December Daily - Day 30

Hello there - I apologize for this late post. 

If you remember my post on the 11th, you may remember I'm doing my December Daily album a little different and I stopped with the 25th.  But here is a recap of my album.  Almost completed.

It was very easy to swap out spots, as some things just didn't get done this year for us. And add in things that we have never done before.  I still need to get some photos printed and finish up my album. 

Thanks for checking in. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

~Katie

 

December Daily - Day 26

Hey there bloggers, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to you all from southeast PA where it's a blustery cold winter day.  All is as it should be.

Jenn here to share with you my Daily pages for Christmas day.  Yes, I said pages. 

Before I get into my pages I'd like to express my delight in seeing the various December Daily styles represented by my fellow design team members.  They are all amazing!  From the altered children's book to the countdown clipboard, to the hand bound books, each designer has showcased products beautifully, shared new and interesting techniques and let us into their world by sharing their days this month.  I love the range of styles and products.  You can't help but be inspired to try something new in your scrapbooks whether you're a traditional scrapper, Project Life-er, love to use mixed media, artsy-fartsy techniques--or all of the above.  :) 

Back to my pages.  As I mentioned in previous posts, I pre-designed my Daily.  I was concerned that if I didn't I'd start a Daily and by day 5 it would be tossed to the way-side for more fun, important scrappy/crafty tasks.  In the interests of full disclosure, I didn't finish my pre-design before the month started, and I still have photos to print and put in.  I have scheduled that into my calendar however, so it will be finished within the first couple days of the new year.  During my pre-design process I decided to devote several pages Christmas day.  I couldn't think of one single photo that depicts the day, rather numerous photos to show the progression of the day. 

 I started by creating a "chapter page," no photos, just a 3x4" card, old-school heat embossed and a die-cut page with a polka-dot background.

 Embellishment and paper layers.  I took a die-cut 4x6" card and cut it down--yes, you can do that!--so that I show that these photos continue to be from the 25th.  Additionally, I adhered that card to the outside of the protector.  You can do that too.

 Layers, rub-ons, stamps, and punches create these two pages.  Again, I used elements that include the date for a reference point.

 Punches, bits of an old border strip and sequins, lots of sequins.  I didn't plan to put a sequin in every die-cut opening but a few spilled out of the bag onto the layered card and I thought, "Perfect!". 

 Sorry for the glare here, it's hard when you have those divided pocket protectors to get the lighting just right.  The last of the pages.  I took tons of photos however and I'm thinking they'll go into the general scrapbook in divided pages.  There's just so many unforgettable pix I have to include them all.

 A future page--I need to add the date, but in my pre-design phase I included extra pages for days I knew there would be too much to include in one photo.  This page is for the weekend, for the Edwardson-Roberts Shindig when we celebrate Christmas with my husband's family. 

 I acutally stitched right through the protector and one layer of paper.  I used my We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy tool to pierce the protector (the foam mat slipped in so I'd only go through one side) and lightly poked the holes into the paper with my piercer.  Then I hand-sewed the border.  Cool, huh?

I added a backer so you wouldn't see the sewing and made good use of my tools--punches!--to add interest. Again, I layered these on top of the protector so I could go out of bounds.  I find the Beacon 3-in-1 glue adheres to the plastic nicely.















If you've made it this far, thanks!  I had a lot I wanted to say and show. 

So, this is it.  My last Memory Works blog post.  I am feeling bittersweet.  I have loved every minute of being on the design team these last two years. I am sad to see it all end.  I look forward to the blog shares and hops that other, former design team members are planning and participating in.  I hope you will follow my personal blog, which you can access from the sidebar here to stay on top of my scrappy adventures.  I hope Kevin and Amber and Simple Stories grow far beyond their dreams.  I thank all the great folks in the office who supported us throughout the years.  And to all my fellow Memory Works consultants, cheers to you!  Best wishes for a blessed New Year.  Thanks Memory Works, it's been wonderful.

                                                                 

                                                               

                                                                            Jenn

December Daily - Day 25

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!  Cathie here with my final December Daily post and sadly, my last post ever as a member of the Memory Works design team. :(.  Today I'm sharing a silly tradition of mine... Every year on Christmas Eve I watch A Christmas Story.  No matter how many times I see this movie I laugh and have a good time. The first time we watched it as a family my son, who us now 40!!!, had a habit of getting his mouth washed out with soap. If you've seen this movie you know where I'm going with this.  His favorite scene was blind Ralphie, "it, it, was... Soap poisoning!"

Well my page for Christmas Eve is very simple, a snap shot of popcorn and hot chocolate... Standard winter movie treats.

Thank you everyone for following along this year and I wish you all a blessed and Happy New Yeat! Be inspired and creative ALWAYS.

