December Daily

More photos of my December Daily - I am so close to finishing it now .... hopefully tomorrow!

Day 14

Today's photo is of some new tops that I bought for work. As I haven't worked in such a long time I absolutely nothing to wear so I had a little shopping trip. I haven't been clothes shopping in such a long time and I really enjoyed myself so I thought I would record it in today's page. The embellishment is by American Crafts and I didn't really think that I would be able to use an embellishment which included grey but this page was perfect for it.

How it looks in the album. I added in a label to the page.


I added a second label to the right hand page as the colour just looked so festive and I had lots of embellishments to match it!



Day 15

This photo is of my Christmas plates. I bought them ages ago and they come out every year on the 1st December.


This is how the album looks in the album. (oops - that's the toe of my slipper in the corner!)



The second page is made up of a Christmas card that the kids designed in school and was professionally printed. It was the perfect size for this page. I punched out their names on the verse of the card and stapled it directly to the page protector. The ribbon is old stash by Junkitz.


Day 16

This is just a snap I took at bedtime. I drew a frame and wrote directly onto the photo.



How it looks in the album with the laminated lace cardstock.


On the other page there are two more photos and some digital papers. On one I added a 'your story' layer from Ali Edwards Yesterday and Today class and on the other an epoxy embellishment by Love Elsie and a Basic Grey rub-on. The other embellishments are from Love Elsie and the paper is Basic Grey. I am determined to use up my old stash!

Day 17

This is my daughter on her way to a sleep over at her friends - hence the suitcase. We had just had a few snow flurries up until this point which was about 6pm.

How it looks in the album. The 'transparency' is a page divider with nik naks added in to it. I added the journaling to a separate page (by Making Memories) and slotted it right into the album.


The second page is of our street later on in the evening - covered in snow. It looked beautiful and I think the orange tinge from the street light adds to the atmosphere. I added a Basicgrey rub-on and a Bazzill half the edge embellishment as well as an old KI Memories word sticker.

December Daily

Here are more pages from my December Daily.

Day 11

My second eldest daughter was 8 and this photo was taken at her party. I love this photo of her to which I added some text in Photoshop. The second page was journaling





Here is how it looks in the album. The transparency is a laminated KI Memories lace paper.

Day 12

For her birthday she got a pink Christmas tree together with pink lights and decorations - bet you can't guess what her favourite colour is!


I added the journalling to a simple card and added that directly into the album. The right hand side of the album consisted of more photo embellished with paper from Fancy Pants and Love Elsie Noel chipboard buttons.


Day 13

This photo is of our tree to which I added some simple text. I'm thinking I may use this image for some Christmas cards next year.

The second page was journalling decorated with some scrap paper from Basic Grey, stickers by 7gypsies and a large ornament sticker from American Crafts. I love the simplicity of this page.


Will post more soon!

Happy New Year!

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

Jo

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.

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.

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.

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.