Get it Scrapped | December Daily

Hello hello everyone!

yes, I promised one last December Daily page. :) Here it is! Entirely made with my Winter Joy collection!!! I made this layout for Get it Scrapped when we had to find new ways of using red and green as a color combo. My solution was to use paler hues of the typical red and green. The red in my collection is watercolor and doesn't come out as pink, but is less red than the Santa red. Same thing for the green. Its some sort of emerald green but in watercolor look..

I also added some more colors like a cool ce blue, some yellow and black. Ah, and gold, of course!

To find these products, head over to the Pretty Little Studio shop and to find more ideas on how to use red and green in your holiday projects, head over to the Get it Scrapped blog!!

I wish you guys all MERRY CHRISTMAS and a wonderful holiday, hopefully with all the people you love! Talk to you again real soon!!

Thank you so much for being here <3 p="">

Marie-Pierre

Get it Scrapped | December Daily

Hey everyone!

Today I'm on the Get it Scrapped blog with another December Daily layout from last year.

It's day 23 of my album. I am adapting the nordic style to my style...

You remember that donut box that was showing into the day 22? Well here it is! I didn't want to cover it (that's how special Tim Horton is now to me after 20 years not living in Canada anymore! ha!) So anyway, I made a mini page/polaroid style frame that I attached to one of the ring of the album.

This is some patterned paper from my Winter Joy collection with Pretty Little Studio. It's a music partition in French s'il-vous-plait! :) I added a tag, also from my collection as well as a tiny die cut (coffee break). Keeping the color combo to red, white and silver make for a nordic style layout.

Here's the first photo on the small frame.

And it's back side.

Simple but effective! And most importantly, the story is there. :)

See you soon for one last December Daily page!

Marie-Pierre

Pretty Little Studio | December Daily

Hello everyone!


Here's another update on my 2015 December Daily that I finished this November.

I really loved working with my Winter Joy collection. I didn't have every product on hand but even with the small loot I had, I found it easy to embellish and journal.
This little tag must be one of my favorite product of the collection.

I used some pages from my little notebook from Ali Edward's kit last year to add some journaling.

This is the other side of that small pocket.

Here I used lots of my Here comes the sun collection, which is a summer collection but I think in the back of my mind I created it with my december daily in mind. lol So the letters and numbers are just perfect for a stunning title or the number of the day. I also used the gold star paper as the background of my page.

I don't know if you caught that on Instagram but at the beginning of November I was the lucky winner of some really cute acrylic Christmas lights and stars from Color Cast Design. Here they are! I like that the colors are complementing my picture so well! I also love that even though the picture is really dark, we see the transparency of the pink light very well. I adhered them in place but in a way that it would look like they are not glue down. I used my white gel pen to write directly on my photo and it worked great!

My friend Kareen Dion from Accent Scrapbooking was so nice and sent me some beautiful flair buttons she designed. My absolute favorite one is that fleur de lys one because it's the emblem of Quebec, where my home is. I love that the metallic blue goes hand is hand with my house tag. The theme of "home" was so obvious that I used them on the day I was going home for the holiday.

Look at the beautiful acrylic stars, again from Color Cast Design.

A very simple page which consist of a large photo of my mom's cat, hiding from us. I like that we see the tree and the Christmas village.... everything in my mom's house is so beautiful and Christmasy.

In the center pocket I have some journaling, the numbers (from my Here Comes the Sun collection) and I just dropped lots of red sequins. The pocket is very deep so I didn't bother to close the pocket with my fuse.

You might have noticed the Tim Horton donut box peeking under there. I'll keep it for next time. ;)

Have a great day guys! And keep up documenting, it's so worth the effort!! 

Marie-Pierre

Pretty Little Studio | December Daily

Hello everyone!

My goal this November was to finish my December Daily from last year (2015). I had to stop doing it when I left to visit my parents in Canada and left it untouched at day 12, knowing that I would want to finish it this November to get in the Christmas spirit! If you can remember, last year in November I re-did my 2009 December Daily and I really enjoyed the process of looking back and of slowly getting fired up for the coming Christmas. Read all about it here.

This year was a different situation though. I was pretty busy with the Christmas collection coming out in November so I felt like I had to catch up and I was afraid I could never do it! But today (I'm writing this blog post November 18th) I can tell you that I did reach my goal. Last night in fact I made the finishing touches to the last pages! :)

Today on the Pretty Little Studio blog, you can see the pages 13 to 17. Here are some pictures of what you'll see over there. Please head over for a list of the products I used and more detailed shots. :)

One thing I particularly enjoyed this year was to use my own collection Winter Joy which you can pre-order right here. I hope you'll check it out.

All right, see you later for some more December Daily updates. :) 

Marie-Pierre

December Daily 2015

Hey everyone!

