2015 Project Life Weeks 12 and 13 (Mommyish & JustJaimee's Real Life In Pockets | Besties)

I'm working getting caught back up with my Project Life pages. We went on vacation and I got a little behind. I am now caught up to the weeks leading up to vacation. The next step is to make my daily PL pages! I'm feeling good about it (and having a great time!)

Mommyish and Just Jaimee released their new Real Life in Pockets | Besties kit today. I had a blast with it and created 4 PL pages and 2 more other scrapbook pages (which I'll share in another post). RLIP is always so fun!

PL Week 12 created with:

1. Real Life in Pockets a collab by Mommyish and Just Jaimee

2. Project 2015 Templates Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 by Wishing Well Creations

3. This Year 2015 Calendar Cards by Sugarplum Paperie

PL Week 13 created with:

1. Real Life in Pockets | Besties a collaboration by Mommyish and Just Jaimee

2. Project 2015 Templates Vol. 2 by Wishing Well Creations

3. Real Life in Pockets | Candid (journal card) a collaboration by Mommyish and Just Jaimee

4. Flair Builder 2.0 Templates by Mommyish

5. This Year 2015 Calendar Cards by Sugarplum Paperie

December Traditions | The Album Covers!

This is it! I thought I'd share the album covers that I created for my December book. It's officially done now I'm super excited!

December Traditions | Album Front Cover

Materials used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment papers; JUST JAIMEE | Storyteller 2015 glitter styles

December Traditions | Album Back Cover

Materials used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment papers & smears; KATIE PERTIET DESIGNS | Christmas Carol Snips; KATIE PERTIET DESIGNS | Loosely Labeled No. 4; KATIE PERTIET DESIGNS | Postage Frame Clusters

December Traditions | Feeling Nostalgic

I had an idea to make a couple pages for my December album to showcase photos of my kids when they were little. Oh my. As I glanced through old photos I felt incredibly nostalgic.  I enjoyed myself so much! So, to share the joy I experienced, I included as many old photos on these pages as I could. I don't think there's any need to tell a story about a particular photo - just look and remember and smile!

December Traditions | Catch Up! (adding some REALLLLLY old photos!)

I'm taking a look through the pages I've created for my December album and am thinking about what else I want to include. I decided to include a page of old photos from when my husband was a kid and my Christmas card wall ... because I LOVE my Christmas card wall during the month of December.

Christmas decorations are going down today so that means the next project will be to design a cover for my Christmas card book. I love that there's always a project on the horizon!

Materials used: Christmas Card Wall

Materials used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment & Peppermint Winter; JUST JAIMEE | Storyteller 2015 Glitter Styles; CRYSTAL WILKERSON | Merry & Bright (epoxy); QUEEN OF QUIRK | Sitting Pretty (Border)

Materials used: Unzen Christmases Past

Materials Used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment & Peppermint Winter; KATIE PERTIET DESIGNS: Photo Clusters No. 34; CREASHENS: Hello (border stitching); JUST JAIMEE | Storyteller 2015 Glitter Styles; QUEEN OF QUIRK | Sitting Pretty (Border)

December Traditions | New Years Eve & catching up!

We're having a quiet Saturday (and I'm putting off taking down Christmas decorations until tomorrow) so I'm making a dent in my December/Christmas traditions album. My goal is to get this book sent off to print at Blurb this week too so I can get it back in my hands and check it out IRL! I can't wait!

(By the way ... I have no idea why the above photo appears so brown. It's got a grey background like the rest. That's so odd!

December Album | Our Gift Opening

Materials used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment and Peppermint Winter; NANCIE ROWE JANITZ | Festive Borders

December Album | Chef in Training?

