December Daily Inspiration Podcast: Recent Episodes
Melissa Shanhun - Digital Scrapbooking Educator
Inspiration from scrapbookers who love their December and Christmas scrapbooking. Listen for tips and more in this short, easy listening podcast.
Let's take a little trip back to Christmas 2011 through my December Daily Christmas album. I crafted this gem using my own scrapbook templates and had it printed through Shutterfly. After 12 years, there's a bit of age staining on the end papers, but it's still in pretty good shape.
I used a mix of my own handwriting font, my 31 day template album and a bunch of Christmas supplies I've collected over the years. I set up a daily template, tweaking it with numbers and some stamped designs. Its a fun blend of daily life and festive events. My approach to journaling was pretty structured, focusing on different themes like:
- Traditions
- Singing
- Buying
- Receiving
- Eating
- Organizing
- Watching
- Listening
- Realizing
- Giving
I blogged each day in December 2011 and used those posts to shape the album. Christmas is also birthday season in our house, so there's always a lot to document.
Speaking of memories, anyone remember my podcast? I was up there in the hobbies category on iTunes in Australia. Those screenshots are a blast from the past. We also captured some classic Christmas moments like caroling and sending out cards. Its all there, even our matching mauve outfits and Emily's excitement over her dress.
Christmas Day was a whirlwind, visiting three venues with family. It's funny to look back and see how things have changed - like how I wasn't brave enough to swim in the cool December ocean, but now I'm the family swimmer. Our Christmas tree, gifts, and even New Year's Eve made it into the album.
How about you? Have you documented your Christmas 2011? I'd love to see your albums. Going through old albums is like stepping into a time capsule. Sure, I might choose different embellishments now, but they capture a moment in time, so I don't mind. Those rounded corners were all the rage back then, right?
Our photos turned out surprisingly well, considering it was before the iPhone era. We were still using our trusty mega-zoom camera!
Thanks for joining me on this nostalgic journey through my Christmas album. I hope you're inspired to do something with your own Christmas memories. And hey, if you're thinking about making a photo book, why not check out my simple family yearbook class? It's a breeze and perfect for busy moms or grandmas. You can even preview some lessons and start crafting your own family stories.
Today we are looking at my Christmas 2019 album, and I'm super excited to share it with you. This one's really special to me because I went totally DIY. No templates, no Project Life stuff—just me, a blank canvas in Photoshop, and a whole lot of creativity.
I have loved documenting our Decembers with different Christmas challenges since 2009 and have many completed albums, printed with various different photo printers over the years. 2019's model was printed with Forever, and I love how the 8x8 size matches perfectly with my Snapfish and Shutterfly 8x8 Albums. For those of us who like things neat and orderly, that's a win!
Let me give you a little peek at what’s inside:
- Numbers from Traci Reed 2014 Pocket Life kit (no longer available)
- Kept it simple with a typewriter font
- Documented daily with a photo and some words
- Very occasional use of embellishments
December Daily 2019 Flip ThroughOne of the funnier stories in the album is about a midnight movie screening. We all went to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and it turned into a bit of a comedy of errors. Two of us ended up in gold class, two friends went to a different cinema, and another was stuck at the back all by himself.
I also captured some sweet family moments. We made gingerbread, went to the Hillsong Christmas Spectacular, and even managed to make it to the Heathridge Carols—something we missed a lot because we managed to get sick around Christmas time.
Our family traditions are in there too. We always watch Ocean's 11 on New Year's Eve, and this year was no different. And of course, I had to document my children leaving supper out for Father Christmas.
If I could change anything, I might tweak a few overblown photos. Could be my iPhone's fault. But honestly, I love how it turned out. Simple but meaningful.
If you need a little help documenting Christmas, check out my Simple Family Yearbook Class. It's perfect if you want to create a photo book without the hassle. We use auto curation to pick your best photos and get it professionally designed. You just make a few tweaks, order it, and voila! A beautiful photo book in no time.
Have you done anything with your Christmas 2019 photos? I'd love to see them! It's always fun to look back and relive those memories. If you're feeling inspired, why not start your own album?
Happy December Scrapbooking!!
PS Deck the Halls by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source Artist
It's time for another Christmas Album flip through. 2020 was a bit different in Western Australia and we shut down all access to the rest of the country and the world to avoid the virus. So that meant it was quite different to the experience of many of you who are reading this throughout the world. As long as we had no cases in the community, we lived a relatively normal life, but there were snap lockdowns for any cases that escaped quarantine. So things were uncertain in a different way!
