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Holiday Faves 2016 is here!

POSTED ON November 18, 2016 IN Announcements, Holiday Faves, Uncategorized

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…Holiday Faves 2016 is here!

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That’s right, my friend, Santa’s come early this year and he’s brought a gift for you!

As you may or may not know, Holiday Faves is my solution for creating a mess-free, stress-free holiday scrapbooking mini album.

No more worrying about capturing daily details or getting behind, the focus here is simply on capturing your top ten favorite things from the holiday season, using all the digital scrapbooking supplies you already know and love.

This year I’ve designed a completely new set of 6×8-inch templates and I’m so excited to get these into your hands to see what you do with them!

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This year will be my sixth time doing Holiday Faves and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about doing projects like this, it’s that they’re so much more fun with friends!

That’s why when you purchase Holiday Faves 2016, in addition to a brand-new set of mini album templates you’ll also receive access to the Holiday Faves 2016 Project Class which includes:

  • the Holiday Faves interactive planning guide with 7-page printable PDF
  • a resource library with tutorials and tips for creating and printing your album
  • weekly emails from me with words of encouragement and inspiration
  • access to a private Facebook group where you can connect and share your work with other Holiday Favers

It’s everything you need to keep you on track all season long.

The Holiday Faves 2016 6×8 Mini Album Project Class will run from Tuesday, November 22nd to Thursday, December 29th.

Registration is now open and will close Wednesday, November 30th.

Sign up by Tuesday, November 22nd to save 20% with Early Bird Pricing.

Holiday Faves is one of my absolute favorite projects of the year so I hope you’ll join me on this holiday scrapbooking adventure!

Sign up for Holiday Faves 2016 here.

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Holiday Faves 2015 is here!

POSTED ON November 28, 2015 IN Announcements, Holiday Faves

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

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Holiday Faves 2015 is here!

That’s right, my friend, Santa has come early this year.

If you’re new to Holiday Faves, Holiday Faves is my solution for creating an easy, stress-free holiday mini album.

No more worrying about capturing daily details or getting behind, the focus here is simply on capturing your top ten favorite things from the holiday season, using all the digital scrapbooking supplies you already know and love.

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This year will be my fifth time doing the Holiday Faves and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about doing projects like this, it’s that they’re so much more fun when you do them with others! So when you purchase the Holiday Faves, in addition to a 6×8-inch set of mini album templates designed by me, you’ll also receive access to the Holiday Faves 2015 mini album class.

As part of the class, you’ll receive the Holiday Faves Planning Guide, weekly emails from me with words of encouragement and tips, and access to a private Facebook group where you can ask questions, share your work and get to know other Holiday Favers.

It’s everything you need to keep you on track all season long.

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In honor of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, you can sign up for Holiday Faves for just $29. No coupon code needed, discount will show in cart. Registration ends Monday, November 30th. Class begins Tuesday, December 1st.

Sign up for Holiday Faves 2015 here.

What’s New in Holiday Faves 2015

Earlier this week I received an email from a 2014 Holiday Faves student wanting to know more about what was new in in Holiday Faves 2015. So I thought today would be a good day to share a few more details, as well as share what I see as the true benefit of signing up for Holiday Faves (hint: it’s not the templates!)

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When you sign up for Holiday Faves, you’ll receive an exclusive set of 6×8-inch mini album templates designed by me. The core of the album is made up of the Foundation & Accent pages which this year includes 20 new designs plus 5 bonus designs from last year that I just couldn’t wait to use again. This year’s templates actually include designs than any other year because I just loved so many of them!

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When it comes to designing, I’m a firm believer in not reinventing the wheel just for the sake of reinventing the wheel. Which is why for 2015 I chose to use the same half text/half photo journaling page design I loved from last year, with a few new details – new corners, borders and numbers – to keep things fresh. I know that even with the same basic design, by adding new photos, stories and digital products to the templates, the end result will be totally different from last year.

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The Photo Collage templates are what I like to think of as the workhorse of the album – they’re there to make it quick and easy to add photos to your album. This year I’ve included two additional designs to give you even more options.

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Finally you’ll also receive the Holiday Faves Planning Guide which includes the same 7-page printable PDF as last year but with a whole new set of mini page templates for planning your album.

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To create your album, add your favorite digital scrapbooking products to the templates, then mix & match pages to creat your own custom Holiday Faves mini album. It couldn’t be any easier.

