Documenting December 2015

Once again I will be doing a December album, documenting December daily in a mini album. The concept of December Daily is from Ali Edwards (to find out more about this and Ali's blog posts on December Daily click here) and this is the third year of doing such an album. It is also the second year I have been lucky enough to be on the design team for The Stamp Spot (Michelle and her homemade kits, stamping and scrapbooking store can be found here).
Michelle has put together another amazing Christmas kit, overflowing with papers, stickers, tabs, washi, wood veneers, enamel dots and heaps more scrapping goodies that are more than enough to complete this years album. In fact I have so much over from last years kit I may also tackle a project I have been thinking about for a while with all the 'leftovers' from this year and last year (that is a composite album of Christmases from 2000-2012 - the years I haven't done any sort of Christmas album)
Anyhow back to this year! The 2015 kit has a selection of papers - both patterned, plain and glitter, cork, gold foil and printed acetate in differing sizes - 6x8, 4x6, 3x8, 3x4 and 4x4.

As you can see there is a heap of papers here.

More of the smaller 3x4 cards, die cuts, tabs, stickers, stars, tags and embellished vellum cards.

The rest of the kit. Large white glitter 25, gold numbers, white cardstock Christmas words and shapes, doilies, alpha stickers and words, twine, handmade flairs by Michelle, washi tapes, pens and pencil, stars, sequins, enamel dots, bells, wood veneers and a 'Merry Christmas' stamp.

Once again I will be using a red 6x8 faux leather album from Simple Stories. I have used these the last 2 years as well.

There really is so much in the kit this year and I'm really looking forward to getting a start on my foundation pages to be ready for when December comes around.
I set up an area all ready for my December album. It is somewhat portable but I do plan on putting the album together each night, at my desk/craft area after printing photos for the day, at home with my Epson Picturemate (best thing I have ever bought I think!)

Study/craft area set up. Above on the shelf are things to use throughout the album as well. In the large plastic container to the left is last years December kit from The Stamp Spot plus other Christmassy type stash I have. Next to that is my collection of glitters, sequins and beads that I hope to use in confetti pockets and the like in my album. Behind the box with this years kits is a basket full of tool and stamp stuff. This year I bought a Fuse tool so I'm hoping to have some fun with that this year. Next to the basket is my collection of stamps - many of them from Ali Edwards. Above on the shelf to the right are two of the December Daily mini kits I bought from Ali Edwards and also my stash of differing configuration page protectors for my album.

So there you have it. My Christmas craft area all set up and ready to go. I will be back soon sharing some of my foundation pages with you.

For more inspiration why not stop by these blogs.

Ali Edwards - http://aliedwards.com/blog

Michelle Hunter (The Stamp Spot) - ​http://www.thestampspot.typepad.com/

Beck Holder - ​http://beckholder.weebly.com/

Bernii Miller - http://weekendatberniis.blogspot.com.au/

Melinda Sweetman - ​http://melindasweetman.blogspot.com.au/

Renae - ​http://theredwren.com/

Thanks for stopping by and having a look xo