December Daily: 2010 Foundation

I spent the past two weekends building my December Daily album. I follow Ali's advice and make this in advance every year so that when December rolls around all I have to do is plug in some photos and write about them. I really debated whether or not to do this this year, having a new little guy around, but decided that I would regret not doing it because it really is one of my favorite albums to make.

This year I went more for a uniform look and also used loads of transparencies, similar to what Ali did as well. I bought some new paper this year, not very much, but everything else was from my stash.





In making the cover, I painted chipboard cream colored and then re-discovered some metallic enamel paint and put that on over the cream. I love how it turned out. I adhered some thick glittery snowflake paper to the front and back and then covered it with acrylic.

The transparencies that go over the pages are really thick and the patterns are festive. My favorite is the wood one.




I cut some baseball page protectors to size and added simple things in the pockets. It's hard to tell, but there are some candy canes and violins in this page.




The red damask paper is my favorite of the set. It has an embossed velvety feel to it. It's so pretty I will have a hard time covering any of it up.

I really love this Santa paper as well.

A look at another transparency.

This is a clear acrylic transparency that I added a rub-on to with some jewels.

Here's another baseball protector. This time I added two ornamental stars to the pockets.

The wood patterned transparency.

I love putting this together. It's fun to envision how I'm going to add the photos.

I am going to try really hard to keep it simple this year. It seems that by the time I am done, the album is overflowing. I think I will aim for one photo, possibly enlarged, or maybe two 4x6 photos. Since the album is 8x6 in size they will fit perfectly.

So, we'll let this simmer for while and pull it out in December for a fresh look and begin to fill it. I can't wait!