December Daily® 2020 | Story Six

Welcome to December Daily® 2020 | Story Six.

Today's story was sparked by a text message from my parents as they decorated their tree for the 50th time during their marriage. 50 years + 500 lights were the words my Mom used and it felt like the perfect thing to add to this year's album.  

Let's start with the process video:

Now let's take a look at the project via photos: 

For today's story I decided to print the photo of my Dad + the tree at 5 inches x 7 inches (this is the biggest size I print on my  Epson PictureMate PM400). I knew I wanted to use the phrase "50 years + 500 lights" and decided to use my Silhouette machine to cut that out. Font is Bebas (ampersand is Sentinel). 

My initial idea was to turn this photo into a flip-up photo with journaling underneath the bottom half of the photo but that became a little complicated with my  Silhouette cut so I changed my mind and decided to print a family photo from Christmas 1980 and pair that with my journaling on the back. 

On top of the first photo I added a  Christmas Token and a number token along with a glass star. I also added green embroidery thread through those holes to look like they are stitched in place (really I just adhered them to the photo). 

When I created the Silhouette cut I anchored the text to a bar along the bottom (in my design) so it would have a tab for me to adhere behind the photo. I used  red line tape to adhere the title between the two photos. 

On top of my text title I used  gold glitter embossing powder and then added a layer of Distress Glitter on top for fun. If you participated in the Prep Day (still available to grab the content) you saw a quick lesson from Tim Holtz showing how he used the glitter + glitter duster to add a little texture to plain journal cards. I knew I wanted to try that out at some point this month. 

I set this page up in Photoshop after taking a photo of this photo from one of my family albums and then printed the whole page on photo paper. 

Holes were punch using the  We R Memory Keeper's punch. 

Love adding in a past photo to go along with present day stories. 

SPECIFIC SUPPLIES

• Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy 
• Gold Glitter Embossing Powder
• Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Glitter Duster
• Tim Holtz/Tonic Studios Glass Mat
• Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium
• Versamark Embossing Ink
• Snappy Tray (similar)
• Heat Gun
• Tim Holtz Large Christmas Tokens
• Tim Holtz Metal Number Tokens
• Tim Holtz Dimensional Stars

BASIC SUPPLIES USED IN MANY PROJECTS

• Tiny Attacher Stapler
• Fiskars Trimmer
• Avery Index Tabs
• Scotch Rolling Adhesive
• AE Circle Stamp Block 
• Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer (5x7 and smaller)
• Epson XP 15000 Printer (up to 13x19)
• Black StazOn Ink
• We R Memory Keepers Punch
• 6 Hole Punch
• Silhouette Cameo 4
• Red Line Adhesive

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