Hello! I have a new spread from my December Daily album to share today, and this one is all about Christmas trees.

I combined days 9 and 10 in this spread.

On the last card I used a silkscreen and acrylic paint (all from Studio Calico). I love the look of silkscreens!
Today’s story is of my mom’s Christmas decorations.

Today’s story is of our Christmas tree. It is so pretty! I added one of the thick transparency inserts from the December Daily kit in front of it.

Photos of my tree are always in a weird format, so I used a wide masking tape (from the Park. Ave Studio Calico Project Life kit from Dec. 2014) to bring the thickness up to 6″.
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Catch up on all my 2015 December Daily posts:
Title page
Dec. 1st
Dec. 2 and 3
Dec. 4th
Dec. 5th
Dec. 6th
Dec. 7th
Dec. 8th
Dec. 9 and 10
Dec. 11th
Dec. 12 and 13
Dec. 14th
Dec. 15th
Dec. 16th
Dec. 17th
Dec. 18th
Dec. 19th
Dec. 20th
Dec. 21st
Dec. 22nd
Dec. 23rd
Dec. 24th
Dec. 25th

Hello and happy Monday! How is your December Daily album coming along? I am in love with how mine is turning out. I’m at the half way mark, working on Day 12. Here’s Day 8.

This day has a 2-page spread and an insert.

Today’s story is all about our Elf and our Reindeer. They bring so much joy to our December. 🙂

The insert is a back to back copy of the certificates of when we got them.

I used some digital brushes by Ali Edwards on my photos.
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Catch up on all my 2015 December Daily posts:
Title page
Dec. 1st
Dec. 2 and 3
Dec. 4th
Dec. 5th
Dec. 6th
Dec. 7th
Dec. 8th
Dec. 9 and 10
Dec. 11th
Dec. 12 and 13
Dec. 14th
Dec. 15th
Dec. 16th
Dec. 17th
Dec. 18th
Dec. 19th
Dec. 20th
Dec. 21st
Dec. 22nd
Dec. 23rd
Dec. 24th
Dec. 25th

I need to apologize for the poor quality of photos of the next few days of my December Daily album – we’ve had a very gray and dark weekend and these are the best shots I could get.

I used the 2″ slots in the page protector to feature some photos of my Christmas tree.

I bought some green metallic and red metallic embossing powders, which I used here along with gold. I love them – the green especially!

Today’s story is about my favorite ornaments. On that top journaling card I stamped a tree using a set from Studio Calico.

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Catch up on all my 2015 December Daily posts:
Title page
Dec. 1st
Dec. 2 and 3
Dec. 4th
Dec. 5th
Dec. 6th
Dec. 7th
Dec. 8th
Dec. 9 and 10
Dec. 11th
Dec. 12 and 13
Dec. 14th
Dec. 15th
Dec. 16th
Dec. 17th
Dec. 18th
Dec. 19th
Dec. 20th
Dec. 21st
Dec. 22nd
Dec. 23rd
Dec. 24th
Dec. 25th

I have a 2-page spread for December 5, with an additional tag added in. I had so much fun making this spread!

I love how the red and gold pop off against the dark background! Oh and you can get a peek at how I decorated the inside cover of my album – I attached a paper from the Jasmine Jones mini kit with washi tape. I love having the calendar for the month right there.

I’ve had that cute little tag for years (I bought it in a shop and then couldn’t get myself to use it!), but finally this year it ended up in my album. 🙂

I added my journaling on the back of the tag. Then I put some of my numerous alpha stamps to good use on a 4″x6″ piece of card stock (stamps mostly by Studio Calico, but the all caps one is from Kelly Purkey) and I love how this card turned out! 🙂

My story for Dec. 5: The photo and story for today is actually from November, but I put it here because 1) I wanted to include it in my Christmas album and 2) the actual story for today is that we went to a memorial service (I even gave a speech.. so hard!) and while I will certainly document that in my Project Life album, I didn’t want it in this album. I’m so glad I gave myself the freedom to include photos in this album that don’t fall in December!

I made a double-page spread for December 4th. That night we went out with two friends for dinner, and while it wasn’t necessarily Christmas related, it’s something that makes me happy and I wanted to include it in this album.

The paper and card are from the December Daily kit and from Jasmine Jones’s kit, respectively.

I just added some stamping and puffy stickers to embellish.

And as you can infer, I don’t stick to a single color scheme for the whole album. I love trying new things for each spread. 🙂

I had a short story to tell on each of these two days, so I only dedicated them 1 page rather than a full spread.

My approach for this album is to document the Christmas events that happen during the month and, if nothing Christmas-related happens on a particular day, use the occasion to tell a story about my Christmas loves / traditions / hopes.

My story for Dec. 2: I love Advent calendars. I go a bit overboard actually (we have nine!), and every night my husband and I spend five minutes opening them all. I documented on a journaling card from the kit all nine of our Advent calendar for this year, tracking which are old and which are new. I accompanied it with a photo of two of my favorite new ones. I chose the deer paper on the right pocket since it goes with my story for the right hand side of the spread.

I used some Pinkfresh Studio embellishments on this page.
My story for Dec. 3: we added a new Elf Pet to the family this year. 🙂 This reindeer is the cutest and it even comes with an app that is just adorable. I highly recommend it!