Cathie

December Daily

Happy Holidays everyone! This is Gia, with my final December Daily Post and my final post ever as a Memory Works Design Team member. I just want to say good-bye to everyone who has been following the Memory Works blog this year and for all of your uplifting comments all year long. I am really going to miss Memory Works and I hope you will keep in touch with me and all of my design team mates on our personal blogs which you can find listed in the sidebar. Without further ado, here is the cover of my December Daily A Clipboard Countdown using Crate Paper products.

For my Day 23 post I kept it simple because this close to Christmas is so busy and I start to get serious about contemplating the true meaning of Christmas and the reason for the season as they say. We used to have a beautiful nativity made from ceramic and a manger made of wood and sticks. But, year after year we gradually lost members of the "cast" of characters as the children couldn't help but be fascinated with the scene and want to play Nativity pageant.  This set of wooden nesting dolls have been the perfect solution for us because they are not breakable and when we pack them away for the year they don't take up any space! 

Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

-x Gia

December Daily

Hi Everyone.  Cathie here with a weekend catch up blog.  For my December daily this year I am using My Minds Eye - Vintage Christmas.  I love the burgandy and hunter green tones of this line.  I used two chipboard dividers from Simple Stories for my front and back cover and two binder rings to keep it all together.  This year I kept my pages very simple and easy.  I don't know about you but this month has really gotten away from me and I'm glad to have this simple book to record the month in.  To start off here is a picture of my front cover...

I created a collage of papers on the cover and added some bling from my stash.  The red ribbon is also from my stash.  I have used some washi tape here and black ink around the edge of the cover.

Here is the inside front cover...

 

Friday December 20th was my husbands birthday and this is a picture of the birthday boy...

 

 

 

On Saturday December 21st I spent the day making peanut brittle for the neighbors and doggie treats for my grand doggie Molly the Great Dane. Then last night we celebrated Dewayne's birthday at Fratellos, a family favorite resturant here in Fowler, CA.   Here is a picture of the treat box I found and personalized with my Cricut and of course the doggie treats and Dewayne and the grand boys...

Finally, here is a picture of what my base pages look like and my page to record my resolutions for the new year...

Thank you so much for stopping by today... I will be back on Christmas day to show you how we spent Christmas Eve.  I wish you all a very Merry Christmas full of family, friends and love.

December Daily ~ December 20

It's getting closer and closer to Christmas!

Have you finished all of your shopping yet?

I think I have, I hope I have anyway!

Here is  Day 19 in my December Daily "The Night Before Christmas"

I used a "less is more" idea on this page since the illustration in the book is perfect.
(And I still don't have any photos added ~ I will get to it, hopefully before the new year!)

I added Teresa Collins "Santa's List" enamel dots to the tree, a sticker from Simple Stories "25 Days of Christmas", Heidi Swapp "Believe" sticker and MME "Vintage Christmas" chipboard element.

You can see the rest of my December Daily on my blog here.

Thanks for stopping by & Merry Christmas!

Amanda

December Daily

Gia back again today with Day 18. In case you missed yesterday's post, here is the cover of my Clipboard Countdown December Daily Album.  

For today's post I wanted to use the envelope that came with the Maggie Holmes Flea Market clipboard to hold some of the proofs (and eventually the card itself) from our portraits for family Christmas Cards this year.

On the opposing page I had to document a selfie I took laying down in the grass at the park totally pooped from not only our portrait session but from the rest of our hectic crazy week! It reminded me of a Subway Art plaque I pinned that said, "This is as Merry as we get." Seriously, at about this time of December I am usually feeling really exhausted and ready for Christmas to finally just get here! So many presents to wrap, so many parties and holiday events to attend, and it seems to all be flurrying by this year. It helps me to think about the true meaning of Christmas. I think it finally all hits me on Christmas Eve- which is when I will be back again for another post! See you then!

December Daily

Aloha, it's Gia. This is my first December Daily post  here on the Memory Works Blog so in case you haven't seen it I will start by showing you the kit I put together with mostly Crate Paper products including Maggie Holmes Flea Market clipboard and Bundled Up Christmas collection called A Clipboard Countdown 

Here is the cover. Before I show December's Day 17 pages I wanted to share a few little highlights from earlier in the month and let you know that the the whole project will be over on my blog.

I wanted to share this little tool I found the other day. It is a pencil that you can use to pick up sequins and rhinestones and other tiny things. It is imported from Hong Kong- and had a really nice price tag compared to tools made for this sort of thing (one dollar). If it starts to lose its stick you just sharpen it a little with a pencil sharpener! 

December 7th was a fun day to document- my Amy Tangerine Project Life class. You can also find the details of the class and some tips for getting started with Project Life on my blog also.

I wasn't sure how I was going to fit all of my December photos in the Clipboard until I remembered that  most of the same day pick up service photo labs will print collages in all standard sizes and they are perfect for using as a whole page or cutting apart into photos scaled just right for a project of this size.  A perfect solution for me!

