I’ve finished a few more days of my December Daily album (done with Project Life products) and I’m excited to share these pages with you!
December 1st: (again)
I’m duplicating a day that has already been done because my husband was on a business trip and had an amazing December experience on his own. He was invited to attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington D.C. I was invited to go with him but I didn’t feel like I could leave at this time with our heavy homeschool schedule. I’ve had to reduce my travels and extras this year just to keep up. I’m glad he still got to go and my daughter and I watched the event via live web feed so it feels like this needs to be a part of our album.
I love this style of page protector – it holds 4 squares of 6x6 size so it was like making 4 simple mini digital layouts and then I was done. My kind of scrapping fun!
December 4th:
I used the back side of this protector for my December 4th photos. We didn’t have any special activities this day so I just took some pictures of our holiday decorations to document.
For both of these layouts I used a combination of professionally printed 6x6 pictures (Costco) and home printed 6x6 photos and journaling pieces. I used the traveling typewriter font for the journaling. I enlarged one of Ali’s advent boxes for the journaling square on the 1st page.
December 5th & 6th:
I combined December 5th and 6th together and used one page to document both days. We didn’t have much going on either day, just some crafts and wrapped presents.
The breakdown of this page:
- 5 photos printed at Costco (including scans of wrapping paper). I used the corner rounder on all of them. I trimmed down 4 of the photos to fit in the smaller pockets. Four photos/cards were printed at home. I lowered the opacity on 2 of the photo cards that I printed at home.
- A journaling card from the physical Project Life core kit with my handwriting
- 1 digital journaling card that I used in Photoshop Elements to add text.
- Ali Edwards word art and overlay
Some of the digital pieces:
December 7th & 8th:
It seems like I’ve been to several grocery stores already this month so I figured that was a good subject for December 7th. I brought my point and shoot camera to the store with me and took some pictures of some of the seasonal foods and displays. I also made a trip to Target that day and photographed the holiday aisles. I love fun foods and special packaging! We didn’t have much going on around here on December 8th so I thought it would be a good day to document my baskets of Christmas cookbooks & magazines.
The breakdown of this page:
- 3 photos printed at Costco. I used the corner rounder on all of them. I trimmed down 2 of the photos to fit in the smaller pockets. The remainder of the photos/cards were printed at home.
- A journaling card from the physical Project Life core kit. I love that it was all ready to go and I could just slip it in one of the pockets.
- Ali Edwards word art and overlay. Text added to several photos using traveling typewriter font.
Some of the digital pieces:
Thoughts to share:
- I like using a variety of page protectors to play around with different configurations.
- I’m including things I usually wouldn’t such as: scanned wrapping paper, scan of an ornament box cover.
- It’s fun to add pieces of word art and tidbits of journaling. I’m finding that I really don’t need any other embellishments because my photos + the stories are more than enough for this album.
- Not every day of December needs it’s own layout page. I’m really happy that I could document smaller stories on some of the days where we didn’t have much going on and still feel good about it. I feel totally ok with including several days in one page protector, especially since we have some bigger events that I will want to use several pages for.
- My album still has not arrived and I ordered it on November 28. I even emailed the company a few days ago and they said it was on the way. I wish I would have ordered it earlier because I want to keep this album out as I’m putting it together so we all can enjoy it.
I’m glad I was able to document some of the everyday moments that are part of December, to me that’s what this project is all about. Of course, its fun to capture the big stuff also and I have some of those pages to work on now as well.
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