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Project Life® 2024 | Week 30

Welcome to Week 30 in my 2024 Project Life album!

Ideas to note: 

Use 7x8.25 inch prompt pattern papers as inserts (the two I'm using here are from the Frames Quarterly Scrapbook Kit). This is a great option for those times when you want to fill all the pockets in your spread with photos and would like to add some journaling as an insert. Pocket inserts are great but if you are looking for something different grab a prompt pattern paper and use a page attacher (back in stock) to add it to your album. Link your photos to your stories with gold puffy number stickers. 
Pick one theme for your documenting week. For this week I used "joy" as the unifying theme and stamped "this is joy" from the Pieces Of Joy stamp set on label stickers from the July Stories By The Month kit. 
Have any chipboard frames in your stash (the ones I'm using here are from the Frames Scrapbook Kit)? Adhere them to the outside of your page protector using red line tape. 

Let's dive into the process video: 

And here's a look via images: 

SUPPLIES

9x12 Album
9x12 Page Protectors
Frames Scrapbook Kit (6x8 pattern papers + chipboard frames)
Plastic Page Attacher
Pieces Of Joy Stamp 
Gold Puffy Numbers (similar)
July 2024 Stories By The Month Kit (small label stickers)
Kuretake Brush Pen
Staedtler Lumocolor Pen
Red Line Tape
StazOn Ink 
Rolling Date Stamp 
Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive 
Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer 
Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)

Quiet Story Kit + September 2024 Stories By The Month Kit

Today's the 10th of the month and that means a new 
Story Kit, Story Stamp, and Stories By The Month kit. 

This month we are focusing on stories related to the theme of
Quiet.

Ah, quiet. Sometimes it's elusive and sometimes it's oppressive and sometimes it's the exact relief we need. This month we are telling stories about being quiet, searching for quiet, embracing quiet, and generally reflecting on how we feel when things are quiet in our lives. 

Story ideas for this theme include:

How do you feel about quiet? In your current season is it something that you are searching for or something you are tying to escape? Introvert or extrovert? Tell that story about yourself. What do you do for quiet time? What does that look like in your life? STORY KIT™

The 
Story Kit™ includes: 

Here's a video overview of the 
Story Kit™ and Add-On options this month:

STORY STAMP™

The Stamp Set:

And a video walkthrough: 

STORY CLASS // INCLUDES DIGITAL STORY KIT

Here's a look at what's included in the Digital Story Kit™:

Your digital kit and the classroom and any Add-Ons purchased will be available to you on the 12th once your card has been charged for the month.
This kit is also available to physical kit subscribers as an Add On each month. 

Here are a few project samples from Ali: 

Again, thanks so much for subscribing and/or considering our
Story Subscription program! If you have any questions about this program please let us know below in the comments. 

STORIES BY THE MONTH™

Here is a full look at the kit this month: 

And a video overview:

This subscription is a great option for those who are looking to tell more calendar/everyday life sorts of stories. 

INSPIRATION BY THE MONTH (DIGITAL STORIES BY THE MONTH)

Our Digital Stories By The Month™ kit is now called Inspiration By The Month™. With this subscription you receive access to the Inspiration By The Month™ classroom and the digital kit. 
This kit is also available to physical Stories By The Month™ kit subscribers as an Add On each month.

ALPHAS ARE AWESOME #17 

This 6x8 stamp set is available to subscribers to add to their box during the Add On period and 
also offered in the shop for anyone else.

QUARTERLY SCRAPBOOK KIT | ALPHABET

Our newest Quarterly Scrapbook Kit theme is Alphabet. Quarterly Scrapbook Kit subscribers receive the digital kit for free. 

Here's a closer look at the kit: 

The digital: 

And here'a a video walkthrough: 

In Case You Missed It | August 09

Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest
In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it:

COUNTDOWN TO DECEMBER DAILY®

Mark your calendars! We are so thrilled to share that our 2024 December Daily® order selection period will begin on August 27th at 10:00am ET.  😍 We’re currently finalizing our promotion schedule, class calendar, and more. As always, we have lots of inspiration and fun content planned around this year's release. As soon as we have those dates, we will share them with you! Not signed up for our newsletter? Head to www.aliedwards.com and sign-up in the footer of our site. Be sure to follow us over at @decemberdaily, our official account for all things December Daily®. We also invite you to join us in the December Daily® Facebook group for more merriment. Find additional resources and inspiration, including Ali's completed albums, on the blog via the December Daily hashtag. Learn more about the project here. 

TRAVEL CLASS | START TO FINISH 04

Let us help you bring your travel stories to life! Join contributors Shannon Flatley, Yin Goh, Kendra Wietstock, Kelly Watson, Jeanne Williams, and Diane Dziuban as they each create a travel album using products from the 2024 Travel Collection. In this class you will find a variety of styles and approaches that includes more recent travels as well as travel stories collected from over the years. From planning and organization to creative ways of using products, this class is all about providing you with inspiration and ideas to help you create your own travel album. Learn more and 
register here. 

