaling, I added the word "LIGHTS" with the Crate Paper thicker set from their Falala collection. For the card next to it I added my glitter red number 3 and popped up two of the other hearts from the die-cut pack around it.

And that's it for December 3rd and today's post. I hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by! : )
Carrie

Holidaily with Carolee

Hello again! Carolee here to share a few of my early Holidaily spreads with you!

First up is this full-page intro spread I did. I'm a New England girl living in Los Angeles and I miss snow! I decided to create this page to give me a little bit of that snowy feeling every time I open this TN. I used the Let It Snow paper as my background, then added some die cut snow drifts using a die I'd had for ages. After popping on some stickers, it was all set! Festive and easy!

Next up is Thanksgiving day and I forgot to take a picture of our dinner but I did remember to take pictures of lunch so I used those. I absolutely love the mint polka dot paper so I'm trying to stretch it as much as possible! This is actually the B side to one of the A5 dividers which work great for a standard sized TN. I never use full-page pictures so with this project, I'm trying to stretch myself a bit more and use them. The long menu worked great for this! I had to feature the super yummy sushi roll in the bottom corner and added all the die cut hearts to equal my love for it! 😂

Last but not least is this super silly page. The photo has nothing to do with the journaling, but I did find this silly filter that day and was sending the pictures to my friend during the party. Because the picture was so intense on this one, I went with lighter decorations. The opposite page is the B-side to Happy Holidays and the only decorations I added were the die cut tree (since this was the day we put our main tree up) and the stars from the sticker sheet to add to my magical picture. A silly picture for a silly fun day with friends at home!

I hope you liked this look into my Holidaily album. Come back tomorrow for more from one of my fellow design team members and until next time, happy crafting!

Everyday Wishes: Kit Sneak Peek! :-)

Hey everyone! Andrea here and today I want to share with you a fun sneak peek at our next kit, called "Everyday Wishes" and talk to you about what inspired me for this very special kit/collection!

I'm really excited for this kit! And I really hope you all will love it like I do! It's a very important kit/collection to me and here is why... I created it while going through a really difficult time. As many of you know, I am not doing well right now and I haven't been well recently. Writing, "I am not doing well" seems like an understatement really...since first of all...I am never doing particularly well because I have a serious health condition that I live with (called CRPS). However, lately things have definitely and very unfortunately gotten worse. And as I have had a lot of sad moments lately, lying in bed, alone and in so much horrible pain...I have had a lot of time to contemplate. I am usually such a happy person, but when things get hard in life, one sometimes feels the happiness and the hope start to drain out, as the stress and the fear settles in. But as I found myself feeling sad and hopeless, I remembered my motto..."to live my life as a fairytale and write my own happily ever after" and I thought about fairytales and the trials and heartbreak and obstacles that are faced in each one. My story is not an easy one, it never has been, but one thing has always been true...I am strong and I never give up! I remembered how important it is in all fairytales and in my own particular, personal, real-life fairytale...to have faith...to wish and dream and believe that a star will light the way! So I was inspired by Disney classics like Cinderella and Pinnochio and I reminded myself that "no matter how my heart is grieving, if I keep on believing, the dream that I wish will come true"! 

So I created "Everyday Wishes" to remind me and all of you too...the most basic and important thing that The Fairytale Club stands for...and that is believing in the fairytale and the "happily ever after"...and living it and creating it and writing it, even when it is hard. I was inspired to make a kit that had all kinds of my favorite, beautiful fairytale things...princesses, unicorns, stars and moons to wish upon, rainbows, and castles, blue birds of happiness, and lots more! This new kit is filled with my wishes and dreams for a happy and bright tomorrow, not just for me, but for all of you too! As we get closer to the new year, I want you all to think of your hopes and dreams and goals and wishes and really go for them...don't give up! Every wish can come true, every dream is possible! 

I hope you like this sneak peek of "Everyday Wishes"! I want to say thank you to all of my Club Members/subscribers, the Fairytale membership peeps, and all you awesome followers, customers, and fans! Thank you for supporting me and especially thank you for supporting me right now through this particularly difficult time in my life and for being so kind and compassionate and patient! Please stay tuned for the full reveal of "Everyday Wishes", it's coming soon! Yay!

Hugs to you all and Remember to "LIVE YOUR LIFE AS A FAIRYTALE!"  --  Andrea Bethke, Founder of The Fairytale Club

Holidaily with Kim

Hey there! I hope this wonderful season is finding you joyous!  Kim here to give you an update on my Advent Planner!  If you haven't had a chance, here is the link to my last blog post where I got it all set up... 

And of course I'll be continuing to use the generous Jolly Kit and If you haven't seen that, here is an unboxing video for you! 