The SuppliesOver the past few years, I've used the motivation from the Scrap Happy Layout a Day Challenge to help me finish a bunch of pages of my projects. You'll see that for 2020's pages I used Nettio Designs Holiday Faves Templates to make it simpler to use photos from our all cameras and phones. For this album, I kept it super simple with just one kit through out: December Moments Big Bundle from Katie the Creative Lady.
The AlbumAre you scrapbooking December?Link me up to your pages in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
I have loved documenting our Decembers with December Daily since 2009 and even have many completed albums, with one more that just need a couple more pages to finished it off.
This year Christmas was a little different for us. Sure, I've been pregnant at Christmas before (3 times actually). But, never in the third trimester! Our baby was due December 27, so along with homeschooling our daughter and a few family birthdays, I needed to have a do-able project for 2015.
Janet Phillips included a simple set of templates for all the Daily Digi members. So I figured, why not use it?
I bought a new Christmas kit from Flergs (who else?) when she was guesting at The Digital Press and am planning to use it throughout the album.
December Daily 2015 Flip ThroughI'd love to see your Christmas past scrapbook! Leave me a link to your creations in the comments.
PS Deck the Halls by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source Artist
In 2012, Jennifer Wilson created a gorgeous 6x6 album kit over at Simple Scrapper and I had to jump in a try a paper mini album for my December Daily. You can see more of Jennifer's December projects here.
Although I'm primarily a digital scrapbooker, I love making paper cards and have tried my hand with a few mini albums over the years.
Flip through My Album2012 December Daily PagesTake a look at the photos taken back in 2013 to see the pages without 11 years of wear and tear!
I finished the whole album by January 2013, which was a pretty great effort I think. I printed my photos locally and so I worked in batches. I wrote journalling mostly in the moment then put it together a few days at a time.
A couple of years ago I bought at 6x8 Becky Higgins Project Life album to put the whole album in, because it just wasn't standing up to annual flip throughs by our family!
I love the tactile nature of the book but for consistency, I'm considering re-doing this as an 8x8
What do you think? Should a attempt a redo?
Welcome back to my Christmas Album series!
Today we are taking a walk down memory lane with an album from way back in 2009! I started documenting this Christmas with Jessica Sprague's Holidays in Hand class and I think I got just two pages in before our plans were all changed and though I did write notes each day, I never quite got around to scrapbooking it.
Matthew looking through this new album a couple of years ago!I made this photobook in in 2017 or 2018 (I think!) so it was almost 10 years after it happened. It was one of the last missing years in my albums, so I really wanted to get it done! So I used my Simple Family Yearbook method to help me get it done.
Have you got a missing album in your scrapbooks? I'd love to help you fill in the gaps with my Simple Family Yearbook class. It will help you create an album in just 4 easy steps!
Maybe you can ask for it as a Christmas gift! Or just treat yo' self
PS Deck the Halls by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source Artist
Welcome to our Chirstmas Album Flip Through series! Today we are taking a look through my album from 2017.
All of the templates were from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves 2017 Class. Here's a sample of the pages I created.
After I finished the pages the process for printing was:
- Re-read the journalling for typos
- Save them as a high quality 8x8 inch jpeg file
- Upload them to Shutterfly
- Use the Digi Scrap Style book, so all the pages are set up for one full-bleed photo per page.
- Order the 8x8 hardcover photo book. I always wait for a sale, and ordered a couple of books to make the postage to Australia worthwhile!
These days, I print with Forever, and I love their layflat and hinged albums.
These pages were based on Nettio Designs Holiday Faves Templates and I used kits from Studio Flergs and Kristin Cronin-Barrow.
PS Deck the Halls by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source Artist
For the first time in years we went to a New Year's Eve Party. We didn't make it till midnight but we did have a fun time swimming, dancing, eating and chatting with friends.
We headed to the Glossop’s for a NYE Pool Party. It was a mix of friends and our children knew a few from various homeschool acitivities. We lasted till about 9pm before we needed to head home.We headed to the Glossop’s for a NYE Pool Party. It was a mix of friends and our children knew a few from various homeschool acitivities. We lasted till about 9pm before we needed to head home.Create the LookToday I used the premade pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album, with a simple tiled adjoining page of photos. I added a few glittered snowflakes as fireworks.
Today's TakeawayYou don't have to take patterns literally! I used snowflakes as fireworks for this New Year's Eve page, and it works perfectly with the rest of the album.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them!