2024 TRAVEL COLLECTION 

Our brand new 2024 Travel Collection is here! The products are in the warehouse and ready to ship to you! We’re excited to offer free shipping ($20 international flat rate) with a $75 purchase in the travel collection category. Use code TRAVEL24 during checkout. We’ve also got a brand new Start To Finish Travel Workshop coming this summer using products from this collection! Lessons will go live each Friday starting July 5th until August 9th.  

CLASS FROM ALI | STASH CLASS

Join Ali for a fun, motivating adventure into some ways to deal with all the scrapbooking stuff you’ve collected over the years and still have. Sometimes we need to press pause on our storytelling adventures for just a bit in order to get a handle on the fun things we’ve added to our physical product toolbox. Let’s come together as a community + spend some time prioritizing starting with our stash to get more of our stories told. In this four week workshop you’ll spend the first two weeks sorting + organizing supplies (or getting ideas about what might work for you) and the second two weeks creating projects using what you already own. Learn more here.

AUGUST DIGITALS 

The first Friday of every month we have a new digital release available in the shop. Play with scale, recolor objects, add journaling, print multiples…the sky is the limit when playing with digitals. Shop digitals here.

2024 PROJECTS + PRODUCTS SCHEDULE

As we continuing easing into 2024 we put together an overview of our schedule of projects + product releases for the upcoming year. We are sharing this as a way for you to plan, think about what you might want to participate in this year, and simply share some of the things we have coming up to help support + inspire storytelling. For the last few years we've followed a fairly similar cadence for our releases and our major projects will follow that release schedule again this year. Please note that, as you might imagine, this schedule is subject to change throughout the year based on a variety of variables. Find the post here.

As always, we’re so grateful to have you all as members of this community! Thanks for joining me today and have a great weekend!

Project Life® 2024 | Week 28

Ah yeah! Fun, bold and colorful was the way I wanted to go for Week 28 in my 2024 Project Life album. 

Ideas to note: 

I created the cards with the high temperatures on them during the actual week. It was super fun to simply stamp the temperature, print out the photo, add the stitching, and then add the date sticker. I used an older. large number stamp (no longer available) but we have a bunch of other number stamp options here. 
I created a set of 3x4 journal cards by pairing a floral pattern paper (Grow Scrapbook Kit) + a frame patten paper (from the Frames Scrapbook Kit) + a "today" stamp + fun machine stitching. It's so fun to cut up pattern papers to create a series of repeated cards! 

Let's dive into the video: 

Here's a look at the project via images: 

That stitching! The new sewing machine I got earlier this year has been awesome. It has a big selection of fun stitches to choose from and all you have to do is select the number of the stitch you want.  

SUPPLIES 

9x12 Album
9x12 Page Protectors
Number Stamp Set (other options here)
Frames Scrapbook Kit (pattern paper)
July 2024 Stories By The Month Kit (sticker sheet)
Micron Pen 
Brother Sewing Machine 
Grow Scrapbook Kit pattern paper
StazOn Ink 
Rolling Date Stamp 
Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive 
Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer 
Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)

Project Life® 2024 | Week 27

Next up in my 2024 Project Life album is Week 27. 

This week marks the start of my second 9x12 album for this year. I'm super excited that I was able to get 6 months into my first album (it's definitely full) and plan to keep the rest of the year to this second album. I'll be sharing a walk-through of May through July in my album as a separate video in the coming weeks. You can see the January through April here. 

Ideas to note: 

Using red line tape to adhere the vellum number cards from the July Stories By The Month Kit to the outside of the page protectors. I created custom red framed journal cards for my typed journaling that was slipped into the pockets.  At the first of each month this year I've been including a 6x8 page protector with the bold monthly card from the SBTM kits. This is a fun repetition throughout the year in this album. You don't have to add embellishments to each + every photo! Just a reminder in case you needed it. 

Let's dive into the process video: 

Here's a look at the spreads via photos: 

I cut up one of the 4x6 journal cards and added that text to the top of the vellum flag card. 

SUPPLIES 
9x12 Album 9x12 Page ProtectorsCollect Story Kit (scalloped chipboard frame) July 2024 Stories By The Month Kit Red Line Tape Kuretake Brush Pen Staedtler Lumocolor Pen StazOn Ink  Rolling Date Stamp  Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive  Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer  Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)

Project Life® 2024 | Week 26

Continuing along with my Project Life album for 2024 - here's a look at week 26. 

