Photo-A-Day Calendar, Living Your Gratitude, & A Stamp Update
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[ Layout Supplies : Kraft Cardstock: Bazzill Basics; Patterned Paper: Making Memories; Capture The Moment Stamp: Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday; Word Stickers: from a bunch of different 7gypsies 97% Complete Sticker Sheets; "You're The Best" Chipboard Circle: Scenic Route; Other: random ribbon ]
Happy Friday.
Any one else notice how fast the weeks seem to be going lately? Sometimes I feel like I just blink and it is already Friday again.
A couple product announcements for today:
First, my new stamps are back in stock at Technique Tuesday. You can check them out here:
Today You
Remember
Capture the Moment
I also wanted to share a two new things that I have recently released through Designer Digitals (new products are added to the store every Sunday) and am really excited about as the are building blocks for very cool projects. Definitely weekend creative sort of material.
2009 Photo Calendar Layered Template : This layered template is designed to hold an entire month of photos for each of the 12 months in 2009. The download also includes a blank calender that you could use for this year or any year. Great for Photo A Day/365 projects or capturing a specific month in your life. 12x12.
I am thinking about embarking on another 365 project for nex year (I started one of just me this year and got sidetracked after about the first month). Especially with a new baby in the house I think my camera will be getting quite a bit of use this next year and I envision widening the project to just be a photo a day rather than a self-portrait a day. Even just documenting the baby's first month in this format would be really cool.
The background is customizable or you can just leave it a nice clean white.
You can learn more about working with layered templates here.
Live Your Gratitude Daily Calendar : This is my other favorite recent release and is based on a minibook I created for my newest book Sharing Your Story. It's a place to document your own personal everyday gratitudes and makes a great gift (thinking towards the holidays). You do not need to have Photoshop for this product as it comes with PDF files for easy printing. 8 inches x 8 inches.
Here's a peek at the book that appeared in Sharing Your Story:
The minibook I used as a foundation for this project is a 7gypsies Naked Composition Journal. I simply printed out the gratitude pages on cream cardstock, rounded the corners, and adhered each page into the book. The cover includes a bunch of circle-punched patterns and is covered with gel medium (you could use mod podge as well).
Hoping you all have a great weekend and get a chance to work on your week in the life albums. Don't wait too long to put those books together. It is so worth the effort. That's a reminder to me as much as it is to you!
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing...I can't wait to get my hands on your stamps!
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Ali, Thank you so much for all the great inspiration you share here. Because of you I joined flickr.com last year and have been participating in a photo a day group. It's been a blast and is so fun to look at the pictures grouped by month. I use the mosaic maker on fd's flickr toys and was thinking of printing them out and scrapping them somehow. Now you've made that even easier. You rock!!!
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I love this project! I am going to do it once a month I hope forever! I take a lot of pictures and thought I was capturing the everyday ordinary stuff of our life but realized in starting this project that I was missing a ton!
I loved having my camera with me everywhere and I am slowly putting the photos together! I have my first day done and hope to scrapbook a day every few days so I will be ready to start this again in November! :)
I will print a book each year with 12 weeks of our regular, everyday, fantastic, God-given lives! :) Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Here is the link where I will post my pages!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=63003&l=4bbe7&id=710714895
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I need to start my project again. I only lasted 2 days, my 3rd day was a sad day and I didn't want to document it. I think I'll start tomorrow morning. Thanks for the inspiration!
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I simply adore your blog and all the work you produce. I have just purchased the 25 days of December, the 2009 calendar and the Story of Today templates/overlays and cannot wait to start planning my pages. Thank you for such wonderful inspiration and looking forward to seeing so much more.
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These are very nice stamps Ali! I already ordered the minute I saw it here. =D
Keep it up! And thank you for all the inspiration!
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Ali,
Several weeks ago (potentiall months, time gets away from me) you were looking for clear stamp storage ideas, I think this was back when you were doing a Q&A session. Well, I finally got around to posting my system on my blog and I wanted to share it with you as I think it is relatively unique, relatively inexpensive, and easy.
You can find the post on my blog here:
http://techniquespeak.blogspot.com/
Thanks! I love your work BTW.
Amanda
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Thank you,thank you, thank you for coming out with this template. I've been trying to find something like this for a while now, and when I saw it in your new book, I was really hoping!
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I scraplifted your page above for my daughters 1st day of school pages. Loves it!
Thanks for all of the inspiration.
ChanelD
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