December Daily - Finally Done

Well, it was a project. And it is finally done.


 May I present - my complete December Daily. 

Here's the link to a Flicker album with all the pictures. It just seemed easier to load them there than to put them all here on the blog.

I used Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas throughout the book.  I love it as much as I did when I first saw it.  I used a stamp-holder 3 d-ring album from Hobby Lobby (8 1/2 x 6, same size as the album used in the AE Studio Calico kit), and I made my own page protectors by cutting down 12x6 protectors to 8 1/2" high. Perfect!

Will I do a daily project like this one again?  Maybe.  It was fun. It was a lot of work. It took me away from other projects (like my Counterfeit Kits).  The project lost it's luster somewhere around day 13, and it took a good bit of work to fill in the holes of the boring days throughout the month.  But it made me get better (or at least think about getting better) about taking pictures of ordinary moments in the moments, and I hope that carries through into other projects.  And it is a lovely keepsake.  But my goodness it took a lot of time!

I modified as I went along:

• I planned individual pages for the week between Thanksgiving and December; I ended up doing a couple of summary pages instead. 
• I planned to insert extra pockets between each day; Why??? I didn't have that much content or time, so I cut a lot of that extra work. 
• I planned to use vellum dividers and decorate them with all sorts of techniques; I do love vellum and all the fun things you can do with it.  I did a few, but never got around to the rest.  I may print some Christmas carol and song lyrics on them.  But if I don't ever get around to it, it won't matter.
• I planned to use lots of smaller pictures; I didn't have time to make lots of size adjustments, so I generally made 4x6s work. 

That's all ok. The book is THICK, and I'm happy with everything I accomplished.

If you're really interested, here's a daily breakdown of the book:


November - Intro page with hidden journaling, Thanksgiving and Black Friday pictures, and my 2Pease 24 Days of Thanksgiving thoughts.

1 - Decorations
2 - Christmas in the Village
3 - Selling our truck, and a holiday party
4 - Homemade decoration
5 - Journaling about our 5th Christmas in our house
6 - Decorations around my building at work
7 - Journaling about a Cricut cartridge my dad sent to me
8 - Hot chocolate day at work
9 - Friday night napping with our dog
10 - Holiday shopping trip with friends
11 - Junior's Rally Obedience class
12 - Our holiday card
13 - All the pictures we received from other people in cards (I highlighted a few and tucked the rest into one of the stamp storage folders that came in the album)
14 - Gas prices
15 - Neighborhood dinner at the 94th AeroSquadron restaurant at the Columbus airport
16 - The weather outlook for the month (printed from weather.com), Junior getting a bath, and journaling about the unseasonably warm weather for the month of December.
17 - Visiting family, meeting my first great-niece
18 - My love of Brach's Christmas nougat. And how did I not know that it came in cinnamon and mint flavors, too?!?!
19 - "In loving memory" pages - I wasn't sure how or if to include this info, but we lost two friends in the month of December, so I decided to note it on this page.
20 - Favorite "new" radio Christmas song and some journaling about finishing the final page of the book.
21 - A neighbor's house decorations
22 - A card from my dad
23 - Some fun journaling about all the last minute stuff we did that day
24 - Making hot chocolate on a stick
25 - Some decorations and journaling about the day
26 - Out to lunch and a movie
27 - taking a walk/nice weather
28 - Back to work (some projects we did over the long weekend)
29 - Football bowl season
30 - New iPad and apps addiction
31 - Our annual dull NYE
Back page - My Year in Status print out from Facebook

Just in time to start a Week in the Life project (Wait....did I just say I'd do ANOTHER big project?!?!).  It never ends! But first, I'll be catching up on this month's Counterfeit Kit.  I have a couple of pages done, I just need to load the pictures.  Thanks for looking!

April Counterfeit Kit

I’m back! I have been scrapping in dribs and drabs, but it hasn’t been much to blog about. It’s definitely going to be a challenge to get back into the blogging work, but I’m ready!

After our vacation and busy March, I’m back with a Counterfeit Kit for April. The original kit photos and details are listed on yesterday’s CKC blog post. As soon as Meridy and Bethany passed along the details of this month’s inspiration kit from Kits de Somni, I was thrilled by the colors! It’s a real awakening to go along with the spring that’s popping up all around us. And these are the colors that I’ve been drawn to in recent purchases, so while I don’t have these exact items, I do have lots of these colors!

And here is my take on the kit:

Papers are MME, Kaiser Craft, Jillibean Soup (had to throw that April 2012 piece in there,
even though it’s more pastel than my other papers),
Bella Blvd., and a couple that I don’t know the origin.