I'm going to share days 10 and 11 today.

DAY 10

Day 10 is a couple pages long.... so bare with me!

It starts with the day itself: Arielle being sick, our Elf on the shelf, and our after school activity - making our Christmas cards. The large number 10 is an acetate and is from Pretty Little Studio.

I don't know if you remember the back of this page? You can see it here. So on this page, because of all the transparencies used, I had to stick to the same formats of photos and cards...

I started with a polaroid style photo. I achieve that by printing in a smaller format and leaving some white at the bottom and around the photo. It's fun because it gives a little room for journaling and you don't need to add a label.

I simply adore this card from Pretty Little Studio with the writing at the bottom and empty space. It was perfect to add the sticker Arielle got at the doctor's office. (Arielle is way too big for stickers apparently - or that's what she thinks anyway - so I can keep the stickers and she's fine with it.) ;)

I really love this picture as Arielle was picking up Maya so she can see our elf Harmony who was too high for maya to see. ;) I have all 3 on the picture and the girls look so happy. I backed the photo with red stripes paper and added a red foil label (Pretty little Studio).

A really cute photo is always worth to blow up. I added just some little embellishments.

A word label, a glittery golden heart and some golden thread.

And because we were working on the cards that day, even though we didn't finish them, I decided to add the final card and the stamps I used this year. :) I backed it up with some gold foil wood patterned paper (Pretty Little Studio) and I added a little stripe of star velum at the bottom with some gold stitching.

I know some of you are wondering if Maya made this card. No. She didn't. After finishing coloring all the little pieces, she was so tired she decided to stop. So I took my pieces first and at the end I didn't need the pieces made by the girls. ;) Maybe one year they'll be old enough to make cards start to finish.

I love it when they have special Christmas stamps. I've always been collecting stamps. I used to put them in a collectionner's album, but I like it this way too. :)

Here I used another 3x8 page protector to add lots of journaling (lots is a big word. It's not that much after all). And I used velum tape at the bottom of that tiny page to match the bottom of the other page.

I also added some red stars from Ali Edward's December Daily kit and a flair also from her kit I believe...I'm not sure anymore though.

These layers make me happy.

On the reverse of this little page, I have a picture of the gift I sent to our niece in Switzerland. I added a cute Santa die cut, a label and some stars. The right page is a Christmas card we received from Arielle's piano Teacher. Can't leave these pretty cards out of the album, right?! :)

DAY 11

I decided that one of the card my husband was giving his employees could be used as a page.

I stapled the number 11.

And inside the card I built my page. The journaling has been written on the bottom part of the card. And my photo right up there with some layering and embellishing.

The snowman is a PL card from Pretty Little Studio. I also added a frame, a die cut, a cut-apart word (all from pretty Little Studio) and all of this lay on top of Pretty Little Studio velum. I also stitched on the velum before adhering it to the card to make some words stand out.

Another cute die cut right here :) Ah and a border of silver snowflakes paper.

Voilà!!
Now you have seen everything from my December Daily up to this day. I'll have to get to work before I can show you the rest. I hope I can really finish it sooner than later! I can't imagine doing this in February. At least my tree is still up ;)

Ok, talk to you again soon!!

Marie

Pretty little Studio | December Daily 2015

Hi everyone!

Here I am today with day 12 of my December Daily album. For the details of the products, please take a look at my post on the Pretty Little Studio blog. Thank you! :)

As much as I love the pocket pages, these 6x8 traditional style pages are my favorite to make! I can get really creative with them.

I've been waiting for the perfect event in December to use my favorite Pretty Little Studio paper!! And here it came: breakfast with Santa! :) I printed a small sized photo and placed it in the middle of the swirl. I layered quite a bit of patterned papers under it.

I then added words and texture and plain fun.

I love these glittery stars!! And I also love to use the remaining of my paper when I'm done cutting with my Silhouette!! My typewriter is also coming handy (besides the fact that my husband hears me type when he sleeps in the guest room, right on top of my studio. lol (ps: he sleeps in the guests room when my daughters are sick and will most likely land in our bed. LOL)

This layering of patterns, colors, glitters, vellum, foil, gold and silver really makes me happy!! <3 p="">

And adding a min paperclip also makes me happy. ha! Small things. Oh and the look of my daughter... lol

So this is the back of my page. I backed my large photo of Santa overlooking my daughters who are picking a gift in his large bag with a wood pattern paper (Pretty Little Studio)

I stitched around the photo and added a cluster of happy things. Vellum tape, gold foil label and "capture the" coming from a PL card are all from Pretty little Studio. My brush pen is coming to good use in this year's album. :)

That's it for Day 12. Watch for Days 10 and 11 really soon on my blog. :)

Marie