December Daily® 2024 | Merry, Shiny + Bright with Nolana Lynch | Part 02

Hi Friends! How are you today? 

It’s Nolana and I’m ecstatic to be back with you to share more of my foundation pages for December Daily this year! Earlier this week, I did my second Live Crafting session in the December Daily Facebook Group and I enjoyed it all! Thank you for all your support - I loved reading your comments and crafting with you. 

In this blog post, I will share some more of my foundation pages, in addition to my “completed” layouts and the process video from the Live Crafting Session with how it all came together.

Here are a few page ideas that I’ve worked on leading up to the live:

Idea No. 1: Scalloped Plastic Tag Page

I used a series of scalloped tags to create a border for this page. This included a mix of the Plastic Tags, the Holiday Tag Stamp Set and the Scalloped border stamp. 

I embossed some of the stamps from the Scalloped 6x8 set on to patterned paper from this year’s collection to create some variation in the tags present.

I also used several dye inks to stamp some of the holiday tag stamps in various shapes.

I then combined these all around the December patterned paper, at various distances from the edge of the paper, to create a staggered frame around the page. I cut the excess off the edges, used my trimmer to create a rectangle in the centre of the page.

The vellum I adhered behind the paper. Then I placed a piece of acetate behind the frame, and adhered three sides to create a pocket. In this, I would place a family photograph and perhaps some journaling. 

Idea No.2: This is Joy Flip Up Page

I thought it would be great to use this stamp page to document things that bring me joy in the month of December. This page has 26 spaces, so many possibilities to document Joy throughout the month. 

I’d been hoarding this Joy vellum from last year’s collection, and decided it would be perfect create the flip up with. I used my craft knife to cut the hole, and use two of the wreaths and embellishments from previous December Daily collections to bring the vellum flip up together.

I then created some shaker segments to the right side of the page - using a mix of sequins, as well as the “This is Joy” vellum piece from this year’s collection.

Here’s the process video of how it all came together:

Idea No. 3 - Night Lights

I’ve also been going through my stash to see pieces of foundation pages I made last year, and which pieces can be paired with this year’s collection. I love this circle of lights patterned paper. 

I made this lovely wreath using tree stamps, and stencils last year but it didn’t make it into my album, so I decided it would be perfect for this year’s documenting night lights! 

Idea No. 4 - Gift Page

I played around with the idea of a Gift Page using patterned paper, bows and three flap pocket envelopes on a page. I thought I could even add scalloped Squares to the red scallop tag pockets as flaps or as a lower border - there were so many ideas bouncing around for this page and I played with them all. 

In the end, I decided to use the MERRY paper - my favourite, along with the green scalloped cards. I used vellum bows from the Paislee Press kit and the circular die cuts to bring this page together in yesterday’s live. Here’s how it came out.

Idea No. 5 - Ornament Tree

I created an ornament tree with vellum, paper, and acetate ornaments. I cut out the ornaments from the patterned paper and used some from the main kit and die-cut pack to bring this together. I decided to save the transparency ones for another layout. 

These die-cut ornaments can be backed with photos and journaling. You may also want to mix things up and add some of these to the front portion of your tree. I also added a pull-up star behind, which is an additional spot for photos and journaling.

Here’s the process video from the Live.

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s blog post. It has been great working through foundation pages for my 2024 album and sharing them with you! I hope you’re excited to set up foundation pages for your project this year!

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please share them below!

Happy December Dailying!