December Daily Finished! Christmas Day 12x12 Layouts

Hi Everyone! Having a good weekend so far? This weekend has been lovely here in Houston! The rain and freezing temps have gone for now and the sun has been shining. Yesterday was a beautiful day! Too bad I spent 5 hours at the hair salon yesterday :(
Well at least my hair looks great with the keratin treatment I had done.

Anyway, I finally finished the December Daily section of my Project Life album for 2012. I wanted to do a 12 x 12 layout for my December 25th page and I actually ended up with 2 layouts.
I completed these yesterday evening.

I am very proud of myself for keeping up with my December Daily. My 2012 album is not complete yet as I still have to do Sept - Nov pages but my December Daily is complete! :)
Another accomplishment is that I finally also finished my 2011 album. 2011 is the year I actually started scrapbooking, so it only took almost 2 years to complete that album :)

My scrapbooking is now more of a hybrid scrapbook. I am doing Project Life layouts but also doing 12 x 12 layouts for the album.
There is no wrong way to scrapbook which is a great thing about this hobby!

So onto this week's project pics.....

I used Crate Paper's Sleigh Ride collection which I completely LOVE!! The papers in this collection are just gorgeous! I had used most of them in another section of my December Daily but still had plenty of scrap and whole papers left. I bought the whole collection, so had plenty of embellishments to use up.


Here is the 2nd layout:

One of my favorite papers in this collection this one which is a map of the North Pole. I knew I had to use it as a background paper. I separated the doggie pics and placed them more on the sides to not cover up the middle section. I used different scraps from the collection to layer behind the pictures.
I also did some sewing/stitching on my layout. I only did a single stitch straight line over the bottom of the papers.
If you notice, I also placed a bunch of star shaped bling around the whole page.



I  had a few online purchases come in this week - one from Simon says Stamp and another Becky Higgins/Project Life from Amazon.
Simon Says Stamp was the first to get the Basic Grey True Love paper collection that I have had my eye on over the last 2 months.

Love the papers in this collection! I only bought the 6x6 paper pad since I have enough 12x12 Valentine themed papers that were recently bought. Plus, I think these papers would be better for card making instead of layouts. I can also use them for Project Life as well.
I also bought a few embellishment such as the woven fabric labels and fabric stitched brads to coordinate.


Well I hope you all have a great Sunday and a great week!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this week's projects.
Stay tuned next Sunday for another great project here at P&P Creations :)