December Daily® 2025 | Ali’s Story 16

Welcome to Story 16 in my December Daily® project for 2025.

Today's story is about the new ornaments I picked out for the kids this year. I decided to take photos of each one, wrap them, take a photo of them all wrapped, and then create an interactive page where the photos of the ornaments peek up out of the actual wrapped gifts. It was fun!

Let's dive into the video:

Here are additional images:

I bought these little box containers a few years back knowing that I'd love to use them at some point in the future.

That day was today!

I wrapped each of the kids ornaments in tissue paper and then placed them inside the boxes (they come flat). I used the vellum stars from the Star Mini Kit and the fun new mini alphabet stamp set to put initials on the outside of the tag. Red and white twine holds the initial stars around the boxes.

To photograph the boxes for my page I placed a white foam board on my work table and laid them on their sides.

Let's dive back in to the completed page:

After photographing all the boxes I cropped and printed the big photo (11 inches wide x 8.25 inches tall) on my Epson XP15000 printer.

For the title I layered two of the vellum stars from the Star Mini Kit and added a chipboard number on top. I used the new mini alpha stamp set to stamp "new ornaments" on one of the rectangle labels.

I photographed each of the new ornaments and cropped them to be 1.5 inch x 1.5 inch and then punched each one out with a 1.5 inch circle punch. I used a Crop A Dile to punch a small hole and then set a mini gold eyelet before running the red/white twine through the hole.

I added pattern paper to the back of each circle.

I used a craft knife to cut a slit near the top of each of the boxes on the printed photo in order to create a home for the circles. Each one slips right inside the box.

So fun!

SUPPLIES

• December Daily® Star Mini Kit

• December Daily® Main Kit

• 1.5 Inch Circle Punch

• Red + White Twine

• Mini Gold Eyelets

• Mini Alphabet 4x6 Stamp Set

• December Cardstock Scallop Label Pack (red border rectangle label)

• We R Memory Keepers Crop A Dile

• Basics via my Amazon Storefront