Journal Your Christmas/December Daily 2012

We finally have dried out after a couple of wet days, which gave me a chance to get some good photographs on the porch.  I was able to spend a bit of time on my Journal Your Christmas -- and it's not too late to join, just click the link on the left.

I've had to skip a few days for now, while I'm waiting for pictures. Like, of a decorated tree that's not leaning half-way to the floor. Seriously, I'm not sure how we spent 30 minutes getting the tree set up, then redoing it and it's still not straight -- in fact after letting it sit for a day it's even worse. Stupid stand.....

So... let's start with day 3.  I used the back of the Simple Stories page protector and tags from Pink Paislee, October Afternoon and Echo Park. I used a ticket from Pink Paislee's City Sidewalks ephemera to journal on, which is slipped into the chevron envelope. Stickers are from Simple Stories and My Mind's Eye and I used the same Martha Stewart punch to make a few small snowflakes from scraps.

Skipping Dec 4th for now.... we move to the 5th. Today's subject is Christmas cards.

I started with paper from Echo Park's This & That Christmas, a Maya Road kraft envelope, and an October Afternoon snowman card. I added a number strip from Oct. PM, Martha Stewart doily, Tim Holtz paperclip, Oct PM tag, My Mind's Eye sticker and Sassafras Lass alpha stickers.

I took a Simple Stories protector to slip in this year's Christmas card. It was a bit too wide, so I trimmed it off and closed it up with a bit of washi tape and stitching on top of the 2nd half of the October PM tag. Then, I added a Maya Road wooden snowflake. Love these!

I decided the back needed a bit of something, too....

Since I'd already stitched through the front side, I loosely adhered several paper strips and banners from October Afternoon then ran them through the sewing machine separately. I used ScraPerfect's Best Glue Ever to attach this strip to the plastic protector.

Moving on to day 6....

This page started with Echo Park's Dear Santa collection.  I layered a strip of paper from the same collection, washi tape, and ephemera/tags/stickers from Echo Park, October Afternoon, Jenni Bowlin and Pink Paislee before stitching down the left side. My journaling tag is held in a protector cut from one of the Simple Stories pages. This also gives me the ability to add tags in behind this from my kids, with their dreams for this holiday.

Comments

[Lori W]

this is looking fantastic!!