Fun and stress-free is my goal, too!
Still not done with my huge hybrid project from last year, so this year I decided to do it digital, but I chose a page format that I can print, and I might do that. Undecided yet, though, lol.
I created a foundation page for all my pages that I basically only need to duplicate, and then fill up with papers and elements, but I use three papers at the most, and try to limit the embellies to two clusters. Having a foundation page that works as my template is a huge help to speeding up the process. I'm doing photos on one side, together with Traci's slip-ins (love how that is turning out), and my journaling on the other page.
For the foundation page, I took Ali Edward's inspiration, and created an overlay with a date cluster in the corner. Prepared everything beforehand, so now I just need to choose the day of the week, month, and quickly edit the number for the day, and I can easily recolor everything to match my pages.
Lastly, I'm a sucker for Christmas kits, have a ton of them, and still have lots of them on my wishlist, and I'm planning to use them all. So, basically, I try to find a kit that will work with the colors and theme of my photos. (It'll be most likely that I'll use a different kit for each day.)
Started with my project last week already, so here are a few of my pages:
For all pages, here's the link in the December Daily Thread.