It’s day three of our 12 Days of Holiday Giving event, and today Erica Thompson has the sweetest gift idea that allows you to be creative and give the gift of memorykeeping to someone special! Let’s take a look, and don’t miss out on today’s giveaways at the end of the post, too!

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Hello, SCT friends! It’s Erica here with you today sharing a fun and colorful holiday mini-album for the 12 Days of Holiday Giving event here at Scrapbook and Cards Today!

Supplies | Bella Blvd North Pole collection paper pack & embellishment bundle; Tools: We R Memory Keepers Cinch

To create this album, I used the fun and festive North Pole collection from Bella Blvd. This collection is great for use outside of the holidays because it also includes a lot of fun winter elements! Mini albums are one of my favorite things to create and I love to use my We R Memory Keepers Cinch to bind my albums.

There are many ways to bind your mini albums, but the Cinch makes it super easy and they have a variety of different colored wires to pick from! Mini albums make the perfect little handmade gift for anyone! You can make them in many different shapes and sizes, and they are a great way to use up your stash!

I sized my album to 8.50 x 5 inches and included smaller pockets and interactive pages within the inside of the album. For the cover, I used the beautiful Snowstorm printed acetate sheet from the North Pole collection. This adds a fun texture and see-through element right at the start of the album. I created a small embellishment cluster in the bottom right corner of the cover using die cuts, puffy stickers, and chipboard from the North Pole collection. I used one of my favorite papers from the collection paper pack to peek through the acetate and added the “merry” title piece from the North Pole ephemera pack.

Using glassine bags in your albums as pages adds another texture and pocket to hold photos and memorabilia! Just punch holes in the side of the bag with the Cinch and add it to the album!

I love adding pages where I can tuck in festive tags and top with fun trims! You can use tags to add more photos or your journaling, too.

For some of the pages, I created top pockets and other pages have side pockets where you can tuck even more photos and memorabilia from your holiday adventures! In my album, I created a few tags for the top pockets and pull-out photo mats for the side-loading pockets.

You can create the album and fill it with photos for yourself or leave open photo mats to gift this album to someone special! Albums like this are always a fun, handmade gift to give. I left my pages open because this chunky holiday album is getting wrapped up with some extra tags and adhesive and getting tucked under the tree for one of my friends!

If you are looking for a sweet handmade gift to create, try creating a mini album! These work great not just for the holidays but for any occasion! Thanks so much for stopping by the SCT blog today and I hope you all have a great December!

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Let’s check out today’s wonderful giveaways from our friends at Bella Blvd and Scrapbook.com!

GIVEAWAY #01

December is here which means it’s time for sweater weather and ice skates, going to the tree farm to pick the perfect tree, and writing letters to Santa! The North Pole includes our favorite Christmas colors and adds a bold blue and a pop of pink! The argyle patterns are sure to warm your heart and the skating polar bears steal the show! The collection includes: 12 Double-sided 12×12” patterned papers, (1) 12×12” Clear Cuts printed acetate, Doohickey stickers, Chipboard stickers, Epoxy stickers, Ephemera Icons (containing 125 pieces!), Ephemera Words (containing 84 pieces!), Puffy sticker and 4 Bella-Pops!

GIVEAWAY #02

The Scrapbook.com Project Grip Mat is just what your workspace needs! The Project Grip Mat comes in a 12” by 12” size and has the same functionality as a regular silicone mat like inking, stenciling, watercoloring, and heat embossing, and it cleans up easily. But what makes the Project Grip Mat so special is that it will hold your inks, stencils, project, and more in place while you work! This mat can also be cut down so that you can create a custom mat for your ink pads, A2 or slimline cards, and more!

We wanted to give one lucky winner a $25 Scrapbook.com gift certificate! Treat yourself to a Project Grip Mat or grab yourself a present that you’ve had your eye on this year!

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Thanks for joining in on another day of fun papercrafting inspiration & giveaways! To enter to win today’s prizes, leave a comment on this post telling us your favourite holiday icon to create with, like snowmen, snowflakes, or Christmas trees, by midnight on Wednesday, December 21st! A randomly selected winner will be announced here on the blog on Friday, December 23rd. Be sure to come back tomorrow for beautiful card ideas!