The Most Important Day

The end of December is not only the time for Christmas and New Year’s Eve preparations, but also the moment to look back on the passing year.

I also made a little annual summary – and today I’d like to show a project that illustrates our most important event of 2011 and the crowning point of a year’s preparations – our boys’ First Communion days. We have no photos of the ceremony, as there were no paparazzi in the church and just a couple of family photos, but they still made quite a fat little album

I assumed at the very beginning that the album was going to have a separate box – I used a ready-made 7Gypsies album kit – so the album was limited both in size and volume. I couldn’t use too dimensional embellishments, and the photos fill most of every page, therefore I mostly used beautifully cut chipboards, and the main decorative elements were papers. Here I had no doubt at all and grabbed The Bright Side of Life collection – the event was a very happy one and moreover, the papers have so beautiful designs they don’t need additional embellishments. And here’s the effect:

The final effect is exactly as I wanted – not too pompous, but joyful, light yet festive, just as those two special days.