December Daily 2010 | Day Eight
Tags:
Welcome to Day Eight!
A day without photos for me. I did take some (including one I just took tonight of Simon in his Santa hat that I'll likely use tomorrow), but decided to use my journaling from this post. Behind the journaling I added one of the words from my Painted Christmas Words package. That story, along with a note Simon wrote me, is my Day Eight.
Here's a look at that first page:
In Photoshop I opened the Remember Template from the 6×8 December Daily Layered Template package, made the background white, drew a new text box with the Type tool and then copied and pasted my journaling from my Loving post. I made the "Loving" at the beginning of each sentence bold and red. I also changed the color of the frame to a light brown.
Next I opened the Joy.png file from my Painted Christmas Words package and enlarged it by dragging it from the corner (I work in Photoshop CS4 so I need to hold down the shift key while doing this to maintain the correct proportions). Edit/Fill to recolor and then I adjusted the opacity to about 20% by moving the slider at the top of the layers palette. I moved it down in the layer palette to just above the background.
Printed the whole thing on cardstock. I'm using the same Cream Puff cardstock from Bazzill throughout my album.
Along the edge I trimmed a tag from this set and added a little metal key. Here's a close-up look at that part of the page:
I used adhesive and just a bit of stitching along the bottom of the tag.
And page two:
Lately Simon's been reaching for my 12x12 white cardstock when he wants to write me a note (which usually takes up just a bit of the page). That was the case with this note. Since I couldn't fit it onto the page as he had written it (straight across the top of the 12x12) I decided to cut out each word and paste it back together.
After adhering I ran it through the sewing machine to create the lines.
I definitely could have left out the "th" that he crossed out, but I liked it.
Finished off the page with a strip of pattern paper, a couple little gold gems (I think these came from Micheal's - they were in a little strip and I trimmed off individual ones), and a 7gypsies label sticker with Simon's name and age.
SUPPLIES : Ali Edwards Painted Christmas Words; Small Gold Jems; Bronze Key (unknown source); Making Memories Clasp; The Girls Paperie Pattern Paper; Cavallini Christmas Cheer Gift Tags; Hamby Red Vintage Plaid; Ali Edwards Christmas Boxes; American Crafts Playroom Thickers (in green here); Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint Dash of Red: Two Peas | Scrapbook.com; Ali Edwards 2010 6×8 December Daily overlays; Ali Edwards 6×8 December Daily Layered Templates
All posts related to December Daily can be found here.
TODAY'S POST SPONSORED BY :shimelle.com
Since 2004, Shimelle has encouraged creative women to take back the holidays with the online class Journal your Christmas. Every day, participants receive detailed prompts designed to make journaling easy, plus crafty ideas and photography tips too. JYC alums sing the praises of this class: "The prompts are seriously amazing and help you document and reflect on the holidays in a deeper way," "without doubt my favourite," "I *love* JYC". The class includes permanent membership so you can join in as many Christmases as you would like at no extra cost. Join Journal your Christmas at any time or gift it to a friend, or choose any class at shimelle.com to kickstart your creativity!
SHARE A LINK TO YOUR DAY EIGHT
I’d love to have you include a link to your DAY EIGHT page here. Please link directly to your post or image on Flickr vs. your general blog link. Thank you! Also – don’t feel like you need to leave a comment!
Comments
Sign in or sign up to comment.
82 comments
[...] above is my sad attempt to keep up with the December Daily over at Ali Edwards. Parker (4 years old) is standing in front of our tree singing Christmas carols…and getting [...]
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Again, I want to be you when I grow up! Your pages are beautiful.
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I promised to get back with a question regarding the recoloring, and here it comes :-)
Do you know what (or if there is any) the difference is between by using the Edit/Fill to choose color, and that one where you double-click on the layer, click on the Color Overlay, and from there choose the color?
I tried both of them now (I have so far only known of the Color Overlay), and don't think I can see any difference, so maybe it's just two ways of doing the same thing. (But I'll keep thinking of it until I know :-)
I also want to thank you for describing the change of the opacity of the layer - that is a new thing learnt for me today! :-)
Thank you!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
the painted words - joy - as the background how clever how you lowered the opacity and put it behind your journaling. i bought it already, but i wouldn't have never thought to do that - i love it. thanks again for the inspiration! i am 2 days behind on decdaily, but hoping to catch up today!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
loving the fun things you are doing with your book this year!
My book this year is all about simplicity....makes it much easier to keep up with it if I don't 'junk it up'! =)
Happy Holidays!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I had no idea that I needed those painted words! But I guess I do. lol Great layout!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Love seeing a day with words....a kind of permission to not have to have photos everyday (I know its our own daily & we can do whatever we want, but still its a kind of 'Ali Permission' kind of thing! :>). I really like that you took previous writing/journaling from a previous post and so sweet with Simon's writing. I'm always looking for ways to shrink down the kidlet's notes, drawings, etc. and what's nice here is that its still the original vs. a photo or digi scan that shrunk & printed. A gal's gotta have options, right?! :>
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Thnaks so much for including an example of a day without a photo! You have shown how cool that can be.
Also, I was a bit late asking a day or so ago, but I really love the red foil strips you got from Paper Valise, but they don't seem to have them anymore - do you know anywhere else I could get them?
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Super cute note from Simon Ali :) Thanks for explaining the above..been wondering how to do that! :) I enjoy seeing what you will come up with every day- first thing I do in the morning when I get up LOL Working on getting caught up from the past few days... thanks for the inspiration :)
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Thanks for the inspiration for days without (great) pictures! Simon's handwriting is precious and worth many great pictures ;) I love the little gold gems on your patterned paper.
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Love how you had a "journaling only" page and that you did it over the word art. Very cool. And Simon's note is adorable!
I borrowed two of your ideas for my pages today - I took a photo of myself and then journaled some thoughts right onto the photo. Love the effect.
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I honestly love the crossed out TH on the page it makes it so much more realistic and meaningful!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I was just scrolling the December Daily Flickr group and commented on this one without even realizing it was yours. I so, so love that crossed out “Th”and all the texture created with the stitching and the words not being fastened down all the way. I WILL do paper next year.
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I started DD late and seemed to take ages to put the bones of my album together but today I finally caught up!! I am already totally in love with this album, I have less than perfect Photos for some days but I'm just letting it go and enjoying the process of capturing these days. I'm even hand writing my journalng - shock, horror! (I never do that EVER!!). The whole album is made from my stash, nothing except the binder was bought for it and it's shocking how much Christmas stuff I have and how long I've had it for. This is quite simply a great project!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
this is a really love this layout. I have found (like today) i didn't really have a photo to go with what I wanted to say. so this is a good reminder that you dont HAVE to have a photo. I'm actually looking forward to next year December Daily as not only will my son be a little older (henry will be 2 this sundsy)to get int Christmas, but I'll have my printer and should have photoshop and have digital elements encluded. So i can't wait till next Christmas!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
also, thanks to your site have have lernt quite a lot so its one of the reasons I am also looking forward to next years dd. :)
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
I haven't taken a single picture yet today and was starting to fret about no pictures. Refreshing to see your great solution (even though it wasn't that you didn't have a picture worth using).
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Love the cut up note--I have a note from my son I wanted to include, but it was too big. I was still contemplating ideas when I saw this.
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
favorite!
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.
Seriously, this is my favorite so far! I just love the simplicity, the journalling, the embellishment. This is so much fun--following your DD. Maybe I'll give it a try next year :-)
Replies
Sign in or sign up to reply.