December Daily : Day Six
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Today I am celebrating a great little tradition around here that Simon really loves: a Russian nesting doll. Here's the full view (just one page today):
I started off with a 4x6 photo (includes a Holiday Title + Journal Photo Overlay added in Photoshop) that was printed here at home (for more information on working with digital overlays check out this link). I trimmed the page around the photo down to 6 inches x 9 inches because I knew I wanted the entire page to end up that size and I wanted that photo placed in the top right corner.
I temporarily removed the circle #6 card (gently) and adhered the red felt piece on top of the printed photo (lining up the scalloped ribbon edge with the line on the overlay). I turned the entire thing over and trimmed off the excess red felt with a craft knife.
I cut a piece of American Crafts patterned paper to size and adhered it in the bottom right corner. I added new foam squares to the back of the circle card and adhered it in place.
I typed up and printed out my journaling onto white paper and cut into strips.
Strips are adhered with Therm-O-Web's SuperTape.
And here's a look at the before page:
[ Creative Cafe Dark Red Polka Dot Felt; vintage circle 6 card; American Crafts Ribbon #57604 ]
Celebrate the season.Read more about the concept of a December Daily Album and links to all related posts here. See many more examples from participants in the Flickr December Daily Group.
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this is a beautiful page.
I'm struggling today with a ton of events/photos from the weekend; striving edit/get to the core of things. the daily part is motivating me to push on and just get it done, rather than wait for tomorrow. that can be a good thing for me.
I'm so glad I'm doing this project and posting daily IS a huge motivator. Thank you, Ali.
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I just wanted to thank you for being such an inspiration to me. Your day "5" page with the divided page protector really inspried me to play around with one that I had on hand. I've nevr worked with anything transparent, but I'm qickly learning how much fun it is! Thanks so much for the inspiration.
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so many ideas !! THANKS TO SHARE !
like the felt pocket !! i'm beginning; i maked the album, and i take one photo a day...so fun !
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Ali, your book is turning out so beautiful!
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Ali, I just love the way that you are flexible in the pages you create; I love that you have a starting point for the page but are not afraid to alter the design to fit the photo you decide to use and the vision you have at that time.
I'm not doing a December album as I had planned this year (was going to use the Fa La La collection from MM) as I am recovering from surgery, but I think I might do the same thing at a different time of year...Maybe in May, for the end of school, or in August as we gear up again for school.
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Great perspecitve on that photo. Also -- that card (#6) is so cool!
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I am doing the daily album adn mixing it with Shimelle's christmas journal. I am loving being able to do both. I have uploaded up t o day six on my blog.
And Ali I am loving your pages.I love all the different sizes and shapes of them.
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Ali, I'm having so much fun watching you make your album as I am making my own. Thank you for this post especially - I found myself tweaking things right off the bat and thought, Hmmmm, do I have the wrong idea here? I'm glad to see you do it, too!!
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love your ideas Ali! thank you for the inspirations :)
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