Now that we've covered everything on the back side, let's dive into what I've been working on since we last chit-chatted!

Here is last week's spread.  Using the pink alphas from the Sweet Kit, I wrote around them some of the exclamations that I read in that Monday's Bible verse.  I then freehand cut a heart and stapled it with a quick doily for some girl fluff and then nestled a couple of die cuts and a sticker for a little forest in the corner.

I have moved this clear divider I made from the kit's acetate to this week and added a tag to it.  It's nice to be able to flip right to where I need to be!

On the opposite page, I used the sequins in the kit to make a little Santa scene.  Under that gingerbread man to the right, is some secret journaling in a flip up piece made from kit packaging.

On to this weeks pages, I've got a couple new things going on.  I added a personal picture on the bottom that I love dearly from years past as well as.... 

...a wood veneer star just loosely bound by the rings.  I used some of the patterned paper and just used some liquid glue to adhere it.  After it was dry, I then used my craft knife to fussy cut it out.  Quick easy and a nice accent to any planner.

I did add plastic pocket page insert with 2 x 2 slots in between these two facing pages. Along with a square full of sequins, I added a vintage picture with a tag turned into a tab:)

On the other side of it, you can see I added a few more vintage pictures as well as that cute note to Santa.

There isn't much to show yet for the rest of the week (since it's not here yet as I'm writing this)  But it doesn't take much to use part of the personal dividers as an extra sweet treat to look forward to!

I very much appreciate your time to stop by and see my work in progress.  Look for one more blog post update and then a final video walkthrough in the beginning of 2018!  Love ya!

Kim

Holidaily with Enza

Hello everyone! I can't believe Christmas is only ten days away!!! I'm trying to keep up with my December album as much as I can, but I have to admit, time is very limited. This year I'm working on two albums at the same time. One of them is going to my parents in Italy. I think they'll appreciate getting a taste of our holiday season, especially how their busy grandkids are experiencing the most wonderful time of the year ;)

Today I'm sharing how I documented the first six days of December. My approach is very easy. One or two pictures and some journaling are mostly what makes the whole album. If I want to include more pictures, then I'll create a collage in Photoshop. As far as supplies, I'm using the festive “Jolly” kit, with bits and pieces from the Take Note and Storytime kits. Occasionally you'll see some other supplies from my stash, used mostly to fill spaces or create layers. 

My opening page is very simple. Just a couple of snowflakes layered underneath the “Merry” die cut, some red stars, and the date. One thing you'll find throughout the album is silver glitter card stock, either as a background layer or to add extra sparkle here and there.

I also like to create little pockets as inserts, and include interactive elements. The back of the “Jolly” tag hides the journaling for the day. 

Another element I'm in love with is transparencies. I can't get enough of the see-through look! Same idea is behind typing my journaling on vellum.

Filler cards are a fabulous way to showcase your supplies. Here I created a shaker card. So sparkly!!!

For Day 4 I have a very simple spread. Just picture and journaling. Again, I used the silver glitter card stock to back the photo. 

Since I wanted to include more pictures for Day 5, I created a collage in Photoshop. The tree on the right side of the spread is a cut file that I adhered on a piece of acetate and then stapled to the bottom pocket. 

Journaling on vellum again for Day 5, this time tag-shaped.

Some inserts...

The last spread of today's post includes a 2-page photo. I just added two strips of card stock on each side and embellishments.

That is all for today, friends. I hope you have found some inspiration for documenting your December memories.

Thank you for stopping by.
Enza

Holidaily: December 7th with Carrie

Hello everybody! My name is Carrie Elias and I am the guest designer for this month, which means I have been playing with the Jolly kit!!  Andrea and I have been friends for a while, however since having my daughter a couple years ago I really don't make time to scrapbook as much as I'd like. So when Andrea asked if I wanted to join her guest design team for December I was thrilled, and jumped at the chance to work with her lovely product!

Andrea has been doing a project called Holidaily for many years now where she documents from Thanksgiving through New Year's. I have always admired her finished albums and if you want to take a look for yourself she has shared a few of them on her personal blog. Well, I decided to join along this year so today I will be sharing December 7th of my Holidaily album!

Admittedly most of my daily scrapbook spreads have multiple photos because I have a hard time taking only one photo that seems to tell a complete story to me.  It's a personal struggle LOL.  Today's spread is no exception. My little girl and I had spent hours putting ornaments on our tree and enjoyed watching Babes in Toyland while doing so.

