Lori's Day 24 and 25

Day 24

We have finally made it to Christmas Eve! This year was a little different for us since we actually got to stay home! 

These last few pages have been interesting to make. I only have a few page protectors left and the majority of those are the 4 - 3x4's. Not only that but I haven't really had a chance to resize my photos, so I am working with all 4x6 photos and trying to fit them into a 3x4 pocket! It wasn't really that difficult since I was able to cut down the photos without losing anything important.

I realize the bottom photo on the right-hand side is not the best quality, but it is the only one that I took of one of our traditions of playing Wii games on Christmas Eve. In person, it is not nearly as dark as what it appears here.

Since I am working with only 4x6 photos, a few of those could not be cut down and I really wanted to include them, so I created an insert to fit those onto. I made a 5x7 card base, covered that different patterned papers and then added my photos to that. 

On the inside is where I have journaled about all of the photos.

Here is what the insert looks like sandwiched between the two pages: 

Day 25

Christmas Day has arrived - and I woke up not feeling well at all. I didn't take a lot of the pictures that I try to be sure and take each year - like a photo of each one of the kids with all of their presents wrapped and then again when they are all opened. I just went with what I had and tried to pick out a variety of everyone opening their gifts. 

I wanted to stay consistent with the journaling cards, so I made them all the same with each person's name at the top. I will go back and make a list of everything they received and a few fun little stories that go along with a couple of them.

We always go to my in-laws for Christmas dinner and a gift exchange, but since I wasn't feeling well I decided to stay home, so I have no pictures of that...there's always next year!

I had planned to make one more page showing the aftermath of opening presents, and I can not, for the life of me, find where I put the photo! I thought that would have been a good way to finish off the album.

There you have it - my very first December Daily complete!

How about you? Are you all finished? We would love to hear from you - just leave us a comment below!

Lori's Day 23 Continued

Day 23 continued

Day 23 was a busy day for us. We have always had an ornament exchange with my side of the family on Christmas eve, but this year we changed that to the Saturday before Christmas eve - which just happened to be the day before Christmas eve! I had quite a bit to say about this new tradition and that warranted another insert.

Here are the pages without the insert:

I wanted to be sure and document which ornament each of us got this year, so I just added that to the photos. Since my husband and youngest son had to leave before the exchange started, I wanted to be sure and tell the story of why and get a photo of their ornaments, as well. That is what is included in the insert.

Once again, I had a lot to say, so I made another flip up journaling card.

 Here is the back side of the insert:

The layout with the insert added: 

Journaling card opened:

I just have Christmas eve and Christmas day and then I will be all finished! I will be back in a couple of days with those layouts.

How are you coming along? We would love to see your December Daily, so share in the comments below.

Lori's Day 20-23

Day 20

Not a lot happened on the 20th, so I decided to document a couple of our decorations that have special meaning to us.

Day 21

 Again, another day that not a lot was going on. I took a photo of our wrapping paper and talked about how it was just a few days before Christmas and I hadn't even started wrapping presents!

Here are both pages together in my album. I'm really hoping to only use one album for this project, but it is getting really full!

Day 22

 Day 22 was a pretty busy day for us. We had to finish up our shopping and I didn't even take any pictures of us while we were out and about. I did want to write down a few thoughts about our shopping experience - because it was such a good day, and to let our family (and anyone who looks at this album) know what we were feeling this holiday season. 

Day 23 - Part 1

 We finally woke up to a little bit of snow! I kept this page very simple to keep the focus on those pretty snow pictures. 

Day 22 and 23 side by side:

I have a couple more layouts for Day 23 and will share those with you in my next post.

We would love to hear how you are doing on your December Daily! Please feel free to share with us in the comments below.

Tracey's Day 24 - 25

Day 24 - Keeping consistent with previous pages ....I have used rubons, drops of gold colour shine, a doily and large glittery numbers. "JOY" is a left over die cut from Christmas cards..... I really like how they are adding a little more interested to the pages which a very simple.

Washi tape and journalling with my typewriter.

Believe in the Magic of Christmas is a project life card. I printed our Christmas tree as a full page.

Day 25 - I designed the Full page cut file on my cricut.

Journalling on a project life card.

We started Christmas day with a Family breakfast. Love the pop of colour washi tape creates. The star border is rubons.

