December Daily 2019 MEGAAA thread

Im still passing. Sure, Amy will have some great pages (she always does), I just don't think they will be anything that I can't recreate on my own. 

It looks great mom!

Honestly looks better than my see through dye of the green 3x8 album that I purchased this year!

I'm sorry you had that experience! No one should be shamed for their purchases or how they live their lives. Do what you can. Some people spend their money on worse crap than a cup of coffee every day.



If you don't want to order the whole kit or pay shipping or whatever, I got very similar candy canes in the Michaels section of mini xmas decorations. They aren't flat but they're the same thickness. They're red with white stripes. I will not be getting out my xmas stuff until the day after thanksgiving so I can't share a pic right now.



Thanks! I may have just found my title page.



Me too! I always put the cup gift card in my albums but they were only selling as a 3 pack and I didn't like all of them. I just buy them and transfer the balance to my gold card (from like 4 versions ago of their loyalty program, ha).



It turned out so well! I love it. I also love everyone's ideas to turn the map inside into some sort of santa tracker.

That’s awesome! Glad she values her customers!

joblackford my tolerance for Hallmark movies is hard to predict. For some odd reason I loved the Princess Switch. I found Vanessa Hudgens so charming. I also admit to loving The Christmas Prince. Where else do you see the Borg Queen as the head of a faux European monarchy?

I don't need any Christmas papers. Almost afraid to open up my Christmas cupboard in case it explodes all over me. But I saw the Tim Holtz Christmas Paper stash in an email from a LSS, and I LIKE it! I have become used to his papers being too grungy for my style, but I really like these colours. And the designs.

What do you think?

I always like the traditional patterns in his papers, and don’t mind the grunge. Love the 8x8 size, too. Still, I have leftovers from past years, and this isn’t that different, so whew, I don’t have to buy it!

1- how many ‘ugly’ Christmas sweaters can one main character wear in one movie

2- who tells Santa to not eat cookies?

The prep party was super fun and got my creative juices flowing again... I've been in a bit of a scrapbooking slump. First it was moving and being too busy, and now I've had trouble adjusting to scrapbooking in the main living area in our temporary apartment rather than having my own private space.

I completed my title page and made a fun stamped divider for day 7, but ultimately decided to not do foundation pages. I've enjoyed them in the past, but this year I just wasn't feeling it. I am really more inspired by Amy Gretchen more than anyone else and she doesn't do them, so that might be why. So I thought long and hard about WHY I wanted to do foundation pages in the past and found that it was really to help me remember which supplies I had so I didn't forget to use the specific embellishments/cards when I had a related story. I also liked to have my numbers selected because it's a pain digging through number sets for the one I need only to realize that it is already used.

So I decided to organize my supplies accordingly, rather than make foundation pages. I broke all my number sets up and put them into numbered ziplock bags... one for every number 0 - 25 and one for 26+ (I only do pages through the 25th). Then I used 6x8 pocket protectors as "pockets" to hold specific themes. I wrote themes on sticky notes like "santa/christmas list" "decorations/lights" "christmas trees" then went through all my DD supplies and put items that fit each theme into that pocket. The idea is that when I tell a story related to that theme I will dig through that pocket first to select my supplies. General Christmas supplies are organized by type rather than theme and I will dig through those next as I create. One issue I have is that there are some supplies that can't be broken up (e.g. sticker sheets) but we'll see, if this system really works as a long term Christmas storage system, I might consider cutting up sticker sheets and sticking those in the pouches.

I'm super excited for December Daily now! I do regret buying the main DD kit from AE and wish I had just picked up a few of the a la carte items and stuck with the crate paper release and my stash. So next year I will keep that in mind hopefully.

I create daily pages with one story each day and am doing a 6x8 album. Although I try to make my page every day, it isn't always practical with my schedule so sometimes I will catch up a few days at a time, but tend to stay pretty caught up. I share my pages on instagram daily also. I really wanted to invest in a minc for this year, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy that AND a laser printer, especially while we're in a temporary housing situation with downsized crafting space. So hopefully I will make that a priority next year!

Now I have my supplies all organized and stashed away and I am motivated to work on project life. We have a 3-day weekend here for Veteran's Day so tomorrow (other than a few morning errands) I plan to continue scrapping and hopefully I will finally start catching up on my project life album!

lasteve1 —
“create daily pages with one story each day and am doing a 6x8 album. Although I try to make my page every day, it isn't always practical with my schedule so sometimes I will catch up a few days at a time, but tend to stay pretty caught up“

I do the same thing! I work full-time, and some days nothing happens and some days two things happen.

So I tend to get a couple pages done during the week then catch up on the weekends.

Y'all. I just spent a crazy amount of time making one damn pocket. Like, there's nothing special about it but I it took me 5 tries to get anything. You would think I was a new crafter with how wrong everything has been going! In the end, I still messed it up - the 'notch' I diecut in it, so you could see there will be a tag in it, is too deep but whatever. At this rate I won't ever be done.