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December Daily® 2015 | Main Kit Unboxing Video

As we get closer to ending the 
2015 December Daily® pre-order period and start packing up and shipping out your kits we wanted to share unboxing videos for each kit with you. 

If you like to be surprised, don't watch. 

And in case you missed it, we were able to restock the stamp sets and those are currently (at the time I'm writing this) still available to add to your box. Once the pre-order ends regular shipping charges will be applied for all kits. 

We will be communicating a firm pre-order end date and shipping date soon. Please sign up for the December Daily® newsletter to stay up to date with those details. 

I'm super excited to share this look at the 2015 Main Kit with you and I'm so looking forward to telling stories with you this holiday season. 

MINI-KIT DESIGNERS UNBOXING VIDEOS

Click the links below to check out the mini-kit designers unboxing videos: 

Kelly PurkeyAshley GoldbergPeppermint Granberg / One Little BirdJasmine JonesEmily Ley

Thank you again for being part of this tradition. 

If you have any questions regarding your order please start a conversation with my Customer Service team here. 

Give Sunday | 38

This year, in honor of my 2015
One Little Word® "give," I'm sharing a hand-drawn quote each Sunday here on my blog.

Click here to read my initial post and download the #givesunday word art title and checklist for helping you to give a little something today. You can also view all the past #givesunday quotes via the archives. 

Click here to download the #givesunday 38 quote. Please note: If you are reading this post via email you need to click through to the actual blog post to download the file. 

You're invited to join me. What will you
give today?

Have a wonderful Sunday. 

September 2015 Shop Updates

Happy Wednesday! 

I'm super excited to let you know that I've got a bunch of new products available in my shop including six new stamp sets, three new journal card sets that include 4x6 and 3x4 cards (in the same weight as my Story Kit™ cards), four new washi rolls/paper tape, and three new chipboard alphas. We've added a New Arrivals category to the shop to make it easier to see them all together. 

Here's a video overview: 

And a couple other shots: 

Thank you again for all your support! 

Give Sunday | 37

This year, in honor of my 2015
One Little Word® "give," I'm sharing a hand-drawn quote each Sunday here on my blog.

Click here to read my initial post and download the #givesunday word art title and checklist for helping you to give a little something today. You can also view all the past #givesunday quotes via the archives. 

Click here to download the #givesunday 37 quote. Please note: If you are reading this post via email you need to click through to the actual blog post to download the file. 

You're invited to join me. What will you
give today?

Have a wonderful Sunday. 

Week In The Life™ 2015 | Sunday In Album

I want to begin today with a huge thank you for participating in this year's Week In The Life™. 

I love seeing the enthusiasm and participation and support via social media and here on my blog. 

Just a heads up that I will be doing this project earlier in 2016 - sometime in the Spring - in order to move it away from the Fall and spread out my bigger annual projects. I'll have a new available and more information in the new year. 

Here's a look at my Sunday: 

I really loved those 3 inch x 8 inch cards - so great for photos or for holding words. 

On the Sunday card I added "we give thanks" to give a sense of completion to the week. I loved added those thick script words onto those cards this year. 

I love when I look through the album that Saturday and Sunday look different than the rest of the week. Saturday was slow with few photos and Sunday is full of the green of summer - outdoor photos and photos of friends at our party. It shows more of the whole of our lives. 

I added a 3 inch x 4 inch card again to the last spread. This card is great for the beginning or the ending of the week. 

For my very last page I enlarged one of the backyard photos before the party and added the date and the statement, "Thank you God for this week in our lives."

