Hip Hop Thursday....Journaling your Christmas!

Welcome to another fun filled day of inspiration with the {ippity} and Unity DT. Are you loving the themes each week? We sure are having fun coming up with ideas to share. This week we are wowing you with our Journaling Your Christmas theme. Don't be scared, lol! You're gonna be amazed at all the creative ways we have to approach this theme. I can already hear it, "I'm not a scrapbooker, I don't scrap." Seriously, have an open mind and hold on cuz the team has some great ideas on how to get started.

I admit, I was VERY hesitant about this week's theme, but also very excited about it. For years I have scrapped the holidays the same way and to be honest, it's tiring and boring and I'm so unmotivated to do it. I've decided that Ali Edward's December Daily is the fresh, new approach to documenting my family's holiday traditions. You can read all about how to get started HERE. I love the idea of having this album ready to go on Dec. 1 and then taking it on, one day at a time-being in the moment as Ali refers to it.

So I still need to find an album for all this to go in, but I did decide that I would work with an 8x8 size. I'm thinking I will just find some chipboard covers and bind the pages all together with some rings (prettied up with some ribbon-gotta get the ribbon on there some how ;) ). I just pulled this together on Monday, finsihing my cover and 3 pages. I used a fun mix of {ippity} stamps and plan to put LOTS more of my fave {ippity}, Unity, and MFT to use. I also LOVE the color scheme I chose, thanks to the gorgeous, funky, fresh, and a bit retro designer paper by Crate Paper-Snowy Days!

Here's a close up of my cover page. I added some of my fave elements:

scallops, jillibean corugated letters, sewing, a scripty title from my Silhouette, and the following {ippity} stamps-Life's Little Moments, and Season of Joy. I used white craft ink and crumb cake ink to give a watermark look to some of the sentiments (so they are subtle, but there!). Here's the next 3 pages.
page 2
and page 3

I know, I've got a long way to go to finish it up, but I'm determined to finish before December. I'll be showing you the finished product along the way. Stay tuned! I hope you inspired today. Go ahead, and have fun journaling your holiday!

Maria is up next.