december daily

From the first time I heard about Ali Edwards’ idea of keeping a December Daily album, I’ve wanted to make one. And every year December comes and goes without me even attempting to start one. Although, last year I did manage to keep a notebook with December Daily items jotted down along with an envelope filled with memorabilia – I thought I would create the album later, but of course, that never happened. So this year I finally planned ahead! I put the foundation pages to my album together in October! These pages are very basic and just a starting point, but I’m ready to go once December begins! For those of you new to the December Daily concept, it’s basically creating an album with a page or spread for each day of December. You add a daily entry and end the month with an album full of December memories. You can read more about the December Daily on Ali Edwards’ blog.

I selected a double ring binder type album. This is a lush, fabric covered one that Fancy Pants released quite some time ago. I love this shade of red! Gorgeous! My challenge will be, not to overload my pages with dimensional items so that my album becomes so thick that I can’t close it. For those of you familiar with my scrapbooking you know how hard of a challenge that will be for me! But, if I fail and this baby gets too thick, I’ll just create some chipboard covers for it, bind it with clip rings, and save my lovely red album for another project.

I’ve used this gorgeous flocked transparency from Fancy Pants’ Tradition collection throughout my album. I’m actually planning to use the entire Tradition collection for my album. I decided for my first go at this I would keep it simple by using one collection and maybe adding bits and pieces from others here and there.

Ali Edwards has a lot of beautiful December Daily templates, overlays and digital brushes for purchase at Designer Digitals. I chose to create my own template to fit my album page size. I set up a very simple spread in a drawing program on my computer and printed the pages onto cardstock. I’ll fill the blocks with photos, papers, journaling and embellishments. Using a template will help me put the pages together more quickly. Let's face it, December is crazy busy and there will be days I only have a few minutes to spare for my daily entry.

I included some baseball pocket pages, trimmed down to fit my album. Right now I just have some pieces of flocked transparencies in some of the pockets. I’ll fill the other ones up with photos, papers and such. This fabulous idea is from Ali Edwards.

I’ve included a few pages from the Tradition Journal Notebook. These uniquely shaped smaller pages add some fun variety to the album.

This is a printed transparency also from Fancy Pants’ Tradition collection. I really love to use a variety of materials for my mini album pages. It's just more interesting that way.

If you are familiar with the December Daily concept you may have noticed the lack of numbers on my pages. I’m planning to add those later as I make my daily entries. I think I will use my Silhouette to cut them from cardstock or patterned paper, probably all in the same font, but maybe different sizes.

So that's it! My foundation is set and ready to go once December arrives! I am going to try to add photos of my completed pages here...it may not be every day, but I'll try to add them regularly, so stay tuned!

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