December Daily 2013: The Cover

 December has arrived... Time to start The December Daily!

You can follow everyone along over at:

http://aliedwards.com/december-daily

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 I wanted RINGS this year... but seeing as I fell down our stairs last week I've 'lost' a lot of time. Enter -Quick and Simple Git'er DONE- (on the cheap!) Strategy. 

$3 Daytimer from Dollarama... 

Fugggggly, but that's OK = NO Guilt on recovering. *wink*

 

 Lots of pages and dividers... 

May or may not get used as bases.

 SCORE! 

Pockets!!!

These will get used... fer sure.

Ta-Da!!!

Paper, Tape, Thicker numbers and a wee bit o'classy Bling later...

This is what you get. 

Even was suuuuuper thrifty and flipped the wrap-label that came on it over, inked and used it in the other direction. 

Waste-Not, Want-Not!

All of Cover

 Inside Cover... almost done.

 Front Cover

 Front Cover and Spine

 Inside Covers all Done!

The 'sweater' calender in the back is a screen saver image...

The Front calendar was a freebie, Thank-You Pinterest!

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/242068548694958534/

The front one will be used as the 'Table of Contents' this year.

December Daily 2012: It's a Start...

December has rolled around again and that means it's time for this year's December Daily!

 http://aliedwards.com/december-daily

Last year I did my DD in an altered Reader's Digest book:

 http://keepsakescrafts.blogspot.ca/search/label/December%20Daily%202011

This year I'm doing a Junk Ring Book, using up bits and pieces held together with 4 binder rings. The covers are made from a cereal box cut and covered with pattern papers. Size is 7" tall 8" wide. The Snowy paper was 12 X 12 and I *really* wanted to use it for the covers but only had 1 sheet... so it's overlaid over another pattern paper (I had tons of from a class I taught). The same paper was also used to line the inside covers. Deer, Sparkly 'Snow' and BELIEVE are chipboard, 2012 is stickers and reindeer crossing sign was a lonely orphan sticker missing the post I re-created with card-stock.

Then I went to town filling it up with bits and pieces:

~Old Card or slices of cards backed with pattern paper (to cover the old writing/sentiments)

~Gingerbread House Packaging

~Ephemera 'Blocks' from a kit I had

~Postcard for last years play at a local church

~Used Envelope 

~Sliced up pattern paper blocks

etc...

BUT 

These are only the beginning! I like my DD to develop organically over the season:

Adding flyers snips, photos, tags and anything else that catches my creative-eye and helps it grow.

This... is a good start!