WOO HOO! IT'S A CHRISTMAS BLOG HOP!!!

Welcome to the TIS THE SEASON TO HOP!!  I have been invited to join a bunch of talented ladies to share with you some awesome Christmas themed projects. 

Here's the plan...We will be hopping for three days from the 2nd through the 4th of Dec.  Some of the ladies in the hop will offering Candy so look out for those neat gifts...also make sure you become my follower and comment all 3 days of the hop on all the participating blogs in order to win the Candy Elsa will be giving away on her blog.

We hope to inspire you to create and give homemade gifts and cards this year. 

Here is the line up...Just in case you got lost...It all starts with our AWESOME host, Elsa...

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 

If you arrived here by chance please go back to the beginning at Elsa's blog, Just a Few Designs.

For the first day of our hop, I made a Christmas themed Junque Journal...Yes, I made another one, but this one ROCKS!!   I was able to make something new out of my old supplies....A STASH BUSTER!  That will help make room for all of the new goodies Santa is going to leave under the tree, right?!

I went through my stash of old Christmas papers and goodies and created this junk journal.  I called it "Christmas Junque".  It could be used for a December Daily type of journal.  All of the supplies were in my stash.  I bought nothing to make it!  I cut the ornaments with the Sizzix die, and elevated them with foam tape.

 I used old charms, made a charm (Santa), and even attached a "button" (the tree) as dangles.

 I made four "sections", each starting with a pocket page.

 I kept to a green/red/brown color theme throughout.

 This tree is flocked!

 Some of these papers are so old I don't know who made them.

 I used stickers to embellish some of the papers, others needed nothing.

 I used some papers to make envelopes, and created closures with a circle punch, a brad and some twine.

 Aren't these papers delicious?

 I didn't do a lot of embellishing in the book, because I wanted to add my "junque" to it.

The big pocket pages also house two HUGE tags in the middle!  

So, what are you waiting for...Go and get your stash out and make yourself a Christmas Junque Journal!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Come back tomorrow and see what I have in store for you!  

Next, please hop on over to Tmika and see what crafty goodness awaits!

Stay Crafty My Friends!