Alphas are Jillibean, AC Thickers, and Pebbles.I pulled some colorful ribbons and made some flowers from some silk flowers I had on hand. I don’t use a lot of flowers – mostly I just wanted an excuse to use those little bunny-head brads as the flower centers.



I found this sheet of cut-outs in a DCWV Snapshot Stack, and I thought all the
yellows and blues, and the cameras and tickets would work well in my kit. 

 Not pictured are my doilie embellishments - sorry, minor technical difficulties there.  But I've started working on some Zentangle flowers to add to the doilies. Have you ever heard of Zen Tangle?  I had heard of it, but after a meditation/zen tangle class last weekend, I'm hooked.  If you haven't heard of it, just google it; You'll find all sort of tangles, a meditative, artsy form of doodling.  I'm a constant notebook doodler, but this form has a bit of structure and focus on peace that I like.  Like I need another hobby!  But as soon as I started one, I thought I could work in some doodling/art journaling into my kit this month.  I'll add that picture later today when I get back to my work computer (where the pics are :)).

Looking forward to getting back into the kit world. Thanks for looking!

ETA:  Eek!  I forgot to post the directional information......If you're hopping through all the Master Forger kits, your next stop is Susanne at Snaps and Snippets. Happy hopping!

Playing and Testing

I am so close to getting back to blogging!

I am looking for ways to easily blog with my iPad and putting final touches on some pics of my completed December Daily.

And I'm ready to dig into our vacation pictures from our trip to Mexico.

It's all coming together!

Move along...nothing to see here!

Hi everyone!

Sorry, I'm not going to be able to play along with this month's Counterfeit Kit. Please move on to the next stop in the kit hop, Susanne.

We decided to take a vacation later this month and will be gone through early March, so I won't be able to do the next kit, or at least not on time, either. So I am bowing out of the CKC group for now. But I'll come back from vacation with lots of pics and scrapping to do, so I'm sure I'll play along again soon.

Rebecca

Dusting Off the Cobwebs

I'm dusting off the cobwebs from this here blog, getting back into a post-holidays routine. 

So I'll start with my January Counterfeit Kit as part of the Master Forger Kit Hop. The next stop on the hop is Susanne (and she had A LOT of loot posted on her blog, so I imagine her kit is going to be well stocked, too!).

I LOVED the December holiday posts on the CKC blog, and I am excited to get back to the usual monthly schedule, too.  Of the kits offered for counterfeiting this month, I used the Cocoa and Marshmellows kit for my inspiration.

For the papers: I found some similar patterns/colors in a stack of DCWV paper (Cafe Mediterranean) that I received for Christmas.  Rather than pull out a couple of pieces, I'm planning to utilize the whole stack for a few projects this month. 

For the farmhouse alpha stickers: In an effort to get rid of the old, and to mimic the mix-match look of that alpha set, I've pulled a few partially-used alphas from my stash. They have a one-way trip from there; If I don't use them, they're going to the trash. I need to stop saving every. single. alpha. leftover.

For the tags and die cuts: I'm utilizing several printables, some I found on Pinterest, some I found through links here on CKCB, and some I've cut on the Cricut.  I've added a few extra items for extra embellishments, too.  For the yellow pearlspiece, I've added some bling from my stash and some pearls from my stocking.



For the stamps: I don't have any stamps that say "yesterday" or "tomorrow," but I did find a couple that say "today." So I'll try to work those stamps in, along with some new inks (also Santa-delivered :)).

For the Mistables: I am not a mister; I haven't jumped on the mist bandwagon.  But when I saw these Mistables, I thought I'd take the challenge and make my own mist.  I'll show you later this month how I made my own mist, recycled some fabric to form mistable shapes/banners, and used it on a project.  Pictured beneath the mist are shapes and a flower that I made with the mist.

I made a quick page to use a bit of my new kit, too.  I have a problem that's a good problem to have - I'm pretty much caught up and don't have a lot to scrap right now.  I need to work on my December Daily, but outside of that specific project and supplies, I don't have a lot to do.  I have a few random pages that need to be finished/pictures found/etc., so my goal is to use my kit to wrap up those loose ends.  And I have two projects planned that should use a good bit of stash, too. 

So here's the page.  I was putting this particular page off because I didn't have great pictures.  Solution: I found the pics on the event's facebook page, so I'm giving credit to the photographer at the James Cancer Hospital Cancer Survivor Day, held last September, for the photos on this page. 

Next month will mark 5 years since my cancer surgery. On my last visit to the oncologist, last month on the Friday before Christmas, he said I've graduated and don't need to go back to him for regular check-ups. That was my best present this year!