A year late, but I finished!

So in celebration of changing my blog name over to Christie Cre8s, I thought I would finally finish and post my December Daily album from last Christmas. 


Actually it was mostly completed last Christmas, but has been on my desk all year only needing the cover and binding done. I'm afraid that is what I do with a lot of projects; almost complete them except for one part. And I still don't have one part done: the binding. I do not have a big enough Owire to bind this because it got kind of fat. I think I'm going to need the 1 1/4". So I will be on the look out for those at Hobby Lobby or Archivers. I hope I can find them there so I don't have to order online. 


So now that the Christmas 2009 season is upon us, I will proudly display my Christmas 2008 December Daily album! 

The cover I completed this morning. I like how it turned out!
Then page/day one and so on. 

I like how Day six turned out. I made a file folder on my Cricut. I think I used the Graphically Speaking cartridge, but it has been a year ago and my memory might not be so accurate. Anyway, I like how it opens up for the journaling and more pics. And then one more pic on the back. 

Our Christmas doesn't end on the 25th. We either travel to Dayton, OH or Kansas City to celebrate with family. Last year we went to OH and the drive there was horrendous! Terrible, terrible fog. 

The last page of my book has a pocket that I recorded the gifts we received. I thought it would be fun to look back on later and see what was the hot toy the boys got in 2008.


So now that I got 2008 done, I can start on 2009!  


Thanks for visiting me and checking out my new blog. Everything stayed the same except that I lost all my previous comments. That was a bummer, but I hope that I won't be getting any strange visitors with this new name. :-)

Days 3,4 and 5

I still haven't got past day 5 yet. I really hope to get caught up this weekend. I got sidetracked trying to finish up my Christmas cards. And I still haven't got those in the mail either! Oops! I'm a little behind this year. The month of December just seems to be flying by. I do have most of my Christmas shopping done though! Yea!

Day three is of my Santa Tree Topper.

The writing on the strip seems to be coming off, so I'm probably going to have to redo that.

Day Four is a picture of our tree in the living room.

Day Five is a pretty self-explanatory.

(Except for the fact that this is a completely staged photo!

Sssh, don't tell anyone!)

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I think we are going to see Santa tomorrow. :D

December Daily Album

I'm off to a fantastic start! It is day two and I'm not behind! Woo Hoo! For those non-scrappers out there who are wondering what I'm talking about, the December Daily album is the idea of the talented Ali Edwards. You can go here to see her fantastic work. Basically what me and a bunch of other scrappers are doing is documenting something every day about how we celebrate the holidays. I wanted to do this last year, but never got to it. I'm really hoping to be able to keep it up this year. I have all the base pages ready, so all I need to do is take a picture every day and do a bit of journaling. Sounds easy, right?! Wish me luck! Here are my first two pages!

The journaling on the 2nd page says, " I normally go to Starbucks once or twice a month. But at holiday time, the Peppermint Mocha Twist has me there a couple of times a week." And yes, I did journal right on the Starbucks thingy. (I'm sure there is a technical word for it but I have no idea what it is, so I'm just going to call it "thingy"!)