An Advent Calendar in Your Scrapbook!
Hi, everybody! It’s Jill, from Close To My Heart, and I’m so excited to share today’s post with you! The holiday season is right around the corner, and I’m definitely getting into the Christmas spirit! Today, I’ll be showing you how to create these adorable Christmas layouts with two of my favorite products—specialized mini page protectors called Flip Flaps™ and adhesive-backed Shimmer Trim.
For these layouts, I’ve used various papers from the Close To My Heart Holly Jolly paper packet.
Shimmer Trim is a great addition to any card or scrapbook page, and in this layout, I used this shiny Gold Shimmer Trim to embellish parts of the photos, background elements, and text for some eye-catching fun.
Shimmer Trim is adhesive-backed, so you won’t need to worry about how to attach it to your projects. Simply trim your desired length/width of Shimmer Trim with non-stick scissors, peel away the sheer backing, and apply it wherever you want some extra sparkle!
While we all love looking at all the lights and shiny Christmas decorations, sometimes it’s the things we don’t see that inspire the most excitement. After all, why else would we wrap presents, hide little treasures in stockings, or eagerly await the opening of each day on an Advent Calendar? I wanted to capture the same sense of anticipation in this second example layout. By using Flip Flaps™, I hid photos and journaling to create my own version of an Advent Calendar, with a hidden surprise for each day!
Tip: Using a fine-tip pen for your journaling is your best bet when you’re working in a small area. This helps to prevent your pen strokes from bleeding into each other and keeps your project looking crisp and precise.
Flip Flaps™ are basically miniature page protectors in and of themselves. Their primary function is to allow you to have more room in your layouts for photos and journaling. In this layout, however, I’ve used them to conceal photos and journaling for a little surprise each day. To attach Flip Flaps™, attach each one with clear tape or another adhesive and press it firmly to the page protector to ensure that it’s been fully attached.
Tip: When using Flip Flaps™ in your own scrapbooking, you’ll want to attach them on the outside of your main page protector so you can have easy access to lift each Flip Flap™.
These layouts are a great way to add some interactive and shimmery Christmas spirit to your layouts, and we can’t wait to help you incorporate these fun elements in your own artwork. We’ll be giving away a packet of 2″ x 2″ Flip Flaps™ and a roll of Gold Shimmer Trim to three lucky readers! Be sure to comment below by November 30! Good luck.
~ Jill
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Thank you, Jill and all our friends at Close To My Heart, for joining us today to share such beautiful and inspiring projects along with a fabulous giveaway to round out the day!
Last time our friends from Close To My Heart were here, they offered the Multi Square Window Thin Cuts for three lucky SCT readers. The three winners are…
- I love this die and I am going to buy it now since I not only love the cards but the scrapbook pages are awesome – thanks so much for sharing! If I am fortunate enough to win the giveaway, I know one of my scrapbooking sisters would love this too! Thanks again for the wonderful examples and ideas! ~ Pam Olson October 19, 2019
- Wow, all of these cards and layouts are amazing! I love the embellishments and details, thanks for the giveaway ~ Robin Buchholz October 19, 2019
- Wow what a wonderful die – I can see so many uses for this not only for scra pbooking but for card making too. ~ Theresa Evans October 23, 2019
Congratulations ladies! Please be sure to send us your full name, mailing address and telephone number to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and put “CTMH winner” in your reference line!
Have a wonderful Saturday!
I love this 2 page layout done as an advent calendar!! So fun! I can think of a few dozen other ways to use these Flip Flaps, lol!!
The way Jill used the Shimmer Trim to enhance the letters is a great idea!! Thanks for the inspiration! Thanks for the chance to win CTMH and SCT!!
Love this project and how you used the flip flaps and shimmer trim.
Really cute idea for an interactive scrapbook page! Love the shimmer trim that comes with the adhesive on it. So quick & easy to use. Close to my Heart has awesome products!
Sim0ly darling inspiration. Loving the layouts and the darling windows. Thank you for the inspiration.
The Gold Shimmer Trim is so elegant and the Flip Flaps are such a great way to hide little surprises! Congratulations to the winners from last time!
Congrats to the winners
Would be lovely to win the prize of shimmer trim and flip flaps!
Flip flaps are a very unique idea! Everyone of all ages love surprises…
The layouts are so cute, I love the Flip Flap interactive element!
Fun. Thanks for sharing!
This is adorable! What a creative a fun way to use the flip flaps. And it’s so easy!
