Friday 31 December 2010

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe evening.

Jo

Thursday 30 December 2010

December Daily - 7th December


As promised here are some of my completed pages for my December Daily Album.

Day 8

The transparency I used was some pockets to which I added some festive papers and embellishments and sewed the pockets with red thread.

I added journalling to a slip of card which I added straight into my album.


The second page was created in Photoshop with views around the house and in the middle I added a digital Christmas twill and an Ali Edwards circle saying 'Winter Joy'.

Day 9

On day 9 we went to pick out our tree which is always one of the highlights of the festive season. I always take my camera and they are quite used to me now snapping away at all the lovely trees. The light on this photo is not very good due to the flare on the page protector, but you get the idea.

The transparency was a lovely flocked number by Fancy Pants and on the other side I included some photographs of the school nativity play. The journalling, along with the tag from the tree was placed in an enveloped and added to the album.



Day 10

This is the main picture which I re-sized to 6 x 6 for my album. It is of the kids decorating the main Christmas Tree.




The transparency is a dotted flocked one from Fancy Pants.


Journalling went straight on a card into the album and the right hand side page was two photos and some lovely embellishments, the one at top right is by K & Co and has 'snow' on the inside and the other is by American Crafts. The trees at the bottom are by Bazzill Basics.




I'll add more pages tomorrow. I hope you enjoy looking at these - let me know what you think.

Wednesday 29 December 2010

A Hectic December

I've been meaning to get back on to up-date the blog for ages but life in December has just been a bit mad. Not only was there shopping and preparation for Christmas but I got a job! It all happened very quickly and quite surprisingly. I started the week before Christmas but is not ideal but I just couldn't turn it down. It is working as a Teaching Assistant in a local comprehensive school and so far I love it!

So working and having everything that goes with Christmas through me off track on my December Daily.

However during the last few days I have been making a real effort to get it finished and am nearly there. I'll try and post some photos tomorrow so check back.

I hope you all had a great Christmas.

Thursday 9 December 2010

December Daily - 8th December




Today I haven't managed to photograph the completed page as the light is so bad. However, I have used this image as my large one on the left hand side of the page. It is of the fire in our lounge and we only light it at Christmas. As soon as it goes on it makes the room look like a Christmas card.


Yesterday morning I still had sick children in the house so I decorated the stairs and put up one of the four trees that we usually have around. The ribbon is the 'before' picture of the bow and then there is tree and the garland on our stairs. I love decorating the house as it really gets me in the festive mood.


Wednesday 8 December 2010

December Daily - 7th December


As I had two children off school sick yesterday we really didn't do a lot and didn't take too many photos. I did manage to get enough to complete this page though.

This photo is of a bowl of beads I have displayed in our lounge.

This is the opposite page. I used some cardboard packaging for one of the papers and the other was BasicGrey.

This is what the whole thing looks like in the album. I used a lovely Fancy Pants transparency to divide the pages and I am going to add journalling on a tag as I have done the last few days.

Tuesday 7 December 2010

December Daily - 6th December


Day 6 was quite an easy page for me to put together as I had lots of photos to choose from. We didn't have any snow but the frost was that hard it looked like it. After I had taken the kids to school I grabbed my camera and went into the garden to get the frosty shots which I've used here. I cropped this photo down in Photoshop to a 6 x 6.



I did another compilation for the opposite page of some frosty Ivy and a cobweb and my daughter trying out our new sledge on the sofa!


Here is what it looks like put together in the album. I'm going to add a journaling tag and slip it inside the album similar to what I did on the 4th.

The transparency I used is one I made myself. I've taken a photo of it with white paper behind so you can see it properly.


If anyone wants the recipe for those snowmen on day 4 (or as my Daughter calls them dough men!) let me know and I'll post it - it's really quite simple to make.

Jo

Monday 6 December 2010

December Daily - 5th December

Again, I have gone for an enlarged photograph on the left. This time it is of our Christmas stockings hanging from the mantle piece.


On the left is a compilation of photos of what we did on the 5th ie decorating the house. I added a strip of half the edge to the page to add a bit more fun and a strip of paper to co-ordinate along with a small chipboard heart from the Love Elsie Noel collection.


I wanted to add journalling to this page so I grabbed an off cut of cardboard and wrote on one side and added a photo to the other.


Hope you like it!

December Daily - 4th December




DAY 4

Yay! I think I have found my groove with the album now. One large photo on the left hand side of the album and a compilation of photos and journalling on the other. I had fun doing this page.

So, here is the left hand side. A photo of my gorgeous girls which I changed to black and white. This really suits the black transparency which I also have in the album for today.


On the right hand side is a compilation of photos which I put together in Photoshop, of various things we did on the 4th. The girls found a great recipe for salt dough snowmen and I think they have turned out really well. I have displayed them on a long plate which I generally use for garlic bread!


I wanted to add more journalling that the space would allow so I made this cute little envelope of some Scenic Route paper and slipped the journalling inside topped by a 7gypsies sticker.





Here is what it looks like put together in my album.


Saturday 4 December 2010

December Daily - 3rd December

Yesterday was a fun but very busy day but the highlight was going to see JLS in the evening with my 9 year old daughter who is a huge fan.

I didn't take my camera with me so I took a photo of the programme and used this as the photo page.

I then opened up a text box in word and printed it directly onto the cardstock for day 3. I decorated the edges with some Autumn Leaves paper and I have attached a snowflake brad and a bit of the ticker tape that came down at the end of the show to the bottom of the page (sorry, you can't see this). I am going to get out my sewing machine tomorrow and sew one of the tickets onto the reverse of the transparency with blue thread.

I used one of the transparencies that I made myself which has blue snowflakes on.

This is how it looks in my album.


Friday 3 December 2010

December Daily - 2nd December


Here is my Day 2 page:



and put together:

And how it looks in my album with the transparency on top.


I am finding scrapping 6 x 6 quite a challenge as I like to use big photos and will often layer digital elements on top. I don't really think I'm in the swing of things yet, but I keep reminding myself to keep it simple. I'm not really pleased with this page but hey, it's done so I'm moving on to today - Day 3!




Thursday 2 December 2010

December Daily - 1st December



I got stuck into the first page of my December Daily Album today and here it is:

I used the photo from yesterday of snow falling and an Ali Edwards word which I layered over the top of it in Adobe Photoshop. I then stuck it down and used a Bazzill 'half the edge' strip and added some brief journaling. On the opposite page I wrote some more detailed journaling about the day. I swapped my transparencies around as I thought this one suited the colours of the pictures better than a black one that was in there before.


I hope you like it.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Let it snow,let it snow let it snow!



We had our first snow of the year yesterday and although it was only a sprinkling, it was very exciting as we don't often get any of the white stuff. Today we had more snow and I took this photo which has made an appearance on the first page of my December Daily Album.


I am really looking forward to starting my December Daily again, although I can't quite believe that it's been 12 months since I did it last.

This year I am going for simple! Simple photos, simple embellishments and simple journaling - I don't need any extra stress at this time of the year so 'simple' will be my overriding thought when putting my album together this year.

I do intend to post my pages but I didn't complete today's until late in the afternoon so I didn't take a photo, but I'll post it tomorrow.