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December daily page 10...

Hmmm, the photo is a bit dark, but i'll post it anyway... it's very rainy (and therefore dark) these days, and difficult to get good pictures...

Archhh... printer problems again when i was working on these pages... luckily i've got a husband who's very patient, and he came to the rescue... otherwise the printer might have ended up in a quick journey through the window down to the pavement... anyway, Gerard did some testing, fixed the problem and i thought it would be fun to add one of his test prints to the album... framed it in a ho-ho-ho frame that i cut on my Silhouette...

Used Products: daily overlay and wordart on photo-page by Ali Edwards, title on this day by Karla Dudley, patterned paper and pattern on overlay- Shine On kit; striped patterned paper - Flitter paper pack by Lynn Grieveson; tag and number 10 - Kerri Bradford, snowflake - cut on Silhouette from white fuzzy vinyl

 

December Daily page 9...

Ah, he's such a happy looking guy:)... 

The overlay is hand stamped (Hero Arts cling stamp CG149 circle pattern) with silver Staz-on... and the number 9  is embossed with silver embossing powder (unknown brand... had it for years and years) before i stapled it to the page with small staples (office supply store)..

Journaling is all about the 'viering' from Stachs group at school... every Friday one group does a small presentation for the rest of the school... it can be about a project that they've been in, or a song, or a play... the 'viering' this morning was a play, a modern look on fairy tale land (sprookjesbos)... very fun! Stach had a very small part in it, he played the dj at the end, when everybody danced happily ever after with each other...

Oh, and it is about that -much needed :)- dr.Pepper can on my desk... although i love that picture of that Santa guy, dr. Pepper is my favorite! And i could do with a 'stiff drink' in my case now and then, if i want to complete this project :)

Products used: daily overlay and photo template - Ali Edwards; title ho ho ho - RobinMeierotto; patterned paper - October Afternoon (old line); number 9 - Kerri Bradford; white snowflakes - cut on Silhouette from white fuzzy vinyl, look brush on round photo - studio 365 weekly album kit (not sure if it's for sale anymore) by Karla Dudley

December daily page 7 and 8...

How do you like the December daily album so far? It's not that crafty -meaning lot's of hand made details, layers of paper or special embellishments, but i do have to keep it kind of simple or i don't stand a chance of completing it! And it still is a lot of work... but it's going well so far and my album is filling up!

Ok, day 7 and 8...

Because there wasn't a load to tell, i kept it a simple 'one pager' for both days...

Journaling is abracadabra for you guys, unless you're able to read Dutch :)... but it's all about Stach demonstrating the new table pool game to a friend and his grandma, just when i was about to leave for work. And about the dark setting in so soon every day, which gives me lots of opportunity to light a bunch of candles... the ones in my window make it look so cozy when it's dark outside! But there's still no sight of any Christmas decoration in my home... maybe tomorrow?

 

The transparency is a simple photo sleeve from Hema (use those throughout the whole album, btw), cut down to size and sewn into smaller 'pockets' on my sewing machine with clear acrylic tread... i was a bit concerned at first that it wouldn't work well, sewing with plastic through plastic, but on a slow speed it went quit well actually... oh, and before sewing it to close i filled the pockets with tiny silver stars, the number tags and a piece of patterned paper...

Day 8 is on the other side... looking yummy, that tower of profiteroles, now does it? Stach thinks so too, so he wants to make it for Christmas :) Th picture is the cover from a food magazine from one of our major food stores here...

Products used: daily overlays and title by Ali Edwards, patterned paper day 7 - Shine on kit, patterned paper day 8 - Making Memories (it's from an older Christmas line); number tag, white word dec and no 8 - Kerri Bradford; white snowflake - cut on Silhouette from fuzzy vinyl

 

 

 

December daily page 5 and 6...

The day after Sinterklaas... although it's technically December 5, almost everybody i know had their celebrations yesterday or the day before...

But Stach celebrated Sinterklaas at school, and we had our favorite seasonal pudding today for dessert (marzipan with chocolate letter sauce, yum!)... i added part of the package in my album :)

The overlay i used between the pages is a stamped one again, just as the one i here...

The candy striped envelop houses the Sinterklaas poem and gift i got from my boss... the envelop is cut on the Silhouette (shape by Karla Dudley) but i adhered the other way around...

My journaling on both pages is in Dutch again...

Products used: daily overlay, photo template, title 'capturing december joy' (day 5)  and round 'love december' tag (day 6)  by Ali Edwards; tags - countdown kit by Kerri Bradford, pattered paper - Shine On kit; protector pocket (day 6), Holiday cheer title and round 6th day tag (both freebies) by Karla Dudley, snowflakes cut on Silhouette SD from white fuzzy vinyl

December daily page 4...

On day 4 we celebrated Sinterklaas with just the 3 of us at home... well, 4 of us actually, because even Jonas -our cat- got a little gift :)!

The journaling is in my native language this time... in these bigger projects i find myself often mixing  languages, and i'm totally fine with that!

Journaling is about Stach, being so happy that Sinterklaas came to our house (even when he's a non-believer now!) when he woke me up at 7.30 in the morning... "Mom, come quick, Sint has been here and it looks very nice downstairs!!" He got Skylanders Wii, Nerf, Lego Hero Factory, Knex and a book, Gerard got books to and a mini pool-table with Stach, and i got a set of seasonal coffee mugs 'Merry' and 'Christmas', a pair of soft red soks, a Harry Potter DVD and earrings... Stach was very happy that i enjoyed all my gifts, because he had been very busy buying them all with his dad!

