Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio! The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers. So, make sure to check the Elle’s Studio blog every day for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!
Today we have a beautiful advent calendar to share with you from Meghann Andrew. Meghann is a member of our Contributing Team and we just love everything she creates. I know her December Daily base pages will inspire you as we start the month of December!
Hi there! After failing miserably at putting together a December Daily last year, I decided that this year, I would make more of an effort to document the month since it is my daughter’s first Christmas. Last year, I waited until the last minute to pull things together & I didn’t have my foundation pages ready when December hit. I also hadn’t decorated my Studio Calico Handbook cover. My plan of attack this year is: a) to get myself organized early by getting my supplies and foundation pages ready & keeping it simple; b) decorate my cover first to get me in the Christmas mood & make the album feel more finished; c) Print all of my photos at 4″x4″.
I started by painting my entire Handbook with a gloss white acrylic paint. I then covered the spine (inside & outside) in extra fabric I had on hand. To finish off the edges, I glued on gold glitter ribbon.
Once that was done, I went through my Noel collection to find a perfect piece to start with as the foundation for my cover decoration. The grey & white striped Noel frame looked perfect. I backed that with a piece of my favorite paper from the Noel collection, the chalkboard ‘Fa La La La La’ paper. At this point, I knew I wanted something gold to stand out against these neutrals, so I covered the “DEC 2013” piece from the Let It Snow! wood veneer in Versamark, then embossed it with metallic gold embossing powder. To make the year stand out, I backed it with red cardstock. I finished off the frame with a glittered star, bakers twine & a jingle bell. To add a bit more interest & break up the stark white around the frame, I added some gold star rub-ons.
The first page you see when you open my album is the title page. I wanted this page to highlight all of the colors I would be using in my album this year- red, green, gold, black & grey. I used the ‘Carols’ paper from the Noel collection pack as my foundation and added the ‘Merry Christmas’ tag from the Noel Bits & Pieces pack, which I wrapped with a tulle bow. To offset that, I punched a circle from the ‘Fa La La La La’ paper and outlined it with gold metallic ink. I topped this with three embossed wood veneer trees (since there are three members in our family) and put the ‘Holiday Memories’ arrow tag from the Noel Lil’ Snippets labels just underneath it, as a way to invite you to turn the page. To add more green, I cut out two triangles from the ‘Deck the Halls’ paper and sewed them on with my sewing machine. I finished off the page with a gold ‘A’, my own handwriting for the title & a few sequins.
On the backside of the title page, I kept it super simple by topping the backside of the ‘Carols’ paper with an American Crafts embellishment. I love the tone on tone look!
Today we are giving away the entire Noel Collection! Leave a comment on this post and we will draw a random winner. Good Luck!
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