In the Storm

December Daily 2018 | Story 18 thru 25

Today I am sharing December Daily 2018, stories 18 through 25. I have been slowly plugging away at these stories, but truthfully it's the middle of January and I desperately wanted to finish. I finished the last four pages today, in two hours. Granted they were fairly simple pages, but still...

If you want to see all my December Daily 2018 pages from the beginning you can start here: Cover and Stories 1 thru 8, and Stories 9 thru 17

Story #18

One of my favorite pages this year. There is just something about circles. And, I love the colors! A simple story of sharing one of my favorite restaurants, Metro Diner, with family.

Story #19

Story #20

Story #21

I joined Ali Edwards' December Daily Product Play 2 class again this year. I loved Product Play 1 which highlighted circles and two other shapes to incorporate into our pages. Story #18 above is where I got the idea for a circles page. In this class one of the shapes was trees. I almost didn't join the class because trees wasn't something I thought I'd like to play around with, especially digitally. But, I learned so much from her class and was inspired beyond what I could have imagined that my album has a plethora of trees highlighted. Story #21 highlights one of the trees I played with in the Product Play 2 class. I did change the original number and background paper. Because I work digitally, this was easily remedied.

Story #22

Story #23

This is a story of giving. Last year, in 2017, I wanted to be purposeful about giving freely and abundantly throughout the month of December leading up to Christmas. God put ways to give on display and I gleefully answered. This year I knew I would repeat this 'tradition'. I'm calling it a tradition now because, hey, two years in a row...I seriously can't out-give God but He sure can tender my heart to giving.

Story #24

I love using story prompts, or journal prompts, such as I want to remember, to tell my story.

and last, but, not least

Story #25

 

 

 

December Daily 2018 | Story 9 thru 17

Today I am sharing Story 9 through 17 of my December Daily 2018 album.

Story #9

Story #10

This is another 'tree' page I created, inspired by the December Daily® Product Play 2 class that I took in November leading up to the beginning of December. I adore how the 'left' side of this two-page story turned out.

Story #11

Story #12

Story #14

Story #15

Story #16

and last one for today,

Story #17

December Daily 2018 | Cover plus Stories 1 thru 8

I have participated in a month long scrapbooking project called December Daily® by Ali Edwards in one form or another for quite a few years now. You can see my other December projects here: 2015, 2016, 2017 and you can see that except for 2017 I didn't complete the project, per say. However, I told many stories.

For this years December Daily® that is what I was going for - telling stories. The main idea of the project is to tell one story every day of the month at least through Christmas day. But, here's the amazing thing about this project. There is no wrong or right way to approach this project. The idea is simply a jumping off point.

So this year, this is what I did:

(1) Tell 25 stories.

(2) They could be three stories from one day. They could be a memory of Christmas. Story number 5 could have happened on December 1. Simply put, tell the stories of December not document the days of December.

(3) Give myself grace.

Today, I'm sharing the first few stories of my December Daily® 2018.

First up is the cover page to my album. I will be using a 6 x 8 album that I purchased from Ali Edwards from her December Daily® (DD) collection of products. I took an online class with her this year, again, called December Daily Product Play 2 and she gave us ideas for using trees in our DD. I played around in Photoshop Elements using rustic digital papers, tree templates (which I made myself), some digital stitching and miscellaneous product from Ali Edwards and Paislee Press.

I love my cover page.

I followed the cover page up with an intentions page. My December intentions were centered around 24 days of giving (which was awesome, by the way!), being intentional about simple, slow, and telling more of the story.

Story #1:

 

Story #2

Story #3

Story #4

Story #5

Story #6

Story #7

and the last one for today, Story #8

Over the next few days I will upload my individual pages to Persnickety Prints where I do all my digital page printing. Once the album is complete I hope to do a video walk thru of my completed December Daily® 2018 album.