Foundation Pages - DYD 2018

Hello, everyone!
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!

 

Beautiful pages, they look so good already!

 

Thank you, I already have many in the process and they will be very similar. I find pocket style easier for me.

 

Thank you so much Jenn!

 

I would love to see what everyone is working on! I have been busy making foundation pages and have made 11 so far, my goal is 20! Here are the first 8:

 

I get what you mean about not knowing how many photos you will take. What I ended up doing, you can see in some of my pages from last year, was that I had one big photo spot and divided it up into more smaller photo spots. Or the opposite. The most important part is documenting your memories, I used to work on the pages as I went along when I started in 2012.

 

These look great, can’t wait to see more!

 

Another set of foundation pages, I still have 8 more to go...