Photo Book Project Bundle: Story Prompts + Template Album No. 10

aA Project 2026: 25 Daily Inspiration Emails + 26 Photo Book Templates | Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Affinity by Canva & Paint Shop Pro

Photo books hold the photos and memories that matter. They put those forgotten snapshots in hands where they can be seen, revisited, and enjoyed. Better still, they spark conversations and bring people together. An end-of-year project is a nostalgic, joyful, and meaningful way to make this season yours. This photo book project bundle gives you the prompts to find those stories and the pages to showcase those photos and memories.

Every day at midnight, December 1 to 25, 2026, a daily email brings you one story word and a digital download. Meanwhile, a new Project Template Album No. 10 gives you 25 numbered pages and an end page, ready for your photos. Together, they take you from a blank screen to a photo book you can print before New Year’s Eve or by the end of winter. The timeline is always up to you.

Why Having Both Makes Starting Easy

Most photo books stall in two ways: where to keep your photos and what to say about them. Both problems are common, and we’ll solve them both over the next month or two.

A single word tells you what you can say and pinpoints the memory. The daily emails provide that focal point, along with ideas to tease it into a story. The template album then provides a home for the photos that help you drop in your photos to celebrate and memorialize the memory. Each page comes with frames, blended masks, and numbers already in place, so you simply add your own photos, stories, and digital supplies.

As a result, you spend your time venturing down memory lane and reminiscing instead of being overwhelmed by photo organization and layout decisions.

What You Get in the Photo Book Project Bundle

There are no lessons to sit through. Instead, you get two ways to keep your pages moving, plus a bonus.

• 25 daily inspiration emails. Each one brings a story word, design ideas, a WordART cluster, and a Stashed Stories Notion.
• Project Template Album No. 10. Twenty-six 12 x 12 holiday templates (will be added to your Anna Aspnes Designs account by Black Friday).
• Early access to the Black Friday 2026 ArtPlay MiniPalette Advent. Bundle buyers save big 🙂
• Free live sessions from November through January, with a limited-time replay.

The 2 Parts of Your Photo Book Project

1. The Daily Story Prompts

First, an email arrives in the wee hours from December 1 to 25. It opens with one word, then adds meanings, similar words, quotes, and title ideas. Next come page ideas and a technique to try if you feel like it.

Every email also includes a coordinating WordART cluster with a Stashed Stories Notion. Drag it onto your page, and optionally re-arrange or personalize it using supplies you already have in your stash. Your story will officially be underway.

2. Project Template Album No. 10

Next, the album gives you somewhere to house those stories. Here is what you can expect:

• Blended, layered pages that suit daily December stories, holiday photos, and the big and small events of your year.
• Single pages that also work together as double-page spreads.
• Wooden numbered pages from 1 to 25, plus an extra photo book “end” page.
• Bonus numbers for days 27 to 31 in .png format, with a Drop Shadow Layer Style (.asl).
• A complementary cover set for photo book printing.
• All evergreen foliage elements and paper textures sit on separate layers, so you can remove them to customize.
• Every layer style, mask, gold splatter, star, wooden number, frame, brushwork, stitching, and text box you see in the previews is included.

Simply clip your images to the FotoBlendz and frame masks. Then add your own personalization with DigitalART supplies and words. The templates work with the clipping mask function or by recoloring in Adobe Photoshop, Elements, Affinity by Canva, or Paint Shop Pro.

Note that these templates will coordinate with last year’s Holiday Template Album No. 5. If you want more than 25 pages, you can double up and mix the two albums.

New to template collections? Find guidance at Anna Aspnes Designs, or watch this free video tutorial.

Who Is This Photo Book Project Bundle For?

• You want to finish a photo book this holiday season and like having a daily nudge.
• You have plenty of photos, but finding the story behind them is hard.
• Pages that are ready to fill appeal to you more than designing from scratch.
• Adding customizable WordART and Stashed Stories downloads to your stash sounds like fun.
• Beginners and seasoned scrapbookers will be at home and welcome.

What Is Included

• 25 daily emails, delivered in the middle of the night (MST), December 1 to 25, 2026.
• 25 WordART clusters plus Stashed Stories Notion downloads, one with each email.
• Project Template Album No. 10, 26 templates, available from Oscraps on Black Friday ($26 value).
• Early access to the Black Friday 2026 ArtPlay MiniPalette Advent.

Classes to Go With Your Photo Book Project

Want more guidance on telling your stories and building your albums? These three classes pair well with the project.

• Storytelling Scrapbooking Class. Find and tell the story behind your photos.
• Memory-Keeping Made Easy. Simplify the way you build your digital scrapbook albums.
• Stashed Stories Class. Story ideas and techniques to use on your pages.

Furthermore, you can browse the full store for every other class I teach.

Free Live Sessions

This year, the project will work a little differently. After many years of teaching this project, everything I know about making photo books already lives in my store. So instead of lessons, I plan to host more casual free live sessions from November through January. We commune, we inspire, and I’ll share how my pages come together.

What Makes This Photo Book Project Bundle So Great!

Most photo book prompts give you a question and leave you to it. In contrast, this bundle gives you a word, the thinking behind it, and the pages to bring it all together.

Furthermore, it all coordinates to create cohesive photo book pages. This bundle also costs less than buying each part on its own.

Because the Year Deserves a Book

December has a way of bringing the past back to the present. It is the right time to look through your photos and close the year. With a word each day and a page ready for each one, you might end the month holding a book of stories only you can tell.

Got questions? Email anytime at classes@annaaspnesdesigns.com