Here’s Why You Should Sign Up for Holiday Faves 2015

At the end of the day, could you take the templates from 2014 and create your own Holiday Faves album for this year? Absolutely!

But let’s face it, how many times have you told yourself you’ll complete a project on your own only to not actually do it?

This is why the true benefit of the Holiday Faves Mini Album class isn’t the templates at all.

It’s the accountability and camaraderie that comes from working with a group.

Not only are you more likely to complete a project when you tackle it with others but by putting skin into the game by signing up for a class, you’re that much more likely to actually finish what you start. The templates are simply a tool to make it happen.

This is why I no longer offer the Holiday Faves templates for sale on their own. Because the last thing I want to do is add to your pile of unfinished projects. I want to you to get to the end of December with a finished album you can cherish for years to come. If you join me in Holiday Faves, I promise we will make that happen, together.

The Holiday Faves 2015 Mini Album class will run from Tuesday, December 1st to Tuesday, December 29th. Register for $29 through Monday, November 30th.

Can you do it alone? Sure. But I promise you, it’s a whole lot more fun with friends.

Sign up for Holiday Faves 2015 here.

 

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Holiday Faves 2014 | Faves No. 6-10

POSTED ON January 12, 2015 IN Holiday Faves 2014

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The last two days leading up to my trip to California saw me furiously trying to finish my Holiday Faves mini album. At the time I’d wished I hadn’t set myself a deadline of Dec 29th to get it done because I sure could have used a little more time, but now that I’m on the other end of things, I’m super happy I finished this project before the start of the new year.

Since I shared the first half of my album before I left, I figured today would be a good day to share the second half of the album with you.

Back of Fave No. 5 | We left off at Holiday Fave No. 5 so the accent page on the left is on the back of the last page of Fave No. 5. On the right I added a foundation page that included a photo from December 15th when Ryan turned six months old. I didn’t worry about it being truly chronological in terms of the order of my Faves – I just added it in where I felt the album needed some more pizazz.

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The “six months” title I added using some small letter stickers from Basic Grey.

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On the back of the six months page, I added another accent page. Then to separate Holiday Fave No. 6 a bit, I added a star transparency with a gold star sticker on it.

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Behind the transparency is the first photo for Fave No. 6, which I used as a pseudo title page for the section. (This photo was taken before I added in the accent page so ignore that it doesn’t quite match what’s seen above.)

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Holiday Fave No. 6 | Holiday Fave No. 6 was our trip to the Houston Zoo Lights event. It was our first time going and it was so neat!

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Holiday Faves journal card with digital accents.

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I had a lot of photos from this event so I used an eight photo collage template as well as multiple 6×8 photos. Photo collages definitely take a lot more time to put together but man do I love them once they’re done.

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On the back of the 6×8 photo, I added another accent/foundation page spread so I could include a photo of Ryan’s stocking. I’ve been working on it all fall but I finished it the night of Christmas Eve, just in time for Santa to arrive.

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The label tag I added in Photoshop (an old product of mine no longer available) and the Joy wood chip is from Studio Calico.

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Holiday Fave No. 7 | Holiday Fave No. 7 was my Grandma’s Cinnamon Rolls. This is something my Grandma Beryl used to make every time we came to visit but this was my first attempt at making them.

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To hold more photos I added a pocket page protector on the right and used one of the 4×6 Holiday Faves Themed cards to hold a copy of the recipe.

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On the back are more photos of the process and an accent page.

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Holiday Fave No. 8 | Holiday Fave No. 8 was our trip to Moody Gardens for the Festival of Lights holiday display. Moody Gardens is right along the water in Galveston so they had a bunch of ocean-themed light displays right on the beach. It was neat!

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On the large 6×8 photo I added a Kelly Purkey sticker. I have to say, I love the ease of adding pre-done stickers, but the digital scrapbooker in me still often wishes I could resize/recolor things.

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Since I had a bunch of photos from this event, but didn’t want it to end up looking to similar to Fave No. 6,  I decided to try something different and take one of the photos and increase the size of it to 12×5 inches so it spanned across the page. Then I added a few smaller square photos along the bottom. I really like how it turned out!

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Gift List | On the left I added a few more photos from Moody Gardens and then on the right I made a little pocket to hold a list of gifts I purchased for family.

