December Daily 2011

Hello everyone!  Hope all is well with you.  Today I want to share my December Daily (yeah, finally) just before the weekend.  After the weekend, I'll have some new stuff up in the store for your shopping pleasure.  If you haven't used your Rebate Coupon, it may be an opportunity for you to use it. :)

I finished it a while ago but didn't have any chance to take some good photos of it.  As I mentioned before, this time I used some chipboard as the base of each page and therefore made a super thick album.  I like how the pages have turned out as I added some "paper engineering" this time to add more interests, but I honestly don't like the thickness of it.  Anyway, let's jump right into it and see if you have the patience to go through them all. :)

I personally like this intro page a lot as it looks like an art journal page to me.

On December 4th, we went to watch the Santa Parade in downtown.  I wanted to show more pictures of this and did this ~~

This is how it looks when the page is opened~~

Neat, right?  There's more of this kind of hidden pages to come.

I used a journal page to create this ~~

This is what's inside~~

On the eleventh day of Christmas, dear Kathy and Izzy gave me two gorgeous handmade cards and a bag of yummy cookies.  I wanted to include these cards in this album and made a pocket for them.  The above card was made by Kathy, and the following was made by Izzy.

And this is how the pocket looks~~  The tag is for the cookie bag.

Here I used a Fancy Pants Tradition Printed Transparency to show more pictures.  Love the swirl at the top.

The picture is actually a pocket for the receipts from the shops we visited that day, including Michaels.  Believe it or not, with tons of stuff for me to play with, I still shop at Michaels ... well, sometimes. :)

Another pocket here to house the grocery shopping on that day.

I wanted to include so many pictures on this special day and really gave some thoughts of how to display them beautifully.  I love how the next two spreads turn out~~

This is the inside of the extra little page, including pictures of the kids opening presents.

See where I put my journaling of the day :)

Same concept here.

Finally the last page!  I actually don't like this page because of the colour.  But, well, I've done it again for 2011 - another December Daily.

Here are some other looks of the thick album.

Four binding rings are used to bind the album.  I'm still thinking of other ways to bind it better.  If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

I really enjoyed the whole process.  When seeing my kids busy flipping the pages and singing Christmas songs at the same time, I feel so happy and content.  If you're still here with me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your great patience.  In case you're curious, I used mainly Authentique Paper's Wonder collection and Bo Bunny's Noel collection to build this album.

Thank you so much for stopping by and reading this long post to the end!!!!
hugs,
Yolanda