December Daily Day 1 - 2 | Pretty Little Studio

Hello friends! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Here in the Netherlands we are enjoying our 2nd Christmas Day and we listening to the anual "Top 2000". A music programme we look forward to the entire year!

Today I'm sharing the first few pages of my December Daily 2019 (maybe you already saw them when I shared them on the blog of Pretty Little Studio). Every year I enthusiastically start a December Daily and most of the time it takes me at least a year to finish it, but this year I’m determined to finish it in January! When I saw the Glitter & Ice collection by Kim Watson I knew which collection I was going to use! In November I bought Ali Edward’s 3″ x 8″ green linen December Daily album as I really loved the different format. I was so happy when I saw that the Glitter & Ice collection contains journaling cards in just this size!

Let me show you what I created so far:

For the first page I chose the pink “Pretty Baubles” paper and added die-cuts and stickers on top. Take a look at that cute polar bear!

Of course this needed a little machine stiching as well.

Day 1 – Our Elf arrives. This page didn’t need a whole lot more. A date sticker and a word stickers was enough. And the journaling of course.

In the Netherlands where I live, we celebrate “Sinterklaas” on the 5th of December, so we buy our tree after the 5th.

I love the “Hello December” journaling card and that mug with hot chocolate sticker!

This cute photo had enough space at the bottom for a tag with a word flag and sticker.

Then on to the next page. A photo of our dinner on day 1 and another adorable journaling card. Then day 2. Not much happening on this day, but I found some sweets on my pillow (I have such a sweet hubby) and I got to open parcel two of my scrappy advent calendar.

Loving the format of the album!

How adorable is this journaling card?!

The word sticker “no peeking” is perfect for the Advent Calendar photo!

So these are the first few pages of my December Daily. I find starting a project the hardest part, so now that is out of the way, finishing it should be easy! (if only December wasn’t so busy!). And you? Do you do a December Daily? and do you use some Pretty Little Studio products as well?

Here’s a list of what I used: Glitter & Ice collection: 8×8 paper pack; Journaling cards: Merry & Bright, Sparkle Bright; Die-Cuts: Warm Wishes Tags, Tis The Season, Twinkle Lights; Stickers: Oh What Fun, Mini ABC Christmas Shopping; Cut-Aparts: Twas The Night Flags;

Wishing you a wonderful weekend with lots of crafting! Don’t forget to check out the Pretty Little Studio Shop for this amazing collection!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!
xoxo

December Daily & some Planner Love | Pretty Little Studio

I finally found the time to create the first page of my December Daily!! It's also up on Pretty Little Studio's blog today! Have you all got started on your December Daily’s yet? I didn’t as we had so much going on during the first few days of December, but as of now my weeks are quiet and I plan to catch up quickly! Here’s the first page of my December album, using the fabulous Merry & Bright collection from Pretty Little Studio:

The two text squares at the top of my page are actually cut from a clear sheet ... awesome, right?? Pretty Little Studio designed a whole lot of them (I counted 56! different sheets)! Have a look here. And aren’t those die-cuts faulous?!

Pretty LIttle Studio products I used: Merry & Bright collection: paper: Wishes Green, Trifle; Clear: Be Merry; Die-Cuts: Fir Tree mini, Snowman #5 mini, Twenty-Five Gold Metallic; Number Tags: Fruit Cake; Clear Word: Christmas.

And because I was really having fun with this collection, I thought I'd do a week in my planner as well! How I love to decorate my planner, although I have to take care not to decorate too much as I do need room to write something down! Here’s what I did

The mini die-cuts are so perfect for planners!! and I love to add little strips of vellum and a few of those cut-out words.

PLS products used: Merry & Bright collection: Die-Cuts: Fir Tree mini, Candle Shoppe mini, Christmas Town 4″, Jingle mini, Snowman #6 mini, Twinkle mini; Number Tags: Fruit Cake; Clear Word: Magical; Cut-Aparts: Mini Words Merry; Vellum Tape: Be Good.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!
Hugs,
Monique

December Daily 2014 - Days 1 - 3 - Pretty Little Studio

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Hi everyone! This week's picture challenge at Pretty Little Studio is an easy one for December! I think anything goes with this picture … a Christmas layout, Christmas cards, tags for Xmas presents and of course a “December Daily”, which is what I chose!! Pretty Little Studio’s wide range of Christmas papers, cards, die cuts, banners, flags, stickers, flairs … make for an awesome December Daily! Although I’ve mostly chosen products from the new Holiday Cheer collection, I’ve also used a lot of bits and pieces from older Christmas collections. They all go so well together!

