December Daily® 2020 | Story Six

Welcome to December Daily® 2020 | Story Six.

Today's story was sparked by a text message from my parents as they decorated their tree for the 50th time during their marriage. 50 years + 500 lights were the words my Mom used and it felt like the perfect thing to add to this year's album.

Let's start with the process video:

Now let's take a look at the project via photos:

For today's story I decided to print the photo of my Dad + the tree at 5 inches x 7 inches (this is the biggest size I print on my Epson PictureMate PM400). I knew I wanted to use the phrase "50 years + 500 lights" and decided to use my Silhouette machine to cut that out. Font is Bebas (ampersand is Sentinel).

My initial idea was to turn this photo into a flip-up photo with journaling underneath the bottom half of the photo but that became a little complicated with my Silhouette cut so I changed my mind and decided to print a family photo from Christmas 1980 and pair that with my journaling on the back.

On top of the first photo I added a Christmas Token and a number token along with a glass star. I also added green embroidery thread through those holes to look like they are stitched in place (really I just adhered them to the photo).

When I created the Silhouette cut I anchored the text to a bar along the bottom (in my design) so it would have a tab for me to adhere behind the photo. I used red line tape to adhere the title between the two photos.

On top of my text title I used gold glitter embossing powder and then added a layer of Distress Glitter on top for fun. If you participated in the Prep Day (still available to grab the content) you saw a quick lesson from Tim Holtz showing how he used the glitter + glitter duster to add a little texture to plain journal cards. I knew I wanted to try that out at some point this month.

I set this page up in Photoshop after taking a photo of this photo from one of my family albums and then printed the whole page on photo paper.

Holes were punch using the We R Memory Keeper's punch.

Love adding in a past photo to go along with present day stories.

SPECIFIC SUPPLIES

• Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy

• Gold Glitter Embossing Powder

• Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Glitter Duster

• Tim Holtz/Tonic Studios Glass Mat

• Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium

• Versamark Embossing Ink

• Snappy Tray (similar)

• Heat Gun

• Tim Holtz Large Christmas Tokens

• Tim Holtz Metal Number Tokens

• Tim Holtz Dimensional Stars

BASIC SUPPLIES USED IN MANY PROJECTS

• Tiny Attacher Stapler

• Fiskars Trimmer

• Avery Index Tabs

• Scotch Rolling Adhesive

• AE Circle Stamp Block

• Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer (5x7 and smaller)

• Epson XP 15000 Printer (up to 13x19)

• Black StazOn Ink

• We R Memory Keepers Punch

• 6 Hole Punch

• Silhouette Cameo 4

• Red Line Adhesive

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