For the first page I have a full page photo with a reflection of myself in my pajamas in one of the ornaments. I accidentally had my photo printed up just a tad bit too small and decided to take advantage of it by using one of my favorite papers from the collection as a thin border. I think it helps tie this spread together that much more. The gold foil snowflake transparency is peeking through under the opposite page and so to tie it in I added two of the gold foil snowflake stickers directly on top of my photo. 

Across the page is a page protector with two 3 x 4 pockets trimmed down from four. I added a tab using my We R Memory Keeper's tab punch, and the same striped paper that's peeking out from the page underneath. I purposefully lined up the papers for better flow. Also, there was a pack of sequins in my kit and I picked out a few of the red ones and placed them in the same pocket as my top photo. I thought they kind of mimicked the bokeh affect from the photo. 

Since we were decorating our tree of course I had to use one of the Christmas tree papers for the pocket underneath the photo. I ended up choosing one of the planner insert papers, cutting it down to 3 by 4 and then fussy cutting a few of the other pink trees. I used one in this pocket and the other elsewhere on this spread. In order to add more red to this pocket I decided to place big red bow from the die-cut pack over the star of the popped up pink tree. I also tucked in one of the red heart die cuts.

When you turn the page and see the back of the two 3 x 4 pockets, you'll see I added an additional single sequin inside a wreath in the bottom pocket photo.  In the pocket above it, I used one of the patterned papers cut down to 3 by 4 along with a glittered number 7. I knew I wanted to place the number 7 on a popped up tag and came up with the idea of using the same pattern paper to make my own tag. All I did was trace one of the tags from the die-cut pack, making sure the design on the tag and background papers matched up. Then I popped up the tag added my number 7 and a gold eyelet, finishing this pocket up with one of the pink trees I had previously fussy cut tucking it in.

Having a toddler means everything goes in a page protector at this point LOL. So I cut down the gold foil snowflake transparency to 6 by 8 and placed it in a full-page pocket. I'm a fan of full-page transparencies as both a resting place for the eye as well as adding a little extra character.

On the next page I cut one of the papers into a 4 by 6 card, and after deciding to switch to a three pocket spread cut it in half. I added journaling on the papers for both pockets and layered two additional pink trees. I could have added more embellishment to these two pockets but this spread was getting so busy I decided to keep them simple. 

For the 4 by 6 photo collage at the bottom, I cut one of the airmail looking die cuts and layered it over one of the photos which ended up being a duplicate to the photo on the next page. I used some wood veneer Thickers from the Crate Paper Fa La La collection to spell out the word Fun on top.

When you turn the page there is one final two-page spread for this day. On the left is a single photo in the bottom pocket, and two 3 x 4 pockets above it.  I cut down another one of my favorite papers from the collection to 4 x 6 and ran it through my typewriter to add my journaling. Then I used my paper trimmer to make two 3 by 4 cards cutting straight down the middle of my journaling so it reads left to right across both pockets. Next, I used the same wood veneer thickers to spell out the word Happy.  

The thickers made the pocket so thick that the card on the right kept popping up out of the pocket.  So, I used the bow paperclip from my Jolly kit to attach it to the front of the page protector.  Now it stays in place just fine.  To finish off this spread I added the same pattern paper from the 3 by 4 cards and layered it behind my full page photo.

And I think that's it for today's spread.  I'll see you again next week for more from my Holidaily!

Cheers!!
Carrie

Holidaily: Moonlight Magic with Carolee

Hey everyone! I'm here to kick off our new Holidaily series! Holidaily is a lot like many projects people take up at this time of year, but instead of focusing just on the first twenty-five days of December, it documents anything holiday related from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day.

My project today is from a bit earlier but it was very Christmas-y so I added it to my Holidaily notebook. I was able to get tickets to a special event at Disneyland and since they put up their holiday decorations on the 10th, it was already festive by the day we got there!

This project also shows off one of my favorite things to include from my Disney trips: maps! It's a bit difficult when you're using a TN since they're just a bit too big. I will always trim mine down or, if I can't because I'll lose goodness, I'll just let it hang off the edge.

You know me, I like to keep my decoration nice and minimalist and for this project, I wanted to feature a lot of the ephemera from the actual trip. I snapped this selfie in front of the holiday castle and printed it out on my Prynt. I layered it along with our ticket to the event, adding a couple of the tickets from the cut apart sheet to the top. I adhered that onto the map front. This way, everything is front and center but doesn't make it so you can't open the map!

On the right side, I featured this super cute pink tree papers, one of my favorites from the collection, along with another bit of the cut apart sheet for journaling. I kept the colors to mint and pink so as to not clash with the blue and orange on the map cover. It let there be some consistency across the project without having to bring those colors in.

Thanks for checking out my page. Expect more from more of the design team as well as our guest designer. Until next time, happy crafting!