December Daily {Day 20-25}

My finished December Daily album. {Finally}

I love all of the different embellishments sticking out from the pages and all of the different shapes and sizes of the pages.

Dec 20: WHAT is in that box?

Inspired by this . Although I was not successful sewing through the American Crafts thickers. I just skipped over then when I was sewing. I currently have red thread in the top of the machine and white on the bobbin, so you can barely see the stitching on the front page.

Day 21: Watching A Christmas Carol while William takes photos.

Photo of the table decorations with the white tulips on the table.

Day 22: Journaling about how the kids exchange gifts between each other every year.

William wrapping Bryan's gift. The envelope has tags in it from the gifts, so I could keep a record of the kids' handwriting.

Dec 23: 11 things that I loved about today-layout inspired by Ali.

Some of the things that we did that I loved. Including spending 5 hours playing Star Wars Risk and still not finishing the game.

Santa's elves.

The kids in front of the tree.

Dec 25: All of us in front of the tree on Christmas Eve.

The envelope that I bought at Hallmark. I included the kids' Christmas lists, a picture that Eliz colored, and a letter to Santa. Merry Christmas everyone!

December Daily {Day 16, 17, 18 and 19}

Day 16: Bryan brought home the little bear sticker from religious ed on Wed, so I immediately used it on this page. I journalled about my day on the card inside the envelope on the page.

Photo of Bill and I that I took using the timer on the camera.

Ali Edwards brush (Handdrawn Holidays) says, "a wonderfully ordinary december day"

Day 17: I originally planned to use the photo of all 3 of the kids to place behind the overlay, but it didn't turn out right. The "two" ended up right over Bryan's face. So I used the tulip page for the overlay and created a new page for the photo of the kids.

Collage of photos taken on the 17th-Elizabeth as Rudolph, Hickory Farms basket that Bill brought home, working on a digital scrapbook page, and Elizabeth doing Algebra II homework.

Another of Ali's handdrawn holiday brushes.

Photo of the kids-they are really good sports about taking photos during the holidays :)

The collage worked on an day 17, so I figured it work out here as well.

Day 18: {Another Ali Edwards brush-loving the handdrawn holiday brushes!}

I love the red and brown color schemes. Left work at 1:00, finished up most of the shopping and had lunch at Arby's with Daddy. I even got some wrapping done.

Day 19: Presents are just about ready to go! The Ali Edwards' brush on the photo says, "I love christmas time!" The type says, "wrapping is mostly done".

I love the December daily process (even though it can be time consuming, even when you have the book itself complete and just need to "print a photo or 2...). Happy Saturday night!!!

December Daily {Day 13 (continued) 14, and 15}

The back of Day 13-dressed in our football watching clothes for Sunday football!

I wasn't in the mood to take photos, so I chose a couple of Christmas past photos-i love this photo with Kermit the frog!

I loved this photo too-Charlie and I with our New Year's garb on and in the background, Kermit and Curious George are sleeping with one of my favorite blankets under the Christmas tree.

I added a baseball protector page (scraplift of Ali Edwards CK December page) to include some photos of decorations.

Here is the back of that page.

I finally started working on Christmas cards...they are still not done.

Awesome-Monday night I found one of December Daily pages on Ali's blog-SWEET!

I will post more pages as I get the photos ready. Happy Saturday!

December Daily {Day 11, Day 12, Day 13}

Day 11: Elizabeth and William hung a jingle bell on the ceiling fan. They were upset that it didn't jingle when they turned the fan on. (The photo is of William holding the jingle bell.)

Photo of the Christmas tree and the settings that I found on 2peasinabucket.com to be able to get the starburst effect on the lights.

Day 12: I had the kids stand in front of the tree so that I could take their photo. I finally got the photo above.

Day 12: This is what really happened when I was trying to take photos.

Day 13: Elizabeth and Pudge are dressed up for the Jets game.

Happy Monday! Have a great week!

December Daily {Days 7, 8, 9, & 10}

Day 7: I shrunk the 12x12 digital layout to 6x6, printed it out, and put it onto page 7.

I love this cute little photo of Bryan peeking over the couch. The journaling says: "I love the way that the prime lens focuses on your face-especially your freckles. And I know that you are so ready for Christmas. You asked for lots of wrestling videos and a new wrestler. You also asked for some Wii games and some Simpson's seasons."

Day 8: Snow Day#1-the day that the snow started.

Day 9: Snow Day #2-The snowfall when it ended. I wasn't going to buy anymore holiday stickers, but I found these really cute letters and felt stickers in the scrapbook aisle at Target on Saturday morning and...well as you can see, I had to buy them :) Day 9: Elizabeth and Bryan went outside to play in the snow.

I also got a really cute photo of Elizabeth cleaning the snow off of Bryan's face (after she threw a snowball at him). But I didn't put it into the December Daily.

Dec 9: Daddy using the snowblower in the driveway while it is still really snowing. I wasn't originally going to print out any large photos this year, but I loved the look that Ali had with her photos covering her "file folder" type pages.

Bryan helping Daddy out by shoveling the sidewalk.

Day 10: This page needed something extra so I included a tag inspired by Tim Holtz's 12 tags. I put the first photo at the top of the page because I LOVE that Bryan was making a face while Elizabeth was taking our photo. I didn't notice him doing it until I looked at the photos on the camera!

Friday after work: I have gone back to playing chauffer while the roads are bad so the kids don't have to drive the truck in the snow. The "self-portrait" is part of this weeks assignment for Ali's class. I am loving the way the December Daily is coming together and I am having so much fun doing it. I will post Day 11-13 tomorrow. Happy Sunday night!!

December Daily Day 7

Template by Ali Edwards for Designer Digitals, Font-1942 report

Sometimes, digital pages are just so much faster than trying to complete a hybrid page. I decided to make this one a digital. Love the way these photos turned out using the 50 mm, 1.8 lens on the camera. I love the depth of field. I wish I used this lens more often-I get great portrait photos with it. Happy Wednesday again!

Snow is here!

Brush from Ali Edwards for Designer Digitals (who else?). Font is 1942 report.

I am running low on ink, so I probably won't be printing anything to work on my December Daily until I can make it to Staples...which may be a couple of days. Not looking forward to the winds and the cold, but the snow is so beautiful when it's falling and I'm not driving. Hoping to catch a few more photos tomorrow morning. Happy SnowDay!

December Daily {Day 4, 5, 6}

Photo of the kids at the Roughriders game. (No journaling-I will probably add a couple of strips of journaling later.)

More photos from the game.

Every year Daddy and I spend some time shopping, then we go out for Lunch. This year we went to the Outback steakhouse for lunch (they never used to be open for lunch-soooo cool!)

I will post this photo by itself, because I think it turned out sooo cool!

Tigger has control of the remote during football on Sunday {she says we are watching the Bears.} Inexpensive decoration that I found at Michael's on Sunday morning to put on the mudroom door.

I caught Daddy outside singing to himself with his headphones on (out loud) while frying a turkey. (I was coming out through the garage and snapped the photo without him seeing me.)

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Happy Monday!