Mad for Plaid | Sahlin Stuio

It's that time of year again, I'm tinkering with my December Daily album. 

I don't have as many foundation pages done as I'd like to, but I'm not stressing about it at all. I'll just work on them when I can. I'm always glad to put the effort in to make a December Daily album, even if it does not get totally finished. 

I've used December's featured product from Sahlin Studio, Mad for Plaid to fiddle a bit with this years title page of my album. For the whole month of December, this collection and all it's elements can be picked up for 50% off!

I will be using these photos, for sure. 

But I may change things around a bit. But at least it's a starting off point to get the creative juices flowing. 

I participated in Ali Edwards December Daily Prep Day 2022 class back in mid-November. It was AWESOME. So easy to get hyped up and inspired with so many great creators and ideas! It was totally worth the $5 it cost to take it. I would recommend to anyone who is on the fence. Sign up next year! 

I plan to make this years album a little bit of everything. Some physical layouts [I got the Document your December kit from Elle's Studio] and some digital layouts. At the end of the day, I'll be glad I've done it, no matter how it turns out. Every year I think I might create it all digital, and then have a book printed at the end. Some year I will, but it's not this year... 

Happy December memory making everyone!

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

https://the-lilypad.com/store/mad-for-plaid-kit.html

Evergreen Collection | Designed by Soco

Released just in time for Black Friday is the Evergreen Collection. It's a collaboration between Designed by Soco and Anita Designs.  

For today you can download the entire bundle for a 54% savings!! Or, if you'd rather download separate packs, they're each available for 40% off. But don't wait too long to decide, these incredible savings won't last long!!

Winter where I live is hard. [Alternatively, the summer is dreamy. It's a perfect mix of good and bad.] 

The days get increasingly shorter as we head into December. The temperatures drop. Windchill comes into play making cold conditions even more frigid. Not every day is awful. We have our fair share of  clear bright sunny days, although Baby, it's cold outside... 

When it snows, it snows. Usually accompanied with the wind [hence the windchill] drifting huge piles of snow all over. Making removal, driving, and sometimes even getting doors open, a challenge. 

We were issued a heavy snowfall warning the day after Halloween. So we're now accustomed to warming up cars,  scraping windows, shovelling sidewalks and dressing in multiple layers before leaving the house. 

Somehow, decorating for Christmas makes this cold, dark time of the year easier.  Here's a non-photo layout I created using the Evergreen Collection, and one of the recently released December Memories templates, just kind of documenting my feelings. 

I love how this turned out. 

How you live your life is really so much about attitude. 

[Having said that, don't even get me started about January and February... Those are a couple of long hard months]

We also got our tree up and decorated this past week. So I created another quick layout using the December Memories templates. [There are so many to choose from and makes creating pages so quick!]

The following Designed by Soco products were used: 

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Evergreen-Collection.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/December-Memories-2022-6x8-Template-Album.html

December Memories | Designed by Soco

We're nearly midway through November, and for those of you who participate in any kind of memory keeping through December, you are maybe beginning to think about foundation pages.

The-Lilypad is kicking off the holiday season with Unwrap the Magic, a brand new Document Your December [DYD] collection. Go and check it out!  It's a huge collection of December themed products, from all different designers and they're all available from today through November 14th, for 30% off.

I'm super excited about the 6x8 templates that are available by Designed by Soco.  [These templates are available in 12x12 sized too]

I have done December Daily albums for quite a few years now. I bounce back and forth between using physical paper & elements to doing pages strictly digitally. 

As soon as I saw these clean, sleek simple templates, I was excited.  This year I will use a combination of physical papers, journal cards and embellishment with some simple, super fast and easy to put together digital pages. It will round the album out so nicely. 

There might even be a time in the future, that I'll do my album completely in digital form. Then I can sent the pages off and have a digital book made.  

Here are a few pages I created, using the templates above. 

Template 12:

Template 8:

I should also mention, that all of Designed by Soco's DYD products from past years are on sale and can be picked up for 30% off too!! This is the perfect time to start organizing your December Daily ablum. 

