December Daily® 2024 | Merry, Shiny + Bright with Nolana Lynch
Hello Everyone!
It’s the MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR! December Daily season is upon us and I couldn’t be more jolly to share some of my ideas for the 2024 collection!
I kicked things off with my Title Page and Reason Why for this year. The colourful plastic trees from the Main Kit immediately caught my eye, and I knew they had to be my title page! The ideas began flowing for colourful Christmas trees and I loved where it all landed.
Last year, I used a lot of sequins, and during the year, I have been in my confetti era, so I decided to try rhinestones for my title page. I picked up a bunch from my local craft store and began clustering them from the base of the plastic trees and staggering them upwards.
Earlier this week, I did a Live Crafting session in the December Daily group. Today, I am sharing two process videos; the first is my preparation for the live which shows how I started the rhinestone trees, creating the vellum using the silkscreens, and creating the vellum hearts and confetti for my title and reason why.
The second video is the remainder of the process - putting the page together during this week’s Merry, Shiny and Bright Live Crafting session in the December Daily Facebook Group. Here’s the video:-
I love the transparency pack and initially thought I’d used the “Christmas Time is Here” for my title page, but then the “Twenty Twenty Four” heart framed the trees so nicely, I had to use it! This was the jumping-off point to create two dangling heart ornaments - the front with the “Twenty Twenty Four” title and the back with my Reason Why.
I used the digital from the transparency pack to get the shape of the heart for my journaling for my Reason Why. I printed this on tracing paper using my laser printer and foiled it with my Minc machine. Then, I traced the heart from the transparency pack onto it and cut it out. I left about a quarter inch all around to stitch them together. I created some white patterned vellum using the Stars from the silkscreen pack and using circle/dotted stencils from my stash. I then used my confetti punch to fill the hearts with vellum confetti of colors that matched the trees, and I put them all together.
I then decided to work on my Table of Contents. I wanted to feature the gorgeous plastic phrases. The term “Holly Jolly Contents” felt like an accurate representation of the contents in my December Daily album! Here’s the video of how it all came together:-
I do feel like the plastic phrases need white space so that they stand out, so I thought of ways to cut and create a window for the piece. This could have easily been a rectangle, or a banner or any shape really, but in the end I decided to use the shape of the Holly Jolly and add a rectangle below for the word “contents”. I thought of tracing the shape and cutting it out with a scissors, but then I used my Cricut instead - either way would work just fine.
Following this, I worked on creating a page to mount my banners on using a transparency from the 10x8 pack. I love these fine word transparencies and elements in this year’s collection, and I used some baker’s twine and eyelets to create this page. I would then glue the banners on to the twine, and add in bits and pieces from each page during the month of December to bring it all together
I’ve really enjoyed putting the first few pages of my 2024 December Daily album together! OH WHAT FUN! Thank you so much for being here. As always, feel free to comment below, I’d love to hear from you! If you’d like to see more of my work you can check me out on Instagram or YouTube.
Wishing you a wonderful rest of the year and December Daily prep season!
SuppliesMain Kit Gold Puffy Alphas 10x8 Transparency Pack Large Plastic Phrases
