December Daily 2011 - Foundation Pages

I can't believe that it is time for the December Daily album again! This will be my 4th year doing this project and I love it more each year. It's a great way to get into the magic of the holiday season. This year I am changing how I do things. I am leaving most of my pages blank, I am not even adding in numbers for most of the days, to keep things more free when I  add in my photos and whatever else I have for the day. I think this is part of the reason that I did not finish my album last year, it was too hard to change and I got bored with it.

Here is my cover page for this year. I used a piece of wood paper and cut it down to 5x7. I added some Fab Rips from Studio Calico around the outside and stitched a piece of fabric on the front. I stamped the December on a gold piece of paper and cut it out along with some other embellishments.

I have been checking out the foundation pages that Ali created for her album this year and I loved the stitched page protectors. Here is one of the few that I am still adding to the album.

Most of my pages are just card stock in white, red and green but I do have a few pages that I have added numbers too.

So that is the start of my album! I am really excited to get started, I have even been thinking about starting this weekend. I will try to be better this year about sharing my album in progress.

Are you working on a December Daily this year? I would love to see it if you are!

December Daily - Day 1 & 2

Today I started to put together my December Daily album and I wanted to share the first 2 pages with you.

This first page started out looking like this:

I realized this wasn't going to work for my day one and what I had to save. I went to the Preschool Christmas show for the girls I babysit for, and all I had from the day was the program from the show. So I swapped out the first page for an envelope that you can see here.

After doing this project for a few years I am not afraid of getting rid of a page and making it something else that fits my day better.

Here is day 2

I am making a few gifts this year and wanted to highlight that on day 2.

Are you doing a December Daily album this year? I would love to see what you have done so far, link me up!

December Daily 2010

I can't believe it is time for this project again already, this year really did just fly by! I wanted to share my December Daily album foundation with you today. You can read more about the December Daily project at Ali Edwards' blog here.

This is my third year making a December daily album, you can see last year's album here and here. It is a lot of fun to do and I enjoy seeing it come together each year. I feel that each year it gets a little better so I have big hopes for this one!

First up is my cover, I used a book cover set from 7gypsies the album is 5x7.

Just a simple cover this year using some fun supplies I picked up this year. For the inside pages I picked up a bunch of patterned paper that I loved and decided to make those the base pages. I am still figuring out how I am going to work in the photos each day, but that is the fun part of this album.

Here are a few of the pages.

So there is a look inside my album, I can't wait to get started filling it in later this week!

December Daily - A few pages

I have slowly been playing catch up with my December Daily project after being gone for a week. Here are a few more pages that I have been working on. Above and below is the page for December 5th talking about boarding the Oasis of the Seas for the Maiden Voyage.

Loving the new boarder punch I got!
Here is the page for December 7th talking about the cupcake decorating class that Karen and I took on the ship.

Last is the page from December 4th that just has a bunch of pictures talking about our traveling to Florida the day before the cruise started.

I can't believe that Christmas is only 2 days away! Hope that you are all ready and have a wonderful holiday with family and friends!

December Daily Album

I can't believe it is December already! I decided to take another try at the December Daily album this year that was created by Ali E. (take a look at her books from the past few years, they are great!) It is an album that you make before December and then fill in each day to document the season. I did one last year and towards the end of the month I felt like I had figured out the process so I am hoping that the book this year will turn out a little better.
For my album base I used two holiday bingo cards as the covers to make a 5" x 7" album. I love how the cover turned out. I just kept adding things until it felt finished and I liked the look of it.
Since yesterday was December 1, I was really excited to begin the book. I started out with a page about my love of all of the holiday drinks that Starbucks has this time of year.
I also love the cups that they have this year and the theme of wishes and I am hoping to use that as my overall theme for the book this year. I will share some more pages as the book starts to fill up.