Are you a December Daily fan? Did you participate in Ali Edwards’ live Product Play event last week? I am and I did - but ended up with a completely different project than those featured in Product Play. A holiday craft cart!
I have created an album for December Daily every year, I think, since Ali started sharing it and I never get tired of these holiday albums. Previously, I would create a traditional 12x12 Christmas album, adding pages each year until it was full and then starting another album. This worked fine and I still love and display these albums at Christmas because they contain all the adorable preschool art and the barely legible Santa Wish Lists. (We’ll chat about scanning versus keeping originals in another post.)
My December Daily Cart
If you’re not familiar, the December Daily project features smaller format albums, from 4x6 to 6x8, and my first DD album was also the first time I’d used the smaller format. Each year Ali and her team-ups their game on the album kits and supplies, sold on her website, and followers eagerly await the moment they can get their hands on their box of goodies. I now love the smaller album format because it’s fun, doable, and easy to display on the coffee table.
For 2020, I decided to up my own game with a December Daily cart and it’s definitely put me in the holiday spirit! I’d seen a couple on Instagram and I had an extra Raskog cart sitting around, so why not? I gathered up all my DD supplies, the current kit plus leftovers from previous years, all my Christmas stamps, ribbon, and anything festive, and placed them in little tins I found at Hobby Lobby. My mom had recently given me a tiny glass jar with Santa on the lid and I used him to store sparkly goodness. I added another Santa jar from Home Goods and stashed holiday M&Ms - where my husband won’t find and eat them all! On the top shelf, I have my 2020 album, my unfinished 2019 album, and my finished 2018 album for inspiration.
I finished my cart in a couple of hours while listening to holiday music and the Product Play videos. Now all I need are a few twinkle lights and a big ribbon (I’ll update my photo soon) and I’m ready to begin!
Do you use a cart for your projects? Did you create pages from the Product Play event?
I want to see your December Daily projects! DM me a picture on Instagram @photoburrito.