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The paper for the list actually came from a Gap shopped bag but I loved the stripes so I trimmed it out to use in my album. To make the pocket, I trimmed down a 6×8 page protector and closed up the edge with some washi tape.

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On the back is a scaled down version of the Making A List page, with a simple list of what I bought for everyone (and what Adam bought me). I love looking back at these sorts of lists since I rarely can remember what everyone got.

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Holiday Traditions | On the back of the Merry & Bright accent page, I added another accent page and a page protector to hold a few more photos and the Holiday Traditions card.

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The traditions card talks about the Baby’s 1st Christmas ornament I bought for Ryan and I admit – I kind of wish I’d made this a full Fave instead. But I was running out of Faves at this point so I decided to add it into the album this way instead.

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On the back is another new ornament we got this year.

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On the right is the start of Holiday Fave No. 9. I thought it needed a bit more division so I added a woodgrain transparency in front of it.

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Holiday Fave No. 9 | Holiday Fave No. 9 was our Christmas Eve walk around the neighborhood. As sort of an intro page, I added a 6×8 photo I took on the walk.

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On the photo I added some gold stars in Photoshop before printing (from Kristin Cronin-Barrow’s A Fairytale Christmas kit).

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My Fave No. 9 journal card spread.

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On the back is a two-photo collage followed by an foundation page with a photo from our Christmas Eve dinner (tamales!). This too could have been a Fave on it’s own but I was running out of room for Faves by this point!

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I added the label in Photoshop before printing and then added the gold star after.

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On the back of the tamale page is an accent card followed by another transparency and the start of Holiday Fave. No 10.

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I wasn’t thinking when I trimmed out this transparency – I should have trimmed it larger than 6×8 so I could add it directly into the album. But I decided to add it directly in a page protector instead and I think it worked out fine.

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Holiday Fave No. 10 | Holiday Fave No. 10 is Christmas Day so the first page is a 6×8 photo of our tree with all the presents.

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For Christmas Day I used the Holiday Faves No. 10 journal card, followed by several pocket page protectors.

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The photos kind of loosely follow the flow of our day: opening presents in our pajamas, putting together Ryan’s new toys, him playing. If you’re wondering about the sock, that’s a Baby’s First Christmas sock from Adam’s first Christmas which my mother-in-law sent to Ryan.

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I decided to leave one pocket open so you could see through to the next page. The clear transparency card is from Kelly Purkey and the wood stars are from Studio Calico. I thought I might have to seal the pocket closed to keep the stars from falling out but so far they’re staying put.

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More photos and a piece of the wrapping paper from Santa. On the right I included a post-opening aftermath photo (taken holding the camera high above my head, haha) and photo showing the majority of Ryan’s gifts.

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I added the text in Photoshop before printing.

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On the back are a few more photos from our Christmas breakfast and cookie gorging, followed by a family photo in front of our tree.

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I added a hashtag brush from Ali Edwards followed by a little text about the photo.

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And a final accent page to close out the album!

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The very last thing I did to finish up the mini album was go back to the beginning and fill in a few sections I had skipped before, like the Holiday Decorations section. I’d originally planned to make this section a bit more extensive but our weather didn’t cooperate with photo taking so I just snapped a few and called it good.

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This page has the only handwritten journaling card in the album, which I don’t love but I’m went with it to get it done.

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On the back of the page protector I added a few more photos and some accent details.

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A picture to see where it fits in the album – the page on the right is the start of Holiday Fave No. 3.

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The second set of photos I went back to add to was Holiday Fave No. 3: Ryan’s 1st Christmas. The 2×2 photo pocket page protector on the left was largely empty before so I printed out about six more photos and added some details and patterned paper to it.

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I’m a fan of squares so I really love how this page turned out! It may be one of my favorites in the album.

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A look at the back of the page protector. The through the years card is a 3×4 letterpressed card from Kelly Purkey that I trimmed down to fit into the pocket.

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This is how the full spread looks now.

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And that’s pretty much it for my Holiday Faves 2014 Mini Album! If you’d like to see the full album all together, here’s a slideshow that shows how all the pages flow together.

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Overall, I’m feeling really good about how this album came together. It was a sprint to the finish to get it done at the end of December but I’m so glad I was able to move into 2015 with this project in the done pile. Until next year, Holiday Faves.

Missed Holiday Faves No. 1-5? You can check out the first half of my album here.