I’ve never heard of flip flaps! What an awesome idea for several of my scrapbooking layouts. Your layout was so nice and clean. Love it and will certainly use the inspiration. Much thanks ❤️
The flip flaps are a great idea. I would love to use these, and my nephew would love to lift them up and see what’t underneath. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
stunning layouts and fantastic inspiration
Clever layout with the Flip Flaps.
layouts are beyond fabulous …
As usual CTMH knocks it out of the park. Loving the layouts, shimmer tape ,and flipflaps
Thanks CJ
What a fantastic use for those little flip flaps. I absolutely love the idea and will incorporate it into my holiday layout this year. I may even try using something like that on a card. I am going to have to find some of those flip flaps. Thanks so much for the ideas!
I would love to win the shimmer trim and flip flaps! So fun! Thanks for the chance to win!!
I have used larger Flip Flaps to add more photos. Never thought to make an advent calendar! Wonderful idea!
Thank you for the tips. I was wondering if I have to cut the protectors to attach the flip flaps. Now I have try!
I love this idea! What a great way to capture everything that makes the holidays so special.
I’ve been using CTMH Flip Flaps for years! Absolutely love them! The Shimmer Trim is super as well!
I love shimmer trim … I have been buying since it came out. And I love getting more photos on my pages with flip flaps or using them for hidden journaling!
So many amazing things.
I love the tiny add-on page protectors! I’ve been known to cut up larger ones and sew smaller but this is so much easier! How fun😊
Love the shimmer trim and flip flaps. Great addition to any scrapbooking project. Beautiful layout and card too.
The Flip Flaps look like such a great idea.
How cool. I have tons of ideas for Flip Flaps and some shimmer tape.
My friend is Close To My Heart consultant who is always praising the use of flip flaps. I would love to win this prize. I would love to try the advent calendar too.
Love the advent calendar for your scrapbook–what a great idea.
Thanks for sharing this fun layout! I love CTMH’s shimmer trim and would love to try flip flaps.
Those flip flaps are great for pocket scrapbooking and the shimmer trim would be a great addition to my Christmas craft stash.
I love the Flip Flaps. What a great idea for an advent layout.
Great layouts & love the flip flaps.
Such wonderful layouts and love the flip flaps.
Thanks for a chance to win…
These look like great
additions for scrapbooks!
Would be fabulous to win
and try.
Carla from Utah
Shimmer! Pink! Two of my favorites! 😊😘😁
What fun projects with the flip flaps! Thanks so much for the
chance to win this lovely prize.
The advent calendar is such a great idea and the layouts are so festive. Great paper collection!,
I have been making Advent calendars for years for everyone — my parents, husband, son, his girlfriend. No one is too old to enjoy the fun of little hidden surprises! Now, thanks to Flip Flops, I can add them to my scrapbooks. I can’t wait to try this out! Thanks for the inspiration.
How cute! I can see many interesting cards made with these products.
Oh those little flip flaps would be so cute on little kid birthday cards
I would love to try those flip flaps!
What a cute idea to use flip-flaps! I want to make an advent calendar and these would be perfect! Thanks for the amazing ideas.
What a fabulous idea! Love adding flip flaps to my projects! Definitely going to try this layout!
Beautiful layouts! Love those cute little FlipFlaps!
This is really cool! 🙂
Love these layouts! Going to try this no matter what!
I have used 4×6 flip flaps but I absolutely love these adorable 2x2s! What a great idea for an advent calendar scrapbook page. Great way to record the month of December. A little bit of gold glitter tape always helps!
Love the advent calendar idea using flip flaps and shimmer trim will definitely be using in my Christmas layout
Love these layouts. The flip flaps are a great idea!
I love these layouts and those cute little Flip Flaps! I haven’t tried these, so I would love to win! The shimmery tape also looks like a lot of fun. Thank you CTMH and SCT for the chance to win.
OMG! I adore this layout! The little flaps are soooo cute!!! I would love to try them! Thank you for the chance!
These flip flats are amazing and who doesn’t like shimmer!!
Great idea, CM! I always have more pictures I could add, this would make it easier!
I love the idea of Flip Flaps and hiding little surprises in the layout. The gold shimmer adds the ideal shimmer. I love to add the sparkle to my pages.
So clever! Love those.
What a fun, interactive layout using the flip flaps! I’ve been using them for a short time, and love the flexibility and originality it offers to my layouts. The shimmer tape is a great idea for adding some eye appeal to layouts. Love!
Awesome layouts and the Flip-Flaps are GENIUS! I would flip if I was to see my name in the winners post and would keep Flapping my lips so everyone hears about these magical tools! Fingers crossed and thanks to CTMH and SCT for the chance to win this!