I have a few more pages to add for Christmas Day. I found it hard to choose just a few photos, so I will be back to share them soon.

Have you completed your album?

Lori's Day 13-17

Day 13

Since Day 12 was on this cute little bag, and Day 13 didn't have a lot going on, I decided to put Day 13 on the back side of the bag. This was the day that we started receiving Christmas cards.

Day 14

This is the day that we went and picked up my oldest son from college for Christmas break. As we were leaving, the sun was just starting to peek over the treeline, it was a bit cloudy, and it was breathtaking! The photo does not do it justice! I also remembered to take a photo of my son's dorm and him, too!

Here are the two pages together:

Day 15

This page was kept very simple. The photos were pretty busy, and too be honest, I am running out of time here! I tried to add an embellishment or two to the 6x4 photo, but I didn't really want to cover up my granddaughter's work, either! She had spent the better part of the day making "gift cards" using my scrappy supplies. She took the majority of them home to her Mommy, but I do have one that I will add directly to my album when I can find what I did with it! I think it will be fun to look back at her artwork when she was 4!

Day 16

 - is documenting all of the Christmas cards that I made this year. My goal was to have all of my cards made before the holiday season rolled around, so I started making them in January. By December I had 70+ made - more than enough! Sadly, I waited too long and didn't get the majority of them mailed out anyway so I will have a good head start for next year!

Here are Days 15 and 16 together:

Day 17

 I love this photo of our tree - it may be my favorite of the season! I love the early morning hours when everyone else is still asleep and the house is quiet. I was sitting by the tree, thinking about the upcoming week, when I looked over at the tree and was just mesmerized by it. The ornaments lit up by the twinkling lights...just so pretty and just what I needed for this last week before the big day!

The rest of Day 17 was pretty uneventful. We did get some much-needed rain - it had been over a month - so I snapped a photo of it dripping from the trees.

Here is a look at both sides of Day 17:

We are getting closer and closer to the end of the month, and my pages are becoming simpler each time - which is all right with me! When my family looks at this album in years to come, the stories are what will be the most important things!  My album is very full and I still have at least 8 days to go! I'm hoping to keep it all in one, but we will see!

How are you doing with your December Daily? Leave us a link in the comments so we can check it out!

Tracey's Day 22 and 23

Day 22 (Friday) I spent the day in the kitchen baking and icing the cookies I made on Day 21. I played around with the editing program  on windows 10 and added text on my photo. I chose striped pattern paper to coordinate with the table runner in the photo.  A spash of  gold colour shine , a doily and a sprinkle of sequins.

Day 23 - City lights.....I'm really trying hard to use up a huge collection to rubons. Santa and sleigh, numbers and verse are all rubons. When I have more time I plan to go back and add detailed journalling on a tag or maybe in an envelope ?  Or maybe I won't! Somedays don't need a lot of words....the picture says it all! Cheer and Happy Holidays were cut from a 12 x12 piece of paper. 

This year has flown by.....I can't believe it will soon be 2018.

Happy Crafting

Lori's Days 9-12

I'm still keeping with the quick and simple pages here to try to get caught up. I was able to get a couple more pages done this time around, but not as many as I would have liked.

Day 9 - for this page I used a journaling card and filler card that I had made in November that fit this day perfectly. It's not often that I come home from a shopping trip in a better mood than I when I left, but this day was an exception!

Day 10 is documenting mine and my husband's views on Christmas music being played on some radio stations all the time after Thanksgiving - he loves it, me, not so much! The one thing that we do agree on is the songs that we like. I have also included both of our Top 5 favorite Christmas songs.

Here are the two pages together in my album:

Day 11 is documenting me and my granddaughter making cookies - we're trying to get in a lot of practice for the big day! I wanted to include all of these cute photos of her mixing up the cookies and I kept the journaling card pretty simple. I think this is one of my favorites!

Day 12 was a rough day around our house and I debated on whether or not to include it, but this is what our life looks like right now, so we're keepin' it real! I have a lot of personal thoughts and feelings in the journaling, so I decided to use this bag that I had received and tuck my journaling in it. Since this was the only photo that I have from that day including the photo on the bag worked out perfectly.

Here is Day 11 and 12 in my album:

How are you coming along with your December Daily? We would love to see what you are creating! Leave a link in the comments so we can check it out!