2023 Cookie Book - Candy Coated Christmas

I've been getting the word that the people who get their book in the mail are indeed receiving them so it's time to post the cookie book this year.  I wait till everyone has seen it, so I don't spoil the surprise.  

Candy Coated Christmas - see how the clear cover 'coats' the book?  This is a standard A5 Planner - 6 ring binder.  Got them on Amazon.  Inside the pages and pockets are, I'm going to guess, 85% cut from Elizabeth Craft Design Planner series.  She has two sizes, Planner and Sidekick, this is, again, the planner series, so larger than the Sidekick.  The rest of the stuff came from various sources - like Temu - or my stash.  I'll blog separately about Temu. 

I tried putting all these photos into a movie - but Google's blogger won't let me add it to the page.  Probably too large. 

Here we open the cover and get a better look at all the pretty colors!  Things are peeking out on all the edges; it just makes you want to keep turning the pages.  The majority of the paper is from Carta Bella's Homemade collection.  The matching sticker pack was used as well, and I added Seasonal Salutations No. 2 from Echo Park to the mix as well.  

Pull out the tags on the first page to reveal the title and year of the book.  That pocket with the slots in it came from Temu, which means they probably stole it from some other collection.  But I digress.  As I said, more about Temo later.  The alphabet for 'Candy' is Sizzix's Shadowbox, the word Christmas is from Tim Holtz.  The numbers used for the year are ECD again, and the hearts I just cut with the Circut.  

Next page is the list of all the cookies the bakers chose to make.  Every one of them this year were quite good.  They outdid themselves, for sure.  As the title suggests, anything coated, dipped, sugared, rolled in, blended with candy was permissible.  The tin solder is ECD.  The ornaments came from my stash.  The page with the whisk on it is again, ECD.  I did a little bit of creative licensing with it, by removing everything from the whisk to the binder holes and then mounting that on something more related to cooking. I basically hollowed it out so the whisk would be more prominent.  

I stamped the Santa and sentiment a bunch of times and cut them out with an offset using the Brother Scan and Cut. I cannot tell you how cool that thing is.  It is so much easier to stamp and cut with that thing than any other machine out there.  I blogged about this machine earlier.  Go read it!

I blogged about the clip art candy cane in my Christmas card post earlier.  Go read that too.

The heart pocket is from my stash.  Not sure of the maker.  Same with the pocket with the gingerbread man.  I didn't save the packaging so no clue where it originated from.  The stamp came from Temu.  

Next up is the folder from ECD, the recipe is inside.  The page next to it is all ECD decorative stuff.  I added the sticker and the red dots for some interest.  

Another EDC pocket - but when you cut this one, it's got multiple pockets on the page, so I snipped them apart.  I used the other part of it with the clip art candy cane.  If you go back you can see how the two fit together.  I separated the two parts between books so it wouldn't be obvious.  That means the colors are different in each book for all pages that use parts from one die.   

Repeating pockets and folders from before.  And here is the female gingerbread person.  The tree is ECD.  Notable, on every page are individual decorative hole reinforcements, both front and back.  Jesus, Mary and Joseph, do not attempt cutting and gluing these tiny things on this scale (27 books in total) without using Sookwang!  See my post about Sookwang earlier. 

More repeats of pocket pages and folders. 

These pockets came from Scrapbook.com - as part of their branded collection.  the Spatula and rolling pin were from the stash.  The mixer is a sticker from the aforementioned Homemade collection.  

I slipped a hand made Christmas tag into the slot on this page.  This is again, just like the clip art candy cane page, but with the different tuck in, you don't even notice.  

Here at the last page and the back of the book you'll find a little envelope stuck to the back cover.  These binder covers came with two elastics, one white and one black.  When the white one breaks, or loses its stretch, you've got a spare!  Happy Christmas, Everyone!  I'm off to the cave to make "Merry January" cards for the new year.