December Daily Finished!!

Woohoo, I finally finished December Daily 2012!! I know it's October 1st, 2013... but... well... um... I never completed my December Daily and thought it would never happen. But then Studio Calico posted some sneaks of their upcoming December Daily kit with Ali Edwards for this year and I really like that it's going back to a bigger size, so that was the motivation for me to finish up DD from last year so I wouldn't feel so guilty about pre-ordering this year's kit!! I had finished up to Day 12, but had stopped and then thought it wasn't going to get finished, but the long break from it actually helped me get some pages done quickly and over the past couple weeks I was able to finish it out! Here are my pages!


Day 13: I found some scraps of paper and stopped worrying about finding the "perfect" use for that gold polkadot vellum paper, so I just kept it simple and moved on.

Day 14: Not too holiday-ish but I used the postcard from the Studio Calico journal boxes and some airmail twine since Chris' coat had blue and red to match and he came home for lunch that day to take a walk with me!

Day 15: I had seen one of Ali's pages I think it was that had the diagonal red lettering like that, so I used it for my title - this was me and my friend scrapping December Daily haha!

Day 16: I had also seen somebody use those Studio Calico diamond stickers like this as well and scraplifted the idea. I decided to keep my album holiday-themed in appearance even for non-holiday themed photos!

Day 17: Another quick layout - I had decided if I was going to finish this by the end of September (which I would have if Natalie wasn't sick and kept me busy all day yesterday), then I would just have to keep these pages simple!

Day 18: I looked back to my 25 Days class pdf's and saw Kinsey Wilson had a layout where she used that washi tape diagonal, so I did the same, but added in the sparkly silver washi since it sort of matched my new/used car!

Day 19: Just some simple stamping and embossing here

Day 20: I had printed out some of the class printable labels and decided to stamp on them and add some to the journal box along with some of those enamel dots - simple!

Day 21: Again just simple, did some stamping and added some stickers and called it a day!

Day 22: My least favorite but I got it done - I cut the note card from my Silhouette

Day 23: Decided to also embellish the photo a little too - what a difference that makes!

Day 24: I used the multi print feature (not sure what it's called exactly) on my Canon Selphy CP800 and decided to mimic the layout on the opposite page! I love how it turned out and it was so simple too!

Day 25: My only use of a transparency, I had cut that Dec 25 glittery piece with my Silhouette last year! I bought it from the Silhouette online store with the intention to use it specifically like this... I just didn't know I wouldn't get to it for another 10 months!

So there it is!! 2012 is completed and I'm ready to do this year's and maybe even finish it before October 1, 2014!! Haha, no promises though!

December Daily - Day 11!

Don't make fun of me, but here is Day 11 of my December Daily album! I'm really hoping I can have this completed by end of January now (before I wanted to be done by end of December haha). I'm a professional and have to give fairly precise estimates at work for projects, but I guess that doesn't translate to my scrapbooking life!

So this pic is a little strange, I took it through the blinds in the kitchen when I saw this big hawk land right on our neighbor's deck in front of the window while I was washing dishes! For the bottom strip, I embossed the circles border stamp on a piece of paper and cut around the stamped area with my Fiskars fingertip knife.

I cut the title and the feathers with my Silhouette Cameo! From there it was pretty simple, and just added a few embellishments and journaling.

I know I will love the December Daily album once it's finished, but I am def ready to get back to my regular scrapping!

December Daily - Day 10

It took me all day on my day off to get around to it, and I do mean all day (I didn't start this layout till past 10pm last night), but once I got started, it came together quickly!

For this side, I knew I wanted to do a "green" theme because of the lack of snow, making the photo look incomplete to me. Also, after cutting out 11 banners from super thick glitter card stock (more like glitter chipboard) I didn't want to subject my Silhouette Cameo to anymore thick cuts, so I just cut a strip of the green glitter paper that came in the Studio Calico December Daily kit, as sort of a "lawn" look. I added the trees and sort of reversed where you'd put a title and journaling so the journaling would show up.

I am hardly halfway through this month, but almost out of sequins!! Geesh, who knew that would be my go-to supply for this project!

Happy December scrapping!

December Daily - Day 9!

