December Daily® 2024 | Story 01
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Welcome to the documenting portion of December Daily® 2024! I'm so excited to dive into this part of the project alongside you.
Let's have some fun!
To start off my storytelling I printed out a full page photo of my house the night that we got our lights put up. This year is was extra early and we still had Halloween pumpkins hanging from the porch. I had set aside one of the pattern papers from Main Kit knowing that I wanted to figure out a way to include it in my 6x8 album. I've used a variety of the 10x8 papers in my foundation pages already and have enjoyed folding many of them to create flip outs. For this one I was interested in playing around with the idea of cutting up the phrase and orienting it vertically on the page in some way. Check out the video below to see how this came together and the decisions I made along the way.
Looking for a flip-through of what my albums looks like before today? Check out this post.
Here's the process video:
And here's a look via images:
This year I'm doing a table of contents again using the banners from the Main Kit. Each day I'll be adding a story title using a Staedtler Lumocolor Pen.
I ended up cutting up the words on the pattern paper to create little banners. I printed my journaling on vellum and then embossed the "01" using gold embossing powder and one of the stamp sets that was part of this year's collection. I stitched those pieces together and then used a cut up piece of page protector to create the flip up.
On the underneath side of each of the strips I used a dot pattern stamp to create the dots with gold embossing powder. There are all kinds of things you could do on the other side of those strips including adding more words, pattern paper, word stickers, etc.
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Exciting to see the first story of the year! I always enjoy seeing how your initial idea evolves, sometimes into something quite different from the starting point. It reminds me that I can also change my mind when working on my projects!
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Yes! I'm so glad that is a takeaway!
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YES!! Let’s have some fun!! I am totally unprepared for this project - yet I know all I really need to do is take photos and tell my stories. I love December Daily so much!! It provides me with such a positive direction for my own wellbeing. Love your work here! It’s brilliant!!
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You've got this!
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Lovely start, Ali! This is a such a great way to use patterned paper with text on it.
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Thank you!
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Love this!! Thanks for the reminder the backs don't have to be fancy and to use those stamps!
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Yes! Correct!
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I LOVE how you did this! Beautiful, Ali!
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Thank you!
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Happy December Daily Ali! Such a fun first page! Love how you cut the strips up.
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Thank you!
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Love, love, love!
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Thank you!
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This is my first year doing this not sure exactly how to do it but I'm excited to start. I'm unprepared for this project. Do I just do it by day? Is there a list of December Daily to do list or to follow? Again I'm new so just asking thanks so much for your work. You do awesome work. God Bless you.
Replies to Shirleyj
Hi! Welcome! I approach this project by telling one story per day for a total of 25 stories. There isn't an official list of prompts for this project - meaning we aren't all telling the same story each day (or starting from the same place). Some people prepare a lot and others not at all - you are just fine where you are right now. Some people create a scrapbook page each day and other people take photos and write down their story during the month and then put it into a scrapbook at a later time after the holidays. Have you heard of our Storytelling With December Daily® class? That might be something helpful for you as you are diving in for the first time: https://www.aliedwards.com/shop/classes/storytelling-with-december-daily-self-paced
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gorgeous.... I am following along. Happy december, tomorrow is my birthday lol...
Kinda Strange how someone scrapbooks for almost 20 years and then freezes doing this project. Pushing through ... Love to all of you <3
Replies to Eminepala1
Happy Birthday!
Thank you Ali, turned 42... Documenting my december YAY...
So fun, Thank you for the opportunity + inspiration to help us document and celebrate this season in our lives which is full of emotions. Thank you for inspiring us and Happy belated birtday to you too... Love all your pages.... Will share mine soon. yay
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Silly question, but where can I find the "Welcome to December Daily twenty twenty four" writing that appears to the left of your Table of Contents page? Thank you!!!
Replies to Lyndsey034
Hi! You can find that download in this post: https://www.aliedwards.com/2024/10/december-daily-2024-ali-s-intro-reason-why-page
THANK YOU!!!
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I keep looking at this and thinking that a 7" photo with the page attacher will end up being 7.5", which is 1/2" wider that the page protectors? Am I seeing things right?
Replies to Karinmwick
Yes - that makes it a bit wider. You could totally trim the page down or punch holes in the photo. Even when adding the page attacher it doesn't go outside the album.
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First time doing DD and I love these ideas.
Question -- when you are doing the embossing, you used a "pokey" pen-looking thing to hold down the paper. Can you tell me what that is?
Thank you!
Replies to TamiLeigh
Hi! That's called a paper piercer or a craft pick :).
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Thank you!
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I so love this!! Very inspiring. Can you please tell me where the red heart with the gold "twenty twenty four" on the inside cover of your album came from? Thank you!
Replies to robynv
Hi! That's in the Advent Calendar: https://www.aliedwards.com/shop/2024-advent-calendar
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Thank you!
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