December Daily® 2023 | Story 12

Welcome to Story 12 in my 2023 December Daily® album.

Today I'm telling the story of our colorful tree and how it came to be. In addition I'm trying out a Fine Tip Freestyle Foil Quill Pen for adding foil onto photos, embellishments, etc, and playing with sticker paper for getting my journaling onto my journal card. Today's video also includes a tutorial about how I extended this image to fit a full page outside the page protector (it was originally a vertical image).

Here's the post that includes the how-to for creating the stamped forest.

Let's dive in:

Full page photos forever and ever! This look is called "bokeh." Here's a tutorial you can watch on how to do it with an iPhone. If you don't have an iPhone just google "bokeh" and whatever camera you are using.

I especially love it paired with a super crafty little forest of stamped trees + my story about our colorful tree this year.

Originally I had a tree die cut insert paired with my little forest of stamped trees above my journal card. As I worked through this page I decided to take that out and just have it be the full page photo + the journaling and tree combo.

I tried out the Freestyle Foil Quill pen for the first time today and it was GREAT!

I have the fine tip version but now I definitely want to get the other ones. Such a fun way to add handwritten foil especially directly onto a photo. Above it I added the number 12 with the puffy numbers from the Main Kit and below I added a gold foil chipboard phrase.

Looks like they have a cordless version of the Freestyle Pen too.

As I was working through my story one of the things I decided I wanted to do was try to get some of the colors from the photo onto my little stamped + embossed forest.

The way I decided to do that was by printing a second bokeh photo and using a hole punch to punch out some of the circles. This worked out really well as a way to bring the colors from my photo onto my journaling card gathering.

The other thing I wanted to try today was printing my journaling on Maco Sticker Paper and then adding it to my journal card. I measured out my journaling space and then set that up on my computer and printed it out. It also worked great!

SUPPLIES

• December Daily® 2023 Main Kit (digital available)

• December Daily® Sticker Advent Calendar

• Attacher stickers

• Fine Tip Freestyle Foil Quill Pen

• Maco Sticker Paper

• Scrapbook.com Blue Tape

• We R Memory Keepers Hole Punch

• December Daily® 10x8 Album

• December Daily® Specialty Journal Card Pack (digital available)

• 6x8 Tree Stamp

• Gold Embossing Powder

• Red Embossing Powder

• Versamark Embossing Ink

• AED Inks: McKenzie (dark green), Willamette (light green), Redwoods (red), Rose Garden (pink), Honeyman (yellow)

• Vellum

• Attacher Stickers

• AED Paint Pack

• December Daily® Silkscreen

• Red Line Tape

• Diary Of Belle Rose Sequin Mix (restock coming November 4th)