December Daily 2020: Day 3
Happy Day 3 of December Daily! Today I'm continuing my Day 2 story about the tree with the great un-decorating and re-decorating! Finn and I bingewatched Mr. Christmas on Netflix and then spent the whole next day shopping for and redecorating the Christmas tree! Oops.
It was lovely spending time together just us, and since Finn is on Covid-lockdown due to his asthma, he was happy to get out of the house and go shopping!
I decided to do a “before and after” of our tree by creating a tree-shaped divider in the middle that has our “old” tree on the front, a closeup photo on the inside + my journaling, and the “new” tree on the back.
For the “before” and “after” die cuts, I cut them on my silhouette and then embossed them gold with my heat tool to add to the “glitter” of the trees.
I cut the trees with my silhouette, but as you can see, a tree is just a simple set of triangles stacked on top of each other, so you could easily sketch one out as a template and do this by hand! Just make sure the “back sides” of the two trees are reversed when you cut them out, or your trees won’t align!
I also made sure to leave a 1/2” rectangular border on the ring-side so the I would have somewhere to punch holes.
For the inside photo of the close up of Finn’s hands, I had a little weird white space at the bottom, so I used one of my circular embellishments I designed in one of my IGTV Advent videos using the Santa Claus and Co. Collection by Kristin Cronin-Barrow to add some fun and cover up that space. It says “Santa’s Workshop Little Helper” so I thought it was appropriate!
I finished the spread off by using this triangle cut file page I created in one of my IGTV December Advent videos.
I cut some photos of our ornaments + one of Finn in Target into triangles slightly larger than the holes in the page and adhered them with liquid glue, then sealed up the whole page with my tape runner. After it was sealed, I used two more oof the circular layered embellishments to decorate the page and break up all that patterned paper and triangle madness.
The last step was to emboss some cardstock stars gold and staple them to the outside edges of the tree pages to give the viewer somewhere to flip the page, AND to help delineate the page as its own separate interactive piece. I felt like, without these page flips, it all sort of blended together.