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
So here we are on the morning of Christmas, off to our first destination. Over the years in my December albums I've featured Mum and Dad's tree, family gathered and the Christmas goodies from this morning tea, so this year I kept it simple and just included the children's photos with their grandparents. It's so special the our children can see both sets of grandparents at Christmas time.
Today's TakeawayBack at it again with a tiled photo page! Here's how!
Create the LookToday I branched out and created my own page! Just a photo collage and alpha sticker title with a little cluster of embellishments.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
Here's where my Holiday Faves album goes off the rails! For Christmas Day I allow myself to scrap as many photos as I like. So this year that means there's five Christmas Day pages. Let's take a look at the first three in this post and I'll share more tomorrow.
This year we opened our presents at home, then had morning tea at the Okelys. This year, us Okely siblings did a Secret Santa Lego model exchange. There were two Lego Caravans, and the squealing that happened when our children realised they had a baby minifig inside!Lunch was at the Shanhuns plus Gidget, Coco and Darcy. It was so hot but thankfully the dogs were able to be in the shade.We gave our family gingerbread cookies and the dogs got doggie biscuits.Today's TakeawayToday I didn't include any journalling on the gift exchange double page spread - or the upcoming pages I'll share tomorrow. It's ok to leave some pages to speak for themselves.
Create the LookToday I branched out and created my own pages! Just a photo collage and alpha sticker title with a little cluster of embellishments.
I used Netto Designs for the Number 9 page.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
Today I'm sharing our Christmas Eve with the gorgeous template with Nettio Designs. I kept things simple with just two photos and patterned paper.
JournallingWe had one case of COVID-19 and so we had mask mandates back in place. We kept up our tradition of afternoon tea at Dome Kingsley, then headed to church. There was a small crowd at the 5pm service due to the uncertainty of the situation.
Today's TakeawayI chose the patterned paper to echo the hanging Christmas decorations in the bottom photos.
Create the LookYour December Daily doesn't have to be complex to look good, today I repeated a patterned paper and just added a couple of photos with a white border.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
This year I made the effort to head to the beach a lot more often. It takes a bit of preparation to get four children ready for the beach, but it has been well worth is to see them growing in confidence. Fun fact - December 1 is the start of summer for us, so it's the perfect time to head to the beach.
This December we made an effort to get to the beach more often. We headed to Point Peron to learn about Birak from Olman. Mullaloo with friends, Key West several times with family in the Christmas/New Year break. We are so blessed to have these amazong beaches close by and children who are getting more confident in the water.Today's TakeawayOnce again I'm using photo backgrounds and keeping things simple!
Create the LookToday I used the premade page from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album. No extra embellishing, just clipping paper to the 10 banner and then a photo as a background paper. I tiled all the photos together the technique I described here and then added the locations.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
This Christmas season there were lots of new furry additions to the family, plus the Shanhuns were dog sitting! So I had to include the dogs in our album.
We had a very Merry Dogmas with all the puppies! Picture Gidget the Groodle, Rosie the Irish Setter, Darcy the Golden Retreiver, Sammy the English Setter and Coco the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Cross.Today's TakeawayDon't forget to include your furry or feathered family in your album! Including pets or even wildlife can help round out your album.
We had a very Merry Dogmas with all the puppies! Picture Gidget the Groodle, Rosie the Irish Setter, Darcy the Golden Retreiver, Sammy the English Setter and Coco the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Cross.Create the LookToday I used the premade design Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
I simply clipped the photo of the dogs to the O spot in the template and, you guessed it - added glitter.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
Today I'm sharing another gorgeous journalling page from Nettio Designs' Holiday Faves. Scroll down to read more about it.
Journalling* Watching: The Cricket * Reading: The Kids Bible Experience * Listening: All I Want for Christmas is You * Eating: Christams treats * Wearing: Christmas Tshirts * Making: Christmas Cards * Loving: Warm weather
Today's TakeawayI love this page to document things unique to this year that don't necessarily have a photo to go with them, sure, I could screenshot the playlists or the weather forecast, but just writing them down made for a simple and meaningful page.
A 'currently' list is a great way to capture the way things are today. Document what you are enjoying this year.
Create the LookToday I used the premade cover pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
I kept this page super simple, just adding a cookie embellishment and glitter (again!).
