Cathy Zielske’s Christmas Book project

I love this little project of Cathy Zielske and you want to know why? Well, let me count the ways!

I love it because it doesn’t only give me project ideas for Christmas but Cathy made this for a school charity! Coolness!

Wanna see more photos and learn how to do this? Click after the jump!

You start with the coolest little board books from Cloud 9 Design, and 3 coordinating papers from their Luster series (the green sheet, the red sheet, and the brown sheet—and I really have to emphasize how much i LOVE when a company puts out the same design in beautiful, rich colors that work so well together. Takes the guess work out of the mix!) Then you get some stickers from Scenic Route, and then some from Fontwerks, which are also here. (you can use them however you like in the album!)

Next, you need some grid lined paper like this one from Scenic Route, or this one from Karen Russell’s Narratives line (which I used on this album). And then, some circle punches. I used this one and this one from Fiskars. You’ll use the punches to cut out simple journaling circles, which you can just grab a pen and write a quick note about each photo.

In addition to some brown stamp ink, some paint, a corner rounder and a sanding block, I pulled out my old favorite foam stamps (Jersey) from Making Memories. I love those stamps. Never going to get old.

Then you need 12 to 20 snapshots, some adhesive (i used my Xyron 900 for the whole project, because it made it so quick!) and then just start cutting and glueing. Just like that.