December Daily 2013 >>> Days 19 - 25

Man, I love December. It's such a festive time and there is so much that I want to document. Here's a look at the last few pages in my album. These last few days record a retirement party, our 17th anniversary, 3 music programs at church, plus Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

And here's a look at the cover of the album. Just kept it simple by gluing some alpha stickers to the cover and tied a big red ribbon around the album. Simple and finished.

Thanks, December, for the great memories. Now I'm looking forward to a fresh, new year!

December Daily 2013 >>> Days 1 - 8

This is my fourth consecutive year creating a December Daily album and I'm loving it. This project encourages my to take more pictures which is always a good thing. I'm keeping things simple and not spending a lot of time on each spread. It's all about documenting little moments and having them collected in once place for years to come.

Each year, it is great to pull out the past December Daily albums and see the things we've done in previous years. Some of the activities are things we do every year and this is the perfect place to document those traditions.

The pages are a mix of page protectors and enlarged photos printed and punched as inserts on some days. I love the mix and feel of using different materials for this.

Most of the project supplies came from the Scrapbook Circle All is Bright Kit and Holly Jolly Add-on.

Scrapbook Circle Blog Hop

Welcome to Scrapbook Circle's blog hop! Today the entire team is sharing inspiration and ideas on each of their blogs using the December All is Bright Kit.

Each creative team member is giving away an All is Bright Kit on her blog, so be sure to leave comments along the way.

Today I'm excited to share a few of my foundation pages for my December Daily album. I've created the base of each page so it will be quick and easy during the month of December to slip photos into the album. I'm saving most of the kit embellishments to layer on the photos once they are in the album.

I'm excited that it's now December and I can start filling this album up!  

Ready to blog hop? Here's the list:

1.  Scrapbook Circle blog
 2. Diana Fisher
 3. Heather Leopard
 4. Adrienne Alvis
 5. Audrey Yeager
 6. Sara Zenger
 7. Jenni Calma
 8. Rebecca Keppel
 9. Tessa Buys
 10. Melissa Mann
 11. Diana Waite
 You are here >>> 12. Lisa Andrews

Thanks for hopping along with us! Hope you are inspired and feel ready to create!

Wishing you a wonderful month filled with great memories!

December Daily Supplies /// All is Bright Kit /// Holly Jolly Add-on /// *Free* Be Merry Gift Tags /// Merry & Bright Digital Cuts /// Merry December Digital Cut Files

December Daily Days 16 - 25

I'm wrapping up my December Daily pages today. Yes, this probably should have been done in December, but better late than never, right?

On day 16, I included our family Christmas card + photo. My husband designed our card this year and loved that it was a one of a kind card.

A quick visit with Santa at our family Christmas party. We are lucky enough to live near a lot of family and went to a party where about 80 family members got together to celebrate Christmas.

Our cards are in the mail! I always feels like a great accomplishment when the Christmas cards are sent.

Making salsa. One of our family traditions is to deliver chips and homemade salsa to our neighborhood friends. We think it's a nice break from all of the sugar.

Class winter party. I'm a room mom in Hannah's class and we had fun at her class party. That night our boys brought home a special Starbucks hot chocolate delivery. Even though the hot chocolate delivery isn't an annual tradition, I love that I have a place to document this photo and memory.

Our 16th wedding anniversary!  We had a great night checking out these shops, eating dinner at Chelsea's kitchen, getting dessert at Sugar Bowl and seeing the movie Lincoln. Such a fun night!

Most of the presents were wrapped and under the tree. This was a bit of an accomplishment because some years the wrapping hasn't started until Christmas Eve.

Prepping some asparagus to take to my parents' house for dinner. Plus the girls set up a school in their bedroom and had their friends come over to play along. They spent 3 hours that afternoon playing school. Loved it!

Christmas Eve! We started the festivities at Benihana for our traditional lunch with friends. This place is perfect for lunch because it's not very busy, the prices are cheaper and the kids (and parents) are entertained throughout the meal.

We spent the evening at my mother in law's house enjoying our traditional Mexican feast and opening of presents.

We finished off the night by stoping by my parents' house for reading and acting out the nativity and a Christmas Eve toast.

The final page of the album covers Christmas day. We started off the morning with the 5 of us opening gifts and then we had family come over for brunch. After a nice afternoon nap, we went to my parents' house for an Italian feast.

Yes, I feel blessed to have such a great month. I think documenting it makes me even more grateful because I can write about all we did and look back at the great memories we made as a family. Sometimes it takes some work and effort to make everything happen, but in the end, I think the traditions and memories are the things that help our family grow stronger and it's worth the effort.

Other pages from this year's album:

December Daily Day 1 - 5, 2012

December Daily Days 6 - 15, 2012

December Daily Days 6 - 15

One of my favorite things about December is that it is full of family traditions. We had a full calendar last month and it was fun to document all of our activities in my December Daily album.

I kept the album pretty simple so that it would be easy to keep up with throughout the month. All of the photos are printed at home on this printer that I've had for a few years. The journaling was all done with either a gold or black sharpie. Simple!

This is the third year that I've done a December Daily album and I really enjoyed the process.

December Daily Days 1-5

December Daily 2012

The month has been so busy for us. I'm sure it's been busy for you too. We are busy in a good way, but I haven't found much time to blog.

This month I've been keeping up on a December Daily album. I decided to keep the album small (8" X 5.5") and I'm keeping the design simple. For me simple means that I'll be able to finish it.

For the cover, I punched a bunch of little circles for confetti and then sewed them in between that fabulous sheet of gold polka velum and a kraft paper.

I was at Target in the Christmas section and saw a set of gold sharpies and knew that they would be perfect for this album. They work perfectly on this. I'm thinking about addressing our Christmas cards with the sharpies too.

The album started off with a little intro page. I built the album from scratch using patterned paper and kraft cardstock. I tried to alternate solid and patterned papers so there would be a nice background for photos plus a more solid page for journaling.

I'm printing off the little square pictures on my home photo printer. Although some days it's hard to find time for this, it's always fun to look at once it's complete. I'll be sharing more pages soon.