Ideas to note: 

I think that one of my most favorite ways to put together a spread is to create a formula (or two). In this spread I paired vellum days of the week cards (from June Stories By The Month Kit) + a tag set from a One Little Word® Mini Kit + a "through the lens" stamp + gold puffy numbers to create repeated journaling cards for my 3x4 pockets. 
After my big stamp reorganization (for the Stash Class) I'm having so much fun unearthing past stamps like this one from a few years back. I appreciate the reminder that stamps are so universal and they make a really great unifying element in a spread (and a great prompt to pull out a bit more of the story). 

Let's dive in to the process video: 

Here's a look at the spread via images: 

SUPPLIES 

9x12 Album
9x12 Page Protectors
June 2024 Stories By The Month Kit
One Little Word® Mini Kit Tag Set
"through the lens" stamp from my stash
Gold Puffy Number Stickers
Kuretake Brush Pen
Staedtler Lumocolor Pen
StazOn Ink 
Rolling Date Stamp 
Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive 
Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer 
Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)

In Case You Missed It | August 02

Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the latest
In Case You Missed It. Just a reminder that this is a quick post that will happen every Friday afternoon with all the updates and links that have happened throughout the week. So, let's get to it:

COUNTDOWN TO DECEMBER DAILY®

Let the sneaks begin! 😍 The countdown to our 2024 December Daily® season has officially begun. We’re currently finalizing our release date, promotion schedule, class calendar, and more. As always, we have lots of inspiration and fun content planned around this year's release. As soon as we have those dates, we will share them with you! Not signed up for our newsletter? Head to www.aliedwards.com and sign-up in the footer of our site. Be sure to follow us over at @decemberdaily, our official account for all things December Daily®. We also invite you to join us in the December Daily® Facebook group for more merriment. Find additional resources and inspiration, including Ali's completed albums, on the blog via the December Daily hashtag. Learn more about the project here. 

WAREHOUSE SALE 

Our Warehouse Sale Starts NOW! ✨ We're clearing out our warehouse to make room for December Daily®. Throughout the week you can shop our warehouse sale organized by price point. Now is the time to stock up on past projects and embellishments. Enjoy! Shop the sale now. 

NEW TRAVEL CLASS | START TO FINISH 04

Let us help you bring your travel stories to life! Join contributors Shannon Flatley, Yin Goh, Kendra Wietstock, Kelly Watson, Jeanne Williams, and Diane Dziuban as they each create a travel album using products from the 2024 Travel Collection. In this class you will find a variety of styles and approaches that includes more recent travels as well as travel stories collected from over the years. From planning and organization to creative ways of using products, this class is all about providing you with inspiration and ideas to help you create your own travel album. Learn more and 
register here. 

2024 TRAVEL COLLECTION 

Our brand new 2024 Travel Collection is here! The products are in the warehouse and ready to ship to you! We’re excited to offer free shipping ($20 international flat rate) with a $75 purchase in the travel collection category. Use code TRAVEL24 during checkout. We’ve also got a brand new Start To Finish Travel Workshop coming this summer using products from this collection! Lessons will go live each Friday starting July 5th until August 9th.  

NEW CLASS FROM ALI | STASH CLASS

Join Ali for a fun, motivating adventure into some ways to deal with all the scrapbooking stuff you’ve collected over the years and still have. Sometimes we need to press pause on our storytelling adventures for just a bit in order to get a handle on the fun things we’ve added to our physical product toolbox. Let’s come together as a community + spend some time prioritizing starting with our stash to get more of our stories told. In this four week workshop you’ll spend the first two weeks sorting + organizing supplies (or getting ideas about what might work for you) and the second two weeks creating projects using what you already own. Learn more here.

JULY REVEAL

We recently revealed a new Story Kit™ theme: COLLECT! To collect can mean to bring or gather together, to solicit and receive, or to regain control of oneself. As memory keepers we are often collectors of photos and words and supplies and we bring those things together to document our lives. What do you collect in your life? What did you collect when you were a kid? This month we are coming together to tell stories of collecting whether they are things or memories or friends or books or thoughts or something else entirely. Head to the blog for Ali’s post with all the details about this month’s release.

AUGUST DIGITALS 

The first Friday of every month we have a new digital release available in the shop. Play with scale, recolor objects, add journaling, print multiples…the sky is the limit when playing with digitals. Shop digitals here.

2024 PROJECTS + PRODUCTS SCHEDULE

As we continuing easing into 2024 we put together an overview of our schedule of projects + product releases for the upcoming year. We are sharing this as a way for you to plan, think about what you might want to participate in this year, and simply share some of the things we have coming up to help support + inspire storytelling. For the last few years we've followed a fairly similar cadence for our releases and our major projects will follow that release schedule again this year. Please note that, as you might imagine, this schedule is subject to change throughout the year based on a variety of variables. Find the post here.

As always, we’re so grateful to have you all as members of this community! Thanks for joining me today and have a great weekend!