I made little poems for Gerard's and Stach's gifts, and i added those to my album in that red envelop...

It's another Silhouette shape, and before cutting it i added the word Joy (as some sort of window) at the front of the envelop...

 

Used products: december daily overlay, photo template and title 'december joy' by Ali Edwards, title 'holiday blessings' - freebie by Karla Dudley; pattern on printed sheet - Shine On kit; number 4 - the dailies kit by Kerri Bradford; brads - Tilda; snowflakes and red envelop - cut on Silhouette SD, white fuzzy vinyl

December daily page 3...

Every spread in my album has a clear overlay in the middle... most of those are printed on my inkjet printer, but i also added a few stamped ones... for this dotted one (background stamp by Pipoos) i used Silver StazOn ink...

Today's story is all about the Sinterklaas party at oma Annettes place... unfortunately i could not be there, because i had to attent a funeral... but Gerard made pictures, so i could tell the story anyway...

I coated the number 3 (cut on my Silhouette) in silver embossingpowder before adhering it to the overlay with tiny staples (tiny attacher by Tom Holtz)...

That pocket you see is made out of the package of Stach's chocolate letter (it's a tradition that all the kids get -besides a few presents- a chocolate letter from Sint)... i cut the pacakge to size, and sew the whole thing together on my sewing machine...

Used products: Daily overlay and photo template by Ali Edwards; red patterned paper - Shine On kit by TalorMade Designs; Number 3 - The dailies (digi cutting files) by Kerri Bradford; white snowflake - cut on Silhouette SD from white fuzzy vinyl

December Daily page 2

As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, i'm going for the hybrid approach with this album, and i'm printing everything here at home... but as soon as i started, my printer decided that is was not in the mood for such an undertaking... it started to mutter, leaving black blobs of ink on the prints... and when that didn't seem enough to get me put the project on hold, it gave me complete uneven and wonky prints... archhhhh... this one from Stach watching tv wasn't to good eigther (luckily it doesn't show to much here on the blog), but i decided to go with it anyway... sometimes you just have to call it good, right?

Over here we celebrate Sinterklaas (on December 5th), so the beginning of my December month is always filled with preps for this festivity... i added the card Stach got from his grandparents and made a pocket out of vellum for it...

Getting a card from Sinterklaas is a real tradition in our family... when i was a child Sint sent me one every year, and when Stach was a 'believer' he got one too... this year Stach's is a keeper from the secret too, but he still got a card, this time from grandma Sarina :)!

If you like to read the journaling, click on the picture...

Products used: page templates and titel - December Daily overlays, photo template, word art kit; printed overlay - digi essentials kit 4; tag - countdown kit; grey patterned paper - Shine on kit; December cut out - the dailies kit; snowflake cut out - Silhouette , white fuzzy vinyl; family traditions sticker - Making Memories

 

December Daily page 1...

And so my DD album starts...

Daily Overlay and Hello December template are both designed by Ali Edwards...

The transparency is an inkjet print, and the pattern is from the Red School Spirit kit by Gennifer Bursett... the fun Santa tag is from the Christmas Countdown kit by Kerri Bradford...

If you click on the image, it will open in a bigger format, so you can read the journaling (if you're interested, that is...). The grey patterned paper is from the Shine On kit too...

Red dotted paper is from the Shine on Kit... The snowflake is cut on my Silhouette SD from white fuzzy vinyl... i use various fuzzy snowflake shapes throughout the whole album...

Here you've got a better look at the transparency, and the countdown tag, with another snowflake added on the back...

Christmas is near...

December 20th already, where does the time go?  Last time we met here on Life and Scrapping it was September :)... what have you been doing since then?

What i did? Well, long story short... recovering from surgery... and then trying to get back in the rhythm of every day (which was very difficult)...  celebrating my birthday... working in my studio, trying to finish several projects (which i did)... trying to get back to work (which i did several hours per week)... visiting my doctors for various check-ups in hospital (which were good)... celebrated Sinterklaas... 

But somehow it all seemed to be too much... so i'm home again, on sick leave (according to my boss it's a long obliged Christmas break :) they're very supportive at work!)... slowing things down very seriously... trying to get a grip on everything that's happened the past few years, and finding out how i'm going to deal with it all in my every day life...

So, what better to do when you've got to slow down than:

Yes, you may have guessed it, although you may not believe it :)... it's a December Daily album!

It's really nice to be crafty in my studio, it takes my mind of things to listening to some - new-  favorite seasonal song, sipping coffee from one of my Christmas mugs, playing around with paper, digi goodies and telling stories from the every day in December...

The album is a black two ring binder, that i've re-sized a little bit before covering the outside with canvas and painted it in an off white color... the snowflakes are cut on my Silhouette SD from fuzzy white vinyl... big one on the front of the album, small one on the back... the red letters on the spine are canvas ones from Prima, that i hand glittered... my actual plan was to decorate the cover a bit further, but i actually like how it is now, so it stays as it is...

The size of the album is big enough to accommodate Ali's 6 x 8,5 inch December Daily Overlay kit and the matching photo template kit, which i'm using...

I've chosen the hybrid approach: journaling and adding photo's digital, and after printing finishing the whole spread with (pre-printed digital) patterned papers in a festive red and grey color scheme... so far it's working well! Want to see for yourself? Check out my next blog entries then (it's easier to link the pages if i post them separately)...