Through The Camera Lens

December Date Pages: 1-15

Finally got all the date sheets done for Journal Your Christmas/December Daily over the weekend. Tried to stick with Blue, Silver & White colors but added a bit of Red & Green in too. Went back through last years JYC prompts to match the theme except for the 10th - when I know we are going to the "The Nutcracker".

Used digital elements from: Ali Edwards Day 1 Holiday Title Overlays, Day 3 Advent Boxes, Day 10 25 Days of December, Day 13 Merry Merry Christmas Gift Tags. Day 8 a freebie: Holiday Circles from karenika. And Day 14 & 15 from Elle's Studio at Jessica Sprague Christmas Number Circles & These Moments at Christmas Journaling Tags. I printed most onto photo paper to have some gloss.

The rest is done with embellishments I had in the Christmas stash, adding Stickles to felt snowflakes & chipboard numbers and a bit of Starbucks cup for Day 6. Most transparencies are from Hambly Studios or added papers to Zutter acrylic sheets with spray adhesive.

Had a nice Thanksgiving & hope, if you celebrated - you did too, but looking forward to the 1st!

How are you coming along in your Christmas Journal prep?

Christmas Journal

Going a new route with the Christmas Journal after seeing Ali's cool digital goodies for this year and the new colors I'm loving so decided to look around for some Blue, White & Silver papers and got lucky my LSS had Bo Bunny's "Midnight Frost".

Not only do I love these Overlays & Templates by Ali but the layout of her December Daily this year as it seems manageable during the rush of next month & hopefully a little less bulky then I've had in past years.
Instead of 6x8 going to re-size to 7.5 x 5 so I can use these acrylic covers & tabbed pages, as well as adding a few transparencies ala Ali. Plan on incorporating a bit of December Daily, Journal Your Christmas & Picture The Holidays this year depending on what fits for us each day.

Hoping to do more printing & cutting before all the cooking and baking for Thanksgiving begins tomorrow.

Will you be cooking, eating or both this year? ;)