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
Do you like to look at Christmas lights each year? We do! Each year we go to a few regular spots plus one or two recommended on the Synergy Christmas Lights Trail. Since I document this activity most years I thought I'd switch up the photos and focus on the new place we went to that had a huge collection of Christmas village miniatures.
This year we took a look at the Christmas Village set up in Pearsall! It was amazing and I would have loved to stay longer to look at the details, but due to COVID restrictions we could only have one family look at a time. Then we followed the Woodvale Baptist Church Narnia Christmas Lights trail and got to watch the last presentation of the evening. Everyone was excited to see Liam McCaffrey as Edmund in the videos for the trail.JournallingThis year we took a look at the Christmas Village set up in Pearsall. It was amazing and I would have loved to stay longer to look at the details, but due to COVID restrictions we could only have one family look at a time. Then we followed the Woodvale Baptist Church Narnia Christmas Lights trail and got to watch the last presentation of the evening. Everyone was excited to see Liam McCaffrey as Edmund in the videos for the trail.
Create the LookToday I used the premade cover pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
Once again I tiled the photos, and used photos instead of background paper.
Today's TakeawayToo many photos? Why not use them in the background of your page. Today I used the Christmas village miniature close ups instead of a background paper.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
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Today I'm documenting a graduation! Matthew moved up to the primary school age group at True North Kids.When I come to these extra pages in the Holiday Fave album, I really hesitate to call them filler pages - they capture so much! This is another gorgeous template from Nettio Designs.
Scroll down to see how I created the blended photo look.
Create the LookOnce again glitter is the star here! I added a glitter style to the text layer. I drew the heart by hand with my Wacom tablet and added a glitter style to that too. I drew it at a similar size to the heart in the template.
I used the premade cover pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
For the blended photo, I added a mask to the photo. I used a radial gradient to create the blend.
If you were making this design yourself you could use the shape tool to draw a heart approximately the same size as the hand drawn one. I deleted the mask in that area to focus on Matthew. I then just hid the heart layer by clicking on the eye icon in the layers panel.
It's important to remember that White Reveals and Black Conceals. So the area that is white is revealing the photo, and the side of the mask that is black is hiding the photo.
Here's the layers I used to create a gradient mask with a heart.Today's TakeawayCreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
December is filled with birthdays and this year was Phill's 40th. Due to COVID restrictions we couldn't have a big party so we planned to celebrate jointly in February or March. Alas, that didn't turn out either! Today we documented the family get together we had despite Phill's voice issues.
We planned a family get together for Phill’s 40th. It was lovely to see everyone and Phill was blessed with some fun presents including a thicknesser and Bunnings vouchers! Unfortunately he was not able to speak, but we still celebrated as best we could. We celebrated his big day as a family too - Clancy’s Fish Bar at City Beach.Today's Takeawayge all on my own for the right hand page of this spread. You can use snapping features to help you align all your photos.
There are several options for snapping, to see them all choose View > Snap To, and select Grid.
You can move the layers around with the Move tool (V) and notice how they gravitate toward the grid lines, making it easy to position them accurately.
Create the LookToday I used the premade cover pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
I used a variety of the papers from all the kits I chose for my December album, focusing on the patterns and colours that matched with our outfits.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
- 2020 Holiday Faves Flip Through
- 2015 December Daily Flip Through
- 2012 December Daily Album: Paper Scrapbook
- Christmas 2009 Album Flip Through
- Holiday Faves 2017 Flip Through
- New Year's Eve: December Down Under
- Morning Tea: December Down Under
- Christmas Morning: December Down Under
- Christmas Eve: December Down Under
- Beaches: December Down Under
Our home had a new addition in 2021, and I had to include her in today's page. It was a fun template that Nettio included in the Holiday Faves templates.
Today's TakeawayUsing a textured background, and the glitter gives the page which is pretty simple. Just a photo and word art.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Link me up to your pages in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
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This might be the only December album you see with a sports carnival included! Fun fact, in Australia, we generally have our sports carnivals in third term (spring) but our local Junior Homeschoolers Group runs their primary school carnival in the last week of school (summer). So far we have been very lucky to have perfect weather.
JournallingIt’s been a few years since we have been able to participate in a sports carnival. This year the Junior North of the River Homeschoolers Group organised one in Duncraig. Daddy and Grandma were able to attend and Edward, Lucy and Matthew were able to participate.
Create the LookToday I used the premade journalling page, but created my own photo collage for the left hand page.I repeated the woodgrain patterned paper from the photo collage page in the number flag on the right hand page.
