December Daily™ 2011 | Day Sixteen
Tags:
Welcome to December Daily™ 2011 | Day Sixteen.
Today was all about errands. Some holiday-related but most were just related to the basics of life: post office, Target, Walgreens, doctor's office.
I decided to do a collage of the receipts I collected while out and about paired with a photo I took while waiting in line at the post office.
I started with a white piece of cardstock and simply adhered receipts onto the page.
I also added my two lists, a strip of washi tape (not sure of the source on this one), and a metal circle tag with a great date stamp from the post office.
While standing in line at the post office I took a photo looking down at my shoes:
That became the background image for page two. On top of the photo I added foam letter stickers and journaling with a Sharpie Poster Paint Pen and a silver Pitt Artist pen from Faber-Castell.
SUPPLIES | DAY SIXTEEN
Click on the images to link to the products.
TODAY'S POST SPONSORED BY | Tiny Prints
From now until the 21st of December, Tiny Prints is offering a 40% discount on its exclusive Super Rush delivery service. If a customer orders today with Super Rush delivery, they would receive their order in business 2 days! We don’t know any competitors that can match this service. Regular price is $39.95, but it’s now available for just $24.95. No code is necessary. Any orders made by December 21st will arrive by Christmas.
SHARE A LINK TO YOUR DAY SIXTEEN
You’re invited to include a link to your DAY SIXTEEN page here. Please link directly to your post vs. your general blog link.
Comments
Sign in or sign up to comment.
44 comments
Another great page. I would love to be able to flick through your DD. And I have to get one of those white pens!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I think that washi tape is Martha Stewart? I have that one--it came in a set of 4.
Replies
It is Martha Stewart :) I have the same :)
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Your receipt collage is so awesome. I love the washit tape + tag strip. Makes it look sp festive. I did some thing similar for one my early days. I turned one of myrick compare lists into a background page & embellished with cutouts of the TradervJoes bag!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Omg to funny! This is what I did yesterday but was thinking I had nothing for DD! Great idea!!!!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Wonderful pages!!! great idea with the receipts... thanks for the inspiration once again!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
HOw is it you can make even a bunch of reciepts and to do lists look cool? This is great!
That tape is definitely martha Stewart! It was in one of the December Studio Calico Add ons!
Replies
I was thinking the same thing -- it takes a certain gift to see art possibilities in a stack of receipts. :)
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I really love the collage! I will be using this idea next week. Recently I read about the very high BPA levels in many receipts and was wondering how that affects the acid free/"archiveability" aspect of scrapbooking. Is it something to be concerned about?
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Awesome little collage with the receipts. I'm always wondering how to place them, for one of my days I just put them in an envelope. Can you share your process for putting that stamp from the post office onto the metal rim tag? I have those tags but always have a hard time getting stuff in there. Do you know the measurements?
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
love, love, love the journaling on the photo. I need those pens. this page definitely has the art journal feel - in your style, of course. definitely going to keep this in mind as I move forward.
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I'm impressed that you got the postal stamp! My postal people aren't nearly as cooperative!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I love the "everyday" of this spread!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Love your idea on errands and receipts that you went for shopping. My question is I know that some receipts can fade when you keep them all years. How do you keep it from fading?
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I was wondering the same thing about receipts. I love the idea of saving them, but after a few years they fade. Do you have receipts in your old DD that have survived well?
Replies
I wondered the same thing. I know they fade really quickly as they are thermally printed. I am thinking of doing the collage then photocopying the page and using the photocopy/scan (later printed out). Love the washi tape
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Loving your album Ali, I also ran errands yesterday and at 11:30 pm last night did my page with receipts only I put my receipts in a paper snack bag from Hobby Lobby that is Christmas themed,it worked out perfectly!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I'm pretty sure I got that tape from Studio Calico in one of the add-on kits, it came with a thinner blue one with snowflakes on it.
Cool page, Ali!
Replies
Bought some on ebay a few weeks ago as well :) Fun page - never would have thought of this!!
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Probably my fave page so far! Never would have thought of a day like this. Thanks for the ongoing inspiration.
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I love the idea of putting the post office date stamp on the metal circle tag. Genius!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
LOVE. we spent last night wrapping online orders, i might have to collage all the invoices now!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
It is so fun to follow your (and others) December Daily - it becomes so obvious that we have the same things "going around" this time of the year despite which part of the world we all live in (I live in Sweden). Today I also took one round of errands, and even if it is not my favorite thing to do (especially this close to Christmas) it feels good having ticked off some of those things on the "todo-list" :-)
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I LOVE the receipt collage!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.