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2017 was the first time that I ever made foundation pages for my December project. Since I don't do daily pages, my project starts the day after Thanksgiving and up until Christmas day or the day after. It's all about Christmas, Winter and all the fun leading up to it. I usually have many activities planned beforehand and that's where my foundation pages come in. I have an idea of what I'll be documenting and prepare those pages in advance. The designs from Document Your December help a lot with prompts and since it's all one color scheme it helps keep my album cohesive all throughout. There is less to think about, like what kits to use, and not having to make that choice is one less stress in December.
Last year I prepared my pages in advance, I still had the freedom to add or move things around so there was a lot of wiggle room for me. Preparing the foundation pages also made me think more about how many photos I wanted to take and the orientation (vertical or horizontal). It was a constraint I needed or otherwise I would have taken more photos than I needed to tell the story. By the time I started DYD all I had to do was add photos to my photo spots and journaling.
These are my foundation pages with the final page next to it, some of them I had to flip, rotate or make bigger changes but in the end I was able to enjoy December more and be finished with this project before the year was over:
These are around half of the pages in my book, I never got around to posting them all. I had to make more pages in the end since my book was 30 pages total and more unplanned Christmas thing happened. I had so much fun working on this album and I hope you can find some inspiration here to maybe create some foundation pages if that works for you. I know that I can't wait to start mine for this year, I may have to turn on that Christmas music to get me in the Christmas spirit!
2017 was the first time that I ever made foundation pages for my December project. Since I don't do daily pages, my project starts the day after Thanksgiving and up until Christmas day or the day after. It's all about Christmas, Winter and all the fun leading up to it. I usually have many activities planned beforehand and that's where my foundation pages come in. I have an idea of what I'll be documenting and prepare those pages in advance. The designs from Document Your December help a lot with prompts and since it's all one color scheme it helps keep my album cohesive all throughout. There is less to think about, like what kits to use, and not having to make that choice is one less stress in December.
Last year I prepared my pages in advance, I still had the freedom to add or move things around so there was a lot of wiggle room for me. Preparing the foundation pages also made me think more about how many photos I wanted to take and the orientation (vertical or horizontal). It was a constraint I needed or otherwise I would have taken more photos than I needed to tell the story. By the time I started DYD all I had to do was add photos to my photo spots and journaling.
These are my foundation pages with the final page next to it, some of them I had to flip, rotate or make bigger changes but in the end I was able to enjoy December more and be finished with this project before the year was over:
These are around half of the pages in my book, I never got around to posting them all. I had to make more pages in the end since my book was 30 pages total and more unplanned Christmas thing happened. I had so much fun working on this album and I hope you can find some inspiration here to maybe create some foundation pages if that works for you. I know that I can't wait to start mine for this year, I may have to turn on that Christmas music to get me in the Christmas spirit!
