Christmas Cards Album

A few years back, a fellow scrapbooker/photographer, Marci Lambert, shared a really cool way to store her Christmas cards...binding them by year! I was totally intrigued & wanted to store mine the same way. But as time went on, I never got around to it. My laziness kicked in after the holidays were over...just didn't feel like taking the time to get mine in order, except to tie them up with pretty ribbons & add a tag with a date on it. Since I have been cleaning out each week since the beginning of the new year, I thought I'd take the time & finally sit down & bind all of my Christmas cards...starting year, 2007.

For each album, I used a some past Work In Progress kits. Picked out my favorite pattern papers, covered the front & back covers, used my favorite border punches & even stitched together. I kept with the same design for simplicity & I LOVE how they turned out!!!


I used the January add-on kit for my 2010 album. As you will see, 2009 is not pictured. I'm not sure what I did with those cards, but now, I'm on a mission to find them so I can complete this project!


I couldn't resist using this pretty mix of brown & blue together...love the feel of the cover, so soft! These papers are from the November kit.


The December kit was used for 2007, which I just LOVE LOVE LOVE to death!!!


Here are a few images of what the cards look like inside. For each year, I placed our Christmas card at the beginning of each album.


I added an envelope at the back of the inside cover to store all the newsletters received as well.


I love how they all turned out & using past kits for this project. You really do get a lot of product to spark your creativity!!

Cheers :)