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Holiday Faves 2014 | Faves No. 1-5

POSTED ON December 22, 2014 IN Holiday Faves, Holiday Faves 2014

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Behind the scenes here at NettioDesigns HQ, I’ve been spending my days hanging out with an awesome group of ladies as part of the first ever Holiday Faves Mini Album Project Class. Those in the class have seen the progress I’ve made on my Holiday Faves album every week, but since Christmas is fast approaching, I wanted to share the first half of my Holiday Faves mini album here with you.

Holiday Faves is one of my favorite yearly scrapbooking projects and this year has been no exception. I skipped it last year with being pregnant so I’ve loved getting back into it again this year.

For my album this year I am using a 6×8-inch Studio Calico Handbook (purchased last year) along with the 6×8 mini album templates I created for the Holiday Faves Project Class.

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Inside Cover Page | One new thing I’ve done this year is put all my pages in page protectors, which is nice because it makes it easy to move pages around and protects the pages should Ryan want to look through it one day.

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Back of cover page | On the back of the inside cover page, I have an accent page followed by a journaling card template for my holiday manifesto. This is basically a “why I made this album” page but I find it’s a good way to kick off the album and I love looking back at my why’s each year. I also try to include our ages and where we live since as a military family it tends to change often.

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Holiday Fave No. 1 | Holiday Fave No. 1 is the Christmas countdown calendar I finally finished earlier this year (after two years!). For the photo page I used one of the photo page templates and added a gold star from Studio Calico for some dimension.

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On the back of the Fave No. 1 spread is another accent page, followed by a 4×6 photo attached to a gold glitter scrapbooking paper from Teresa Collins. I love all the digital pages, but I also find adding actual scrapbooking paper and physical elements into the album keeps things interesting.

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I’m not a huge embellisher with paper (I’d probably be the most boring paper scrapbooker ever, haha) but I did add a few details to this page. At the bottom I added a label – the star is from Studio Calico and the sticker label is from Kelly Purkey.

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At the top I added a little Merry wood chip piece from Studio Calico.

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Holiday Fave No. 2 | Holiday Fave No. 2 is our “watch Elf and drink hot chocolate night.” It was late and the light wasn’t great but I decided not to overthink it and just went with the photos I had. Holiday Faves is much more about the story than it is perfectly staged photos.

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On the photo, I added a digital stamp from Ali Edwards to fill up some of the white space from the TV screen.

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And at the bottom of the journal card I added some digital elements. I love digital elements because you can layer them to your heart’s content but they don’t make your page actually thicker like real elements do.

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In between my journal card and photo page, I added a printed transparency of one of the Holiday Faves templates I designed.

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On the second page of the Holiday Fave No. 2 spread I used a two photo page template to create a collage. I’m not going to lie – I’m not 100% happy with this page yet. I think it needs some embellishment of some kind but I couldn’t decide on something that wouldn’t interfere with the look of the transparency page, so for now I’m leaving it as is and figure I can always add to it later if I want.

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One of the reasons I chose to create my Holiday Faves mini album as a hybrid album rather than a straight digital album this year is due to one big thing: pocket pages.

If you’ve been around scrapbooking the past year, you probably already know that pocket scrapbooking has become all the rage thanks to Project Life and those pocket-style pages have trickled down into smaller albums as well. The Studio Calico album I’m using includes a handful of pocket page protectors in various combinations of 3×4 & 4×6 pocket sizes and I plan to use these pages in a few different ways in my album.

Below is a look at the back of my Holiday Faves No. 2 page. For now the page on the left is blank but I plan to add a photo of our Christmas tree. On the right I plan to use the themed card to write a little bit about our decorations.

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On the back of the pocket page (below left), I plan to add photos of our decorations. Since this will likely be our last Christmas living here, I want to make sure I capture all those details as part of my album.

Holiday Fave No. 3 | For Holiday Fave No. 3 I chose Ryan’s First Christmas since it’s a pretty big deal around here. To start the section, I made a sort of sudo title page featuring a cute photo of him.

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One of my favorite things about his first Christmas is watching him experience everything for the first time. The looks on his face as he tries to figure out what in the world is happening is just priceless! So I plan to use another pocket page protector to hold a collection of those types of photos from the entire holiday season.

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This pocket page has 2×2-inch squares and is by Simple Stories so it doesn’t quite fit into my album as is (it’s slightly taller) but I just punched new holes using my Crop-o-dile punch and it fits fine.

