I've been watching this project be done by others for a couple years now and by the time I decided I wanted to last year we were already into December. So this year I started quite a bit earlier. The project is called December Daily where you are challenged to journal the month of December. It can be about the things that happen daily, about traditions involved in the season, favourite recipes or whatever comes up in December and the holiday season.
Ali Edwards of
Ali Edwards Design is the genius behind this project. She's been doing it for quite a few years now. You can follow along with her December Daily 2011 project and you can also follow along as I do mine here.
So I got my foundation for the book pretty much complete which means I have the template printed for each day. the book is 6" x 8" and each day consists of a 'spread' and a transparency between. You'll see what I mean as I post.
I just took a picture of each of my foundation pages and will give a little description of each. There's 31 days to go through here, so bear with this long picture filled post!
Front cover: I found a chip board with clear embossed dots on it. My intention here is to put an outline of a white reindeer. My first attempt ended badly as the paint didn't stick to the dots and the more I tried to fix it the worse it got.
Title Page: at the end of the month I'll maybe add a couple photos here.
Day One: just some glittery chipboard letters
Day Two: not entirely sure what I'll do here. Maybe a ruffly red ribbon from top to bottom with a number 2 attached somehow.
Day Three: every third day my transparency has a strip of paper up one side which was a way of using up the left over transparencies - less waste from the project. I zig zagged the red over some metallic thread to attach the two and added some white sticker letters
Day Four: a simple page - just the wood grain transparency with the glittered word four in red. Now to figure out a way to get all the extra glitter off the static-y page... hmmmm.
Day Five: not my favourite transparency or my favourite page design but it will do.
Day Six: used a bracket border to trim the edge of the striped cardstock and added the glittered chipboard letters.
Day Seven: a simple page day with just the seven icon and a little bit of papery string wrapped around a few times.
Day Eight: I wasn't in love with this flocked dark brown letters transparency but turns out you can scrape some of the letters of pretty cleanly so I scraped some of the 'f' off, took out the 'd' and the 'j' and added a little top to the 'I' to make a 't'. Genius! Oh yeah, and some festive ribbon.
Day Nine: one of my favourites! Three lines of red machine stitching attached the polka dot cardstock to the lattice transparency. Then some more of my favourite sparkly chipboard letters.
Day Ten: Just a tag that I spray painted over some punch out numbers, then outlined those numbers with a white pen, then stitched the tag on with red thread.
Day Eleven: a simple day - just the green flocked snowflakes with the simple 'eleven' tag.
Day Twelve: red bazzill paper stitched on with metallic thread (doesn't work well with a sewing machine and paper). I'm not crazy about this page,... feels like it's missing something.
Day Thirteen: I really liked the contrast of this tag and added a little metallic thread for some sparkle.
Day Fourteen: I took a piece of white card stock, stamped on JOY, added the '14' punch out then hand stitched it to the transparency with the metallic thread.
Day Fifteen: zig zag machine stitched this berry cardstock to the transparency then framed the number '15' with two puffy black bracket stickers.
Day Sixteen: nothing is done here yet but the plan is to do a black and white photo strip up the left hand side and then maybe a simple number tag stitched or stapled to the right lower side. I do not like this transparency - too busy and bright for my liking.
Day Seventeen: more green flocked snowflakes with a simple cardstock ribbon and number '17' icon on top.
Day Eighteen: another favourite of mine in the book. Fairly simple but I loved the hand stitched metallic thread with tails hanging off and the cork numbers in the corner with the wood grain transparency.
Day Nineteen: maybe some room for photos or journaling on the green strip?
Day Twenty: no idea what to do here. Maybe more ribbon strips?
Day Twenty One: a strip of neat cardstock that looks like old holiday ads. Added puffy black sticker numbers to the corner.
Day Twenty Two: I cut out a simple silver ring of paper to circle the number '22' then ruffled some red ribbon by pressing it onto some double sided tape.
Day Twenty Three: simple red and black '23' icon cut out with a green cardstock bracket.
Day Twenty Four: this page was actually meant for day twenty seven.... but I wasn't paying attention while spelling/glittering and put four instead of seven for some reason. Day twenty seven is now much for festive looking than I had planned. Oh well.
Day Twenty Five: Christmas Day! All the right words in all the right places. I stitched the simple 'December 25' strip on with red thread. I may still add a number 25 but I might also leave it as is.
Day Twenty Six: I will in fact be 'Home for the holidays' so this little card was perfect. We'll be heading to my parents Christmas afternoon and staying a few days.
Day Twenty Seven: see what I mean? Pretty festive for an after Christmas day. oh well. Still need to add something here.
Day Twenty Eight: not done yet.
Day Twenty Nine: not done yet.
Day Thirty: not done yet.
Day Thirty One: New Years Eve! not done yet.
I will post photos each day of each spread I complete. Hopefully I don't get behind as this project was the whole reason for making the blog in the first place... to keep me accountable and to post each day as I go. Wish me luck!
Mama T.