Materials used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment and Peppermint Winter; JUST JAIMEE: 2015 Storyteller Styles (glitter and stamp); JENNIFER LABRE | Sugar and Spice (chef hat)

December Album | New Years Eve Family Photos

Materials used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment and Peppermint Winter; KATIE PERTIET DESIGNS: Postage Frame Clusters No. 1; NANCIE ROWE JANITZ | Frosty Fun (borders; JUST JAIMEE | 2015 Storyteller Styles (glitter & stamp)

December Album | Celebrating New Years Eve

Materials used: MYE DE LEON | Merriment and Peppermint Winter; KATIE PERTIET DESIGNS | Photo Frame Clusters No. 2; MOMMYISH | Hipster New Year (Keep Calm card); KIM BRODELET | Girls Time Out (girl friends); DESIGNS BY DANI | Time Flies (champagne glass & bottle); NANCIE ROWE JANITS | Frosty Fun (border); JUST JAIMEE | Storyteller 2015 Styles (glitter & stamp)

December Traditions: various (Foosball, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, etc.!)

I've got lots of pages to share with you today! As I'm documenting the big family Christmas gatherings for my December Traditions album I feel like I'm the queen of multi-photo layouts!

Here are closeups of the two page layouts ...

Materials used Friendly Foosball Competition:

(1) Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon; (2) Photo Clusters No. 34 by Katie Pertiet Designs; (3) (border) Frosty Fun by Nancie Rowe Janitz

Materials used Unzen family:

(1) Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon; (2) All Done Up Frames No. 5 by Katie Pertiet Designs; (3) (my family) Random Words by Katie Pertiet Designs; (4) Festive Borders by Nancie Rowe Janitz; (5) (border stitching) Hello by Creashens; (6) (bookplate) Labellevie by One Little Bird

Materials used for Christmas Eve pages:
(1) Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon; (2) Photo Clusters No. 31 by Katie Pertiet Designs; (3) Doily Edgers December No. 1 by Katie Pertiet Designs; (4) Yuletide Clusters by Katie Pertiet Designs (5) Readymade Borders Christmas No. 2 by Studio DD; (6) Frosty Fun by Nancie Rowe Janitz; (7) (stitching) Hello by Creashens; (8) (journal card) Wish Come True by Mye De Leon; (9) (journal cards) Be Joyful by Gennifer Bursett; (10) Holiday Word Strips by Katie Pertiet Designs; (11) Linen Buttons Christmas by Katie Pertiet Designs

Materials used for Christmas Day pages:
(1) Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon; (2) Transparency Clusters No. 2 by Katie Pertiet Designs; (3) Buttoned Up Holiday by Katie Pertiet Designs; (4) Worth Repeating No. 20 by Katie Pertiet Designs; (5) (stitching) Hello by Creashens, (6) Festive Borders by Nancie Rowe Janitz, (7) Under the Mistletoe Journal Cards by Anita Designs; (8) (Dec 25) Sentiment Cuts by Lauren Reid

December Traditions | Gift Tags using Old Family Photos

I got an idea from Pinterest to use old family photos as gift tags. I loved the idea! It was definitely a hit. I definitely wanted to wanted to include some of the old photos in my December traditions album!

Materials used: (1) Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon; (2) Open Up Frames No. 2 by Katie Pertiet Designs; (3) Floral Overlays by Jodie Lee

December Traditions: Favorite People & Favorite Recipes

I've got two more pages to share for my December Traditions album. I'm hoping to send my December album off to print next week when I send my 2014 Project Life pages off to print. Fingers crossed!

These pages highlight my favorite people and my favorite Christmas recipes!

Credits - Favorite People

(1) Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon; (2) Light Strings by Katie Pertiet; (3) Doily Edgers by Katie Pertiet; (4) (Favorite Photo sticker) May 2014 Storyteller by Just Jaimee; (5) Festive Borders by Nancie Rowe Janitz; (6) love you wordart) freebie ad inspiration from Katie Pertiet; (7) (stitching border) Hello by Creashens

Credits - Favorite Recipes

Materials used: (1) Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon; (2) Holiday Recipe Collection by Shabby Princess; (3) Blendable Layers by Katie Pertiet; (4) (stitching border) Hello by Creashsens; (5) border masks by Samantha Walker;  (6) (sticker) Santa's Bake Shoppe by Misty Cato Design

December Traditions | Let the Holiday Baking Begin

I've got one more page to share with you for my December traditions album! Now that this page is done I'm going to focus solely on celebrating Christmas. I'll be back after the holiday. Merry Christmas everyone!

