Holy cow! It's December! I guess I should get my December Daily act together.
Here's a video about how I organized my station this year. It's smaller and simpler. I think that will lead to easier page creation. We shall see. ;)
December Daily
11/30/2014
11/16/2014
Getting December Daily Products
I was totally going to do December Daily from my stash this year, until I saw the Hip Kit. Then when I went to order, it was sold out. So I ended up getting a lot of the same products from Scrapbook.com. This is my haul. I didn't get that much and the rest will still be from my stash.
I decided to go 6x8 this year. I can't explain why, since I normally gravitate toward square shapes, but I was really drawn to this size this year. This is the album I got to put this year's memories in:
Are any of you getting your stuff ready? I'd love to see your set ups! Link them in the comments below!
01/01/2014
December Daily Days 22-24 and 16
I had to go back to where I skipped day 16. It was the back of a page protector with a ton of small squares and I only had one picture. I decided to just break it all up and use simple scraps for the rest.
I had spent the week making my kids cute holiday lunches and wanted to get that in the album.
On to day 22:
I didn't put a lot in this year's album with different decorations; but, I wanted to get this one in there. It's just a simple fake garland I lay across our long entertainment center and sit bells in. It's the item that made me really feel like I was decorating for Christmas this year.
Day 23:
I waited way too long to wrap presents this year. It's not the first year I've had that problem. I wait to wrap them so I can make the new tree skirt I've been wanting to make. I don't get the tree skirt done to go under the presents and I just end up wrapping them at the last minute and sticking them under the tree without a tree skirt.
Here are both pages together:
I made the two titles with my new Silhouette. :) The numbers came from a sheet of paper I ordered at Two Peas. The 23 pocket has sequins from Michael's and the writing you see behind it is from the journaling on the vellum on day 24.
Day 24:
Again here I have dug into my scrap stash and made the title with my Silhouette. The 24 comes from a different sheet of paper than the previous two days but it's still one of those 12x12 papers that have numbers all over them.
By the way, the pictures are of my kids sprinkling the magic reindeer food on the lawn that Rae brough back from kindergarten the last day before break.
The only reason I haven't done 25 yet is because I was trying to figure out how to do it. I normally just do one page or one two page layout and I just couldn't fit it here. I've just now decided to let that go and do how ever many are needed to commemorate they day. I mean, seriously, which is more important...the memory, or the anal retentiveness?!
I'll be working on that and my final touches and have that up soon to post.
Also coming soon are the final week of Project Life (Done! Just need to take and upload pics!), my Project Life title page for 2014, more about my One Little Word, recipes and the process my photos go through from taking them to storing them.
12/24/2013
December Daily 2013 Days 17-20
I know I skipped 16. Just realized that. :) I'll go back in my final pass and fill it in then.
Here's 17:
This page was dedicated to the teacher gifts we made. I didn't get a shot of the preschool gifts but these were what I made for my 2 elementary aged kid's teachers. Just a simple wrapped festive chocolate treat. I took a pic of it open mostly to remind myself that I put in seasonal flavors.
The page is pretty simply done. The "merry" ornament tag is from Little Yellow Bicycle.
Day 18:
On day 18 my son's third grade class had a Christmas performance. I made the number square with some patterned paper (in green to bring out the green of the photos), a punched out number from a patterned sheet, and a scrap of ribbon to bring the red over to that square.
On day 19 my two daughters both had Christmas performances:
My kinder daughter's was first in the day. I put just a snippet to show her at the concert. I was too far away to take a realy good pic. Then we went back to the classrooms and made gingerbread houses. I got a picture of that in.
My preschooler had a concert mid morning and both shots of her here are singing and doing the motions.
Day 20:
This was just a quick page to commemorate that one special Friday night, when school is out for the break, and the vacation has begun. :0 Everything suddenly feels a little more relaxed. We watched a Christmas movie (Boz) and had popcorn.
I couldn't really figure out a way to get this one picture I had to fit into any of the pocket pages, so I just made an 8x8 regular scrap page and adhered it to the outside of the back of day 19. That's also what I ended up doing for page 7, which I'll go back to at the end of the daily posts.
So there we are for now. We're getting close to Christmas and the end of year!
I'll be back with more December Daily and more Project Life in the next few days.
Merry Chrismas!
12/23/2013
December Daily 2013 Days 13, 14, and 15
Day 13 was about the hot chocolate! We made peppermint and mocaccino marshmallows and we made chocolate covered marshmallow candy cane stirrers rolled in crushed candy cane or white chocolate shavings. The peppermint ones we cut into stars.
Here' s a look at it next to day 12:
As you can see, I used some of the same paper on both page to tie them together.
And on to day 14:
This spread is about the tree. It's got a story about what kept going wrong (a story unique to this year) that kept up from getting it ready until so late in the month. It also has some shots of family favorite ornaments.
left side:
and the right side:
And finally day 15:
We had a rough time getting good family pictures here. (and yes, we're a little behind on getting our pic and card together) It really didn't help that when I looked at entire sets of them, I found that my youngest daughter had been making funny faces in each one! Since we had so many accidental photos and just plain bad photos, and accidental shots of us playing around, etc... I decided to do an "outtakes" page.
the left side:
A closer look at the right side:
I'm debating slipping in a copy of our card here but I haven't decided if I want to put it here or on a separate page. If I slide it in here I'll just punch holes and insert and it will look similar to this:
So that's those days. I am currently done up to page 20 and will continue sharing a few each day.
