Decmber Daily 2012 - Days 16 & 17

Sunday there were two stories that I wanted to tell so I used my insert as a divider to split the spread up.  Here is the first story.

I had to hit Costco to pick up our Christmas Cards and the parking lot was crazy when I got there.  I snapped this picture before I headed in.  It was CRAZY!.  The December calendar is a stamp from Kelly Purkey, love it!  I used glitter tape under my text strips and more star cuts from Studio Calico.  The insert is a favorite quote from Elf and it seemed to work here.

The second part of the day was the Ravioli making over at my sister in laws house that afternoon.  Its a family tradition for Christmas dinner.

And for yesterday, day 17 we mailed out our cards.

and the insert.

I hope your days sixteen and seventeen went well too.

December Daily 2012 - Days 13, 14 & 15

The last two days have been busy, busy with fun activities.

Here is the spread for the 13th, our night at the Polar Express train ride.

The envelopes on the left side open and there are these little double sided photo inserts in each.  Oh and if you're really paying attention I did fix the typo on Express.

 

 

The insert of course had to be my favorite quote from the movie and one of our tickets.

Here is the spread for the 14th, a little girls night of shopping, dinner and cocktails.  I tried my hand at a sequin confetti pocket and it was great fun!

I love the letterpress cards that came with the kit and felt they didn't need any embellishing

and the backside for some journaling and yes I fixed that typo too.  Its funny how I can look at things but not see them until I'm looking at a photo of them.  Must be a brain disconnect or something.

Here is the spread for the 15th.  I wanted this story to have its own spread because it was the first time Simone has written Santa a letter and even though this happened days ago (the letter writing) and (mailing the night of Polar Express).  I still wanted to include it so since nothing super exciting happened yesterday in it went.

I made the little banner at the top to cover the backside of the Sisters from the previous spread and left the confetti showing.  I rewrote the letter we wrote together on a journaling card so it would fit better.  The drawing was done on the same piece of paper as the letter so I just extracted it and laid it on to my page.  I cried when I saw this drawing, it touched me so much and I thought she did an amazing job.

Here is the insert another letterpress card.

and a picture on the back of the envelope because it was so cute too.

Thanks for sticking with me and I hope your days thirteen, fourteen and fifteen went well too!

 

December Daily 2012 - Days 11 and 12

Playing a bit of catch up today with two posts.

First up Day 11.  My sister in law is in town and its been awhile since everyone has been together at Christmastime so I made sure to get some pictures.

Here is the spread

It nice to have a photo of Delaine and her three kids this time of year.  While we were all gathered around the table I asked them a question and wrote down their answers.  I thought it would be fun to pay homage to their family here in a fun way.  I'll be doing more with this for sure but it was fun to put it down for December.  The pattern paper on the right is from Rhonna Farrer's holiday kit.  I took the colors for the word block from it.

Here is the front of the insert, kept it simple.

And the back, I added a little bit about what this was all about.  Merry Christmas word art, also from Rhonna Farrer, the little veneer alpha is Studio Calico, love it so.

Day 12

Yesterday my sister in law and I did some Christmas shopping but I didn't take a ton of photos so I decided to save the shopping story for later.  I wanted to document this book I had read so it was perfect for yesterday.

The page protector from day 11 on the left was a two slot one and I didn't really want to use that so I just took a piece of woodgrain cardstock, stitched several straight and zig zag lines with my gold thread and added some red glitter Thickers and just adheared the whole page directly on top of the page protector.  The holly leaves are Martha Stewart last year.  The right side is really simple just a print of the book cover and a digital poinsettia from the Kringle & Co. digital kit.

Here is the insert

The 12 Days card was from Kelly's kit, I just wrapped it around the vellum also from her kit.  On the back I added a crate number and a little journaling tag.

I hope you days eleven and twelve went well too!

December Daily 2012 - Day 10

The Birthday!  So much to include as always for Simone's Birthday.  I kept it fairly simple as you'll see, just words and photos and no Christmas embellishments.

Here is the spread

I used the ticket digital file from the Studio Calico 25 Days class as my date card for today, I just enlarged it to fit the space.  I added a few photos of Simone and the three of us from her party and some journaling on the left side.  The right is a large collage of photos from her party and the family dinner.  The collage template is from Ali's set this year. 

Here is the insert.

I like to plan an envelope for this day especially because I usually have a lot to include.  This year I added a copy of the blog post I wrote for Simone's birthday and the photos that went along with it.  The envelope was the same cut file from before but this one is cut with vellum instead of the glitter paper.  I embellished the envelope a bit with some glitter tape (its actually gold but in the photo its picking up the reflection of my red shirt) and a Crate vellum number.

Here is the back of the insert.  I added some white Thickers to spell out a sentiment.

I hope your day ten went well!