december daily {sunday scrappin’}

my ta-da’s: advent calendar and the december daily that i’m going to post today

my to-do’s: christmas cards, and some encouragement cards, and a few gifts

my challenge for the next person, (as suggested on sunday scrappin’): scrap a picture from a past Christmas

ok. so, i’m finally finished with my day long project. 

i wanted to make a december daily, as suggested by ali on her blog.  basically, you create a page for the entire month of december.  then, each day of december, you take a photo(s), journal it and create a layout using the page you have already created.  it should help you save time during the hustle & bustle of the Christmas season. 

i am only going to post 8 pictures today, showing how i altered a 3-ring binder to use for it:

• for starters, i found this cardboard binder on the clearance shelf for only 40 cents!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• then, i cut Christmas-themed paper to fit the front and back.  i then adhered then onto the notebook.
• after that, i did the same to the inside and the spine

• then i cut 2 pieces of ribbon that would wrap around each side of the spine.  i ran them through my sticker maker, so that they would be good & sticky

• the next picture is a chipboard word that i also ran through my sticker maker and adhered to the front of the album

• finally, i proceeded to make a page for EACH day of december…..all 31 days! 
• the next 2 photos are just a glance at the edges.  there are so many pages that i think i will blog them each day in december and you can see them, then.  31 pages took most of my afternoon & evening!!!! but, it was a lot of fun and it will be fun to fill it up all month long!