Blog: December Daily® 2024 | Story 14 - Ali Edwards Design Inc.

Diving back into my December Daily® 2024 project with Story 14.

Today's story was sparked when I was working through some ideas for our Prep Day this year (a PSD template and an ornament PDF was included in that workshop). I decided to use the 1/2 circle die cut as a the jumping off point for a wreath to document what each of the people in my immediate family are currently into/thinking about in this current season. I used the ornament PDF to hold our ages and our "currently" - this is the base. From there I added photos to the ornament layered template and then added our initials stamped on the outside of the white ornament transparency.

This was a fun one to put together! You could use this same idea for anything that's essentially a list. You could do numbers rather than initials on the outside of the ornaments. Lots of stories could be told and held within this design.

Let's dive in to the video:

Here's a look via images:

I love how the 1/2 circle number die cut insert turned out. It doesn't need a lot so I added a "14" to the outside on top of the transparency

When you open up the spread you'll find a white ornament for each one of us. I used Alphas Are Awesome #1 to stamp our initials on the outside. I also added in the "family + friends" from the colorful transparency sheet. I'm using a brad with each ornament cluster to keep them together.

The next layer is a photo inside of the ornament shape (again PSD file for this was included with our $5 prep day). Elliott + Isaac who would like to not have their images included these days and I'm here to honor that request so for them I just did an initial and on top of the base layer.

Some years I've taken photos of people for this kind of page but this year I just looked back through my photo archives and picked one out.

The third (and bottom) layer was creating using the PDF from Prep Day. On top of each ornament I added our age using the gold foil number stickers and then wrote "currently" and added something (or a couple things) to each persons ornament.