December Daily: Day 2

I definitely won't get a chance to take better photos of my Day 2 tomorrow, but I still wanted to post my pages as I go to my blog if I can... so these were taken with my iPhone 4s in my basement at 11:30PM... you can imagine what kind of lighting I've got going on etc. Oh well, here is my day 2 layout! Yes I had a whole different set of photos picked out and again, the evening didn't go as planned (which was a good thing) and we took a surprise trip out to dinner with Natalie! She did great and we had a nice family dinner, complete with balloon making and no tears or fussiness!

I definitely relied heavily on the foundation pages already having my paper picked out etc, though I ended up not using one of the 3x4 cards and instead dropping another photo in there with the digital overlay from Ali Edwards. I really love the stamp set that came with her December Daily kit this year - I contorted the "Let Your Heart Be Light" stamp to follow the lines on the 3x4 card and stamped with Lime Light Color Theory ink by Studio Calico. I masked off the same stamp to stamp the sentiment word by word on that strip across the small photo.

The other thing I changed from my foundation was use that Twinkle Twinkle chipboard banner instead of the lighter green plastic Merry & Bright banner, I just felt the coloring worked better with this layout, but you can see how I don't mind that not every photo is holiday-themed or matches the way I decorate the page. I just like the overall look to be Christmas/holiday looking.