December Daily® 2018 │ Days Eight thru Twelve

Hello there, six days to go and I'm still over here plugging away at my album. I'm here today to share a few more days that I have done. I'm still running about five days behind but I'm okay with that. I keep telling myself not to stress, there's so much going on that I don't need to stress my self out over this too. I'm totally enjoying going at my own pace and working on a few days pages at a time.

Day 8 was a fun girls day out for us at a local makers fair. I didn't have anything wonderful photo wise from the market but I did have some cute photos for our stop for a dessert lunch.

I used digital files from Paislee Press for the whole left side and I love the look of this collection its called December Faves 07.

I shrunk down the 3x4 card to fit and I cut out the sticker on my Cameo so that I could lift if off the page with foam tape.

To separate the two days I used another transparency, this is from American Crafts DIY shop line and I love the gold metallic starts. I layered the branch and the chipboard all from the Crate Paper Merry Days collections to dress up the transparency a bit.

Day nine, was movie date to see the new Fantastic Beasts movie and I really only had one photo that wasn't all that great. I decided to create a tag layer and use an image I found online for the movie. I wanted to put my journaling on my black base tag but you can't type in white so I recreated a tag in Photoshop Elements which was basically a black rectangle with white text that I printed on photo paper. The star tag is from a recent Studio Calico kit and the top tag of the movie image I made by just creating the rectangle and then cutting the tag shape. The base layer black tree paper is from last years Paislee Press mini kit, at least I think it is.

Day ten is always and forever her Birthday. Which means another set of birthday balloons! This year they had rainbow tie dye which was so her. I knew it was going to be a challenge festive wise so I just eliminating anything Christmasy and went from there.

I really had no alphas that looked remotely right so I decided to create my own from the balloons. I created my own image layer by copying repeatedly the portion of the balloon on the left since it was relatively straight up and down. I smoothed it out the best I could and then clipped that to the font text. It came out better than I thought and I think it pairs perfectly with the bright colors. The clear acrylic holographic stars are old but are from Color Cast Designs.

Day eleven was the day we stuffed and mailed our Christmas cards. I snapped the photo on the left of my daughter as she fed the envelopes into the drive thru mailbox. The base layer of this page is a digital paper from Paislee Press, its pretty old.

I used a metal die from Studio Calico to create the attacher tabs from a thin clear transparency sheet I had. I always hate punching holes into the actual card so this works well.

Day 12 happened super early in the month but I wanted to fit the story in because I always do. She picked two papers this year and I love what she picked, even thought the silver glitter was a pain to wrap because tape doesn't want to stick to it. The rose gold is so her right now so I loved that one.

I'm trying to get pages done in the midst of getting Christmas settled and other work assignments so I'll be back to share more as soon as I can. I also still need to film a video, ugh.

See you soon,