For my cover page I used three different die-cuts, of which my favorite is the golden 25! The flair was adhered to the outside of the page protector as I don’t like how the plastic wrinkles if you put it inside. When I was ready with this page (and the next, which is on the back of this one) I inserted some of Pretty Little Studio’s beautiful “Starry Night Mix” confetti and machine stitched the page protector closed. Love the result!

And this is what the 1st spread looks like: Day 1:

and the close-ups:

And days 2 and 3:

Close-ups of Day 2:

And close-ups of Day 3:

Will you do a December Daily this month?? I  would love to see it!!

And now I would almost forget I made this for the PLS picture challenge! So here's the picture I used for the inspiration:

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a fabulous week!
xoxo

December Daily - Pages 11 to 20

As promised, the next 10 pages of my December Daily! Hope to finish it soon, but as life has returned to normal, with the kids going to school again, hubby abroad (Norway this time) and I back at the office, I can't tell when the next 11 pages will be finished. BUT I reallly love working on it, so I'm definitely going to finish it!

Day 11: My youngest showing me the Xmas tree in his class room at school. Day 12: my daughter and her friends at their school's Xmas party.

Day 12: I put up a little Christmas tree at my office. Day 13: my Doodlebug Advent Calendar is a huge success! 

 Day 14: My youngest at the soccer field and the photo above his socs he wore to the game hung on the stove that same evening, lol! 

(In The Netherlands it's not even customary to hang your sock for Santa, as we celebrate "Sinterklaas" on the 5th of December and kids can then place their shoe before the fireplace.)

Day 15: Buying the tree and that same day decorating the tree at home! 

More Day 15 and having fun decorating! Day 16: According to the Advent Calendar Mats can choose tonight's dinner ... MacDonald's! Day 17: Ikea!

  Day 18: Mats and his best friend baking and decorating muffins for their school Christmas party! Afterwards it's time for a little bit of kid's firework. 

Day 19: Timothy all dressed up for his school's Christmas party: 

Day 20: my husband and daughter in Venice, Italy! (not jealous at all!)

And these were my first 20 days of December! Hope you've enjoyed them. Thanks for stopping by and having a peek!! 

Hugs,

December Daily - Day 1 to 10

Last October I decided I was going to try a December Daily again and so I bought Studio Calico's December Daily kit and signed up for the "25 Days" class. But as I just adore Christmas collections I just couldn't help myself and bought lots of other collections as well, like Pink Paislee's "Snow Village", Webster's "It's Christmas" and October Afternoon's "Eggnog". Then there were also the Christmas collections from the design teams I was on: Pretty Little Studio (Woodland Christmas), Doodlebug (Home for the Holidays) and Imaginisce (Colors of Christmas) ... and last but not least, I also bought Scraptastic Club's December Kit "Home for the Holidays" plus add-on. 

All in all I had (still have) soooooo much Christmas stuff lying around the house that even my kids started complaining about the mess that I made! Because when I work on a project, I want all of my stuff in sight and in this case that meant all of above was lying on/under/beside my desk, dining room table and dining room chairs! Don't know why they were complaining, lol!  

And now, I'm so happy to be able to tell you that I've got day 1 - 20 of my December Daily finished! Only 11 more days to go plus the cover, yay!! To avoid an overload of photos, I'm gonna show you Day 1 - 10. Would love to know what you think: 

Title Page: 

Day 1: Advent Calendar and Day 2: the kids eagerly waiting to turn one of the Advent Calendar cards: 

Day 3: Having lunch with my daughter in town and Day 4: the kids' shoes at the chimney hoping for presents from Sinterklaas and a photo of my youngest and his favorite game: Monopoly.

Day 5: My daughter and her team winning the school basketball competition, Sinterklaas at my youngest son's school and then celebrating Sinterklaas at my sister's. 

I also bought some of Ali Edward's brushes to add to my photos; LOVE them!!

More photos of Day 5:

Day 6: Playing with the presents from day 5! In this case with Furby!!

Days 7: Saturday means soccer! Day 8: Christmas cropping with friends and Day 9: Working at the school library: 

Day 10: "Evening of Lights" in our Town's Centre:

As you can see I mixed lots of different Christmas collections, but overall I think I used Studio Calico's December Daily kit the most. Love this kit!

Thanks for taking the time to have a look at these first pages of my December album and hope you'll be back for the next ten pages in a day or two or so.

Hugs,