The following Designed by Soco products were used:

https://the-lilypad.com/store/December-Memories-2022-6x8-Template-Album.html

Template 12:

Right Now elements: https://the-lilypad.com/store/Right-Now-Elements.html

Right Now paper: https://the-lilypad.com/store/Right-Now-Papers.html

Template 8: 

AM PM Mini Kit: https://the-lilypad.com/store/AM-PM-Mini-kit.html 

December Daily 2020 | It's Complete!

This is definitely the fastest I have completed a December Daily album. In past years I've been known to work on it right through March. [Or even longer]

I didn't prepare foundation pages ahead of time, which is something I like to do. It helps keep me on track.  However, I had more time than I've ever had before to work on it, our December calendar was literally empty. 

[The calendar is one thing I did do ahead of time. I added all the game times [practice schedule hadn't been released yet] when they'd come out in November. November 13th all practices/games were cancelled. Then in early December, they were further cancelled. My kids have been off the ice now for over two months...

This year I feel like I really came into my own with this album. 

I did the whole thing digitally. I just put the physical album together, and I'm happy with the result. 

I don't have a binder this year. I have the album attached together with binder rings. I might make something. I might not. I am going to put it away now. If there are a few details that have to be dealt with, I'll look at it in 10 months or so, when I'm anticipating 2021 December Daily.

This album is honest and truthful. 2020 sucked. So did the fact that there was a 30 day ban on all gathering of people outside your household put into effect on the 8th of December.

Not at all the way we'd hoped and planned to spend our Christmas. 

I hope this album conveys the frustration we were/are feeling. It's telling the truth, I don't sugar coat many things. It's also making the most of a situation that I for one, never thought I'd find myself in. We have spent a LOT of time at home. The days are very much running into one another. A lot of the sameness day in and day out. That didn't stop me from trying to capture the little bits I could. 

I used Sahlin Studio, Sahin Designs and a few Ali Edwards product. 

Here is my album:

 

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The following products were used: 

Sahlin Studio:

Home for the Holidays Collection

Oh What Fun

Favorite Things Collection

Sahin Designs:

Home for the Holidays Collection

C'est Noel Collection 

Oh Deer Collection

I Got my Wish Collection 

Ali Edward 

- Christmas Memories J. Card and Merry & Bright

- Coronovirus word art freebie [freebie 2020]

- Embrace the Mess [freebie xmas 2016]

- Magic is something we make [freebie 2020]

- Peace out twenty twenty [freebie xmas 2020]

Cathy Zielske

- Cornona virus png

Kerri Bradford Studio 

Day 14 - stars cut file & holiday Photo cut file

Day 22  - words were from Christmas Joy - Kerri Bradford Studio 

December Daily - Days 5 & 7 | Favourite Things Collection | Sahlin Studio

I've been slowly working on my December Daily album. 

Each year, I anticipate using more physical products. And then, the ladies I create for come out with awesome digital products. I always anticipate my December Daily album will be more of an 'old fashioned scrapbook' with paper, glue, cutting and pasting, physical elements. Then I get great digital inspiration, and end up running with it.  

To be honest, it really doesn't matter how the album comes together, as long as it does. 

Sahlin Studio has decided to feature her latest release, through Christmas. You can get the whole bundle for 45% off up until Christmas Day.  

I've used this collection for a few other pages already, and have now added a few more. 

Day 5: 

I wanted this to be able to flip open, to include a bit of journaling. 

Day 7:

Last year was a monumental year, because we finished up the gigantic roll of Costco wrapping paper. So I was pretty excited to include something new. All of this digital product was from Sahlin Studio, except for the word wrap, which is from Kerri Bradford Studio. [I can't wait to use more of these words on another page somewhere in my album]

This album is a lot of work. But I'm always glad I've taken the time to do it. 

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

https://the-lilypad.com/store/favorite-things-paper.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/favorite-things-elements.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/favorite-things-journal-cards.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/December-Days-No-6-Numbers.html