December Daily® 2018 │ Days One thru Three

So I'm at it again, year 10!! Holy smokes I cannot believe this is my tenth December Daily® album. What an amazing project this has been and I treasure each and every one of my albums. So many thanks need to be expressed to Ali Edwards for creating this project. My holiday season would not be the same without this project.

I have gotten a bit of a late start on my album this year, which seems to be the same story for the past few years. I'm okay with getting a late start because I always know I will catch up. Plus a few solid full day sessions of scrapbooking help get me in the groove and it makes it fun for me.

As I share my pages here this year I will always try to tag things that I can that are current but if I don't feel free to ask questions, I'm happy to help if I can. One other note is this some of the links I share might be affiliate links, which means I will receive a small commission if you make a purchase using the links below. There is no additional cost to you if you use these links. But I wanted to disclose that up front.

The first thing I made was my cover page. I kept it super simple this year which is probably going to be a recurring theme from me this year.

The gold elements are Crate Paper Merry Days, the chipboard number is from Ali Edwards last year, the December twenty eighteen is from this years Paislee Press mini kit and the rubber star is from my stash, possibly from Felicity Jane but I can't be sure.

Day one is typically about advent calendars or Twinkle our elf's arrival but this year I focused mostly on the adorable Harry Potter Advent calendar I got for my daughter. This was a hot item this year and of course I missed out on all the presales so I had a hard time tracking it down. I got lucky one day on Amazon and found one at a fairly reasonable price.

The first figure was Harry himself so he deserved a front and center photo. The stamping I did is from the Merry Everything kit from Kelly Purkey. The kit is sold out but the digital files are available.

On the right side I used a paper from the Paislee Press 2018 mini kit as are the chipboard circle and the rubber piece. The stars are from my stash. The journal card is from Kelly Purkey.

Day two is about our tree hunt so I had to use one of the Riso prints Kelly sold in her specialty paper pack. I didn't want to cover it up so as you will see below I cut around it to slip photos under it.

All of the stamps I used on this side are from Kelly Purkey but sadly they are all sold out. I really love the tiny words that fit into the labels.

Here you can see how I cut down each side of the tree but left the bottom intact and didn't cut around the star. I backed the paper with a plain sheet of cardstock so the photos had a place to live.

I really loved the tag that was on our tree so I saved it and stamped in the details myself using the number stamps from the Countdown to Christmas kit.


 I modified one of the journal cards to increase the length since my photo was long and thin.

Day three was the day we hung up the outside lights. I feel like I'm a total broken record about this story but we do it every year and it means a lot to me so its an important story for my album. This years photos turned out so cute and you may see something similar on our holiday cards this year.

I extracted some text from one of the papers in the Oh What Fun kit, and laid them on top of my photo. The & is from another digital kit and matched enough to work for this.

I decided to add some of my favorite throw back pics for this annual tradition and really love how this layout turned out. The chipboad traditions piece is from an old Paislee Press mini kit.

I have two more days pages done, I just need to photograph them and get them loaded. I want to do a video walk through as well, I just don't know if I should do them weekly or what. I tried weekly last year and only did one, maybe I should do half and then the other half. If you have an opinion or preference let me know in the comments.

See you soon,