The December Daily, So Far

Plugging away on the December Daily. I try to make it super simple but it just seems to take on a mind of it's own. I'll let the photo's do the talking...finally wrapped up the cover:

The book is 6 x 6 and relies heavily on my Elle's Studio Tis' The Season kit. I picked up some pre-cut squares of chipboard to make the front and back covers. Here's the opening layout. I took a tip from Ella Friend and all-around amazing scrapbooker Jenni Hufford and started with a little of November. Mainly because my daughter had a cookie-baking Brownie meeting on November 30th that resulted in this adorable illustrated cookie bag. I didn't have an actual page for it so I folded it up and tucked it into the strings from the front cover.  I paperclipped the label and date right onto the bag. The "Christmas 2011" die cut is from my Elle's Studio kit and is sewn onto a clear transparency (Hambly). 

Before I even start - my proposed 'format' is already broken here on Day 1! See - it's got a mind of it's own!  I wanted to include a chunk of the box from my kid's advent calendar, couldn't figure out how to put it on my pre-made pages - so I had to make it into a page of its own. I added the journaling on a note pad sheet, formatted the same way as my base pages:

Here are my base pages. I only made about 10 of these because I know what happened on Day 1 is bound to happen again. No point in wasting pages. These are reinforced where the holes will be punched with some paper tape (Tim Holtz) and silver stitching (I use a lot of silver thread at Christmas!). One side is printed, the other typically a solid (ivory or kraft). Again, the papers are all from my Elle's Studio kit.

I'll post so more pages tomorrow!

I was up late last night making cards for a Paper Crafts call. Thank goodness Utah is in a time zone 3 hours behind NJ because the crafty mojo did not kick in until I had already left for work yesterday morning. I even took the photos in the dark - and they weren't that bad. Hopefully the editors at the magazine will agree. 

Oh - there's still time to win the Ella Publishing eBook - just leave a comment on my post from yesterday - you have until Thursday night!