Mandy's Day 25 Pages

Christmas day is always hugely busy for us....

probably more than most and we do this same routine year after year...

We start with the morning at our house - it needs a page (change that to double page!)

By lunch we travel (not far) to my husband's family farm (another double page)

And by the evening we've travelled 3 1/2hrs to the other end of the state to be with my family 

(yes, another double page)  

In my defence though - my pages are only 8x8 and in contrast to my other 

December Dailys - thats small!

LOL, so with that said... I got to scrap up a storm the last couple of days... 

DAY 25

The Anticipation....

Here's the other side of the star on the reverse of Day 24,

By ruling some outline around the stars edges, it gave it definition.

The 'dec 25' was a diecut that had come in a pack.  It was the same width of the

star so went with a 'column' look to this side

Just love the Victorian Santa Claus and flora

Another peek through page.....

I've used some more doors from this 7Gypies paper

Gosh its lovely!!

 And cut out two doors (from two pieces of the 7Gypsies paper and 

the 'panes' of the window in the doors

Apologies for the poor photo (took this as light was fading..) but you can see the cut out piece of the page (to fit a 7x5photo that will be fixed to the next page), and the doors are attached by long strips (of the cut out piece) and folded like long hinges and glued so the doors can 'swing' open.

The 'brickwork' and the stars for 'doorknobs' are also part of the 7Gypsies 'Architexture' sticker range.

I wanted the it to look like we were seeing in from the outside of the 'house'

And here's how it looks with the doors swung open to see through to the next page.

THE MORNING

Add a star banner, some diecut branches, more white rubons and stickers and the page came along quite quickly.  Putting glitter washi tape around the edge of the doors covered the somewhat rough cutting 

Peeking all the way though....

And peeking through from the 24th through the other way :) 

The  unwrapping of presents...

I thought all the colourful pieces of pie graph kind of looked like wrapping paper.. and it did go everywhere... love that moment on Christmas morning!

The pie pieces where cut from little bits of colourful paper I had in a little dish.. does come in handy!

Dusted off my 'IZINKs' in Tomato and Cactus

Put a dob of it here and there, then with a straw.... blow!
What a great effect and so vibrant!

THE AFTERNOON
This double page felt completely different to the page before..

So got out the big shot and made some diecuts that really suited in greys and whites to work with the colours in the photos.
(and who doesnt love sequins for a pop of colour too!!!)

Another 'card structure' has been add under the 'ho ho ho' to hold more photos
The little row of christmas trees are a lino cut print I made and then printed
out in various colours ages ago.

Opening the card....

...really does help with those photos not wanting to be left out.

THE EVENING

The 25th is the cresendo in my December Daily...  so if there are lots of photos, 

I try find a way to include them.  

I didnt want to do another card structure so baubles work!!

Add in a few diecut pine branches...

Phew... thats the 25th done!

Nearly the end, might add a couple of more pages for the 26th etc

How are you doing with your December Daily? We would love to see it - just add a link to it in the comments below

Lori's Day 18 and 19

Day 18 

Day 18 is all about me finally finding one of the "hot" toys for the holiday season for my granddaughter. The stores had been sold out of them for weeks and on this day I finally found some when I went shopping. I wanted to be sure to include in my journaling why my granddaughter wanted them so badly, because in a few years that little detail may be forgotten!

I finally used one of the plastic clips from my kit on this layout, although it may be hard to see where! The "so excited" banner is the clip - the actual clip part was too big, so I cut it off to make it work for my layout.

Day 19

Day 19 talks about our favorite movies and why. I wanted to include a photo of the movies, so I printed covers off of my computer and added them to the front of my card. 

I also wanted to include why these movies are our favorites, but didn't have enough space on my card for what I wanted to say, so I created a flip up element. I added a piece of washi tape to the back side of the front piece of the card and attached it to the base card. The base card slips into the pocket and the photos of our favorite movies will stay on the outside for an easy flip up to read the journaling.

Here are both pages together in my album:

How are you doing with your December Daily? We would love to see it - just add a link to it 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?

Mandy's Days 19 - 24

 

Now that the Christmas rush is over, I've been able to sit down and have a lovely play with my Christmas stash...

DAY 19

This was such  a special day for Paige's graduating from university that there were many photos, so adding a 'card' like structure to the page helped add in quite a few extras.

(A little side-note:  I did make the little graduation hat jar Paige is holding... its filled with mostly $5 notes. The hat took no time to make out of black cardboard and a gold tassel...  she was thrilled to bits!) 

 This torn out page look stamp spelled 'study' to me lol, so went with it down the side 

(its actually a 11 1/2inch stamp)  using some 'Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Enamel', though havent heat set it here yet.

The stuck-in  card  has been layered and stitched around the edges with my sewing machine.

I've used a stencil with some texture paste and a cute little 'graduation' die with glitter paper

Opening the card up.......

...... there is quite a bit of extra space for photos - got to love that!

And a bright bit of washi tape!

DAY 20

This was a simple block design.  I print my photos at home in any measurements and like to have a white border around them especially against the black background. These groups of photos just clicked into place including a journaling block.  Just add stickers (grin)

DAY 21

Again it was a day of wanting to add four photos so went a block-ish design

 to compliment the opposing page.  

This time the glitter numbers are in red - the white kind of disappeared into the photos.  

I too, like Tracey am trying to use up my rubons.  At last the white ones will be rubbed on to the black background and look good.... my problem.... rubons are not my friend! 

I struggle - you can see where I've rubbed and rubbed to get the jolly things to stick!

DAY 22

More rubons used!

DAY 23

I've been excited to use a gorgeous Penny Black stamp for this page...

(I'm no great stamper or embosser - but love to have a go and even experiment)

Hmmmm,   I'm not sure about this... Stampendous Shabby Green... weeeeell....

I can honestly say.. there isnt much if any 'green' in it!  It didnt look a whole lot different to my 'Shabby White'!  Never mind because........

........out with the smooch colours 

(sundance, siren, moccha)

I've tried a million ways to photograph this close up so you can see the beautiful sheen Smooch produce, but to no avail... my camera just wont pick it up.  It doesnt do it justice.

DAY 24

A double page for the 24th...

probably more in anticipation for Christmas Day!

I think there is a couple of key fun parts of creating these pages.....
Love to use the Lustre Rubs for shading....

First was a peek-through star... by cutting a hole into the page. 

Even though there is nothing on page underneath (for the 25th yet)

I'll plan so something makes sense peeps through

This is on the reverse side - also yet to be created

 I tried to centre the photo from the 24th to show something of faces peeking through

Next is another stamp I just love - because its such a favourite verse.

And how much do I love my stamp press!! 

Weeell it makes a not so great stamper into a much better one!

And another learning experience....  

How gorgeous are these Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet stamps!

I thought why not use the VersaCraft ink - well known for stamping of fabric and the like...

only because I got such a white imprint!  Looks great.... but took a little while to dry.

but then they dried a dull grey....

Nothing that couldnt be fixed by some more Smooch colouring

 and my white Jellyroll 08 pen to outline

Weeeell, that gets me up to creating Christmas Day next!

Exciting!

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How is your December Daily going? Be sure to add a link in the comments!