What to do with those Christmas Cards

one of my favorite things about the holidays is receiving Christmas cards in the mail. i don't know what it is about it...it just makes me happy. because it makes me so happy i don't ever want to get rid of them, but then again, i don't want them sitting in piles either...i've got plenty of piles going on already.

years ago, a friend suggested cutting out my favorite part of each of the cards i received and creating a scrapbook with them. i thought this was fantastic. here is ours from 2007.

here is a little bit closer on one of the pages...you can see i hand wrote 2007 at the bottom. i used simple paper in the background because there is so much going on in the body of the page. i typically alternate the background colors between red and green.

i'm obsessed with pictures, so i love getting the holiday cards with pictures. i decided i didn't want to cut up these cards and include them in the scrapbook page. rather, i punch a hole in each card at a corner with a single hole-punch and then feed them through a metal ring. i include these in the Holiday Cards scrapbook simply by dropping the ring down into an empty sleeve that corresponds with the correct year.