Earlier this year I completed my 10th Christmas album. Over the past few years, I've used the motivation from the Scrap Happy Layout a Day Challenge to help me finish a bunch of pages of my projects. You can see my previous December Daily pages here.
However, I still had December 2009 undocumented. Why would I care about a 10-year-old unfinished project? Well, I'd done two pages, taken photos and written all the journalling. Plus it was Emily's first Christmas. So I enlisted my friends at Shutterfly to help me finish it.
I used the auto curate feature to select the top 50 photos from December 2009 and then had Shutterfly create the book for me. I chose which design to use and their designers put my photos onto the pages for me.
It was just the perfect head start for me to get this long unifinished project done!
I went back and added the journalling and then ordered it. It was so quick after all these years of never getting around to finish it! I show you exactly how I did it inside my Simple Family Yearbook class.
It was so freeing to be totally 'caught up' on December Daily when I went to begin my 2019 album.
For my 2019 album, I wanted to make it super simple. After using the Project Life app in 2018, I went back to making digital scrapbook pages in Photoshop Elements to make it simpler to use photos from our all cameras and phones. We had two phones and two digital cameras going for the whole month!
This year I featured some older Traci Reed Pocket Life: Holiday Edition cards (sadly no longer available! I think they are from 2015), Flergs D is for December, Traveling Typewriter font, and plain white backgrounds. This is not even a white paper - it's just plain old white fill!
I decided to mostly stick with one photo a day, but I totally bent that rule as we got further into the month!
I hope to inspire you to document this year, as I share my super simple December Daily pages on the blog.
Are you scrapbooking December? I'd love to see what you are creating! Feel free to drop a photo in the comments.
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