December Daily 2009 : Day One

Hey Bethany - you can always just use your blog as a way to document the month + create later (or not). You can do it!!!!

Nice start :)
You print all those photos by yourself? Doesn't the color fade after time? That's always happening to my pictures :/

Nice! You are amazing:) Ali, I was wondering if you have considered creating a December Daily template for a Shutterfly digital album? Or maybe you have already and I've been living under a rock?

Looks great -- took my photo this morning and going to put it together tonight --- are you going to set up a Flickr gallery like last year?

I had to also thank you for your support of JDRF. I'm a Type 1 diabetic, and so appreciate your generosity!

I'm ready to go on Day 1 - we're also have the Lego Advent. It's still a surprise in our house. Can't wait to see my little man's face. And for my little girl - the new Xmas Fancy Nancy book. I couldn't wait until Christmas to give it to her. Should make for a good day 1 photo!

I must be channeling my inner Ali as last night (before seeing this post) I worked on a little tag to put on the corner of my photo, similar to what you have done. Mine says "Remember the simple joys". I'll be getting my photos printed later this week, when I have a car and can get to the store.
I've never seen the Lego advent before. Super cool for boys.

YEAH!!! December Daily has started...

Can't wait to see more! I have one question ~ how do you change the color of the of the December overlay? I have those but I'm still figuring out photoshop!

I am so glad I finally finished my foundation pages. Now the real fun begins. I am so happy too that you are a proponent of simplicity...I need that in my life right now. Todays page with Simon is just perfect.

Ali,
The fun begins. Yeah! Question for you (kind of a long one)- last year I jumped right into the whole scrapbooking process with the December Daily and had a great time.
One thing though that I did not do last year was incorporate digital elements with the paper scrapbooking. I bought the 25 days photo overlays and just printed them out and used them as journaling cards. But I would love to be able to use it in photoshop as an overlay as you did for today's picture. Do you know of a quick tutorial that I could access to learn how to do this? Thanks for any help.
Jen

Jen,
There is a great article on designer digitals on how to do this..
http://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/tips/questions/28/How+do+I+use+an+overlay%3F
I can't wait to get started on my album tonight.

I have been so excited for today to come. I can't wait to get home from work and work on my dec 1st page! Thanks for all the inspiration!

Anticipated this day !!!!!!!!!!! YEAH December Daily Bring it on.... Putting up our advent tree tonight will document that. Love the page.
Annette

I'm going to try and work on my album daily. Whew! Day one down! So far, so good!

i had totally not thot of that!! hmmmmmm
that could totally work!!! ok! YAY!!! yeah!!! i think that is a fabulous idear :)
thank you!!! thank you thank you thank you!!! thanks for all the inspiration! & for this album idea & thank you for taking the time to read ur blog comments & responding to my whimpering (lol) & giving me such a great idea! i know it seems like such a logical & easy idea -- but it totally didnt even occur to me!! :)
so YAY!! i am totally excited about doing this again!!! woohoo!!! & maybe i can find time to do the whole album this weekend or something like that... yep
this is great! YAY!!! thanks Ali!! for getting me excited bout this again & fer getting my mojo going again :) Woot!!!!
have a great night!! :)
♥B

Guess what MY Dec 1 photo is of? My son opening his first window on his Lego Pirate advent set !! We come from places so far apart, from all over the world yet really we are all the same - that's comforting somehow - lol.

Is Life Artist in print again or did you just have extra copies from before? I know you had mentioned that you were working on getting a different publisher.
This is my first year doing this album though I am calling it a Holiday Daily as I started with Thanksgiving and will go through New Year's. I am having a great time with it (all digi) and have really appreciated the journaling prompts from Jessica Sprague's "Holidays In Hand" class. I got so excited I pre-made a few day's pages so that I would have completed pages on those days during the month where scrapping just wasn't going to happen. If none of those days pop up then I will just have extra journaling to include. The stories were definitely worth telling no matter where their final home is.
Thanks for sharing with us!

Taking my photo tonight of us putting up our tree - wahoo !!!

Hi Ali,
How did you change the color of the overlay? I managed to change the words to white, but the box and line under the words is still black. Thanks.