Tag: december-daily

December Daily, day 4

by Kim Allen

I’ll start by saying that I love this layout! It is my go-to and easiest by far when I am not feeling too creative. These pocket pages just make it easy. The formula for this page is a 4×6 photo in the big pocket, journaling in one of the small ones and coordinating DSP in the other small one. I made a tag to attach the 4 to and voila, all done!

I used to really care about the decorations and making the page pretty. I used to spend hours on pages and then leave no room for journaling. As I look back on those pages, I wish that I had journaled more because I don’t remember the story. The purpose of this page is telling the story of our stockings. Our mantel has looked this way for many years and I’m realizing that it won’t always. As the boys get older, we’ll add stockings but the more imminent thought is a sad one and I wanted to make sure that I remembered when there was an F stocking hanging there. Fiona, our sweet cat, is 14 this year and getting ready to turn 15. She loves Christmas morning when we open up her stocking and she gets little mice full of catnip.

You have lots of Christmas stories to tell and I would love to have you join me for my first scrapbooking class in the new year. We’ll be creating some Christmas pages. If you have never scrapbooked before, this is the perfect time to get started. Holiday photos make it easy especially with the formulas that I will teach you. Mark your calendars for January 31st and come scrapbook with me. I’ll be sending out details through email, make sure you are on my email list.

Product List

Snow Day Scrapbooking Workshop Kit (English) [166489] $25.00Real Red & White Adhesive Backed Peppermints [164050] $8.50Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock [159229] $11.25Real Red & White Baker’s Twine [164051] $5.00
Foam Adhesive Sheets [152815] $8.25Real Red 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [102482] $11.50Pool Party 5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Pompom Ribbon [164129] $12.00Variety Pack 6″ X 8″ Photo Pocket Pages [144205] $6.25

Giving Tuesday

by Kim Allen

For my third page, I decided to go with something that related to Giving Tuesday. Connor has gotten involved with Camp Kesem at UNC and participated in the fundraising goal that Carolina established. I love how this page turned out because it is an example of a page that requires absolutely no photos yet tells an important story of the season.

Not only is there no photo, but there is no journaling either. I used a standard pocket page with the 3″x4″ pockets on the top and a 4″x6″ pocket on the bottom. For the top pocket, I took a screenshot of the Facebook post that Connor wrote for his fundraising efforts. On the bottom, I printed out his goal along with what he accomplished. These are just screenshots taken right from the website and printed onto Basic White cardstock. I added DSP and a couple of the sticker strips from the scrapbooking kit and put everything in the pockets.

Before I explain what I did next, it’s important that the back side pockets are filled before this step. Just know that all 3 pockets for day 4 are filled and ready to go. I find sometimes that when you only focus on filling the pockets in the traditional way, the pages feel flat. I love to add elements to the top of the page which gives some dimension. For this page, I wanted to add a snowglobe but it is too big for a pocket. I cut it out from the DSP using the dies and attached it to the plastic page using dimensionals and then tied a double bow of baker’s twine and added it with a small dot of glue. I then added some of the Peppermint embellishments. If you know me, you are well aware that I look for any opportunity to add these adorable swirled dots!

Product List

Snow Day Scrapbooking Workshop Kit (English) [166489] $25.00Real Red & White Adhesive Backed Peppermints [164050] $8.50Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock [159229] $11.25Real Red & White Baker’s Twine [164051] $5.00
Foam Adhesive Sheets [152815] $8.25