I started on Friday night organizing my Holiday themed papers, stickers, and embellishments for my upcoming December daily.
Yes, I did go ahead and decide to pursue a December daily (DD) this year. I am actually excited and hope to accomplish my goal of journaling every day until December 25th.
I will be incorporating my DD into my Project Life Album instead of doing a separate smaller album. This way I keep everything together.
Saturday I visited my favorite hair stylist, Vanessa, at Sozo Hair Salon in the Woodlands.....she is FANTASTIC! Love her! I pretty much see her every 4 weeks due to my unfortunate early hair gray DNA.
Afterwards, I did some actual work for my day job and then started on Christmas cards. You can call me crazy but yes, I have not only decided to do a December daily but also make my own Christmas cards again this year.
I had such a great time making Christmas cards last year that I had to do the same for this year....can't disappoint my card fans :)
First I do want to show you pics taken of my finished Thanksgiving banner that I made for my clinic. I think it turned out pretty cute. The staff really liked it.
Here are some pics:
I used my Cricut Expression 2 for all the die cuts such as the banner shapes, scalloped squares, and letters. The patterned paper comes from the Simple Stories Harvest Lane collection which has beautiful fall themed papers. The ribbon is from American Crafts and Michaels.
Now for my Christmas cards this year I have 5 small 6x6 paper pads that I am using to make my cards. So far I have only used one of the paper pads and have the next one already planned out as well.
Here is a sneak peak at my first round of Christmas cards:
Now let me show you a picture of how my desk looks right now after taking all my Holiday stuff out. Did not realize how much I had bought but actually glad I did now that I have decided to do the DD album.
My paper collections include last year's October Afternoon Holiday Style and Echo Park's Winter Park collections. Most are new collections for 2012 from Studio Calico, Crate Paper, Echo Park, Cosmo Cricket, and Simple Stories.
These are some Studio Calico embellishments including their new snowflake wood veneers. Also have their new stamp set called Spread Joy which I believe is supposed to go along with their new Wonderland collection.
I can't forget my Ali Edwards stamp sets including the this one which is called December Joys. This one just came out last month as part of Studio AE for the month of October. I am enrolled in the Studio AE monthly subscription, so every month I get a great new Ali Edwards stamp set. Her stamp sets are meant to be paired with Project Life.
These are some chipboard embellishments which coordinate with the paper collections. They are all so pretty and can't wait to use them especially the banner shapes from October Afternoon.
Here are some of the new paper collections that I will be using including Echo Park's Very Merry Christmas and Simple Stories Handmade Christmas. The banners are from Basic Grey's Aspen Frost collection. I do not get the 12x12 papers for that collection but do have the 6x6 pad which I will be using for my Christmas cards.
I started to put together some of the photo pocket pages that I will be using. I recently bought some 6x12 pocket pages from Becky Higgins/Project Life on Amazon.com.
In the end I decided to stick to the regular 12x12 pocket pages.
It was too exciting to just organize so I went ahead and made my title page for my DD album. Like I said earlier, my DD album will be part of my Project Life album so I can keep the whole year together.
Here is a few pics on my title page:
Keep in mind that this is not complete. I do plan to add a picture over the top left corner and maybe a few more embellishments.
Most of the videos and blog posts that I have read online recommend to start with the foundation for your album. As each day passes, then you add your pictures and journaling. Also add your embellishments as you go. So over the next few days, I will be adding background papers and journaling cards to each page. For the December 25th page, I will most likely be doing a whole 12x12 layout which will be the end of my December daily.
Well that is it for this week. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at what is going on in my craft room.
I know I did not have an actual card or layout to display this week but will mostly be doing Project Life/December daily updates on a weekly basis.
I will not be able to post next weekend due to the Holiday as will be busy with family.
I do wish you all a safe and great Happy Thanksgiving!
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