You can see I’ve kept it pretty simple for now but I plan to add more embellishments and details once I have a better idea of how many photos I’ll have all together. I’ll also likely live some of the pockets blank, or with small embellishments so you can see through to the journal card behind.

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Once you turn the page protector you can see the Holiday Faves No. 3 journaling card with a photo of Ryan putting his very first ornament on the tree (with a bit of help, of course).

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On the backside of the Holiday Faves No. 3 journal card, I added an accent page followed by a foundation page with a 4×6 photo on it.

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The 4×6 photo captures where we were at exactly Dec 12, 2014 at 15:16 (aka 3:16), so 12-13-14 at 15:16. It’s only taken me a decade to capture a photo like this but since it’s the last one I’ll see in my lifetime, I figured I’d better get on it! The letter stickers are from Kelly Purkey and the gold star is from Studio Calico.

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On the bottom of the photo I added a Kelly Purkey label tag with a little note about where we were. This is what I mean about my handwriting font being a little bit neater – the letters here are a wee bit wonky.

nettiodesigns_Holiday-Faves-No45-16Holiday Fave No. 4 | For Holiday Fave No. 4, I chose to focus on Holiday Treats because what’s the holiday season without a little indulgence, right?

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On the left I included the Holiday Faves No. 4 journal card template with some digital elements on it from a variety of kits.

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On the right, I included a four pocket page protector which includes photos, memorabilia and an 3×4-inch accent card. The Sprinkles Cupcakes is a piece of the bag I trimmed down to 3×4-inches and the accent card is from Kristin Cronin-Barrow’s A Fairytale Christmas: Sweet digital kit.

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On the back of the page protector are two more photos, another accent card and memorabilia. I added some digital text to one photo and a digital label to the other before I printed the photos.

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Here’s a closer look at the bottom of the page protector. The bottle cap on the right does make the page a little puffy but no more than any other dimensional embellishment. I just glued it down using a little Tombow liquid adhesive.

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On the right side of the spread is another accent page.

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Holiday Fave No. 5 | Holiday Fave No. 5 was the Tomball German Christmas Market. I’m technically half-German but this was our first time going to a German Christmas Market. It was a lot of fun!

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One thing I realized while putting together my Fave No. 5 pages is while I love the look of photo collages, they definitely add quite a bit of time to the process, especially when I have to select and edit all of the photos first. Adding them to the photo template is the quick part!

This page is actually a 6 square photo collage that I adjusted a bit on the right side for the one vertical photo I wanted to include. And yes that’s a boot of beer, haha, but it’s actually the same one because they were $21 a piece! The strap on the cup seemed a little dorky but it did come in handy when we were trying to carry food, beer and push a stroller at the same time.

 

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On the right is another Holiday Faves journal card with digital elements.

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On the back of the journal card is a 6×8 photo of Ryan meeting Sinterklaas and on the right is another photo collage.

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As you can see Ryan wasn’t exactly a fan of the man in the white beard, haha. To keep things simple, I added some journaling on the photo before printing.

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For the photo collage on the right, I used a 6 square photo template again, but this time I turned off the squares for photos 3 & 6 and added scrapbooking paper and a printed 3×4 card (trimmed down) after I printed the page. I really love the mix of digital and paper. And yes, we ate entirely too much food – this wasn’t even all of it, haha.

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And that’s where I’m at with my album so far! Overall, I’m really happy with how it’s coming together. I’m always hesitant when I first start putting it together and then once I start seeing the album come together, I get more and more excited to see it make it to the finished version. As we get closer to Christmas, my momentum definitely picks up and this year is no exception.

A little note about credits: Digital elements include a variety of Christmas kits by Zoe Pearn & Kristin Cronin-Barrow, primarily Memorable: Christmas, A Homemade Christmas and Life Stories: Christmas.  I didn’t include links for any of the paper products I used because they were all purchased in years past and are quite possibly not available any more. But if you feel like hunting any of them down, you should be able to do a Google search using any of the names I mentioned. 

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Holiday Faves 2014 Mini Album | Digital Foundation Pages

POSTED ON December 5, 2014 IN Holiday Faves 2014

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You know what my favorite part of Holiday Faves is? Finally getting to put together my pages! Since it’s December 5th already, I’ve been feeling a little behind the eight ball in getting my album ready as I’ve been busy with the Holiday Faves Mini Class, but that’s exactly what I love about Holiday Faves. If I were doing a daily holiday album, I’d already be five days behind and stressed out but instead I know I’m exactly where I need to be. Love that.

