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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.