SUPPLIES
Week In The Life™ Album Kit (includes album, page protectors, stamp set, pattern papers, cards and embellishments) Avery 2-Inch Plastic Index Tabs Black Staz On Epson R2000 Printer (for anything larger than 4x6) Epson PictureMate Show Printer (for 4x6 and smaller) Tiny Attacher Faber-Castell PITT Artist Big Brush Pen Font is a free font called Remington Noiseless 6x8 Week In The Life™ Layered Templates No.2 Crop A Dile Silver Chipboard Mixed ShapesMORE INFORMATION

Other posts from the album creation portion of 
Week In The Life™ 2015 so far can be found here:  

First Steps In Creating An Album Monday In Album (with a video overview) Tuesday In Album Wednesday In Album Thursday In Album Friday In AlbumSaturday In Album

Week In The Life™ 2015 | Saturday In Album

Saturday was my day with the least number of photos. 

When working on projects like this - in-depth with a lot of content - I try to have flexible expectations. I think part of that comes from practice but also from knowing that I'm doing the best I can with what I have in front of me right now. Without exception I think I have always had less photos on the weekend - it's just part of how it goes around here. 

Rather than simply fill up the 3 inch x 4 inch pocket pages with something else I just took them out. It was an easy choice considering how full the book is as well. 

Here's a look at Saturday: 

On the photo of my hair I used the white letter stickers alongside the perforated word "typical." My alignment-loving self love the fact that they were the same height. 

And because I didn't use any 3x4 pockets for this day I added the "Saturday" wood veneer to the top of the 3 inch x 8 inch page protector.

I'll be back tomorrow with my Sunday in-album post. 

SUPPLIES

Week In The Life™ Album Kit (includes album, page protectors, stamp set, pattern papers, cards and embellishments)
Avery 2-Inch Plastic Index Tabs
Black Staz On
Epson R2000 Printer (for anything larger than 4x6)
Epson PictureMate Show Printer (for 4x6 and smaller)
Tiny Attacher
Faber-Castell PITT Artist Big Brush Pen
Font is a free font called Remington Noiseless
6x8 Week In The Life™ Layered Templates No.2
Crop A Dile
Silver Chipboard Mixed ShapesMORE INFORMATION

Other posts from the album creation portion of 
Week In The Life™ 2015 so far can be found here:  

First Steps In Creating An Album
Monday In Album (with a video overview)
Tuesday In Album
Wednesday In Album
Thursday In Album
Friday In Album

Week In The Life™ 2015 | Friday In Album

On Friday of my 2015 Week In The Life™ album I used the repeated phrase "the story of this photo." It's another one of those simple, focused sparks that helps get to the story told. I usually try to include the why along with the who and what and where and when. 

For my spine this year I simply added the year "2015" using the white letter stickers from the kit. 

Here's a look at Friday: 

On the Friday card I added "we do" and detailed some of the things that are important to use around here. Simple stuff like "We do coloring books." and 
"We do lazy Saturday mornings."

On top of each photo I added the digital word art "the story of today" before adding my journaling (which you can read here). I saved that word art and am making it available to you below:

Download "The Story Of This Photo" here. 

On Friday I had one less photo so I ended up filling that pocket with some of the ampersand pattern paper + chipboard geotag + perforated word strip + letter E inside the geo tag. 

I decided to skip the 3x4 card insert for this spread since I added a pattern card to the other page. 

I spent some time today looking back through older photos from 2009 and 2010 when Anna was a baby. Man I love photos. This project always, always, always results in photos that I will remember for years to come and I'm so happy to have a home for them in this album. 

SUPPLIES
Week In The Life™ Album Kit (includes album, page protectors, stamp set, pattern papers, cards and embellishments) Avery 2-Inch Plastic Index Tabs Black Staz On Epson R2000 Printer (for anything larger than 4x6) Epson PictureMate Show Printer (for 4x6 and smaller) Tiny Attacher Faber-Castell PITT Artist Big Brush Pen Font is a free font called Remington Noiseless 6x8 Week In The Life™ Layered Templates No.2 Crop A Dile Silver Chipboard Mixed ShapesMORE INFORMATION

Other posts from the album creation portion of 
Week In The Life™ 2015 so far can be found here:  

First Steps In Creating An Album Monday In Album (with a video overview) Tuesday In Album Wednesday In AlbumThursday In Album

New Story Theme Now Available | Black & White

Say hello to a new
Story Theme for my Story subscription program: 
Black & White. 

