December Daily 2022: Day 22

Day 22 in my album is all about going to see the lights at a fun light walk by the river! I’m getting to the point now where I’m using up leftovers from my kits and scraps here and there. so this whole page was designed with only two pieces of 12x12 paper from the CTK Merry Making 12x12 Add On Kit to “use it up!”

December Daily 2022 | Day 22 Process Video

Day 22

I had a bunch of light photos and two gorgeous family photos I wanted to showcase BIG on this page, but when working with horizontal photos, there are few options for LARGE photos without spanning the rings and cutting down the center. Normally, I’m ok with that, but doing that to this photo would definitely cut our faces in half and punch holes in awkward places. So instead, I decided to do a full-photo page flip out to showcase that gorgeous photo.

When closed, the flap becomes home to a pocket for photo strips of all my photos from our walk - it’s the perfect solution!

The right hand side of the spread is a more traditional layout that highlights the other family photo I wanted on this page. I love the threading detail of the ribbon through the journal-card-turned-tag.

I added some mittens and beanies on this side because it was COLD and my number too!

To bulk up my photo strips, I matted them on patterned paper and turned them into tags, that way they didn’t slip out of the pocket, like they were doing over and over again, and added “joy” to the outside of the pocket for a little pop!

Lastly, I went really simple on the main photo with just a title and some holly to adorn, that way the focus is kept on one of my favorite photos of us!

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