Created using:

1. Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon

2. Border Masks by Samantha Walker

December Traditions | Baking Christmas Cut Out Cookies

One more page for my album! We did lots AND LOTS of baking this weekend. This page is for our Saturday baking. We baked Friday night too ... and I think I'll make a page for that too - it may have to wait until after Christmas though because family festivities are beginning tomorrow already!

Materials used:

1. Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon

2. File Folder Frames No. 7 by Katie Pertiet Designs

3. (cookies wordart) All You Need No. 6 by Katie Pertiet Designs

4. (Yum Just Yum) March 2014 Storyteller by Just Jaimee

5. (stitching) Hello by Creashens

December Traditions | Gingerbread House & Pinterest

I've got a couple more additions to my December traditions album. My book is moving  right along!

Lauren's Sweet Creations | Gingerbread House journaling reads:

Lauren was excited to make ginger- bread houses in her German class today. She teamed up with her friends Madison Swanson, Emily Frazier and Emma Swanson. Isn't the house and winter scene they made adorable? I wish she could have taken it home! Lauren was in charge of making the Christmas trees (she frosted ice cream cones). Didn’t they turn out pretty?! I love the added touch of powdered sugar and coconut snow!

Pinteresting journaling reads:

Pinterest is an awesome source of inspiration for Christmas ideas (and all year long). * A “PIN” inspired me to browse through old family photos and use them as gift tags. Looking at the wrapped gifts under our tree this year is like looking at an old family photo album. It’s so awesome! * A couple years ago a PIN inspired me to create a book every year with all the Christmas cards we get. Too bad I saw the idea DAYS after I threw out years of Christmas cards. Ugh! * A PIN inspired me to snap photos of people from their Christmas cards to use as contact photos on my iPhone. * I showed Scott the PIN of a photo of a family on their devices as an idea for a Christmas card. I didn’t end up using the idea, but my friend Ann Marie did! * And, of course Lauren and I frequently use recipes we find on Pinterest. * Who knows what else we’ll come up with before the season is over! It’s fun, fun stuff!

Here's a little FYI for you. I discovered and started pinning on Pinterest shortly after it was launched in 2010. I later introduced Pinterest to my nieces (who had never heard of it before) and now they’re completely hooked too. I’m going to call myself the cool aunt. Wink. Wink. lol!

Credits for Gingerbread House page:

Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon

Santa's Bake Shop by Misty Cato

borders by Samantha Walker

Bakers Twine by Splendid Fiin

Ornaments Collection No. 1 by Katie Pertiet

Credits for Pinterest page:

Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon

(border) Al Fresco Elements by Nancie Rowe Janitz

Glitter Gloss Styles by Karla Dudley Design

stitching from Hello by Creashens

December Traditions - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's been a few days since I've made a page for my December traditions album. We've had sickness in the house (and just when I thought we were done with sickness my son came down with a stomach bug today). Anyway ... that means we haven't done a whole lot of Christmas-y stuff to include in my album. Finally tonight I set up the tripod and snapped a photo of the living room. I knew I wanted to have a full page photo of the heart of our Christmas ... the living room. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. It's not a perfect photo, but I was able to talk cheerfully with our adorable dog the entire time the photo was being exposed and I even got her to stay put, so I'm happy!

This weekend we'll do some baking, etc. so I'll have more pages I can make. I'm thinking I may even include recipes on my pages. I'm excited! 

Anyway ... I just thought I'd share ...

I hope you're all having a joyous Christmas season!

Created using:

papers from Merriment by Mye De Leon, Confectionary by Gennifer Bursett and Buttoned Up Holiday by Katie Pertiet Designs

December Traditions - Watching Home Alone and memories of my dad

My December traditions album wouldn't be complete if I didn't talk about the movie Home Alone. We always watch that movie over the Christmas season. It's most definitely a family favorite. Besides being a side-splitting, hilarious movie, it also brings back memories of my dad. I always remember how much my Dad laughed when we were watching Home Alone the last Christmas we spent together back in 2004. So now whenever I watch the movie I always think of him and that makes me happy!

