Elle's Studio December Gallery & Other Randoms

Hi!!
Can you say complete blog slacker?!?!
I knew it would happen...in December it always does. Life is just so crazy busy with work, home, kids and preparing for and enjoying the holidays.
And I openly admit that I am currently a December Daily failure - I have photos and notes and memories all tucked into the album, but nothing has actually made it into the pages. And I am completely OK with that. I was hoping to assemble the pages each night or at least every couple nights but it just didn't turn out that way.
My plan now is to just keep saving the memories and maybe put the album together in the new year. And if that doesn't happen then I will just create a few layouts, save the foundation album for next year and call it a day!! :-)

In other news:

Today the Elle's Studio gallery went live for December. Yes it is earlier than usual to allow for the holidays. And this month the design team worked with the special edition kits that Elle's Studio released last month. I worked with the Jack Frost kit and created a layout and a card:

Snow Day

 

Winter Wonderland

 

And I am sad to say that this was my last gallery contribution for Elle's Studio. December marks the end of our 6 month design team term. I am so sad to be leaving as I have really enjoyed working with Elle and the other girls. Elle is seriously one of the nicest most generous people I know. I can't thank her enough for welcoming me to the team.

Be back soon!
Happy Friday Eve!

Steph :-)

December Daily: Foundation Pages

I figured since tomorrow is December 1st (where did November go?!?!) I should share the foundation pages of my December Daily album before I start filling it up. (I apologize for the long post!)
For more information about December Daily and what it is, check out this post here by the amazingly talented Ali Edwards.

I loved a lot of things that people did with their albums last year, so I saved some of my favourite ideas so I could incorporate them into my album this year. :-)

For the actual album, I am using a We R Memory Keepers brown leather album. I picked it up at Archivers when I was in Ohio a couple of months ago and tucked it away until it was time to start the album. :-) I love love this album. I want to replace all of my albums with these in the 12 x 12 size as well as more of the 8.5 x 11 ones. So classy and well made. :-)

For my page protectors I am using one of my favourite ideas from an album last year... Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Album refills like Nichol used in her album. (a huge thank you to Nichol for always being such an amazing inspiration!!) I immediately fell in love with all the fun sizes and knew I wanted to do the same for my album. I have been hanging onto these page protectors just waiting for December to get here! :-) In addition to those page protectors, I am also using We R Memory Keepers full 8.5 x 11 page protectors and the 3 pocket ones as pictured in the photos below. I really love the fun mix of all the different sizes together.

For papers and embellishments I am using a whole mix of stuff. Lots of patterned papers from Jillibean Soup, My Mind's Eye, Echo Park Paper, and Making Memories. The numbers for each day as well as a lot of fun tags are from Elle's Studio. And lot's of Technique Tuesday Ali Edwards stamps will be incorporated throughout.

So the photos below show my foundation pages. Definitely going to be adding lots of fun touches as I go and may move them around a bit depending on how much space each day needs.

So excited to start working on this tomorrow. I am so into the holidays this year and I am really looking forward to the memories that will be made over the next few weeks! I hope to share completed pages a couple times throughout the weeks ahead!!
Looking forward to seeing everyone's albums as we progress through December - let the holidays begin!!

Steph :-)

Elle's Studio November Inspiration Gallery

Hey everyone!

Today the November Inspiration gallery went live at Elle's Studio so I wanted to share the projects I created this month. I did a layout and a card both Christmas themed. I love love love the new holiday tags that Elle designed this year! So perfect for holiday projects and cards and layouts. Oh and great for December Daily albums too!

Christmas Tradition Layout

Merry Christmas Card

And as always don't forget to check out the full design team gallery here, including some great projects from November guest designer Nichol Magouirk.

In other crafty news, I finally completed my foundation pages in my December Daily album tonight. So excited for the holidays and to document our family memories in December. :-) 

I'm hoping to share my foundation pages on my blog next week as long as I get a chance to photograph it this weekend.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Steph :-)