My December Daily: Week 4 (and a little more)

Time to share the last few pages of my December Daily with you so here we go! I have to say, I think I'll be using the Simple Stories snap system for every December Daily album. It made the process so easy and I love the cohesiveness of it. Thanks Simple Stories!

Day 23 - All the presents around my in-laws' Christmas tree

Day 24 - Liam and all his second cousins on Christmas Eve.

Day 25 (two-page spread) - The Birthday Boy and giving my in-laws their gift from us!

Day 26 - A warm fire in the fireplace.

Day 27 - Playing in the snow.

Day 28 - Starbucks gingerbread latte; my Christmas tradition.

Day 29 - Christmas cards received this year.

Day 30 - Liam playing with one of his new toys, a Doctor's kit.

Day 31 - Our New Year's Eve of Chinese takeout, Mumm Napa bubble and a Breaking Bad marathon.

Closing page - a family photo taken end of December.

And that's the rest of my December Daily! I really enjoyed putting this project together and I will definitely make this a yearly tradition!

My December Daily: Week 3

Yes, my December Daily is almost done. I have finished through Christmas Day and I am planning to take my album all the way through the end of December. The remaining pages have a good chunk of the foundation already finished as well. I hope to complete the album in the next couple days. But, I wanted to at least share week three with you! So here you go...

Day 16 - Watching How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Day 17 - Showcasing my crazy collection of holiday music.

Day 18 - Highlighting a few of my favorite decorations.

Day 19 - Showing off our Christmas PJs.

Day 20 - Our travel day to Wisconsin.

Day 21 - A photo of all of our stockings hung. So excited I finally have a stocking at my in-laws!

Day 22 - Documenting our overnight trip to Chicago.

And that's week three of my December Daily! I'll be sharing the remaining pages soon!

My December Daily: Week 2

December is officially halfway over...WHAT?!?! You have got to be kidding me. But with that, it means I have another week in my December Daily to share with you. And I am happy to report I am keeping up! But I need to work on page prep for the upcoming weeks and want to have everything ready to go so I can continue updating my book while we are in Milwaukee. My plan is to have everything assembled and then take all my daily photos on my phone and use my Walgreens app to get prints made there directly from my phone. The only supplies I plan to take are my exacto knife, 6" ruler, adhesive tape, some enamel dots, washi tape and stickers...just enough to place my photos in the book and embellish them a bit.

But anyways, before I move ahead to the future days, I want to share this past week with you!

Day 8 - a trip to see Zoo Lights. It was COLD!

Day 9 - mailing Christmas cards.

Day 10 - Liam working on a snowman craft at Stroller Strides.

Day 11 - reading The Polar Express.

Day 12 - the Stroller Strides Christmas party.

Day 13 - the front of our house lit up at night. 

(Sorry about the glare. I tried taking this photo out of the page pocket and it still didn't help since I used a transparency overlay.)

Day 14 - baking Christmas cookies.

Day 15 - a visit to see Santa Claus.

And that's week two of my December Daily! I'll be sharing weeks three and four when I return from Wisconsin!

My December Daily: Week 1

I cannot believe we are already a week through December! Talk about crazy! But, with that, I get to share my first week of December Daily pages. This is my first year doing this project and I have to say I LOVE it! Although, I really didn't need another project between traditional scrapping and Project Life, I am so glad I decided to pick this project up this year. I decided to try the Simple Stories Snap System for the first time using their red faux leather 6x8 album and coordinating variety pack of pocket pages. I am also primarily using their December Documented collection in my book. 

So, with that, here are my December Daily cover, title page and days one through eight - what I will call "Week 1."

My cover. I kept it simple to make it easy to store...just three super old "December" sentiments from my stash.

And I just simply put the year on the spine with number stickers.

And my title page. I think this particular piece of paper from the December Documented collection was meant to be used as a December Daily title page.

Day 1 - pulling out the Christmas decorations.

Day 2 - making our wish lists on Amazon using their awesome "gift list" feature. 

Day 3 - working on my December Daily!

Day 4 - our dog Scout was very tolerant letting me snap this photo.

Day 5 - fun times at the annual Holiday Ale Fest!

Day 6 - Whoa! Snow in Portland is a BIG deal!

Day 7 - Showcasing a screen capture of my Christmas "To Do" list as well as a belated St. Nick's gift.

Day 8 - A cold but fun night at Zoo Lights at the Oregon Zoo.

And that is my December Daily so far! I've got several more pages already "made up" and photo ideas planned. I am really trying to stay ahead on this project so it stays fun and doesn't become a chore. Christmas sadly already comes with too many chores, right? Stay tuned next Monday for Week 2!

Start the new year off right with the January Crop Addict kit!

Did you make any scrappy resolutions for the new year? Well, start those resolutions off on the right foot with the Crop Addict January kit! This kit is chock-full of amazing double-sided heavy-weight papers from Fancy Pants and Bo Bunny and six coordinating sheets of Bazzill cardstock. Embellishments include American Crafts Thickers, AdornIt alpha stickers, Basic Grey rub-ons, Scenic Route chipboard hearts, a bunch of Luxe Designs jotters, epoxy teardrops and more! Get your kit here for only $32!

Be sure to check out the coordinating kit option too! It includes coordinating Bo Bunny stickers, coordinating Fancy Pants rub-ons and a set of chipboard sentiments from Creative Imaginations. Pick one up here for only $14!

This kit is great for all sorts of layouts - I used mine for a layout about my scraproom, a wedding layout, a generic love layout, a baby album layout, a set of greeting cards and a wedding mini-album. Check out my creations below and also be sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team did with the kit here in the Crop Addict gallery.

PDX Pals Mini Album

I created this mini album for our friends Ashley & Justin who just moved back to Kansas last week. Over the past couple years, we grew very close to them and were very sad to see them go. It was important to me to create something for them to remember us and this mini documents many of the adventures the four of us have had over the past couple years. I used Basic Grey's Origins collection to create the album.

Check out the mini album I made with the Crop Addict April Kit!

To be honest, I never really used to be a big fan of mini-albums. But they are definitely growing on me for sure! I mean, how could you not love this cute elephant mini from Maya Road?

With this mini and the addition of bright, fun papers from American Crafts, Jillibean Soup & Scenic Route (plus a ton of coordinating embellishments) I was able to make this mini to give my best friend. She just gave birth to her second daughter, Cecilia Marie, on March 2nd!

Farmer's Market Recipes Mini-Album

I created this mini-album for my precrop challenge posted over at Serendipity Scrapbooks for the Stay-cation crop. My challenge was to go on an outing to a local farmer's market or u-pick farm and create a summer fresh recipe album that uses the local ingredients you found on your adventure.

For my album, I took photos of one of the main ingredients in its raw stage to include on each recipe page (except the meats - those are finished food photos for the most part). My album has 3 sections - fruits, veggies, meats - and each recipe uses at least one ingredient I can buy at the PSU farmer's market. In each recipe, I italicized and bolded the ingredients that can be bought at the market. Each spread can be seen below!