December Daily™ 2010 | Reflections On The Process & One More Look At The Binding

Ali - so did you do a December Daily in 2006? Is it posted anywhere on your blog? I thought 2007 was the first one. I've been looking at yours constantly because I'm still working on mine! I have all the pics in the book, just making it pretty/adding journaling now.

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Thanks for the inspiration, Ali. I really loved my DD when it was finished and I sat down and looked through it all the way.

I finished my album yesterday and I am so glad it is done and I made it all the way to the end. I have let my scrapbooking fall to the way side but I try to do this project every year and I love it! Thanks for the inspiration Ali!

I finished my album today...and it is HUGE!!! I used zip ties to hold the monster together...(fence ties....plastic strips that you pull through a thingy to make a loop and it holds securely...Home depot had them in colors)
It works and seems stronger than the twine and ribbon...I just added ribbon and twine for pretty.
If you absolutely are terrible at punching holes...Office Depot places will punch them with their electric punch and they are nice and even...the nice lady did not even charge me because she asked so many questions about how to make this project she felt that I owed her!!!
Loved the templates this year...my first hybrid project! I learned alot about digital this year.

Almost finished mine and this is the first year I have finished as much as I did and thank you a million times over for making that happen! I bought the daily overlays and that was super because it gave me a continuity but it also gave me a spot to get it all down...sorta like Project Life. So I don't have to work on figuring out each page each day. I put mine in the red bound modern 8.5x11 album from American Crafts and it was marvy! Fit perfectly, held it all together and I got to make a groovy cover! Thanks Ali for the inspiration!

Ali, thank you for sharing your lovely pages, providing inspiration all month, and creating templates. My mother and I each made an album.. Well, she writer her stories and chose photos and then I used the templates to print her pages. It was so fun to do this project together! And then pass the albums-in-progress around the table over Christmas.

Thank you for all you do.

Your DD turned out so nice! I worked on mine today and I am almost finished. This was my first year of doing this album and I made my own book with a chipboard album I had laying around. I love the twine idea. I am pretty sure my rings will not work when I am all finished. I will be looking forward to doing another album this year!

Ali thanks so much for sharing your process along the way. This is my third year and I love this project more each time I do it. This year I loved the simplicity of the templates, the full page photos and yet still being able to add creative touches to make it mine. I love playing with my supplies - that's what makes it fun for me, but having it simple so I can keep up but still get my creative fix- that was just what I needed! Thanks!!

Love the way your book turned out.

Finally, finished this year's book over the week end. Feels so good to put this project to rest...thank you! For all the encouragement to keep the project moving forward.

Working on getting mine finished today. Was my first time & I will make it more simple next year. No numbers on pages & no embelishments on the pre-prepared book. Had fun but is feeling a bit like hard work to finish it so I keep saying keep it simple, it is ok, do I really need to do that?

thanks for the inspiration each and every day on the december daily journey. This year I succeeded to make a book of my own (completely digital, which was the success for me to keep it up). I hope to do it this year again. thx.

yes. who do we need to email to request a binder that will fit all our pages? i do love the uniform size. 6x8 was perfect for me. the templates made it so easy. i did not feel like i had to re-invent the wheel each day. thank you for streamlining this process. picked up some clearance Christmas stuff today...already preparing for "next year". ps sometimes JOAnns and Michales has their 12x12 textured cardstock on sale. this year I only paid .20 a sheet. that is a big deal when you have to buy 13!

Last night I was thinking about binder options for December Daily pages, and I remembered the Franklin Covey storage binders I have. Mine (compact size) aren't big enough, but the classic size measures 8.5" W X 9" H X 3". They are shown in black or burgundy for $9.95 on the Franklin Covey website.

I love this project too!! I am going to have to remember to stock up on printer ink & photo paper in October to have it on hand & ready to go

This was my first year following along... with nothing more than good intentions about a DD of my own. I thought I'd just gather ideas and use all the examples out there as my "research" then have one prepared next year. Well, everything out there was just so inspiring! I just had to jump in there and try it! I'm still putting mine together, but I journaled every day, and even designed lay-outs, so it's not taking as long as I'd thought. I ended up waiting and ordering all of pics at once, since I don't have a printer at home for photos. I'm now piecing together the "stuff" I collected through the month, transfering my journaling, and getting those pictures on the pages. I made my own page templates by borrowing Ali's idea and using my PC's word program to draw a table, then broke the square up into those 3 pieces, and just typed the dates (and I also typed the day of the week) in a font I chose. I then just printed out on cardstock. I used 8.5 x 11 pages and for now and using a 3-ring binder that I found... I might end up keeping it becuase it has a cute red pattern and it's growing on me... I used one page layouts for most days. If I wanted to add more pictures or other goodies, I just added a divided page protector. I also oriented the date/day on the left if it was a left page, and on the right if it was a right page. I'll have to take pics and post a link as soon as it's done. Anyway - thanks to all who shared - so inspirational! Oh, and by the way, my son's birthday is December 25th - and this year was his first birthday. I'm so so so glad I did this. Thanks again!!

[...] Last week as I was taking down the Christmas decorations, yeah I said last week don’t judge me, I couldn’t bear the thought of throwing away all the awesome cards we received this year.  We probably received twice as many this year as we did last year.  I thought wouldn’t it be cool to save this and watch as they stack grows year after year.  So I decided that I would come up with a way to organize these in a cute, scrapbook style way so that we can keep them and look back on them.  I googled every single hybrid scrapper I could think of and I decided that I would do something similar to what Ali Edwards does with her December Daily Pages, check it out here. [...]

Its great to have a catch up post, thanks for this, I have finally finished my contribution to the December Daily project, if you are interested you can see my pages on my blog, I just added a whole bunch of photos too. http://scrapbookprintables.wordpress.com/
This was such an enjoyable experience I have started ordering stuff in the sales to put an album together for next year. The process for using this size of page was fantastic, the full page photos weren't overwhelming and I didn't struggle to find stuff to document.

Sorry here is a better link to all my DD entries http://scrapbookprintables.wordpress.com/category/december-daily/

thanks Louise

I finally finished!!!! But I'm so sad to see that the links to each individual day are no longer active. Now that I'm done I'd love to be able to look at others' completed albums as well. Please help.

Here is my completed album. I just got it in the mail from Shutterfly and I absolutely love it!

Thanks Ali for the inspiration. I suppose I should get to work on the Yesterday & Today class now since I've fallen behind.

http://sleepyhead922.blogspot.com/2011/01/december-daily-is-finally-done.html

[...] Last week as I was taking down the Christmas decorations, yeah I said last week don’t judge me, I couldn’t bear the thought of throwing away all the awesome cards we received this year.  We probably received twice as many this year as we did last year.  I thought wouldn’t it be cool to save these and watch as they stack grows year after year.  So I decided that I would come up with a way to organize these in a cute, scrapbook style way so that we can keep them and look back on them.  I googled every single hybrid scrapper I could think of and I decided that I would do something similar to what Ali Edwards does with her December Daily Pages, check it out here. [...]

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