December Daily® 2023 | Story 24

Welcome to Story 24 in my 2023 December Daily® album. 

I'm so excited to be close to wrapping up this project for another year! For today's story of our Christmas Eve I ended up creating a custom digital layered template and some word art to support my story (download available for you below). Love the focus on words + photos and also love being able to add in items I'd crafted earlier in the season. 

If you need a refresher on how to use digital layered templates in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements I've got an older post for you here. 

Here's my short video for Story 24: 

Here's the Table Of Contents: 

Earlier this season I played around with these large plastic hearts to create more shakers (because it's been that kind of year). I took three of the large plastic hearts and some patterned transparencies from my stash and started stitching. Before reaching the end (using the outlines as a stitching guide) I added a bunch of sequins and then stitched each one closed. They have been sitting on my table throughout the month just waiting for their turn. 

I ended up using gold brads to add them directly to one of the full page pattern transparencies. This worked as a really nice overlay for my words and photos focused print. 

I started off with one of the layered templates we offered this year and adjusted it to fit the story I wanted to tell. I enlarged the template to 11 inches x 8.25 inches and then created the "Christmas Eve Memories" word art as a title for each of my journaling sections. You can download my adjusted template and the stand-alone word art below. 

I didn't take a lot of photos on Christmas Eve (which is pretty normal for me) but the ones I did take were a nice representation of our day. I used those images as jumping off points for my journaling and then added in a few other memories that didn't have photos to go along with them. 

If you aren't into digital layered templates you could make something similar using the grid paper from the kit this year. 

Grids for the win!

Download the PSD Layered Template + word art here. 

SUPPLIES

• December Daily® 10x8 Album
• December Daily® Main Kit (digital available)
• December Daily® Specialty Paper Pack (digital available)
• Large Plastic Hearts
• Sequin Mixes from Diary Of Belle Rose
• Basic supplies via my Amazon Storefront