Only a few more days until it’s December!! eeeeeek! I’m so excited.
I’m sure many of you are familiar with Ali Edward‘s annual Christmas feature called December Daily, where she makes a mini book which documents the last month of the year and captures memories of this magical time. Last year I decided to join in the fun, and I embarked upon the wondrous adventure of making my own December Daily album.
I have to say that it wasn’t all easy; some days it was a struggle, after all this month is usually jam packed on the calendar. But on the most part, I found that project was fantastic. I decided to make a mini book which had lots of character, so lots of my pages are different sizes, and I was so thrilled with the end result.
With being pregnant plus buying a house, packing and moving all within the next week or so, I haven’t had a chance to prepare for a December Daily album this year, but I’m thinking that I will still journal the days and maybe I’ll revisit the idea when we are in the new house.
So I thought you might like to see the finished album from last year, and if you are going to take part in this years December Daily project, maybe you will get a few ideas for your own mini book. Enjoy the video!
Aren’t mittens awesome! And I especially love it when I see a little kid with a pair of mittens that has the string that goes up one coat sleeve and down the other- i can’t wait until our little one is big enough to have mittens!
So it was no surprise that I fell in love with this mittens stamp from my October Unity Kit of the Month. So very cute! I stamped and embossed the image onto a piece of white card, and ran it through the cuttlebug with my nesties to create a circular topper, and then used the scalloped circle to mount this onto the front flap of the card, which I had trimmed down a little. I did this because I wanted the inside to have some colour, so I have used a piece of paper from the Cosmo Cricket Lil Man collection to add some festive stripes!
Because I wanted a warm feel to the card, I lightly added some tea dye distress inks to the background of the circle, and then as an after thought stamped a music background stamp over the top very lightly. You can hardly see it, its quite subtle in the photograph, but I think it made a big difference to the card in real life.
Instead of just colouring in the mittens, I embossed another set of mittens onto pattern paper and layered these on top, and the colour contrast really made the mittens pop! I wish I had mittens this colour!!
To finish the card, all that I needed to do was emboss a greeting onto the pattern paper, and for this I chose to use white embossing powder, and thankfully it looks great especially as it coordinates with the white stitching.
I reckon I need to go buy myself some mittens now! I guess Unity has inspired me in more ways than one yet again!
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Also, I wanted to say a HUGE congratulations to Elizabeth Kartchner and Stephanie Howell who between them have blessed our world with three little angels! Lola Marie, Lucy and Cate – we can’t wait to see you on many a scrapbook layout to come!
I am getting into the Christmas swing of things now, how about you!? Although the calendar still says November, so I still feel a teeny weeny bit guilty about the excitement that is building inside! We went to a local town today and they even had their Christmas tree up in the square, and the lights were twinking, they were so pretty! Still… Craig wont let me play Christmas music until 1 December without fail, he even caught me singing Winter Wonderland in the shower this week and gave me the stink eye! HAHA!
I did realise something potentially depressing though!! We will be moving house in early December, so we may not be putting up decorations until we get into the new house! . I’m trying not to think about it too much, at least until we get a definite move in date, at least that way i can come to terms with waiting a few days. If the move isn’t going to happen until the middle of the month then there is NO WAY i am holding off until then! 🙂
And so today, I have some Christmas cards to share with you. I’ve used some embossing folders with my distress inks to give an almost letterpress look to the embossed backgrounds. The embossing folders give the paper depth, and the inks give a bold feel to the card, which I totally love! Once I had made a few backgrounds I really didn’t need much else to finish the card.
Mister Snowman however is one of my favourite stamps, and it was about time he made it off the shelf as he has been hibernating for many months now. I heat embossed a few stamped impressions, and then coloured in the design using Artquest Pearlescent paints which give a lovely shimmery, wintery effect! Yum!
