Hello again and Happy crafting. I’m already in the Christmas spirit making albums, journals, home decor and gifts. I love this present shaker album, Shaker albums, and decided to make a Christmas album.

Front cover
For the base of the shaker portion I covered the wood shape with Christmas paper. Next I cut the excess off and trimmed the edges with an exacto knife to get a nice clean edge. Then I inked the edges using Stazon brown ink. Make sure you punch the holes before gluing the shaker pieces.


Next I took the top layer of the shaker and glued paper to it. I then trimmed around the edges using an exacto knife. I then used the exacto knife to cut out the window portions. I used a file to smooth out the edges inside the window pieces. Then I inked all edges including the window pieces.



Next, I layered the middle piece of the shaker on to the bottom piece and glued them together. I gathered some charms (I cut the loop portion off of the charm), sequins, beads and other sparkly things to fill in the windows of the shaker. I peeled the film off the acrylic piece (this is a very important step) and glued it to the frame. Finally, I glued the top portion of the shaker, the one piece I added paper to, and glued the white poinsettia flower to the middle top portion.





Back side of shaker
I chose the plaid paper for the base and traced, cut, and glued the paper to wood piece. Using an exacto knife and file, trim and smooth out edges. Ink the edges. I cut a 6x2 inch piece from the dot paper and a 4 x 4.75 from the deer paper and inked the edges. I layered the pieces and added a sticker, flower and the wood element.



Page 2
I covered the wood piece with the deer paper, cut, glued, and again used an exacto knife and file to clean and smooth the edges. I then inked the edges. I cut a 4 5/8 x 2.5 piece of the dot paper, inked the edges and glued the sides and bottom only to create a pocket.

I took the Santa sticker and green “believe” frame sticker and adhered them to a piece of paper to make the Santa tag. I punched a hole and added the candy cane charm and red and white twine. I cut a 4.5 x 3.25 tag from the bell paper, punched hole and added ribbon to create the tag. I embellished the dot paper with some ephemera pieces and the wood present.

Page 3
Using plaid paper, I traced, cut, glued, trimmed and smoothed out the edges. Make sure you punch the holes. Next I inked the edges. I cut a 4 5/8 x 5 piece of red dot paper and the cut it in half. I inked the edges and glued the outside edges only of the left piece first. Then I layered the right side and glued the outside edges only to create a pocket. You should have 2 pockets. I glued a piece of gold ribbon to the diagonal edge of the top piece. I cut tags from picture pages, inked edges, punched holes and added ribbon. I then cut a 4x5 piece of red paper, rounded the edges using a corner rounder, inked and added a ribbon to the top left. I added a red poinsettia flower and sticker.

Page 4
Using red dot paper trace, cut, glue, trim, smooth and ink edges. Make sure you punch the holes. I cut a 4 5/8 x 6 piece from plaid /dot paper and cut down the middle at an angle. I glued the plaid side down first on the right side (only glue outside edges) and then glue the edges of the dot paper on the left side, you should have 2 pockets. Choose a few pieces from the mini pictures to create tags. Ink, punch holes and add ribbon to make tags. Next, I cut 4.5 x 5 piece from the green dot paper, inked the edges and added a piece of ribbon to add to the pockets. I cut a small piece of green plaid paper to create a small pocket on top of the dot paper and added some small ephemera pieces and a tag to the pocket. Finally added a “Merry Christmas “ ribbon to the bottom of the pockets.

Page 5
Using the plaid paper I traced, cut, glued, trimmed and inked edges. I then cut a 4 5/8 x 6 piece of dot paper, inked edges and glued on top of the plaid paper. From the sticker page I used the “Merry” to create a banner at the top. I added some ephemera word strips and Santa to the bottom of the dot paper. I wrapped some gold ribbon to create a fussy bow and then glued leaves and a poinsettia flower on top of the gold ribbon.

Page 6
Using green printed paper I traced, cut, trimmed, smoothed and inked edges. Don’t forget to punch the holes. I cut a 4 5/8 x 6 plaid paper. I tore the top edge of the paper, inked. I glued the bottom and sides to create a pocket. I then cut a 4 5/8 x 2.5 of the flower paper, tore the top edge, inked and glued down bottom and sides only to create a pocket. From the picture page, I cut a strip of 4 off and then cut one of the pictures off. With the remaining 3, I scored, inked and created a foldable decorated with ephemera and words. I then tucked it into the pocket. I added some flowers and word sticker to the bottom. On the backside of the page (last page) I. chose a red pattern paper to cover.



I hope you have been inspired and have enjoyed visiting. I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday. Thank you, Jennifer
Other products used - misc wood elements, Stazon brown ink, Tim Holtz ephemera pieces, Simple Stories Christmas paper and stickers, prima flowers, misc ribbon, 3 in 1 glue