December Daily® 2025 | Ali’s Story 13

Welcome to Story 13 in my December Daily® project for 2025.

Today's story is about stepping out into the dark of night in my backyard to take a photo of our tree from the outside. I originally planned that I would just have this be a single page photo story but I ended up adhering it to the previous page before remembering that was my intent. It happens! Pivot! It's a great reminder that you can end up going all kinds of directions with this project - I loved what I ended up coming up with to hold my story.

Let's dive into the process video:

Here are additional images:

As you'll see in the video I started off today by creating a long scallop border along the outside edge of my photo (using leftover pieces from previous scallop border accents). On one side I used the green tinsel embossing powder from Story 12 and on the other side I used gold embossing powder. I love how that looks along the outside edge.

I also went ahead and adhered the felt "DEC" from the Main Kit on the inside of my album. I might add in the 25 circle chipboard (or see if it fits) right inside the "C."

I ended up setting up my jouranling to fit inside the label shape. I printed the words on pattern paper and then use the metal die to cut my journaling to the label shape.

I also printed out a couple more photos and a title and used the die again to cut those shapes out.

I adhered the journaling and photo label shapes back to back and then ran them through my sewing machine to attach them to the transparency.

I then used a zig zag stitch to attach the transparent page to the quote page. I knew from past adventures that using a zig zag stitch would allow the page to fold over.

Here's a download of the "looking for the light" word art I used here.

After getting the other elements set up I decided to create a "hanging embellishment" by running stars, a number, and a small label through my sewing machine. Keep the machine going between elements to create this look. I adhered the top star to the back of the page in order for it to hang down the front.

I love when things come together like this! Thanks for being here this year!

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• December Daily® Main Kit 2025

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• Metal Die Labels

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• Scalloped Borders

• December Daily® Sticker Tabs

• Cardstock Label Pack

• Gold Embossing Powder

• 6x8 Page Attacher

• 1 Inch Circle Punch

• Versamark

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