December Daily® 2017 | Day 15

Welcome to  December Daily® 2017 | Day 15.

Today I'm adding my story to the heart "storybook" page I set up during my  Product Play Workshop last month. That workshop is still open if you wanted to jump in and get a much closer look at how I built some of these pages (focusing on hearts, circles and stars). 

My page today invites a story about loving home. It's total coincidence that the title of this story is " for the love of home" - it's a phrase that I often use and I loved being able to use it for the Story Kit™ theme this month. You can read more about the For The Love kit here. 

To tell my story I decided to get myself in the story by setting up my camera + tripod outside my front door and take a couple shots of myself between my two fake trees on my front porch. Those trees are from Target and the silver tubs are from Home Depot. I totally laughed at myself and had fun taking photos of myself with my cup of coffee in hand. I used the self-timer to get myself back in the doorway before the shutter clicked. 

This whole thing totally reminded me of a story I told back in 2015 when I was putting up garland and lights along my front porch railing - it was all about making our own magic and choosing to find the joy no matter what is happening in our lives. 

Remember this one? 

Magic is something we make. Yes. This project always helps me remember this and I'm so thankful.  

Here's what the page initially looked like in my  Foundation Pages: 

And here's how it ended up looking in my album starting with Page 1 in my little heart booklet: 

For the alphabet stamping I used my  Sans Serif Alpha Stamp - totally love this set. I also added a black chipboard number, a chipboard phrase, and a couple gold stars. 

And page 2 (the center page and what you see when you turn to this page in the album): 

I left this page the same except I added the  For The Love stamp inside the index tab. 

And page 3: 

For this page I cut out on of the shots of myself using the original heart as a template. On top of the photo I added a wood veneer circle + a small gold foil circle on top. 

The "around here" stamp is from the  Daily Words Stamp Set. 

And then here's what I did on the back side of the transparency: 

This is me trying to be silly. Making my heart light. 

Here are the pages outside the album: 

Seriously so fun. All of it. Love how this one turned out. 

DAY 15 | VIDEO OVERVIEW

SUPPLIES

• December Daily® Main Kit 2017
• Printer: Canon Pixma MG7720
• Sans Serif Upper Case Alpha (I also offer a lower case + numbers version here)
• Daily Words Stamp Set

SHARING FOR 2017

This year I'd love to invite you to leave a link in the comment section if you'd like to share your daily pages. As usual, please include a direct link to your blog post vs. a general blog address link. 

For more inspiration on working with products for this project, check out my December Daily® Product Play workshop - registration is still open with immediate access to all the content. 

12 DAYS OF HOLIDAY GIVING // FREE HOLIDAY DIGITAL QUOTES

Don't miss out on my  12 Days Of Giving over on Pinterest. Today is Day Four of twelve digital holiday quote downloads. The two pins and downloads are now live and the others will activate over the next few days at 12:01PM EST. All digitals will remain FREE and available for download until 11:59pm ET on 12/31/17.

Enjoy and thank you for being part of this community!