December Daily

I have been wanting to create a December Daily album for a few years now and it seems that this year is the year.
And I'm really excited about it.
(I must be, because I managed to get the album put together in time- huge accomplishment for this "procrastinator queen".)

I started with a paper crafting kit I purchased a few years ago from Scrapologie {Silver Bells}. The kit came with a Melissa Frances tree shaped album, but it only had 10 pages in it. I needed more pages, as well as more surface area, so my solution was to cut watercolor paper 5.5 x 11.5. I also got two pages (technically 4 counting front and back) by cutting a sheet of die cut paper in half and then another two (4) pages by cutting a large crochet doily in half.

I cut 2 really thick chipboard pieces 5.5 x 11.5 for the covers and then adhered the chipboard trees from the Melissa Frances album (the original covers) to those for the front and back covers.

All of my base pages were covered in paper from the kit as well as vintage sheet music from my stash. For my numbers/embellishments I used Rhonna Farrer and Basic Grey chipboard diecuts, buttons and ribbon from the kit and added in numbers, paper doilies, felt and floss (for all the hand embroidery) from my stash.

I wanted the Farmboy to get involved, so I challenged him to see which of us could take the best/most interesting photos every day for the next 25 days.
Heh heh, sneaky of me, huh?

I will upload all of the number pages to my Flickr if you would like to see those and I'm hoping that I will be able to scrap the photos and stories at the end of each week to share also.
(We'll see how well that goes!)