Gift Giving -- I Wish Planner/Journal

I actually was working on a project that I should've been working on earlier, but...I was really busy with working on Christmas cards, stamp a stacks, and classes....so this one came to me from one of my customers. She suggested that we do this...now, it is late for this year, but...I can give it as a gift, right?

It can be used as a holiday planner, or maybe as a holiday gift diary, or journal......

I love the rich look of the papers, with the Chocolate Chip and Riding Hood Red, and the Kiwi Kiss. I had an extra Brushed Gold Snowflake from my Christmas cards, that I used to accent the cover. The Chipboard Star is from the Country Living kit, and the stamp is also from the kit. I punched the circle out with the 1 3/4" circle punch. The scallop circle is from the Sizzix die, in the largest circle and stamped with the snowflakes from the Country Living kit.

I still need to add more to the cover...nothing has been glued down yet....., but as I was making the book, I added 2 ribbon book marks. I thought as a decorative way to finish off the ends was to add these silver brads...(i wish they were gold!)....but, I had to do with Silver....

To add them, I turned the edge of the ribbon over, and punched a hole, and threaded the brad through the hole. It works, and I think I might try to turn the points over so they won't poke out. I added a little 'fray check' to the ends too, so they wouldn't unravel.

**my cute little dog was in surgery today. She had a cyst that ruptured, and she needed surgery to have it repaired...just what we wanted to spend $ on before Christmas! YIKES! She made it out with no problem even with her heart murmur, which they said was a complication!
I brought her home with a cute little purple and white bandage on her. She was so sweet, sitting in her basket the whole way home in the car!

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