Card books

The whole world already knows that Pinterest is a great source of inspiration...right?!?! Well, months ago I saw THIS great idea for something to do with all of your Christmas cards. So, I got to work and created my own 2011 Xmas cards book.



I put the card we sent out to everyone on the first page...



It's nice because I'm able to keep all the cards from the year, including the fun photo cards...



And all the beautifully hand made cards...



And then I got a little obsessed and started going thru the kids cards from their births and their birthdays and made a book for each year and I plan to do this on each birthday for them so they can have a book for each year. Who knows if they will someday appreciate them, but for now, it's fun for me :)

I love the way their birth books came out...I was able to include their birth announcements, cards from when they were born, notes from flowers that we got sent and cards from their baptisms. These books are very special to me now.













And here are some quick shots of their birthday books. I tried to stay somewhat with the theme of their parties, or what they were into that year...





If anyone has any great and wonderful tips on taking better pics of things, please let me know! I always seem to get the coloring off and/or a weird glare or just bad lighting over all. I tried to edit a bit in photoshop, but the colors are a bit off and dark. They look way different in real life!