Pretty Little Studio | December Daily and Winter Joy

Hello everyone!!

Today I'm on the Pretty Little Studio blog with so many pictures that I just can't post them all here!!! I'm sure you'll understand. I was working on my December Daily and came quite forward. So here are a couple of pictures of the full pages but if you don't mind, I'll let you go over to my original blogpost for all the details and more inspiration!! :)

I'm long from done with this album! I can't even tell you on which day I am since I'm not doing the number thing this year but one thing I know is that I'm almost done with the "Prague" part of the album...now on to the "canada" part, with the snow and cousins!!! :) FUN!

See you on the Pretty Little Studio Blog!!!

Oh and, maybe you noticed here but I only used my new Winter Joy collection so you'll see more of that too when you head over to the blog!! See you there!! :)


Marie

Citrus Twist Kits | December Daily

Hello everyone!

Here I am again with some more Christmas inspiration!

This was my first trip of the season to a Christmas market. I went with a friend and I documented our whole little trip, including an unexpected picnic in the car!

I kept it very simple in hope that I'll use only one album this year! :)

The next page documents time spent with friends and Christmas shopping.
I also added a December calendar (it's from Marie Lottermoser and you can download it and print it for yourself for free. You'll find it right here. Thanks so much Marie. Love my calendar every year. :)
I handwrite the main events that I already know we will have in December and I'm adding details as December unfolds.

One trick for you this year: keep it simple! There's no crazy thing happening is my album as of now, but it's documented and I'm happy! :)

One thing I'd like to point out is how I used both sides of this last card. If you scroll up, you'll se that I had stitched my chipboard letters spelling the word "market" on the card. Well, on the other side there was this stitching going on. It didn't refrain me from using the back. I simply used phrase stickers to cover up the stitching. I highlighted one of the words by using a different color of sticker and by posing it up with some foam dots.

If you want more inspiration for your December Daily album, you can join us on the Citrus Twist Kits Facebook fan page. We are posting ideas and challenges daily!

And again, join us at Get it Scrapped for this new stress free way of scrapping your December Story! :) I'm really loving this approach!

Talk to you real soon!

Marie

December Daily 2016 | Your Christmas Story

Hello everyone!

Yep, I'm in! I started my December Daily and I must say that I am not constant on creating (because I have so many other things going on at the same time!) but I'm not concerned about being late or caught up because this year I'm using a different approach! I don't have numbers in my album. Whoo!  How cool is that? :D So I started by following Debbie Hodge's class Your Christmas Story and you can follow along if you want. There's no such thing as being late over there. :) And its free.

So anyway, I started by documenting the ordinary life. I did it very simply, with text only.

After taking this picture, I did stapled a small golden chipboard star to the left of my title.

I printed my text on a vellum and I backed it, without adhering anything, with a piece of patterned paper that I found in my December Daily Citrus Twist Kit. I adhered a small 3x4 card on the back of the transparency I used for my opening page. Thee's only the back of the 6 from 2016 showing. I'm fine with that. Doesn't have to be perfect!

My first page, as suggested by Debbie Hodge, is representing my heralds (the signs showing that Christmas is approaching) These pictures and stories are still from the month of November, because really, the whole Christmas magic starts happening in November. Just think of the decoration starting to appear in the city, the shops windows that are transformed, the Christmas music playing on the radio, the growing number of tourists in the city (that's in Prague anyway! ha!). I wanted to capture that. Ah yes, the draw for the very famous gift exchange tradition going on in our family and the thinking about all the gifts we have to get for everyone. right?! I'm sure you can relate.

I used my Citrus Twist Christmas Daily kits to mae these pages. They are still available if you want to get some for yourself. I love using kits!! My Christmas stash is way overwhelming and some things in there are old and, well, buying some small kits this year felt refreshing. The whole stash stayed in the cupboard. ha! :)

That's it for today. Come back tomorrow for some more December Daily inspiration!

Marie