Christmas Card Album

I recently was wondering what to do with all my homemade cards from friends and family. My scrap friend Nancy, showed me what she does with all her Christmas cards. She makes a cover and back then using her Zutter Bind-It-All creates a book for each year. She places an envelope in the back for her letters she receives. She even binds up any pictures too.

I didn't want to save every card, so I decided to only do this for the handmade cards.

Here is the 1st book I did for my 2009 Christmas cards. I want to do a birthday one too and other occasion cards as well.

I also found that adding a little "extention" to the back of each card and binding that part allowed me to open, read and see the entire card much better than losing part of the design inside the combs of the binding. This was also a necessity when embellishments like buttons or flowers were close to the fold.

Back of the album