Materials used:

Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon

+ various other this and that from other kits. 

December Traditions/Favorites - Kids' Art Wall

I've kept my kids Christmas art projects since they were babies. They're 18 and 15 years old now and these projects mean even more to me now. I absolutely LOVE the whole process of hanging up all of these projects in my hallway and looking at them whenever I pass by. It's definitely a big part of the Christmas season (and December in general) so I wanted to include it in my December traditions album!

Created using Mye De Leon's Merriment and Peppermint Winter Collections

December Traditions: Favorite Childhood Christmas Memory

I'm enjoying making my December book as a traditions book this year! I made this page about a favorite childhood Christmas memory of mine ... now I want to see if my husband has a memory he can share and that I can put on a page too! Maybe I'll include a page from my kids when they were little too. Hmmm ... I have to put some thought into this!

Until the next page ...

Materials used:

Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon

Blendable Layers No. 13 by Katie Pertiet Designs

Frosty Fun brushes by Nancie Rowe Janitz

Ready Made Christmas Borders No. 2 by Studio DD

December Traditions: Fontanini Nativity

I stayed home from work today. My teenage daughter is sick and I decided that I don't have that much more time that I'll get to hang out and take care of my kids when they're sick so I stayed home with her.  I'm so glad that I did. It meant I had time to chat with her AND time to be creative and work on my December book. Nice!

On a side note ... I was watching Frosty the Snowman with my daughter and she told me that she had wondered why I stayed home with her because she would have been fine alone, but she said that she was really glad I stayed with her. Yay! :)

Created using:

Merriment and Peppermint Winter by Mye De Leon

Blendable Layers No. 13, Post Marked Holidays by Katie Pertiet Designs

Hoilday Overlays by Nancie Rowe Janitz

December Traditions: Favorite Mugs

Gifts that make someone smile and think happy thoughts of a person every single time they're used have got to be the best gifts, right?!

These mugs make me so happy ... I knew they HAD to have their own page in my traditions/favorites book!

Materials used:

Merriment and Peppermint Winter kits by Mye De Leon

Messy Stitched Rectangles by Katie Pertiet

December Traditions Album ... 3 more pages!

I've got 3 more pages to share for my December traditions album. I've got 5 pages done already. I'm feeling pretty good about it. I'm keeping it simple and I think that's always a good plan when trying to put together an entire album in a month! 

I've used a few miscellaneous elements on these pages but for for the vast majority of it I'm sticking with Mye De Leon's Merriment and Peppermint Winter Collections. They have such a great color scheme!

Happy Sunday everyone!

2014 December Traditions Album (the designing of a Christmas Card & Favorite Childhood Song)

Happy December! I started my December album tonight. It feels good to get it started. The first page or two are always the most challenging for me. This year I'm approaching my December album more as a traditions/favorites/observations kind of album and not so much a page-a-day kind of album that I've made in the past. My plan is to make pages as I think of topics I want to include. (I have created a list on my phone so I can jot ideas down as they come to me.) It's all about flexibility this year! I'm taking Traci Reed Designs' My Digital December class at Scrapaneers so I'm relying on the class to help me with prompts, ideas and inspiration. 

FYI, I'm going to use various items for this album but for the most part, to keep it simple and consistent, I'll focus mainly on using Mye De Leon's Merriment and Peppermint Winter Collections.

Have I ever mentioned that I love Google? My favorite childhood Christmas song is Morris the Moose from this old Peppermint Candy Kids album - yes album. I wanted to include the lyrics and the album cover. I couldn't take a photo of the album cover because my sister has the album so I did a Google search and was able to come up an image of the album cover AND someone had typed up the lyrics. It's like it was meant to be don't you think?

Are you doing December Daily or some version thereof? Link me up in the comments if you are ... I'd love to check out your pages for inspiration!!