12/22/2013
December Daily 2013 Days 11 and 12
On the 11th we went to a local church where my daughter goes to preschool to do their Christmas Encounter show thing. I'm not sure what to call it. It's cool though. They started it last year and you kind of walk all over the church from station to station going through the Bible story from old testament prophesies to the birth of Christ. Then there are family photos, hot chocolate, and crafts for the kids at the end. It's done really well.
In this two page spread I put in pictures of decorations, some of the stations, the kids, and a bookmark in the middle that they pass out.
On the left side I just slid glitter paper into the smaller pockets and put a number over one of them. I made the number with an old Stampin' Up! set and punched a small doily looking piece for the background out of a patterned paper in my stash.
On the right I spread a nativity set picture across two pockets because I couldn't fit it. I used some more glitter paper on this section too.
Here's what it looks like with the bookmark turned over:
And on to page 12:
Day 12 was a simple one pager about the red cup season. After all, it's just not Christmas without eggnog lattes! I cut a piece of old flocked snowflake paper from my stash (I've tried to use a lot of stash this year and I'm doing decently!). I put it in all 4 pockets and then layered everything elese over the top of the page protector.
The red cup is actually a photo I trimmed and wrote on with a white gel pen. the red embellishments are mostly ones I cut from red cups I cleaned (after drinking eggnog lattes :). Of course, I had to sacrifice some money to drink extra lattes this year so I could have enough of the parts I wanted to cut out for this page ;). Oh the things I subject myself to in order to preserve family memories!
The 12 is just that same glitter sticker set I've been using a lot in this album.
Days 13, 14, and 15 coming tomorrow!
12/21/2013
December Daily 2013 Days 9 and 10
These are both 2 page spreads.
Day 9 we went to a snow day a local church put on. We live where it doesn't snow, so people will truckload it in for fun. :) We haven't visited the snow since my youngest was 3 weeks old (she's turning 5 next week) so it's been a while and the kids had a blast!
The paper I used in this spread wasn't part of what I originally pulled for December Daily, but there was so much pink in the pictures I went in search of it. It's really old Heidi Grace paper with flocking on it.
Here's the left side:
The date tag is also a coordinating tag thing from the old set. I tied it to the rings with white Stampin' Up! baker's twine. The glittered 9 is a thicker and I wrote Snow Day with a Baja Breeze Stampin' Up! marker. The snowflakes are punched and then I layered a snowflake sequin over the top and a Stampin' Up! rhinestone.
Here's the right side:
And day 10:
It was baking day!
The pictures of the kids decorating their cookies had a yellow cast that I couldn't seem to fix so I printed them in black and white.
On the left I used a piece of a Stampin' Up! doily. I layered words I cut out from a sheet of patterned paper from my stash. The "traditions documented" is also from a piece of patterned paper I got at Two Peas in a Bucket. The right bottom square has a scrap of fabric that I used wrapping baked good (picture on the other side of the layout) and the tag is from Little Yellow Bicycle. I just circled the date.
On the right I used the two narrow pockets to include journaling. The top one tells who we delivered to and the bottom tells what was in the baskets. The 'friends' wood veneer is from Studio Calico I think.
The top right has a shot of the gift baskets. It's adorned with another piece of the doily and tag scrap that miiiight be Elle's Studio. The bottom left is a shot I took of my recipe box. I keep my recipes in various storage methods, but this one little box is just for family recipes and family favorites. I journaled right on top of the photo with a white gel pen.
That's all for days 9 and 10. 11 and 12 will be here tomorrow!
12/12/2013
December Daily 2013 Days 6 and 8
I know...I skipped 7. The pics somehow got missed when I printed them so that'll have to come another time. :)
Here's what 5 and 6 look like together:
They are obviously different days, and I didn't stress too much about making them match just because they're next to each other, but they're coordinated enough I think that it goes ok.
Here's a better look at day 6
We picked out our tree and the pics are pretty much my kids fooling around hiding and peeking through branches. That little green tree card with the #6 on it is from Elle's Studio. It's a index card shaped thing that I cut down to use the tree image. I put a glittery 6 on it from the same number sticker set I used in day 5, a cheap set from JoAnn. The glittery red star also came from there.
The woodgrain paper came from my stash. I wrote on it with a white gel pen and put another glittery red star on it. The red polka dot washi tape is from Michael's in their Christmas paper crafting section (they have great stuff this year!).
By the way, I put more of those fabric tree stickers on this spread. If you read day 5 you know I couldn't remember where they came form. They are from Martha Steward Crafts. The 15 cent thing I cut out of a sheet of paper from my stash that I ordered from Two Peas a long time ago. I don't know what brand it is, sorry. But it's layered over a scrap from the same Elle's Studio tab the has the number 6 on it. The top left two pockets are a split piece of journaling card from one of those sheets that have two sides and 4x6 journaling cards on both sides (12x12). I layered the "nice" wood veneer over the top of the pockets.