Today's TakeawayFor a collage of photos that butt up neatly, use the snap to objects function.I use View>Snap To>Layers whenever I want to create a block of photos that align perfectly, as I did in this layout.
There are several options for snapping, to see them all choose View > Snap To, and select one or more options from the submenu.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
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Do you go to or sell at a local Christmas Market? This was our children's first time participating in an event like this, so of course it had to go in the December album! This two-page spread followed Lynnette Penacho's templates, scroll down to read more about it.
JournallingThis year we were able to participate in the Homeschool Christmas Markets at Mawson Park in Hillarys.
Edward made wooden ornament (with gel pens to decorate).
Emily and Lucy sold loom band bracelets and accessories. We also put in some homemade dog biscuits. Matthew was excited to purchase a wooden sword, and everyone enjoyed JJ’s icypoles and various other food treats. There McCaffrey’s water bottle shy was very popular, and there were some home made games too. About 25 families had stalls this year.
Today's TakeawayI created a photo collage all on my own for the right hand page of this spread. You can use snapping features to help you align all your photos.
There are several options for snapping, to see them all choose View > Snap To, and select Grid.
You can move the layers around with the Move tool (V) and notice how they gravitate toward the grid lines, making it easy to position them accurately.
Create the LookToday I used the premade cover pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
I chose a brigh background and used it across both pages. I kept things simple with just a collage and no embellishing today.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
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Today I'm sharing my first Holiday Fave - the girls' dance concert! It's the highlight of the year for them.
For 2021's pages I used Nettio's Holiday Faves to structure my album. Does that sound familiar? I've been loving Lynnette Penacho's templates and class for years now. Scroll down to read more about it.
Holiday Faves 1Today's fave spreads across two pages, one side is the journalling page and the other is a couple of photos from the professional photographer. The photos weren't ready till months later so I added them during Layout a Day.
Today's TakeawayDon't let a missing photo derail the project. Leave a space and keep on going! I could have used other photos I took on the day, but I wanted to include them performing on stage and there were no cameras allowed in the performance. So I just kept on working and finished this spread later.
Create the LookToday I used the premade pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
I used the same paper across both pages to keep it simple and radically cropped down the photos of the girls. The beauty of digital means I am not limited to standard photo sizes.
JournalingLucy was part of the Peter Pan Junior Ballet and Emily was part of the Amen Grade 3/4 Lyrical item. This year I was in charge of the single items dressing group, along with two other mums. We kept an eye on 12 girls for the show. The 50+1 Concert at Kingsway Christian College was a big event after last year’s concert was cancelled. There was a tribute to Miss Meade (featuring Aunty Leanne and Lucy in the slidshow!).
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
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Welcome to December Down Under! Ever year I share my album from last year on the blog. I'm creating my December album as we speak but I love that there's a little less pressure on the month of December if I share last year's album here.
My December PlanFor 2021's pages I used Nettio's Holiday Faves to structure my album. Does that sound familiar? I've been loving Lynnette Penacho's templates and class for years now. Scroll down to read more about it.
Holiday Faves 2021 CoverToday I'm sharing the cover for my album. You'll notice I've gone for a completely untextured background. I chose that to make it easier for printing, trimming covers with wrap around paper can be a little tricky! I used Nettio's cover design and kept it simple with 8 papers and one family photo.
Today's TakeawayCreating a cover for your December Daily doesn't have to be complex to look good. This cover is perfect for quick snap that features our family but I don't need it to take over the whole cover,
Create the LookToday I used the premade cover pages from Nettio Designs Holiday Faves album.
I used a variety of the papers from all the kits I chose for my December album, focusing on the patterns and colours that matched with our outfits.
CreditsNettio Designs Holiday Faves Each year Lynnette hosts a class to help you design and complete a December album with templates, inspiration and community.
Flergs Christmas Kits
A Merry December: Peace & Joy by Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Studio Flergs Tis the Season
Flergs Tis the Sea-sun
Font: Poppins Light
Are you scrapbooking December?Post your page in the comments or tag me on Instagram, I'd love to see them.
PS Here's some more December Daily inspiration for you:
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Today it was all about making some special gifts for our family and friends. [Continue reading]
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Today I used the promotional photo that Cricket Australia sent to the participants of the Perth Test Match. They were so quick to send the photos through! It's a scrapbookers dream! [Continue reading]
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I used a photo from the web to make it simple to add a page about my daily swim to December Daily. [Continue reading]
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