December Daily® 2024 | Denine Zielinski

Hey friends! It’s Denine here once again, and I am excited to be back on the blog this week to do more December Daily stamping with you. There are so many awesome stamp sets with this year’s release, and it was so hard to decide which ones to work with first. Last week, we had some fun with the Holiday Trees 6x8 Stamp Set, and this week we will be playing around with a couple new sets. Let’s start out with the Holiday Tag 6x8 Stamp Set. This one is so super versatile and would be great for making your own personalized gifts tags this year. I, however, had other plans for this one.

IDEA ONE

A part of my December Daily for the past couple years has been to document my creative journey either through the past year or with the DD project itself. Last year, I did the entire year, and this year I will be just doing my December Daily story (I’m trying to keep it slim this year).

I chose the scalloped circle tag for this project, and I stamped it several times on a few scrap papers from last year as well as one of the papers from this year’s Paislee Press Mini Kit. I chose neutral tones and paired them with kraft scalloped circles. I wanted to just have pops of color. This would also look super cute using the scalloped square stamp and mixing it with the plastic scalloped squares!

One thing that was so much fun was using a paper crimper on the kraft cardstock before using the scalloped circle punch. I haven’t crimped paper in ages!

I created a pocket using one of the papers from the Merry Merry 10×8 Paper Pack and the 10x8 Tis The Season transparency. I made a line of circles across the middle of the transparency and ran it through my sewing machine. I then cut the transparency down to make the pocket and sewed it to the background paper. I added some colorful circles, a few Gold Foil Die Cut Circle Labels, and the Make More Merry scalloped plastic square (punched into a 1 ½ inch circle). I did a bit more stamping on two of the Gold Foil Die Cut Circle Labels using the Our Merry Era 4×6 Stamp Set by Paislee Press. I left the last one blank to add the story number when it makes it into my album.

You can see how this page came together in the video below.

Here is how the page will look once it is in my album. You can see that it’s not in the rings yet as I did not punch the holes. Since I’m not sure where this will end up in my album, I will wait to punch the holes depending upon what side of the album it falls on.

Oh yes….I almost forget to mention that I also added a little label to the lower right-hand corner of the pocket after I recorded my process video. I was dying to do something with the Alpha and Numbers 4×6 Stamp Set. I love all of the different letter styles! This stamp set will make its way into my album A LOT this year!

The large tags inside of the pocket were created by using Photoshop Elements to resize some of the cards + papers from the Main Kit. I may end up adding some other fun die cuts or plastic pieces to my pocket, as well.

IDEA TWO

Next up is the absolutely adorable Gingerbread Men 4×6 Stamp Set. If building our own gingerbread-folk isn’t the most fun ever, I don’t know what is! I had a blast just stamping the afternoon away. I seriously had to stop myself because it was getting out of hand. I created so many little gingerbread men, yet I barely hit the tip of the iceberg. The different iterations are seemingly endless!

The above photo shows some of the gingerbread folk that I created, and this isn’t even all of them! I had to narrow it down somehow!

I did not create a foundation page with these guys because I really couldn’t decide which idea to go with. Instead, I just pulled out some of the journaling cards + papers from the release and gave you some of the ideas that were floating around in my head.

Here is a close-up of a few things that you could do with these little guys.

In the photo below, I added 7/8-inch circles (stamped with numbers from the Number 4×6 Stamp Set) to the gingerbread folk and then mounted them on top of some of the Scalloped Plastic Squares. I slipped them into the pockets of a 6x8 page protector. In the open spaces, you could add photos and/or journaling. You could also staple the Scalloped Plastic Squares to the outsides of the pockets and have your journaling underneath. That would leave room for more photos, and the journaling would peek through the plastic pieces which always makes me happy!

The gingerbread folk also fit perfectly inside of the stamp shaped rectangles on this 4x6 card from the Paislee Press Mini Kt.

In the photo below, I added one on top of the Fa La La 3x4 card from the Paislee Press Mini Kit. I also cut down a toothpick and added a 7/8-inch circle to make it look like he’s holding a sign!

I did the same thing below but stood him in front of the colorful trees die cut piece.

Here they are on top of one another holding little hearts with numbers for a numbered list.

Here is one of the gingerbread folk hanging out inside the “0” in 2024.

Below is one of my absolute favorites for this little guy. I hung him from the felt nine using a gold miniature ornament hook. Gosh, he’s just the cutest ever!

Last, but not least, here is the Scalloped Boxes 10x8 paper from the Main Kit all decked out with a few gingerbread folk + some other goodies.

The video below has a whole bunch of other ways that you can add these little gingerbread folk into your December Daily album.

Stamping – 0:00 – 5:48

Creative Ideas – 5:51 – 11:53

One more thing before I go…you DO NOT have to fussy cut these little guys out. I just like doing that. You can totally 100% just stamp them directly onto your paper, journal card or project. A lot of the ideas that I showed you here would work beautifully without having to cut the gingerbread folk out. I know that not everybody is a fan of fussy cutting like myself, and that is fine. This stamp set is still for you!

As always, this was so much fun, and I thank you all for being here with me today. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment below. You can also see more of my work on Instagram @denine2 and YouTube @Denine2. Happy Storytelling + Happy December Daily! See you all very soon!

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