Very clever use of the flip flaps! It looks like a fun and simple way to create interaction on cards and layouts. Thanks for the chance to win!
love these cute Flip-Flops. Never tried them but would love a chance ty so much for the awesome prizes you give away
Shimmer Trim + Flip Flaps have Christmas layouts written all over them!
I love the Holly Jolly layout. So festive! The way the flip flaps are used is ingenious!
I love the way these pages have been made up using the flip flaps as advent windows, such a fun idea and a great idea along with the gold glitter tape added to give it the sparkle, awesome pages.
I love this! I would like to take my scrapbooking up a notch. I think this would do that.
The shimmer trim just adds that bit of Christmas *sparkle* and I love how you have extended the Christmas tree on the layout by adding a Christmas tree embellishment. Just lovely!
Super cute layout and how awesome are those flip-flaps??!!? It’s a great way to use any extra pictures you have as well! Thanks so much for the opportunity to win! 🙂
What a great idea for the 2″x2″ flip flaps!
Love the Advent calendar style layout! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love Flip Flaps and shimmer trim! Two of my favourite CTMH products!
Being a newbie to scrapbooking I havent dived that far into the endless different tools and embellishments that CTMH offers. But after reading this blog I am very excited to try them both. Love the inspiration from this blog, it definitely helps me make my pages look more polished. Thank you for all the great tips and advice!
Love Flip Flaps on my scrapbooking pages and these miniature Flip Flaps are adorable! I’ll be doing some Christmas pages with these, for sure.
I love love love flip flaps! What a clever idea for them! The layouts are beautiful!
Cute flippers….
What a cute idea! I see a baby peek a boo page in the making! Thanks for the ideas and a chance to win!
Love me some glitter, and with it so easy to use. Flip flaps added a new dimension 2to my scrapbooking.
Love the chance to win! Flip flaps are great to use when you have lots of pictures!
I love flip flaps! I use them all the time!!!!!
Love your use of those 2 products. I had not thought about making an advent calendar, I am now.
I love flip flaps! Thanks for sharing!
Adorable pages! and I love adding interactive elements to my LOs.
I love flip flaps! They are such a handy way to add more photos to a layout.
These are such cute layouts! Thanks for the opportunity to win these goodies! I would love to incorporate these flip flaps into my layouts and who doesn’t love shimmer trim!!!!!
Love the Flip Flaps and beautiful gold trim! Fabulous layout pages!
These layouts are so cute. I like the little doors/windows.
Wow! What a cute idea-advent calendar scrapbook pages. I too love flip flaps! Don’t think I’ve used the little ones
Love CTMH products!! Would love to use these products as a winning prize!!! The adhesive backed ribbon is ingenious!!!!!
Flip flaps – what a great idea for any type of layout. I love the fact that you can free up space on your page and use the flip flaps for journaling or whatever. Whoever thought them up is a genius!
Love both of these layouts and the use of both products. Close to My Heart always has quality products and I love the scrapbook kits. Thanks for sharing these ideas!
Love the idea of a scrapbook page advent calendar my family would love this. The shimmer trim and flips are great.
I really love these layouts for Christmas. Thank you for your inspiration and sharing it with us.
Love the flip flops. I love how you can add so much to layouts with them. Thank you for the chance to win them.
I love the flip flops and how you can add more to your layouts with them. Thanks for the chance to win them.
Love the Flip Flaps….what a clever idea!!!
Beautiful Shimmer Trim and fun Flip Flaps. Wow! I can already see so many ways to use these items. Especially excited about the Flip Flaps and being able to add extra pictures, embellishments, and surprises to layouts. Thanks for the chance to win one of each.
What a GORGEOUS holiday layout! The Flip Flaps are an awesome addition! The Flaip Flaps would also be awesome to use in creating cards! What an element of surprise for the recipient!
Shimmer Trim for Christmas!
I have the perfect spot for the flip flops!!
I love flip flaps and how you uses them on these pages!
What a great project! I am loving those flip flaps !! Thank you!
The layouts are so cute and beautiful, I love the Flip Flap interactive element!
Love the flip-ups over the pictures and
sentiments. Fun idea and great way
to get more content on the page.
thanks for offering a fantastic prize.
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Beautiful pages! I’ve just started using flip pockets and am loving them! And glitter is always my friend!
Love this idea – those flip flaps look super ! And can’t go wrong with shimmer .
Cute idea for an advent calendar. Thanks for the inspiration!
Cute layouts! Would love to try these products out – lots of fun!
Love the idea of having a surprise with the flip flap! Love the colors in the pages!
The Advent calendar idea is really neat. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love this idea with the Flip Flaps…so much fun to do an advent calendar. Also for other holidays or seasons would be nice too.
I love the flaps! Wonderful idea.