Project Life® 2024 | Week 25

Next up in my 2024 Project Life album is Week 25. 

A couple specific ideas to note in this spread: 

Cut up your pattern papers to create pattern cards that can added to your pockets. If those 12x12 and/or 6x8 pattern papers aren't working for you in this season cut some up and add them to pockets! This spread features journal cards from the Enjoy Story Kit and stickers from the March Stories By The Month kit ("today" banner stickers). 

Here's my process: 

Here are additional images of my spread: 

As I've been working on a bunch of these spreads at once it's been so fun to pick a couple products and keep it simple by just using those. Give yourself permission to have some that are crafty + have lots of pieces from various places and other times when you constrain your choices to just a couple things. 

I cut up an oval chipboard into a more organic oval to fit on top of the "o" because I'd made a stamping mistake. Ran it through my sewing machine to add some texture and a pop of yellow. 

I also used a fun small number stamp set to add numbers to one of the journal cards. 

Filling in the pockets makes me so happy!

SUPPLIES 
9x12 Album 9x12 Page Protectors Enjoy Story Kit March 2024 Stories By The Month (sticker sheet) Number Stamp Set (released with December Daily® 2021) Kuretake Brush Pen Staedtler Lumocolor Pen StazOn Ink  Rolling Date Stamp  Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive  Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer  Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)

Project Life® 2024 | Week 24

Welcome to another spread in my 2024 Project Life album! 

Completely enjoying the process of filling in these pockets! For this week I was looking to keep things pretty simple and had a wonderful little a-ha moment when I realized that these kraft journaling pockets from my stash could fit right next to each other into a 4x6 pocket. I added a big tag from the April Stories By The Month kit to join the two together. You might have those in your stash too!  

Let's dive right in: 

Here's a look at my spread via images: 

I started this spread back when I was putting the Stash Class together and showed in one of my videos grabbing the -ing word strips from the 2024 Week In The Life™ kit and adding them onto a 4x6 pattern card. I love having that in-the-moment-real-time journaling paired with what I ended up writing when I completed the spread today. 

Both are great!

Loving having easy access to my stash (cards organized by category) to pull out a sentiment card and a pattern card. 

I think those Kraft pockets were originally offered either in the Grow Story Kit (a few years ago) or as an Add On. Loved adding the chipboard "details" accents along the top of the journal cards. 

I used a couple pieces of scotch tape to tape the pockets together on the back. I added the "details" oval tag using rolling adhesive. 

SUPPLIES

9x12 Album
9x12 Page Protectors
April 2024 Stories By The Month KitFoodie Story Play CollectionWeek In The Life™ 2024 Main Kit (-ing word strips)
Kuretake Brush Pen
Staedtler Lumocolor Pen
StazOn Ink 
Rolling Date Stamp 
Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive 
Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer 
Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)

Project Life® 2024 | Week 23

I'm back again with another Project Life spread to share for my 2024 album! 

In this spread I'm going all in using red line tape right along the top edge of a vellum 4 inch x 6 inch on the outside of the page protector. It's a super fun way to get to add in a little more crafty play without adding it on the photos in the pockets. I'm also cutting up a 12x12 pattern paper from the Frames Scrapbook Kit for my 3x4 cards. 

PS: If you are looking for my May 2024 spreads, I shared those in my Stash Class. 

Let's dive in! 

Here's a look at the finished spread: 

I seriously LOVE how this one turned out. I don't have any plans to do this every week, but as a piece of the whole story of the year it's a really fun way to mix things up. 

I used 4x6 vellum cards from the June Stories By The Month kit (plus one sheet from another collection). On top of each piece of vellum I added a half circle (cut from the Grow Scrapbook Kit) + a stamp from the Around Here Story Kit + a piece of chipboard from the June SBTM kit. To add the stamps on the half circles I cut a template from one of the extra half circles and laid it on top before stamping (check out the video for details). 

I adhered the vellum cards to the outside of the page protectors using red line tape right along the top + then folded them up to create a crease. Along the bottom edge of each one I used a 1 inch circle punch to create a little peek through hole. 

For all the 3x4 journal cards in this spread I cut up a 12x12 pattern paper from the Frames Scrapbook Kit. 

On each journal card I used a Kuretake Brush Pen to create the title and then a Lumocolor Pen for my journaling. 

SUPPLIES

9x12 Album
9x12 Page Protectors
June 2024 Stories By The Month Kit
Around Here Story Stamp
Frames Scrapbook Kit
Grow Scrapbook Kit (scallop pattern paper)
Kuretake Brush Pen
Staedtler Lumocolor Pen
Red Line Tape
StazOn Ink 
Rolling Date Stamp 
Scrapbook.com Rolling Adhesive 
Epson PictureMate PM400 Printer 
Other basic supplies can be found via my Amazon Storefront (printers, etc)