​In this post I am making a variety of handmade Christmas cards using paper from the Lollipop Box Club's November box, Crafty Bonbons Dec box and from a recent stamping workshop at the Mama Makes Christmas get together. I have also made a lovely watercolour card and some festive wrapping and envelopes.

Eek, not long to go before Christmas is here, it's gone so fast this year. This is my last Bloggers Like us post for the year and this time around we were all given a prompt to create our blog post. My prompt was given to me by Kelly and it was 'Christmas Cards'. Check out the other bloggers posts here:

​Kelly from thescrapbookgirl.co.uk,
Emma from the readwriteinspire.blog 
Sam from samalderson.co.uk

Christmas might well be a way off yet, however for us 'planners' it is a time when we need to start the setup up of our Christmas Planners & Christmas Travelers Notebook Inserts.

I was really struggling with what to use as my Christmas planner this year, as last year I used a Tiger Travelers Notebook that I painted in red and gold which you can see here; 
​Christmas Planner / Journal Peek and Flip Through.

This year however, I wanted to use cahier sized inserts and the Tiger tn was just way too small. None of my tn's were suitable or Christmassy so I decided to make my own following a tutorial by LiveLoveScrap that uses scrapbook paper which is then laminated.
​Laminated Traveler's Notebook/ Tutorial

It's nearly Christmas... want a peek inside my Christmas planner and Journal? I have never had a Christmas planner before so this was a first for me. So grab a hot drink, slippers on, chocolates out and let me take you through it; complete with a video flip through.

This journal has been my go to planner this month for adding in my present logs and card making lists and it will be used even more for planning over the next few weeks in the build up to the big day itself.  My poor Carpe Diem is almost out of commision (aww bless it). In addition to the planning section, I have also added a December Journal section (also known as December Dailys - except mine hasn't been daily as I am a drama teacher too and this time of year is very busy with my school productions).