The Third and Final Day of the BLOG HOP!!!

I have to say a couple of things before I get to my project.  This has been a ton of fun for me and I am soooo honored that Elsa had invited me to participate.  I am overwhelmed with all of the wonderful comments left for me, and I want to say a huge WELCOME to all of our new followers.  This has been such a great experience and I hope to do this again sometime!  Thank you, Elsa!

 I found this plain kraft colored box at my local Craft Warehouse.  I picked it up, actually a couple of months ago, not knowing what I was going to do with it, but when this blog hop came along I knew what it would become.

 I covered it up to look like a present, and added bling to the side ribbons.  I tied a bow for the top, and added two dangling snowflakes.

 The box is closed by magnets.  I covered the insides, and added ornament punched shapes with Stickles to look like the hangers.

 Here is the box fully opened, revealing 4 smaller boxes.

 I decided to put mini albums in each box!

 Here are all of the lids, opened.

 The first album, entitled Winter Wonderland, is a maze book, or also called a meander book.

 I made tags with snowflake punches for the pulls.

 The second book is a take on the "Never Ending Mini Album" that I have done in the past, except this time I used just a piece of cardstock instead of envelopes.

 Some views of the book.  I used a belly band to close it.

 For some of the pages I made library card type pockets and put tags in them.

 The third book bound up with ribbon...

 ...Titled Happy Holidays...

 ...is an exploding album!  This is the front...

 ...here's the back.  I added punches of ornaments and glued them on the sides only so that tags could be placed behind them.

 The last book is an envelope book, the envelopes made from cardstock.  I closed it with bakers twine that I wrapped around the album and then around the poinsettia, much like you would do those envelope closures.

 The envelopes are adhered alternately by the "flaps".  I added die cuts from a Spellbinders die to them for added picture space.

 Each of the 6 envelopes has a tag inside for more pictures or journaling.  This is the front of the book...

...and the back of the book.

I hope you enjoyed this project!  I had a wonderful time making it!!!  The papers used are from October Afternoon, and I used a variety of punches from EK Success, Fiskars, and Martha Stewart.  The bling is Recollections.

OK, time to go see what Tmika has done for her third project!

Just in case, here is the lineup, one more time...

Elsa- http://www.JustaFewDesigns.blogspot.com

Krystal  http://www.krystalsnight.blogspot.com

Jules -www.thejulebox.com

Kimi - http://uniquescrappiness.blogspot.com

Linda -http://simpleandsassycreations.blogspot.com

Margaret- http://www.auntmargaretdesigns.blogspot.com

Stacie-  http:// www.creativyou.blogspot.com

 Michelle- http://creativeoperation.blogspot.com  <--- you are here

Tmika - http://www.scrapdaworld.blogspot.com

Sue -  http://scrappingsuzieqtt.blogspot.com/

Yolanda - http://socrafty3.blogspot.com

Emily- http://www.createserendipity.net