decmber days...

Hello :) I'm feeling very happy to be up to date with all the projects I have created this year and am finishing off the year with my December daily projects using Pinkfresh Studio's December Days collection from the Sassy Scrappers store. 

December has always been my favourite time of year but it's also a very busy time so I started with a bit of page prep in November, ready to fill with photos and stories once December rolled in and created some simple layered cards to add to my regular project life album. You'll find all of the cards I created over on this post. 

Adding photos and stories once December began - check out this post for all the details. 

Although I was a little bit uncertain on how these non traditional colours would work with my photos, this unusual Christmas palette really complimented my pics and helped to tie the month together very well. 

I create several hand made cards to help me set the festive tone.

I also added a 6x12" insert to hold more photos and festive ephemera. 

Filling up my album with more December memories, I switched things up with a different pocket configuration to accommodate some vertical photos. You can read all about it here. 

Of course December wouldn't be complete without a pretty tree photo :) 

Creating more layered filler cards with die-cuts and mixed embellishments

and even adding one of our tree flat ornaments inside a pocket to make our album more personal. 

That brings my project life share fully up to date! Thank you for following along with my creations this year and I hope you will return in 2018 xx

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goodbye December...

Hi again, I decided to make some time to finish up the last of my December pages from my project life album before moving onto 2017.

I took advantage of the post Xmas sales, and bought a gorgeous Paper Lover's Christmas Book from Kikki K to simply the process. The book is filled with with an assortment of fun festive papers, stickers and tags and worked well with the rest of the colours/patterns in my earlier December pages. 

I also utilised one of the clear printed gift bags to create the background for this 8x10" insert for my little guy's photo with Santa. 

ETA - I used my fuse tool to create a custom page protector for this size.

The back of the insert was devoted to our Christmas tree! 

I had big plans for my 8x10" tree photo, but was forced to make a few changes because the print quality turned out really grainy once I increased the size but rather than tossing out the print, I decided to use a sheet of vellum over the top to disguise the poor photo quality. I was happy to finally find a use for the 'shine' HS foiled word I have been hoarding for ages ;) and tried to keep the page minimal with a simple sentiment, a few wood veneer stars and a sprinkle of gold spray mist and am really happy with how the vellum layer turned out. 

I used a baseball card page protector (from the newsagent) to hold my favourite tree photos and created some filler cards using bits & pieces from the Paper Lover's book and a few items from my stash. 

And with Xmas complete, I can finally move onto my 2017 album!

Thanks for stopping by xx

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more december pages...

Hi again :) I have been busy creating more inserts to document our December memories using the fun Elle's Studio 'Tis The Season collection from them Sassy Scrapper's Store. 

I used one of the awesome free cut files from The Cut Shoppe, which you can download here and used another set of cut files as digital stamps - check out my full post over on the Sassy Scrapper's blog for all the details. 

As always, thanks for stopping by xx

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december pages...

I am still having fun creating December inserts with the gorgeous 'Tis The Season collection by Elle's Studio for my project life album and shared a few interactive tags and pockets as well as the reverse side of my title page over on the Sassy Scrapper's blog during the weekend. 

You'll find more pics and along with the details on how to create these pieces over on my original post. 

Stay tuned for more December inserts later in the week, 

and as always thanks for stopping by xx

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december pages...

I am getting into the festive spirit and have been playing with some gorgeous items from the Elle's Studio 'Tis The Season collection from the Sassy Store.  We are excited to be teaming up with The Cut Shoppe and all of the team will be using some fun cut files throughout the month so be sure to keep an eye on the Sassy blog for some awesome Christmas themed projects all month long!

Check out my original post for a complete list of all the items I have used, as well as a closer look at each of the cards I have created. 

I will have plenty more items to share throughout the month, so I hope you'll be back to check them out and until then thanks for stopping by xx

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