Finally day 9 is complete! Ever have a layout or project just sit on your desk and you have no idea how to move it along!? For whatever reason, this day stumped me, even though it ended up very simple. Oh well, time to get day 10 started!

We just took a trip out to Trader Joe's and luckily Chris was a good sport and posed for a photo for me for my December Daily album! The washi tape at the bottom was too wide for the space, so I cut a piece of paper to fit and wrapped it with washi tape. I just added another wooden arrow from Freckled Fawn and we'll call it a day with this side!

For this side, Chris randomly saw they had some Trader Joe's holiday stickers as we were checking out and got them for me! Woohoo! I just threw on some sequins, a stamp, and used an Ali Edwards cut from the Silhouette to round it out.

For a non-holiday themed photo, I really like how these pages it fit in the album and sort of look holiday-ish! Hey, we were feeling merry & bright as we bought our groceries haha!

December Daily - Day 7&8

I thought I'd be way more productive this weekend, but I guess I was too tired to keep up, oh well - I am still determined to get my December Daily album completed before the new year! Day 7 was my Friday off from work, and when Chris brought home Chinese food for lunch, I thought for sure that'd be the highlight of my day! However, I will have some pics and a story to add to the envelope later!!

I just made this simple and added some paper at the bottom, that matched the inside of the envelope on the other side, a vellum number and a sparkly sticker, backed with some washi tape to make it stand out more!

The envelope was a cut file from Marcy Penner for the 25 Days online class at Studio Calico! I used that awesome piece of Echo Park paper to cut it, but first I added a heart from Studio Calico, to the envelope. I separated the image, and used just the inner part onto the envelope, then cut the whole image separately from the glittery paper and made a sort of outline to adhere to the outer portion of the envelope!

Here's the tutorial video from Marcy.

For Day 8, we rang the bell for the Salvation Army Red Kettle drive outside our local mall! This was awesome because some time ago I was telling Chris how I wanted to volunteer more (like in the community), but felt restricted because I don't have a car and don't drive - so Chris suggested we could both ring the bell together!! I have the best husband!!

It didn't feel too cold when we left the house, but after the sun went down and it started to rain and it got windy... yeah, it was FREEZING! Next time (we'll be ringing again in a couple weeks) I am bringing gloves, hat, long johns and whatever else might be needed!

I was able to get some of the images off the Salvation Army blog for this side since I only got the one blurry photo from the actual day.

I have pics printed out for Days 9 & 10 too! We're almost halfway there!!

December Daily - Day 6

Last night I went to the Ladies' get together at church - we ate some snacks, talked and enjoyed a message from Angela! My friend Monica asked me to help with the centerpieces, so I helped make the banner for each piece, using my Silhouette to say "His banner over me is Love" :)

I had some extra silver glitter paper that I had bought to make the banners, and used it to back the right side. I just decided to keep the rest simple.

For the right side I used a matted piece of silver paper so it wasn't too glittery. I bought some glitter ribbon by American Crafts (it's a deeper blue than appears in the photo) and went perfectly with my photo and paper.

Happy December Daily!!

December Daily - Day 5

Wednesdays might become some of the "trickiest" days to complete December Daily layouts for, since Chris and I are both at work all day, then head over to church for the evening bible study. In fact, last night (after having had the previous night's dinner of exquisitely cooked foreign fare), I wasn't in the mood for much, so Chris made me some toast with butter and a can of green beans! On the way to church, I was laughing how we went to such extremes haha! Yeah that's right, I had toast and beans for dinner... hence, I did not take a picture of that (although I guess I could've and it would've been funny)...

So yeah this picture is of my latest order from Studio Calico laid out on half my scrap table - and look closely, you can see this album there! I just added some of those vellum labels by Crate Paper, some twine and a star so as not to leave the photo just "blank" haha!

For the right side, I started out with a 4x6 piece of that colored stripes paper but really couldn't figure out how to keep it intact since I couldn't really journal on top of it, without covering more than I wanted to, so I will save that piece for later, and instead printed out the Day 5 digital download from Ali Edwards. I used one of the Studio Calico "packed by" business cards that came with my kit, and used a label that I typed on. I just added some sequins and embellishments to make that corner less glaringly empty.

Woohoo still caught up somehow!! :)