creashens has a new kit in the store and it’s just adorable!
I love the colors in this kit!!
Wow, almost 2 weeks to Christmas! I wish I could slow down time to enjoy these days more, but alas, I had to work both days this weekend.. 🙁
I am happy to be able to share Day 1 of my December Daily album! It uses a gorgeous new kit by Jenn Barrette that is 20% off today:
If you follow my blog, you know I have a bit of an obsession for color matching my pages with my photos, especially in my Project Life album… but I swear to you that this page came together on its own! I prepared a couple of cards with Jenn’s kit, and after printing out the photo of the gingerbread house I was amazed to see how well it went with this particular card. 🙂
I stamped directly on the photo here – all stamps are from the sold out Christmas kit by Kelly Purkey.
Here’s a closer look at the card. 🙂
I made a vellum envelope to hold a few more pictures – I had a lot from this day. The flair button from JCPenney was perfect with the theme and colors of this day too. 🙂
Here’s the stack of photos from the envelope.
And the back of the envelope.
The right page is all photos, with some digital word art added.
And that’s Day 1! Hope you enjoyed it! 🙂
I am so excited to be working on one of my favorite projects: December Daily. Put together two things I love – Christmas and crafting – and I’m in heaven! Dec. Daily is a concept started by Ali Edwards to document the Christmas season day per day. I completed a mini album both in 2010 and 2011, and I’m at it again this year. 🙂
For my first page of the 2012 December Daily, I used a paper by Sahlin Studio, in the gorgeous December BYOC at The Lilypad (25% off through the weekend!):
This is the first page you see when you open my album:
The picture at the bottom was taken on Dec. 1st, and it’s the only snow we’ve seen so far, but I hope we’ll have a white Christmas this year, so I thought it was perfect to put it at the front of my album. 🙂
Come back tomorrow to see the rest of my Day 1! I’m so excited about how it turned out!
Last year I got DH an Elf on the Shelf for his birthday present (which comes shortly before December). It was a huge hit! We don’t have kids, but who said elves are just for kids? We have a lot of fun with our elf. 🙂 We named him Jingle Ginger, and I find him adorable! Like all elves, he’s loves candy and sweets, and ends up in trouble quite often, but he makes up for it with a big heart. 🙂 I won’t be posting pictures daily this year, but rather weekly, and here’s the first few days’ worth of photos. He made his apparition the day after we put up the tree, but DH didn’t spot him for a few days after that. 😉
By the way, I love my Christmas tree! I put it up with my mom, and it’s so pretty!
I had no clue what to get DH for his birthday this year, but when I saw a helicopter at Macy’s on Black Friday for $19.99, I decided to pick it up, since it’s something he’d talked about every now and then. Well… he couldn’t have been happier! 🙂 Yay me! And Jingle Ginger had fun playing with it too.. 😉
See? He’s behaving so well this year! Not naughty at all! The following day, we found him sound asleep beneath the tree. So sweet!
Uh-oh… I spoke too soon! He got in the chocolate stash the next day!!
Well, what can you do? Elves do love chocolate after all… Day 5 was December 1st, and Jingle Ginger reminded us to get going on our Advent calendar. 🙂
And then he got in trouble again!! We put lights on the spruce in our front yard, and Jingle Ginger wanted to help, but got all tangled up!
Do you have an Elf? It has certainly quickly become a favorite tradition at our house! 🙂
December is here, and I am loving this season! Yesterday I went to see an exhibit of gingerbread houses with my mom, and I scrapped one of my favorite ones using a new kit by Digital Design Essentials:
I love this kit! I will be using it more for sure! Plus make sure to check out the journaling cards too, they’re perfect for Project Life!
I used a sketch by Shanna for this page. 🙂 I hope to get back to paper creations soon, even though this is such a busy time of the year, because I’m itching to start working on my December Daily album! 🙂
This was election week. I went with a red (mostly) and blue theme. 🙂
I added an insert because I had several instagram photos this week and I wanted to include them all. I have the hardest time leaving out pictures, because they usually tell different stories, they aren’t just the same shot in many copies, and using inserts is ideal for me.
Yesterday was Black Friday in the U.S., the day for crazy sales and holiday shopping. Last year (for the first time) we braved the crowds and went shopping at ~6am, but this year I decided not to. We’re too busy, and didn’t really have much to buy. Instead, I did some very rewarding online shopping, followed by a quick dash to the mall at 10 AM – we visited 3 stores and didn’t have to fight the crowds. 😉 But hands down, online shopping rocks. And the sale that is going on at The Lilypad on all Christmas and winter products is perfect to gear up for December Daily!
I successfully completed a December Daily album in the past two years, so I know what works and what doesn’t work for me. This year I decided to combine the December Daily album with Project Life (I wouldn’t have enough material and motivation to keep up with two albums at the same time!), so I’ll be using the Project Life concept (document the little things, use photo pocket pages) but in a mini album format. I am using an 8.5″x5.5″ binder by Martha Stewart from Staples. I chose this size because it’s perfect for hybrid, and I’m all for saving paper when I print. 🙂 In 2010 I made all my foundation pages of the album ahead of time, because I was traveling in December. In 2011 I didn’t, because I was home and wanted to have the freedom to choose the design based on the photos I had for each day. This year, I will also go with the freedom approach :), but since the holiday products that have already been put in the store are so tempting, I have done a few pockets already. 🙂 Here’s what I used.
