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December Daily 2013 // days 3-10

I am cruising along on getting my December Daily for this year finished. I have pictures printed through the 20th so I'm hoping to have it done by this weekend so I can then focus on finishing last year's book & Project Life for 2013. I still haven't figured out what I'm going to use for next year's Project Life...if I'm going to stick with one of Becky Higgins' kits or use the Studio Calico kits (or maybe both). We'll see.

So onto my December Daily.

Day 3

Not much going on around here so included a photo of one of our pups getting festive :) and our Christmas card for this year mounted on a piece of the patterned paper from the kit.

Day 4

Buddy the Elf arrived with a Elf on the Shelf ornament. I added some of that red pom pom fringe along the edge of the page protector.

Day 5

Finishing up some sports along with a photo of one of our favorite neighborhood houses decorated up for the holidays. We always drive by this house a few times during December.

For the journaling I used some patterned paper and that thin gold washi tape for the lines of my journaling.

Day 6 (left side)

Buddy the Elf having a tea party with Snoopy (and a 2 yr old having a difficult time not picking him up! hehe).

Day 7 (right side)

Watching Polar Express. I switched this photo to black and white because the colors in the photo were a bit distracting.

The 'joy' letters were put on a page protector cut down to fit in that space, stitched & then I added the stars on both sides from my Noel Mignon kit.

Day 8

Christmas cookies, gifts for the giving tree at church and a toddler thoroughly enjoying the Christmas lights outside.

You can see the 'joy' from the reverse side...I had to move one of the stars when I realized it would be smack in the middle of Addie's forehead!

Throughout my album some of the photos aren't the best quality, usually because they were taken with my phone or at night (or both). I still include these because quite honestly they are sometimes the best at conveying the story :)

Day 9

Journey to the North Pole Cruise. I didn't feel the need to do a ton of journaling on this so I simply added some text to the large photo on the right.

Day 10

I didn't have a photo to enlarge for the backside of the one I used for the previous day. So I simply added a piece of the patterned paper, used the thin gold washi tape to outline of a few of the words, then added the thicker washi tape strips for my journaling.

I'll be back soon with more pages!!

So fun to see this book coming together!

December Daily 2013 // days 1&2

I love that so far I've been keeping up with my December Daily album. The true 'test' will be if I'm still caught up a week from now!

I'm keeping things fairly simple which, for me, is the key to staying caught up. I also love these albums & the divided pockets...very easy for adding photos & journaling!

So on to the first few pages.

I made a cover page for the inside of my album with a few journaling cards. I also added one of those cute gold chipboard stickers which is actually adhered to a piece of page protector I cut up (got that idea from Ali Edwards!). Then I added those fun sequins & sewed up the top.

I love adding these to mini-albums...I love being able to see through to the next pages!

This page is pretty simple...journaling cards on the left and patterned paper on the right (to back my photo on the next page).

Day 1 we went to cut down our Christmas tree so this day will have a 3 page spread. I printed out a photo of our Christmas tree on patterned paper and I love how it turned out (got the idea here). Makes the photo look a bit vintag-y :)

Left side is the rest of Day 1, right side is Day 2. For Day 2 I added an Ali Edwards brush to the photo along with a few of the accents in the SC kit. The "02" journaling card is from last month's SC Project Life kit.

I've already printed out my photos for Days 3-6 so I can get them in my album this weekend!

December Daily 2013 // cover

Hello December Daily!

Hello documenting Christmas, decorating, baking, wrapping, shopping, believing, celebrating, family!

If you're not familiar with the December Daily concept you can go here to read more.

This year I'm working with the Studio Calico December Daily kit and the Noel Mignon Ribbon Candy Project Life kit, along with some goodies that I've pulled out of my own stash. After doing this for several years I have discovered that my favorite album size to work with is the 6x8 which is one of the reasons I went ahead and purchased the SC kit (last year I used the Simple Stories album in the same size). I should also mention that I did not finish last year's album so I'll probably be sprinkling in some posts of that album as well :)

So for the cover I took my inspiration from Ali Edwards and painted it in Martha Stewart Crafts Summer Linen. I only painted the front & I'll probably end up putting some patterned paper on the inside cover. But for now I left it plain. Then I painted a few of the stars with a gold Sharpie (after adhering the chipboard accents).

I painted the "25" chipboard with Krylon gold glitter blast & attached it to the cover with 2 brads. I didn't have any gold brads so I colored silver ones with my gold Sharpie (worked like a charm!).

To finish it off I added the gold ribbon along the edge of the album. I may also add a red ribbon when I'm finished but we'll see.

I'll be back soon with the first few pages of my album!