Good day, pals! I’m glad to be again to share extra concepts for making a December Every day album for youths. I’m utilizing the vertical 4×6 album this 12 months to arrange an album for my 9-year-old daughter. I need to embrace plenty of enjoyable, interactive parts and make it straightforward sufficient the place she will simply slip in images, some brief journaling, or a drawing. In case you missed the primary weblog publish the place I talked about my technique and method, you could find it right here.
Though I’m utilizing the smaller 4×6 album, all of those concepts may be tailored to one of many different album sizes and will also be used for non-kid albums. In reality, I beloved making a few of these pages a lot that they may simply carry over to my very own album!
My daughter loves doing crafts and when she came upon that I used to be going to make a December Every day album only for her, she wished to assist with the preparation! Having your infant make their very own pages is an effective way to have them take part and get excited for the venture. She’s so pleased with the pages helped make. I’m certain seeing certainly one of them later within the month may even assist maintain her motivation excessive.
Not a shock, however she actually wished to play with the stencils! She inked up the gingerbread stencil herself after which drew faces on them with a white pen. We minimize out her work and adhered the paper to some coloured cardstock after which to one of many 4×6 playing cards from the Paislee Press mini equipment.
She will be able to use this web page to doc some vacation baking!
She helped with just a few extra pages which are proven within the album walkthrough. In the meantime, I made just a few extra interactive pages which I’m sharing intimately right here.
Concept 01: Gingerbread Folks with Die-Reduce Insert
After I noticed the scalloped die minimize insert with the bins, I instantly thought how enjoyable it could be to have some gingerbread people peeking out of them. Utilizing the digital model of the insert, I resized it to suit the web page protector dimension, 5” x 6.25.”
I then stamped a woman and boy gingerbread. Including garments and the tiny particulars just like the mustache was tremendous enjoyable! To make the web page interactive, I minimize 1.75” sq. items of sample paper and strong coloured papers from my stash, which I sewed on high to function flaps for the home windows.
As a result of I wished to play with the stamps, I used the Scalloped stamp to stamp some patterns onto the coloured flaps. The patterns are embossed in gold and white.
I added the gingerbread individuals to 2 of the home windows briefly and the remaining home windows can be utilized for small images or journaling in December.
The video beneath exhibits a better take a look at how this web page got here collectively.
Concept 02: Scratch-off Joke web page with Pocket
My daughter is on the age the place she loves foolish jokes so I made a scratch-off joke web page utilizing the sunshine bulb stencil.
I discovered Christmas-themed jokes on the Web and printed them on decoration shapes. I printed the solutions out onto white cardstock after which, utilizing the sunshine bulb stencil, I first coloured the sunshine bulbs with ink. I positioned packing tape over the inked solutions so the paint wouldn’t harm the paper, after which used the stencil once more with acrylic paint to create the scratch-off portion.
The sunshine bulbs and ornaments are strung with skinny gold string and positioned on high of black cardstock. Utilizing the celebrities silkscreen with white paint, I added a star sample to the background. To incorporate a spot for a narrative for the day, I made the proper facet right into a pocket the place one of many 4×4 scalloped playing cards resides.
You’ll be able to see me make this web page intimately within the video beneath.
Concept 03: Flip-up and Flip-out Web page with 10×8 Paper
I like the big textual content on a few the 10×8 papers this 12 months and was making an attempt to think about an thought on how I may incorporate them into the 4×6 album. A method I made a decision to do that was to chop the sentiment from the center to make a flip-out web page. I minimize the “It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Christmas” paper to 9.25” from the left facet and scored it on the 5” mark in order that it could flip out on the proper. I additionally trimmed 1” from the highest and backside of the web page to make it the peak of the web page protector, 6.25”.
So as to add extra interactivity, I added extra flaps to the highest and backside. After chopping 2 items of sample paper to 4” huge by 3.75” tall, I scored 3/8″ on every finish to create the flap. This dimension permits for some overlap with the highest and backside.
For the reason that papers are all single-sided, I wished to embellish the clean sides. I used the leaf sample silkscreen with an previous AED acrylic paint in Timberline on the entire clean areas. In case you watch the video, you’ll see I wasn’t very pleased with the job I did on the bottom of the inexperienced paper, so I ended up overlaying this with the floral paper from the Paislee Press mini equipment.
Lastly, I minimize one of many watercolor hearts from one of many papers within the Merry Merry Paper pack and glued it to the highest flap.
You’ll be able to see how this web page got here collectively within the video beneath.
Having plenty of flaps provides some play and makes it doable to incorporate much more images and tales!
Along with the concepts shared above, I’ve created a number of extra pages within the album, that are a mixture of easy and interactive ones.
Right here’s a take a look at the brand new pages I’ve made, beginning on the place the place I left off on the earlier weblog publish.
I’ve included additional images of a few of the pages from the brand new pages within the album beneath. As within the earlier weblog publish, my daughter added some drawings to indicate some examples “images” which may go in sure spots. 🙂
It is a double-sided flip-out web page that makes use of the December Particulars immediate paper as a spot the place my daughter can doc her elf’s day by day antics. There’s a shaker pocket inside to retailer the notes she receives from Keena, her elf.
I proceed to make use of the chipboard frames to make straightforward spots for images (or drawings). Most of the 4×6 playing cards may be turned on their sides and used on this album.
This hybrid web page is constituted of one of many digital papers in the primary equipment which might be used to doc our vacation film watching. I plan to make one other one for my album so my daughter and I can play collectively!
The again of the bingo card incorporates a facet pocket which incorporates a 3×4 card to doc the flicks and date watched.
My daughter helped me with just a few of the pages, together with the one to doc her elf proven above. She is on the age the place she will do lots of the crafting steps with some path. She beloved utilizing the stamps, stencils, and embossing with the stencil utilizing a die minimize machine.
As I discussed within the walkthrough video, I’ve completed round 21 pages for the album to date. I nonetheless produce other concepts I need to strive, however I’m undecided between ending up the remaining pages or ready till December so my daughter and I can work on them collectively.
I hope I used to be in a position to encourage you and offer you some concepts! You probably have any questions, please be at liberty to remark beneath. You may as well discover me on Instagram @circleplusarrow or YouTube @circleplusarrow. Blissful December Every day!
