***CLOSED/Winner Announced*** Clean Slate Challenge - DYD 2018

I have this same issue as well, we watch our first Christmas movie of the year on Thanksgiving night. This is why I don't actually call my project anything that has to do with December. Mine is just "The Stories of Christmas 20xx". I wanted something I could be consistent with and use each year, but still gave me the flexibility to change up how I did the project if I wanted to.

293 photos? That's a great problem to have! But definitely overwhelming. Pocket pages are a great way to get all of those photos scrapped right away. If you want to, do a more traditionally scrapped intro page for each event and then put the rest of the photos into pockets. There are so many cute pocket cards in the store that could be used for bits of journaling or just filler.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do! Can't wait to see your pages!

 

Ok... so the other day I decided to look back on my very first attempt at DYD... Christmas 2013. I had started out strong and fizzled out mid-month. I had two things working against me... 1) I was set on having a daily approach and even named my project December Daily, so when I missed a day or two, I thought I had messed the whole thing up. 2) I had picked one set of templates to work with for the month and they didn't really work for those days when I just had one marginal cell phone photo to work with. A third, more minor thing contributed to my demise as well... I was not getting my single and double page spreads to work out right. So, I quit and left it for five years.

So today, on my way out the front door on our way to church, I slipped on the ice and fell the entire way down our front stairs. I'm fine, just sore and bruised, but it gave me a day to just put my feet up and scrap. I decided that I would tackle this project and complete it. I was basically through the 16th, I could do this. Thankfully I took a very simple, graphic approach that year, so it was easy to pick up where I left off. I decided to use Soco's new templates for those one photo layouts and used Just Jaimee's new Christmas Hand Lettering set as my filler. Anyway, I am DONE!!! It's so crazy how five years ago I was so caught up on those things I listed above, that I couldn't see past them to finish my book. Anyway, here's my book... Christmas 2013. It's all TLP products past or present, but I was doing so many pages today that I didn't post any of the new ones in the gallery.

 

Thanks! I'm going to be quite colorful for Thanksgiving

 

Oh! I hate it when I do that! I haven't done it with DYD, but I did with a trip album... I worked on pages during MOC and for the monthly challenges and instead of putting them in one trip folder, I had them scattered in various MOC and challenge folders...sigh.

Glad you got them tracked down!!