TYS May 20 prompt: festive Friday

Most of my holidays and events just go in my every day album. It's a 8.5x11"

I do tend to run theme-y with Easter, St. Patrick's Day, & birthdays, because it's just easier for me to make a cohesive layout that way. Less thinking.

For Christmas (Well, Thanksgiving through New Year's Day) I do a modified version of December Daily. I use an 8x8" postbound album (I only mention the type because usually I use 3-ring albums, but for DD I don't want to have endless adding space. I want a definitive end.)

My DD is always color-themed. The first year it was silver, teal, and aqua. Last year it was red, green, and pink. The month or two before I start gathering supplies. Drawing them from my stash. Picking them up in stores as I see them go on clearance. I like to make my DD embellishment heavy. I also like to use authentic memorabilia. Scraps of wrapping paper. A cute holiday tag.  I store all my DD gathered supplies in a 2 gallon zippy bag, just waiting for me to dive right in.

I don't work on putting my DD together until January 2nd, when I order all the photos for it. (tip: make a single folder on your computer's desktop/on Snapfish  for DD photos and add to it as you upload them. Then you can just order them all in one batch and they'll all be together)

It usually take me a couple of weeks to get it all together, once I have the photos in my hand. But I like doing it after the holidays, because I get to remember the fun of it all, and there is no rushed feel to it.

In the normal everyday life chronological album, I generally put in a 1-2 page spread of Valentine's Day, I try to get Easter (sometimes it's several pages, sometimes just one).

Birthday's and Christmas is where I falter. I want them to be special.

I just bought 2 gold albums and I will put all Christmas layouts in there. My 2012 which is where I started has some traditional. I then bought some papers and printed the rest of 2012 (they won't be cohesive with patterns). I also printed out the photos for 2011. I have done digital layouts for 2014 (thanks Calvinball). I'll store the layouts by year.

I include holidays in my regular albums. I do tend to scrap them with theme papers and goodies. DS is a fun age where the cutesy papers are a blast to use. Plus I tend to have photos that look good with the papers... I.e. his Easter photos are all pastel with the shirt he's wearing, the eggs, etc. So they tend to look nice with the themed papers.

I've never done a December Daily, but I bought a bunch of stuff to do one for this year 2016 (on super clearance in January). So I'll scrap this Christmas stuff in a separate album that's 6x12. But I'll probably do a spread or two for our family albums with the same photos or more of the photos from a day as well.

I know some don't like to scrap holidays, but I love, love love scrapping them!

Linda I'm amazed how many layouts you've completed this month!

Thank you - me too.