2023 megaaa DECEMBER DAILY thread (ALL December projects)

I am in danger if she has designed a holiday collection for them. I love the embellishments I bought from the travel line. It was what I was missing from buying her digital files. I got die cuts, chipboard stickers, puffy stickers, and cardstock stickers. My favorite are the journaling bits. These are 3-D like little envelopes and pockets, some tags with metal grommets. You really can't tell from the photos. Also, there weren't many repeated elements. It's not like with some companies where you get the same image 4 different times if you buy multiple items. I have backpacks in different colors but that's it (as far as I can tell).

I got all those good embellishments too. I just found out this weekend that the long flag/banners in the journaling pocket set do not match the image on the back of the package. I lost many many minutes trying to find pieces that don’t actually exist while scrapping some Disney pages. 😂

ETA: NEVERmind!!! I just double checked to make sure I’m not nuts, and heads up! Those banners are * double sided *. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I am just not feeling any of the Christmas lines this year. I don't have a huge stash of paper or embellishments to use from prior years so I need to find something.

I went ahead and ordered the candy apple red album from CT. I used the green one last year.

It's probably a good thing nothing is screaming buy me from AE. I will be on vacation when it opens for purchasing. Usually not a problem but I will be hiking in Utah at 7:00am that morning.

I don't like that there are 2 classes this year. I know there were two last year but I didn't even register that stories of christmas past situation.

I can't afford to buy a ton of product AND a hybrid class AND a product play class.

I know there is content you get when you buy kits and that is really the appeal for a lot of people.

Last year I won the product play class and I really liked it. I decided if they would offer it again, I would get it.

But if you think about it, the main kit costs WAY WAY WAY more than a stories by the month kit. And when you get the monthly kit or even the scrapbook kit you get the educational component for free.

So now I'm going to drop around $60 on the main kit, about $40 for embellishments (if I'm lucky), and I need to pay for classes.

I'm not feeling this anymore.

I think if they want to charge for the classes, they should be significantly cheaper for people who buy the stuff.

That is all. I don't like to rant but I'm just feeling a bit of a sting.

Yes, but consider that she values the Story Kit classes at $10 each (that’s what they sell at when offered in the shop occasionally) and there’s around 5-6 projects in each. I think last year there were like 3 projects for thirty days in Product Play? Or maybe that was the year before? (An easy, moderate, and advanced idea for each product highlighted?)

So, if you scale out her SK content it matches the PP pricing pretty well.

I agree it’s a bummer to pay for something instead of getting it for free, lol. I’ve never paid for PP (nor won a spot), because I wince at the price point for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I always really enjoy and appreciate Ali’s near-daily YouTube process videos. It’s amazing she puts those out like a champ every year.

Thanks all for the Pink Fresh information. Crossing my fingers now for a Geralyn collection!

I'm totally in for Ali's Hybrid class and Prep Day, but probably not Product Play this year. I don't see me buying much (any?) physical product this year.

Also, the fonts on the Product Play promo - why can't these be the fonts in the product? Hoping to see some of those in the shop items. So much cuter than the main kit fonts.

I’m wondering if they made a mistake in calculating the number of papers. Typically Paige’s collections have 24 double sided designs, so 2 of each would be 48. This collection only has 12 double sided designs. So unless they are including 4 sheets of each design (which is not what the photo shows) then there would be 24 papers. If it really is 48 sheets, that is a killer deal, and great if folks want to split an order 👍

I did DD in 2021 and 2022. I will bot be doing a DD this year.

I feel it is a waste of my time because I include 90% of the same photos in dd's and ds' 9x12 albums. So I was scrapping photos 3 times and it became redundant and boring.

Only a few pages were not scrapped for dd and ds. Usually new ornaments, SB red cup, and any new decorations I added.

So I will just be making pages (pocket and 9x12 single) foe the kids albums.

I have bought a few AE items and was never impressed with the quality.

I also do not get a specific DD album. I got the red 6x8 from SB.com 2021 and mast year an older AE travel 6x8 that was green and I altered the inside with Christmas paper from CP.

I bought the Echo Park Happy Holidays line. I got the 12x12 pack and then added more papers and embellishments.

2021 and 2022 I used CP as well as making my own print outs. I liked the freedom of doing my own thing and not following what all the AE stans were doing lol.

I think I am going to pick up some more sheets. I really like it.

Is it just me or is the green ae 6x8 album this year SUPER yellow where it’s supposed to be white (I say supposed to be as the paper they showed in the main kit which matches was definitely green and white whereas this one looks… different…)

Yeah, when they held them up together, the album and paper, the album looked yellower overall. The greens were more yellowy than the paper, too. The paper read as a lot more green. I was started by the contrast, tbh.

I am good with the warmer green - it will look good on the shelf as a contrast to my JOY album last year . I may actually purchase the white and the green and keep adding to my Dec Daily albums...I have been working backwards and have 14 albums either done or WIP as I slowly work backwards and fill in gap years. I just looked at the Elle's Studio release. I like the red foil chipboard numbers, possibly some stickers and then looking at the perforated tag die cuts, but nothing else is really standing out for me.

I am also surprisingly not super excited about the paisley press sneaks. A couple of people have mentioned Paper Person - I have bought a number of her Christmas releases and find that I use the puffy and cardstock stickers (from some years more than others), a few die cuts, but then struggle to use her journal cards and papers so I really need to pass on her stuff knowing my track record.

ETA:  They just posted a Shop sneak!  Love it.....

I am very ready to see the AE shop items being offered - feels like in prior years we would have seen more sneaks of letter stickers, tabs, tags, die cuts, etc. I want to start planning. I know I will get the main kit so ready to see everything else so I can be strategic. I have SOOOO much stuff already so wanting to know what she will be releasing so I can evaluate how it compares to my stash.


ETA - also excited to see what PinkFresh releases and what colors they will use this year.