December Daily 2021: Day 2 | A Very Harry Christmas
Day Two of my December Daily is a story that always gets told in the beginning of the album - our Christmas tree! IT normally goes up the day after Thanksgiving, so it gets to kick off our holiday season AND our holiday album!
This year, I woke up at 2 a.m. one night obsessing over the thought of a Harry Potter tree because my youngest is currently DEVOURING the books, reading night and day and sometimes late into the night on school nights, much to my amusement and annoyance. He’s over the Santa magic this year, so I thought we could create some new magic with the tree.
I spent WEEKS creating ornaments and planning this tree, so it deserved an elegant and beautiful page in my album to showcase it.
The first thing I did was create two full-page flaps on either side of my spread to serve two purposes, one, it creates a beautiful frame for the spread with the Christmas tree in both day and night view, and two, it also provided a bit more space to hide journaling and a photo of ornaments I created that had a very vertical orientation.
When you open it up the flaps, it reveals the center of the spread fully and makes quite the impact visually!
In the center, I used Bazzil card stock embossed with tiny dots, which I think really upgraded the look, and then backed five 2.75” circular photos with 3” gold glitter circle backings and silver glitter ornament toppers created from the Retro Ornament Dies set I designed for Catherine Pooler.
I decided to back the center photo that spans both pages with a wreath I created from a pine bough in The Boy Who Lived Collection by myself and Flergs so it could be the literal centerpiece and really stand out.
I wanted the string to have impact while remaining neutral, so I used white paper twine to “hang” the ornaments and curled the string in places where it was longer, stapling it down where necessary.
I wrapped the title: “A Very Harry Christmas,”, around the center wreath, using an elegant letter sticker from Freckled Fawn that was just the right size.
Finally, I had some faux “wood veneer” ornaments I originally created for the tree using The Boy Who Lived Collection and printable shrinky-dink paper that were MUCH too small to go on the tree, so I saved them to scrap ABOUT the tree and placed them symmetrically on this page in between the ornaments!
The end result is so elegant and perfect!