Journal Your Christmas 2011 - Day Nineteen

Today's the nineteenth prompt of Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas course. Time has flown by, but anyway today's prompt is about 'Writing to Santa'.

I always love writing to 'Santa' about what I'd love to have for Christmas. I just love it when Santa leaves his presents underneath the Christmas Tree and you open up the next morning! But I used one of my Christmas Cards from Marks and Spencer and folded up and stuck it to the card.

Journal Your Christmas 2011 - Day Five

This is the fifth prompt of Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas course. This prompt was about 'Counting Down'.

For this prompt I decided make six windows, and put the number of days until something scheduled happens and what happens. There is red card behind the windows and in white pen I've written what happens after so many days...

Journal Your Christmas 2011 - Day Two

This is my second page of Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas class; today's prompt was about the weather.

Being ill today, I had a day off school and I went to get some fresh air with Mum and when we did I took these photos (attached to my page). It's quite interesting actually, this time last year the whole of the United Kingdom had heavy snow fall, but this year we had coldness and sunshine.

Journal Your Christmas 2011 - Day One

This is my first page of Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas class. This is my first 'proper' year of doing J.Y.C. I did start an album last year but learnt that 12x12 is way too big to keep up with, so I've gone a lot smaller this year -- A5. But I hope this year I can keep up with it this year and actually finish the album.

And The Winner Is...

The winner following my Phoenix Trading Christmas Card pack give-away...

ALISON

Congratulations Alison, if you could please send me an email at bethanygorringe@gmail.com with your address and I will send the cards out soon!

Christmas Card Give-Away...

How would you like to win a packet of Phoenix Trading 10 pack Christmas cards -- Worth £3.75?


All you have to do is follow my blog and comment below to win! The give-away will close on Sunday 28th November 2011 at 1.00pm (13:00) UK time.


The winner of the Christmas card pack will be announced on my blog later on Sunday.


Good Luck x

Journal Your Christmas 2011 Title Page

Here is my Title Page for Journal Your Christmas 2011!

I used American Crafts Glitter Thickers to write 'Journal' and 'Christmas 2011'. I then used Jenni Bowlin Studios mini red letters to write 'Your'.

My colours for my album this year is the traditional Christmas colours -- Red, Green & Gold.

**CHANGED** Journal Your Christmas 2011 Album

Here are my changed Journal Your Christmas album. I re-covered the album, used the wrapping paper behind the letters to make them stand out!

The album is from Paperchase and is in their Kraft range. The gold letters are from Hobbycraft, and the wrapping paper was actually from a present I got last year.

The colours that I'm going for this year are the tradition Christmas colours -- Red, Green and Gold.

Journal Your Christmas 2011 Album Cover & Title Cover

I know what your thinking its to early to be thinking about Christmas Album but I actually made the album and title page in January! But I have just now remembered that I haven't uploaded to mu blog yet!! But anyway - This year I'm going for traditional Christmas colours (Gold, Green and Red).

The album and the pages are the Kraft range at Paperchase. I also got the gold letter stickers from Hobby Craft. But the actual gift paper I used as a backround was a piece of gift wrap I received a present.

Anyway that's enough of Christmas talk - I'm now focusing on Learn Something New and I'm just deciding which album to use and I'm about to start making it, so expect another post soon!

Journal Your Christmas - 7th, 8th & 10th!

As you can see I'm behind but here's my To-Do list page; Sights Of The Season and Gift Wrap!

Journal Your Christmas - 4th & 5th December

Here two JYC pages the 4th - A perfect Christmas and the 5th the countdown! The 4th the perfect Christmas I decided to go for 'my dreamy Christmas to make it different from other pages! And the 5th - the countdown I decided to go for an advent calender sort of page the number of days till things on the front on the little windows and then underneath say until .... the events that are happening & the title is 'it's the final countdown' - the song ... it's the final countdown dun dun dun dun nan nan nan nan nan! Well that's the chorus ... well kind of!!

Hope you like the pages!! x

Journal Your Christmas - 3rd December

Here's my Christmas cards journal your christmas page. The envolope does open and has a journalling card in it!

Journal Your Christmas - 2nd December

Here's my 2nd page - Winter weather. I didn't add any journalling or a title so there's a mistake but I was thinking about adding a pocket on the back of the page, with a journalling card in it that you and pull out and push back in again. But I'm still thinking about it!!

For some great journalling cards, christmas cards and gift visit: http://www.phoenix-trading.co.uk/web/paulinegorringe

Journal Your Christmas - 1st December

Christmas is coming and is time to JYC - a course which Shimelle runs each Christmas. This is the first year in the running, mums been doing it for two years so this will be her third year of journalling her Christmas so I guess I picked it up from there!

I've been of school for two days because of the snow and ice so I took the days to complete my JYC numbers and December 1st! So here is December 1st's page - Manifesto!! Which reads - I promise to keep this Christmas journal everyday over the festive season so that I can look back on this season and remember it all, even the small stuff, but mostly the big, together with my 13th birthday on the 20th!!

December

Today I worked out:

6 Days til' JYC;

15 Days til' Oliver;

16 Days til' JLS Concert;

27 Days til' my birthday;

31 Days til' Christmas Eve;

32 Days til' Christmas Day;

Arr, December can't wait!! xx

Journal Your Christmas - Album cover & Title Page

I am all organised and have made my title page and decorated my cover for JYC. This is the first year in the running and hopefully it will turn out well, (We'll have to see). For my album I've gone for a 12x12, (TKMaxx is so good! I got this album and also another 12x12 album for True stories!) but I've added and 8x8 title page (and 1st December) and a 6x6 page for I think the 6th & 7th December.

The album had a little picture hole so instead of a photo I put the right size Christmas card and stuck 'JYC 10' on the plastic (but obsessive compulsive disorder it has to have an equal white border round the card!)

The title page its 8x8 and has lots of little Christmassy pictures like teddies, nutcrackers, Christmas tree etc and added American Craft Thickers, ribbon and a brad! I've just done the basic but I think it's quite effective, (but that's my opinion!!).

Only 19 days!!