Last year I started the tradition of our Elf on the Shelf, and I am excited to bring him out again this year. The tree went up yesterday, so I have a feeling he’ll make an apparition soon. 😉 Here are a few other goodies I’ve used so far.
It’s no mystery that I love deer and reindeer (and glitter too! LOL), so these cards by Paislee Press had to go straight in my album. 🙂 Here’s a peek at the pockets I’ve made so far.
I will be rearranging my pockets around once I start actually working on the album, but I think I’m off to a great start! 🙂
So much to be thankful for this year, and this season especially..
I hope you are all having a lovely time too!
Still catching up on posting the latest weeks up on the blog. This is the week when I started being current again: Week 44. 🙂 It was Halloween week.
I started with some digital journaling cards by Digital Design Essentials and then just added some of the grid journaling cards, both in 3×4 and 4 x 6 size. I cut down the 4×6 to 4×4 to fit in the pockets on the right side. The photo pocket pages I used are Design F and the 3×3 design by We R Memory Keepers.
My color scheme was orange, black and pink. Nice for Halloween! I used some cuts that I made with my Silhouette digital cutter.
Here are the detailed shots.
I think this title card was perfect for Halloween week. 😉 Spooky but not scary. 🙂 The “beware” card went very well with the journaling, since we had a rough day indeed that day! The title was cut from a paper from the Crate Paper Snow Day collection. I bought it a couple of years ago and it is much thicker than the papers they sell today! It gave me some trouble cutting in the Silhouette. 🙂
Each year I put together a calendar for our families (I’ve been doing this since 2009!) and have them printed by Artscow because you just cannot beat the value. So in September/October I’m usually cranking out all the calendar toppers to place my order before Christmas gets too close. 🙂 I got my calendars and they turned out just great! I added piece of the shipping slip on the journaling card, along with a stamp by Ali Edwards stamped with Ranger Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink Pad.
Here I used a handy stamp alpha by EK Success.
Lots of instagram shots are finding their way into my album! 🙂
Stepping Stone alpha stamp (numbers) by Studio Calico/Hero Arts.
I bought my mom’s Christmas present! I added the sticker that came with it on my card, along with a picture from the website, and I used a snowflake stamp as a border to go with the Christmas theme. 🙂
I’ve been adding more full size pictures in my Project Life album, and I love it!
I love cutting vellum in my Silhouette!
I love these 4″x4″ slots – perfect to fit instagram photos!
After cutting this pretty snowflake out of vellum, I needed to make it stand out, so I sprayed a journaling card (cut down to 4×4) with brown mist.
Here I combined some letters cut with the Silhouette and Studio Calico alpha stamps.
And that’s it for Week 44! 😉
This was a fun week to put together. I mainly used 3×4 and 4 x 6 Grid Cards, with some memorabilia from the week added in. All the little embellishments and stickers I used are from the fabulous Fact & Fiction line by Basic Grey.
I had several pictures this week (we went to the pumpkin patch, as you can see ;)) so I made an insert using the Design H pockets (I recommend the small variety pack to have a few different insert designs on hand). Here’s what the album looks like with the insert page turned.
And here’s a closer look at the front and back of the insert.
For the left page I used a Design C Photo Pocket page.
And for the right page I used a Design F Photo Pocket page. Lots of orange in the photos this week, but I love how the blue of the sky pops out! 🙂
In Instead of having a full pocket dedicated to the title, I just added the title to a large photo.
We have apple trees in the backyard, and deer love apples. 🙂 This adorable deer jumped right in our backyard and it was so funny to watch it eat the apples! Can you see it in his mouth? 🙂 He gobbled it up in one piece! 🙂 Too cute.
This fabulous “hello there” tag is from packaging of an order from Paper Coterie (see a few cards below) – I thought it was perfect to go with the picture of the deer! I loved the colors too, so I matched the red and blue in the rest of the spread.
I bought this stamp just because of the adorable deer, and it was perfect for this card! 🙂
DH and I are big Dancing with the Stars fans, and we vote for out favorites. I always make sure we take screenshots of out votes to that I can include them in my album. I think it will be fun to look back at these, but who knows? Maybe we won’t even remember who these people are.. 🙂
I’ve been holding onto this card by Marcy Penner (Hello Forever) for a while.. I got it in a class kit from Studio Calico, and I used it here because the blue matched my color scheme. I love the look!
Here’s my order from Paper Coterie. Again I added part of the packaging – it was so well designed that I wanted to keep it. That’s why I love Project Life so much!
I split this picture into two pockets, along with the heading. The date stamp is the smash one.
I added a label done with my DYMO. And that’s it for Week 43! 🙂