Today I'm sharing days 12 - 20, and a free download at the bottom of this post for the cross-stich "sweater" pattern from day 7.
This spread covers days 12 & 13. On December 12th, I went to a Christmas party. I didn't take a lot of pictures, so I used a (scary, I know) selfie that I sent to a friend, and a picture of the block where the house is located to tell the story. I also wanted to include a lengthy text message conversation, so I printed it 3 x 8 and cut it to fill two 3 x 4 pockets -- these were originally from a 4-pocket page protector that I cut in half to form an insert like I did for my intro page.
The "be jolly" chipboard speech bubble is one of my favorites from the kit and I was excited to use it here. In the bottom right pocket, I used one of the plastic bokeh shapes and a red puffy heart to tie the colors from the pictures and other embellishments together.
I didn't have a photo for the story that I wanted to tell on the 13th, so I printed my words on a piece of the patterned paper and added it to the back of the insert. For the bottom pocket, I created a decorative number card using the wood veneer number, another plastic bokeh shape, and a chipboard banner. I wanted the spread to look cohesive, so I continued to use the color scheme from day 12: gray, aqua, and red.
I knew that day 14 was going to be very text-heavy, and I didn't want this spread to look too busy, so I made a filler page for the 6 x 8 page protector instead. I printed a photo of our library and gave the picture some context by adding a tweet that I wrote around this time.
This spread covers days 14 and 15.
For December 14th, on the left I printed a blog post that I wrote for Alpha Phi International on a sheet of graph paper from the kit. I tried to keep it simple, embossing "Tis the Season" on top and adding a strip of patterned paper and white number stickers from my stash along the bottom.
For December 15th, on the right, I printed two pictures of a friend in the library; I finished my finals early, so I spent a lot of time keeping my studious friends company. The lighting in the library gave the pictures a greenish / blueish tint, so I decided to play around with those colors in the bottom pockets. I cut out a word from the gold handwriting transparency and added it below my journaling on the left, and backed an aqua chipboard sticker with a gold circle tag on the right. I seriously loved those tags.
Day 16 covers a story about me and my boyfriend. I didn't have any new photos of us together, so I used a few from early December -- the actual date of the photo isn't super important to me as long as it tells the story. This page was especially simple: I just added a punched star, another word from the gold handwriting transparency, and an embossed stamp on the tree card.
I had a harder time with day 17 than any other page in this album. I printed pictures, re-edited pictures, printed different pictures, wasted too much paper, and eventually settled on this design. The papers are all old ones from my stash, and the gold label is from Michael's; I loved the look of the ones from the kit so much that I went out and bought my own after I ran out. I originally filled a 6 x 8 page protector with sequins and put it between days 16 and 17, but I think I prefer the more simple version, and the sequins were moved to another day.
The left side of this spread covers two travel days. I didn't take a lot of pictures, so I lifted my design from days 7 and 8: one picture and one journaling card per day. I actually didn't have any photos from December 18th, so I grabbed one from the website of the restaurant we went to and processed it with an Afterlight filter that I used throughout the album so that it wouldn't look out of place.
December 20th is two parts: (1) the black and white post card and . . .
. . . (2) a four pocket photo page. I printed my journaling on the back of the post card (which seemed like a super appropriate use for a post card) and added the embossed wood veneer 20 where you would write the address. I wanted the 4 x 6 post card to be vertically centered, so I cut a 6 x 8 page protector in half and punched new holes for the binder rings.
There was already a lot going on in this spread between the inserts and the photos, so I kept embellishments on the four pocket page to a minimum. I taped the top right photo to the front side of a piece of patterned paper, and folded a photo corner down so that it could be seen.
Free Download:
I've made the cross stitch sweater pattern that I used in a previous December Daily spread available through Google Drive. Thanks for your interest!
Check back tomorrow, when I'll be sharing the last days of my December Daily 2014.
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