This month I'm inviting you to tell a variety of different stories inspired by the theme of black and white - everything from rules (and how you respond to them), to living in the grey, to good vs. evil, to opposites attracting, etc. And beyond all that, black and white just looks cool from a design standpoint. 

If you are already a subscriber to you can now access the content in the classroom (
make sure you are logged in to your account). 

If you are new to the Story Subscription program, check out all the details here.

Here's a look at the Story Kit™ contents for 
Black & White:

And the Story Stamp™:

We also have a Digital Story Kit™ subscription available that includes access to the classroom content. Here's a look at what's included for 
Black & White (which also shows all the designs for the journal cards included in the printed version of the kit): 

Here's a video overview of the products included in the kits this month: 

And a couple peeks at the layouts I created with the kits this month (full details, including process videos and how-to handout, are included with subscription): 

Let's tell stories together!

Week In The Life™ 2015 | Thursday In Album

I spent time this weekend wrapping up my 2015 Week In The Life™ album. It's always a good feeling AND a relief when I get the album all together and I hope it will help spur you on to getting your photos and words off your computer and into your albums too. I'll be sharing the rest of the daily posts here this week (except not tomorrow because my post will be about the new Story Kit™).

Thursday was the day I used the prompt "I want to remember" which continues to be a favorite of mine that I come back to again and again. You'll also notice that I didn't add in any extra photos today - definitely par for the course in terms of simply taking less photos throughout the week. 

Here's a look at Thursday: 

I didn't have a photo of breakfast today so I just substituted with a morning photo. If I would have been thinking about it I probably would have labeled it "laundry" instead of morning since it already says "morning" on the card itself.

For the "Thursday" journal card I wrote up a list of things that the three of us love and printed it on the card (you can read more about that process in my Monday post). 

I wrote, "We love Taco Tuesdays. We love movie nights both at home and the theater. We love popcorn for dinner. We love going to the swimming pool. We love being together. We love traveling. We love Star Wars. We love ice cream for dessert. We love taking photos. We love cats. We love camping. We love traditions and holidays."

So yeah, a lot of those things are things I could have easily written with the title "I love" but they are also things that we share a love for around here. 

Simple, simple (but time consuming - ha). 

I love the thickness of those white letter stickers from the kit. Great for adding a word or two directly to your photos. 

I did include the card insert on between the last images for Thursday. Use StazOn to stamp right onto the label stickers. The # is from my Silver Mixed Chipboard Shapes set. 

SUPPLIES

Week In The Life™ Album Kit (includes album, page protectors, stamp set, pattern papers, cards and embellishments)
Avery 2-Inch Plastic Index Tabs
Black Staz On
Epson R2000 Printer (for anything larger than 4x6)
Epson PictureMate Show Printer (for 4x6 and smaller)
Tiny Attacher
Faber-Castell PITT Artist Big Brush Pen
Font is a free font called Remington Noiseless
6x8 Week In The Life™ Layered Templates No.2
Crop A Dile
Silver Chipboard Mixed Shapes

MORE INFORMATION

Other posts from the album creation portion of 
Week In The Life™ 2015 so far can be found here:  

First Steps In Creating An Album
Monday In Album (with a video overview)
Tuesday In Album
Wednesday In Album

Give Sunday | 36

This year, in honor of my 2015
One Little Word® "give," I'm sharing a hand-drawn quote each Sunday here on my blog.

Click here to read my initial post and download the #givesunday word art title and checklist for helping you to give a little something today. You can also view all the past #givesunday quotes via the archives. 

Click here to download the #givesunday 36 quote. Please note: If you are reading this post via email you need to click through to the actual blog post to download the file. 

You're invited to join me. What will you
give today?

Have a wonderful Sunday.