December Daily Project

For the past few years, I’ve admired December Daily projects that scrappers post online. They are a fun way to reflect on the joys of the season and spend a few moments documenting the things that matter or are unique about the season. They take all forms, but usually are mini-albums. Just search the web for “December Daily” and you will pull up tons of ideas. I decided that this is the year I am going to dive right in!

So, with this post, I want to share my process as well as the list of daily journaling prompts that I plan to use. These are just suggestions for things I want to capture. You should use whatever strikes your fancy. The key is making the foundation pages in advance and limiting yourself to whatever supplies you pull out at that time, keeping it all together. That keeps you from spending time and effort trying to match up things later or (worse yet!) having to run out and buy something. Then, make your foundation pages – the pages that you’ll place any photos and journaling you have throughout the season.

Here’s my list of prompts. My album will be December 1^st-25^th. These can be a combination of photos and/or journaling:

1.Real or artificial tree?	9. Favorite holiday movie	17. Travel or stay home?
2. Decorations inside	10. Favorite ornament	18. Cards received
3. Favorite childhood toy	11. Holiday beverage	19. To do list
4. Christmas cookies	12. Favorite holiday song	20. Cake or pie?
5. Decorations outside	13. Holiday photo or letter	21. Best Gift Received
6. Shopping/Gifts 2011	14. Snow or no?	22. Religious traditions
7. Best gift given	15. Taking time to relax	23. Gratitude
8. Did/does Santa visit your house?	16. Flannel PJs	24. The Night Before
		25. December 25th

First, I looked in my closet of supplies and pulled out some papers I thought might go well together. As you can tell, I mixed some more formal papers with some more fun ones. I grabbed 3 colors of cardstock, two sets of letter stickers and some embellishments – some came with the papers, others I just found in my stash. Because I wanted to use craft paper as my base, I cut up 25 9x9 pages. I found a 9x9, red album in the back of my closet that has to be at least 10 years old! I also punched 25 scalloped-edge circles to put on each page for the date. I plan to use number stickers or handwrite those.

December Daily Project by Moanica Caston. Patterned Paper and Cardstock Embellishments: Basic Grey & Echo Park; Cardstock: Bazzill; Alphas: American Crafts Thickers and Pink Paislee; Embellishments: Various

Here are some sample foundation pages. I purposely didn’t cover the entire 9x9 page with patterned paper, since I didn’t have enough paper to do that. But that’s another popular technique and is really pretty. This is simple and, more importantly, something I feel I can keep up with. That’s it!

So, who’s with me? Leave a comment if you're going to do a project. Go search through your stash; make a few foundation pages and get ready to capture the fun and magic of the season!

Happy Crafting!

Moanica