And here's day 8:
These pictures were taken with my kids helping me decorate the front yard. No chance of snow here, so I was letting them sprinkle some of that fake craft snow on our trees. The trees are just garland wrapped around tomato cages.
I framed most of the pictures in white just to give them a little consistency with the red and while colors in the photos.
Here's a closer look at the tag:
The tag itself I think is from Little Yellow Bicycle. I used some snowflake sequin stuff from Michaels both on the tag and up in the top right pocket. The 8 sticker is from the same sticker set at days 5 and 6. I need to get those in more colors! The chipboard sticker on the tag is from Carta Bella, the same sticker sheet I used on the cover and in a few other places. I also used buttons from that same sheet in the upper left corner of this spread. The red chevron washi is from Michael's in all their Christmas paper crafting stuff.
That's it for these two days! I'll get the rest of day 7 pictures printed with my next batch and do that page with the next group.
Merry Christmas!
12/10/2013
December Daily Album Front
I finally decided what to do with the front of my album! You may remember from this post that I got a plain chipboard album (8x8) and wasn't really worried about getting it all dazzled up. When I was working on the title page I picked up a little pack of chipboard Christmas stickers from Carta Bella and it kind of all just popped into my head. I love it when a plan comes together!
So here's the pic:
I inked all over the album with Stampin' Up! Early Espresso, and then over that with their Very Vanilla Craft Ink. The Crumb Cake scalloped tulle is also SU and is from last year's holiday mini. Again, using my stash. Go me! I'm not sure if I'm going to leave the tulle in a bow or take it down to a knot. I'm not really a big, fluffy bow person.
The doily is one I already had hanging around from another project where I didn't use it. It's the SU doily die that I used with my Sizzix Big Shot and that newpapery looking paper.
The tree, the scalloped music trim, and the "So This is Christmas" label came from the Carta Bella So This Is Christmas chipboard set. I didn't really want to tie a ribbon all the way around my book, nor did I want to leave the little bookplate ribbon holes empty, so I put in some gold chevron washi tape from Michael's and trimed the ends of them.
The 25 is from Tim Holtz and I got it at JoAnns. I love that it looks like metal house numbers or something. I had been holding off on the cover mostly because I couldn't find "just the right numbers" and when I saw these I loved them.
And that's how it came together.
12/08/2013
December Daily 2013 Days 4 and 5
So day 4 records my youngest daughter's countdown chain. Her brother had one of these in preschool, then her sister did last year, and now she's uber excited to be the one who made one.
Each strip of the chain has the date and piece of the Christmas story on it so I used the strip from today in the bottom left. That set the tone for my more green focus on this day's layout. I printed the picture of her taking off the chain in sepia, partly because I love sepia, and partly because the pic was a little orangey and busy and had so many colors. The sepia made it more cohesive.
The burlap paper in the bottom two squares I got on sale at Michael's. I stamped the wise men from an old Stampin' Up! stamp set on the bottom right and put a Studio Calico wood star over the star in the stamp, but on the outside of the pocket.
In the top right I put a wood ornament I got the other day at JoAnn's. I inked it just slightly with a green (Stampin' Up! Wild Wasabi) that coordinated with the paper strip, and then added a wee bit of Stampin' Up!'s dazzling diamonds glitter. I adhered to the outside of the pocket and was origianlly going to leave the pocket empty. However, the paper that showed through from the other side behind it, though pretty, didn't really look good. So I cut a creamy patterned paper square from a scrap stash and tucked it in behind the ornament.
I originally skipped adding a number to this day since it's written on the green strip from the countdown chain, but now I'm thinking I might go back in later and add a number on the right edge. Not too worried if I don't get to it though.
And on to day 5:
Day 5 spotlights my growing Christmas music list on Spotify. I just took a screen shot and divided the whole thing up into the 4 squares. I put the music sheet paper in the back.
Up on the top left I put a strip of fabric from my stash (it's retired Stampin' Up!) and layered a bit of doily I had left from the bottom right. Then I put that red and white star tag over the top of the page protector. the star is from the same tag set I used in day 1 and I believe it's from Little Yellow Bicycle.
The bottom left I used to journal in red about how my tastes in Christmas music are a bit different this year and it's led to growth in my list. I also put a glittery 5 here from a number sticker set I got at JoAnn's.
The top right I left as is.
The bottom right has a doily cut up to frame a little chalkboard art I printed with Christmas carol lyrics on it. The red tree sticker on top there is from a sticker set of red and green fabric and felt trees. I've been looking all over the internet trying to remember what brand they are. If you really want to know, leave a comment below and I'll make sure I check when I get over to my stamp room next.
And there you have days 4 and 5. Can I say that I am way more relaxed this year with December Daily?! It's been a fun blessing and so little stress. Planning on working on it every few days keeps me up enough that I don't feel behind, but without the stress of trying to do it every night. I'm thinking I'll stick to a very similar system next year.
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