This year for my hybrid mini album I’m using a Studio Calico Handbook 6×8 ring album I purchased last year (seen here) with a mix of single 6×8 page protectors and pocket page protectors to hold additional photos and elements.

Since this year is Ryan’s first Christmas, I’m also thinking I may reprint the digital pages as a photo book that would be easier for him to flip through when he gets older. Kind of depends on how my album comes together this year, but that’s one of the many perks of digital – duplicate copies without duplicating the work.

I admit this year I really struggled with choosing my digital scrapbooking supplies because there are SO many good ones out there. But I finally narrowed it down to these four kits from Zoe Pearn & Kristin Cronin-Barrow (all available at Sweet Shoppe Designs): Memorable: Christmas, A Homemade Christmas, Christmas Spirit: Comfort & Joy and Life Stories: Christmas (and a paper or two from A Fairy Tale Christmas: Noel).

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Once I had my supplies chosen, I got to work putting my pages together using the Holiday Faves Mini Album templates. I also planned out the order of my pages using the interactive Holiday Faves planner (which is included as part of the Holiday Faves mini class). This is the first time I’ve planned out my album this way and I have to say – it’s was so much fun moving all the tiny thumbnails around! As you can see, I’ve left a lot of blank pages in the album – those will either be filled up with photos, paper scrapbooking pages or I’ll combine some of the pages back to back and remove the blank pages altogether if I don’t need them.

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Since I haven’t printed out my digital pages yet (that’s on my to-do list for this weekend), I thought I’d share the digital versions of my Holiday Faves Mini Album pages with you. I love this stage of the process because it’s really when the templates start to come alive.

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Since I’m planning to print out a copy of my album as a photo book once the album is done, I’m planning to add my journaling and photos to the Holiday Faves journal cards digitally rather than handwritten like I’ve done in the past. I’m also planning to add digital elements at the bottom of each card but I’m waiting to do that until I know how much journaling I’ll have on each card.

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One new thing I’m trying this year is printing several of the accent pages as black text on white card stock. I’ve been loving the mix of black and white lately and I think it’ll add a nice dose of contrast and balance to all the patterned digital pages.

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One thing I do know about my album is that the order of some of the pages will definitely change and evolve as I add photos and stories to the album. Plus I’m pretty sure I don’t need three pages with red polka dots in the last six pages. I plan to keep my interactive album planner updated as I create the album so when I go to print my photo book after Christmas, I’ll know exactly what order to put the pages.

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And that’s a quick look at my foundation pages for my Holiday Faves Mini Album this year! I can’t wait to start capturing my Holiday Faves and adding actual photos and stories to the pages – that’s when the real fun begins.

Want to join in the Holiday Faves fun? Registration for Holiday Faves 2014 ends Monday, December 8th. Get all the details here.

 

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FREE Holiday Faves 6×8 Printable & Template | Making A List

POSTED ON December 3, 2014 IN Free Stuff, Holiday Faves 2014

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The Holiday Faves 6×8 Mini Album & Project Class is in full-swing behind the scenes here at Nettio Designs, so today I wanted to give those of you who haven’t joined in yet a chance to try out one of the templates from the class…for FREE!

The Making A List free download includes one 6×8-inch layered Photoshop (.PSD) file for you to customize as well as one printable 6×8 JPG you can use as is. Print them at 6×8 to use in your holiday mini album or scale them down to 3×4 inches to slip into your pocket scrapbooking.

Download the Holiday Faves Free 6×8-inch Printable & Template here!

Of course, if you’d like to join me and almost 50 other Holiday Favers in scrapbooking your favorites holiday memories and moments in a fun and creative way, sign up up for the Holiday Faves 2014 Mini Album & Project Class. Class started Monday but we’re just getting started so there’s still plenty of time to jump in.

For only $25, you’ll not only receive an exclusive set of 6×8-inch mini album templates designed by me (one student told me the templates alone are worth the price!) but you’ll also receive a printable planning guide, interactive album planner, exclusive tutorials and downloads for printing and putting your album together and access to a private Facebook group where you can connect with me and a whole group of kickass memory keepers.

It’s everything you need to actually complete your holiday mini album this year.

Registration ends December 8th, so don’t delay – sign up now.

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