December Daily 2023: My Reason Why & Intro Page

Hello and welcome to my December Daily 2023 album! I love this beautiful project so much year after year and I’m super stoked to be embarking on it once again!

This year, I’m mixing and matching 4 different collections that I already used to create stress-free foundation pages as well as pulling in older things from my stash. I may combine some digital techniques as well as offer some freebies throughout the month, so check back in!

My goal is simplicity in storytelling as well as maybe, possibly, trying to fit my December Daily in a SINGLE Citrus Twist Kits Life Crafted Album (never going to happen!)

Intro + My Reason Why

The first thins I wanted to do in my album was feature this darling photo taken of my family at the start of the season, so I decided to make it part of my Reason Why opening page! I actually created this page in photoshop using an OLD template from Half Pack 27 by Cindy Schneider (no longer available) that I modified to fit an 8.25x12” canvas + The new Evergreen Acres Kit from Kristin Cronin-Barrow. You can watch how I did that in the process video!

December Daily 2023 | Reason Why & Intro Process Video

Once printed, I used Big Mama Foam Tape from Spiegelmom Scraps to pop up my Letters and snowflakes to give the page some height.

Check out those cute evergreen numbers from Kristin’s kit!

Since this page folds, I made sure to align my photo and all my embellishments to cut nicely down the center without cutting anyone’s head off or splitting a letter. Make sure you space the two sides out enough that it closes properly too!

Finally, on the outside of the spread, I used one of my pages created on Day 4 of my 2023 Stress Free Foundation Pages series using the Warm Weather Wishes printables from Citrus Twist Kits to add my reason why. All I had to do was print my journaling, adhere it to the tag, and and 2023 using White Puffy Alphabet Stickers also from Citrus Twist and I was done!

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