30 Things I'm Grateful For- A Journal

Today I am up on Kristin's blog sharing a project as part of the rukristin creative team and I wanted to share it with you here as well! This is journal/mini album I created to use to document 30 things I am grateful for.

Okay, so this journal is actually inspired by Cathy Zielske's "30 days of thankful" project. I didn't sign up for her class this year, but I wanted to document one little thing everyday this month, November 2015, so I created this mini album using patterned papers, stamps and my Bind-It-All machine.

I wanted my color scheme for this album to be somewhat Autumny, but more than just oranges and yellows, you know what I mean? So I did use some yellows, but I also used hot pinks, teals and greens to make it fun.

I used the IT Factor 6" paper pad and combined it with a few paper scraps and gelli prints I had in my stash. I cut some chipboard down to use as the front and back cover, adhering patterned paper to the front sides and stamping on the insides.

I've seen a few albums in the past, where someone has stamped on the inside cover. I thought it was pretty genius and wanted to fill up the inside covers of this album with stamping.

I used my favorite rukristin stamps and went to work. I used the Basics Number stamps, Basic Months stamps and the 30 Days of Lists stamp set. They combined perfectly for this "30 days" theme.

I used the label stamp in the Basic Months clear stamp set for all of my journaling. I stamped it 30 times onto white card stock and cut them all out. That was a lot of stamping, but it was fun. ;)

Since I prepped this album before November started, I adhered my labels onto my pages, and stamped number in them, but didn't fill them out right away

I've been doing fairly good keeping up with doing one a day, however there have been a few days where I just completely forgot about it. I catch up though, so it's all good.