Ch{all}enge Masters Jingle Bell Hop!

Hello and Welcome to the Ch{all}enge Masters Jingle Bell Blog Hop! My name is Audrey and I am the Sketch Designs Team Leader at CM. I am happy to tell you that you have reached the LAST BLOG for the blog hop! This is blog #22 in the list, and you probably just came from Pat's site. If you just happened here by chance, you can start the blog hop HERE at the Ch{all}enge Masters Blog.

How to do the Blog Hop:

1. Start at the Ch{all}enge Masters blog and visit all 22 Design Team members blogs. Leave a comment on EACH blog.

2. After you have visited all the blogs and left some love, return to the Ch{all}enge Masters blog and post a comment that you have finished. One random winner will get a $25 gift certificate to the online store of their choice.

3. To win the RAK for my blog, you have to read to the end of my post!

The Ch{all}enge Masters community offers TONS of challenges every month in every category you can think of. At the end of the month, a random draw of all entries determines the winner of the monthly prize. Check out the Ch{all}enge Masters community HERE.

For my project today, I am sharing some of the pages from my December Daily album and some cards that I recently made.

I was super excited (see previous post!) because my album was on the top ten list at 2 Peas! Click HERE to see the link.

First I want to thank all the people who inspired this album. Of course, Ali Edwards and all of her wonderful work and ideas. From her blog, I was also inspired by Amanda to do some masking for the cover, and Shabby Chic crafts for the date labels. The fabric pages were inspired by Kim Watson at Cocoa Daisy and her fabric album project at the Fall Crop in November.

I titled my album “The Season” because for me, it was more than just Dec. 1-25. I started on Thanksgiving Day and will go to New Years eve, which means there are 36 pages in my album!

For the cover, I used a tree die cut piece of paper from Deja Views as a mask and sprayed it with green glimmer mist and added rhinestones and stickles for the star. The title was printed on a transparency and glued to the cover. For the spine I used some old MM foam stamps.

I used an 8 x 10 gift box for the covers. I opened all the flaps and added some chipboard to reinforce the spine. I covered the outside with batting and cut some muslin for the covers. I sewed the muslin like a book cover and just slid the album inside. I then punched holes for the rings in the spine. I loved the look of grommets for the spine, but it was too thick to set them, so on the outside I just used some photo turns to make it look like grommets.

The inside pages are a mix of different media. There are cardboard pages, transparencies, patterned paper, envelopes, file folders, chipboard pieces, and fabric pages. On the fabric pages, I cut out some 4x6 photo pages from one of those $1 albums and sewed them to the fabric. They flip open so you can put a photo on each page.

The labels I made using SCAL. I just used different fonts for the numbers and surrounded them with the bracket and circles. I had to cut out three layers for each label.

Here are some Christmas cards that I have made so far this year, too. Last year, DH got me the “Joys of the Season” cartridge, and since it was after Christmas, I didn’t use it much. I wanted to make sure he felt like it was worth getting for me, so I have been using it a lot this year for cards. Here are just a few of the ones I have made.

NOW for the RAK from me! If you would like a set of the custom labels that I made in the photo above, please say so in your comment!!! Of those of you that are interested, I will pick one random winner. You do NOT have to become a follower of my blog, unless you want to (I would love to have followers). But it is not a requirement for my RAK.

Well I hope you have enjoyed the Ch{all}enge Masters Jingle Bell Hop. This should be your last stop! Now all you have to do is go back to the Ch{all}enge Masters blog and leave a post that you have finished. Thanks for stopping by!