And now, here are some pics of my Day 17. I used a transparency overlay to protect my photo from getting scratched up by any stray glitter from the page before it. 

It's very rare that my husband and I get to be in a photos together, but this day he had the tripod and timer ready to take a family Christmas card photo so we were able to get one at last.  Stop by again tomorrow for more of my December Daily! 

December Daily Weekend Edition #2

Hey folks, Jenn here again with another weekend Daily edition.  Once again craziness reigned supreme in my life.  Between shopping, cooking, decorating, celebrating, kid's Christmas programs and parties and a couple of inches of snow and ice I took a couple of photos to chronicle the madness-of-it-all.

Friday the 13th...bwahaha...

 I included a pocket here for cards.  I wanted a place to pop all those wonderful photo cards we receive from family and friends and even though they won't all have come on the 13th, it was an opportune spot for this pocket. 

When I made my album I was aware of many of the activities we had planned for the month.  I knew for instance, that this weekend would be bookended by church events and I allowed extra space to include photos of those two events. 

 

 As you'll quickly notice, I created my album assuming I'd have portrait style photos to pop on those conveniently placed 3x4" cards, but alas, that didn't happen.  No matter.  I just stacked the photos and popped on a stocking and rhinestone word embellishment. 

I used a die cut page layered on a pattern paper page for fun and a wood veneer flourish with a holly sprig that I colored and added sequins to. 



Shout out to my STARs, who performed their very first puppet show ever, on five weeks of lessons and        practice.  They did a wonderful job. 

Saturday...snow and ice.  I decorated my tree, made a big pot of turkey soup and my husband and I went to a party with a white elephant gift exchange.  The box of hardware will be emptied and I'll use the compartments for scrappy organization but that snowman tray is going to find a new home...;)

I put embellishments on both the inside of the pockets as well as the outside.  These snowflakes were stamped, die cut and embellished with more sequins and adhered to the outside of the protector.

 Sunday--Week three of Advent, focused on joy.  The devotional materials are in one pocket.  The photos depict our annual church Christmas Celebration.  The room was packed out as usual, you could barely walk through.  The kids performed their program again and the STARs did their puppet presentation again. 

I love to repeat embellishments, especially in a theme mini, so you'll see lots of these snowflakes dropping down. 

Bonus!  I wanted to share this page topper I made.  Inspiration can be found everywhere.  From the first minute I saw the swag/banner decorations in Target I knew I was going to recreate the effect on a scrapbook page.  If you've shopped your local Target and looked up, you will have noted that there was mostly flat circles with a few 3-D circles mixed in.  I created that look, punching circles, folding them in half and gluing them together to create the 3-D circles.  I embossed some of the circles to add texture and interest. 



Hope your weekend was full of fun, family, laughter, and good times.  Check back each weekday for more December Daily inspiration.

  Jenn

December Daily - Day 11

I am doing my December Daily in a different way than shared by most on here.  But I am not a mini-book maker.  Plus I never know what to do with them afterwards. 

This is my title page for my 2013 layouts.  It looks a little familiar maybe?  ;) 

I used Sn@p Binder page protectors in my album.  Most paper lines these days are creating their paper lines around this type of page protector, so it makes it very easy to trim the paper and slide them in.  And at this time of year, you can always use easy right? 
I chose to work with Echo Park's Tis the Season, and throw in a few of my favorite things to pretty it up.  However I kept it very simple. 
I feel with this type of layout, I could easily  make the inserts that I knew I'd have coming up and then move things as needed.  Also simply print out the pictures and slip them in.  It makes it all very stress free. 

Here is my first page, which features some of our decorations and an early celebration with my brother's family.    (I don't document everyday, but I do document all of the important things we do in December related to Christmas.)

Here is a close up section about our Elf on the Shelf.  I've gone a little bit further making a decorative insert that I can add a small elf photo later. 

I will be back at the end of the month to share my completed album with you. 

I have more details from last year's December Daily, using Simple Stories Handmade Holidays on my blog HERE. 

December Daily ~ 12/9

Hello all!! Jody here again with some more December Daily for you.  This has been a fun project to create and I hope everyone is inspired to create their own December Daily of sorts this year.  Today I'm sharing my December 9th page.  My countdown calendar is very layered with lots of different sized pages throughout.  You'll see my December 10th page peaking out from behind my little page 9 :)  I'll have lots of pictures on my blog today and Wednesday so please click over HERE!!  I've love to see you.

 

Here's another look at my kit too.  It's packed full of all kinds of embellishments, some of which didn't make it into my December Daily!  I have lots of left overs for Christmas Cards and even some holiday layouts.  More information on my blog.

 

 

I'll be back one more time this month, but until then soak up lots more Memory Works Design Team inspiration before the year ends!

 

Happy scrappin'!!