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.

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!