Creating Your Own Christmas Card

Hello friends! I'm back with a second post today! I was going to share this with you next week but then realized that many are mailing cards out now so why wait!  

So, here is a card I created as an example of what you can do for your family card.

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1. I simply opened up my Photoshop Elements program and created a size I wanted for the card. It's a good idea to first check and see what size cards your favorite photo processor sells.

2. I then pulled in one of the new Chevron backgrounds from this Kit HERE. I did customize the color to my liking. Super easy!

3. I then simply pulled in the photo mat from this Kit HERE and then layered a photo on top.

4. Added the sweet little bird from this Kit HERE.

5. Re-colored a washi tape from this Kit HERE and placed it on my collage.

6. Added some text (used Decor Font) on the top and bottom.  Rhonna has many more fabulous fonts that   are available HERE  *I used my color selector to pick up a color from the bird piece so it would all tie together.

7. Upload to your favorite Photo store, many offer a blank where you can pull in your own jpeg file. You simply use it as a background. Just be sure that you use a high pixel photo for the best quality. I'm using a lower pixel in my example.

8. Mail them off to family and friends.

Thanks for dropping in and if you have any questions just leave a comment and an email so I can reach you.

December Daily Days 2 and 3

I'm back and today is cReative Team Tuesday at Rhonna Designs Blog so be sure to check out other fabulous projects  on her blog HERE! 

I have to say that adding the task of blogging my pages is going to add more to my to-do list but I am going to try and keep it up! I may be a few days late in posting them but I think that will be just fine!  Here are two more days, as you can see I was inspired by the digital layouts created by Ali Edwards.  I put my own spin on it by using some of the fabulous digital elements from Rhonna Designs Christmas Junque line.  I also decided to add the day to them so I will be going back to Day 1 and adding Thursday!  That is the beauty of digital, you can change it up and print very easily!  These pages will go into my album so it will still be a hybrid project. As mentioned on Sunday I do plan on sharing photos of them layed out in the book but that will come as time allows.  Thanks for stopping by!

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I am using photo paper purchased at my local office supply store to print these out in a 5x7 size.

The backgrounds used are from the Christmas Junque Background Kit HERE

The numbers used are in the Number Kit HERE

Frame used is from the Simple Photo Frames Kit HERE

The MERRY is from the Christmas Word Art Brush Kit HERE

The little JOY tag I cropped out of the Christmas Junque Tags-N-Flags Kit HERE

Day 1 in the books!

Well hello friends! Hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving Holiday and a great start to December! We have been busy here at the Wyatts and so I was a little behind getting my pages put together for the first three days! Here is the journaling piece I created to add to my December Daily. I simply created a 5x7 piece in PSE, added a Christmas Junque background. I then re-colored and added a 1 from the Number Junque Kit, a photo and my journaling. It came together great and once I printed this piece out I simply attached it to one of my already printed Christmas Junque pages and slipped it into it's page protector! I hope to photograph the page in it's entirety this week.

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Items used to create piece above are as follows:

Christmas Junque Backgrounds found HERE

Number Junque Kit found HERE
Printed out on photo paper in a 5x7 size

December Daily 2011 - Foundation

Hi there!  Can you believe that we are 2 weeks away from Thanksgiving and only 7 weeks away from Christmas!  The older I get the quicker the year seems to fly by! 

OK, so on to my December Daily.  As you can see I have started the foundation pages for my December Daily and have taken very poor photos to share part of it with you today, ha!  This year I am trying to be prepared and Rhonna's kits are making it really easy!  I still don't even have the actual album that is going to hold it, for now I'm using a binder.  I have chosen to do an 8.5x11 album this year, I say that as if I did an album last year. I did not, ha! 

My pages area going to be similar for each day as far as set up goes.  I am simply printing and cutting out paper and slipping them into the photo protector pages.  I did create some daily dividers, which were inspired by Ali Edwards!  I used some distressing ink on some of the paper and pulled out some of my last years stash from the Girls Paperie. I love using digital files along with items that I have from kits and my LSS. Hybrid scrapbooking is awesome!

For me it has to be sweet & simple in order to get it done in time and to follow through.  I want the journaling and the photos to be the true stars of the pages.  I will be doing some custom designed pages using digital elements from Rhonna Designs as well.  But for now I wanted to share the items that I simply opened up and printed out.  Using digital files is truly that simple, I promise!

 So on the page above I will most likely add a photo and a journaling spot. That is a silver foil doily above, love those!

I have to tell you that I was so excited when I realized that I had an old music book full of Christmas music, what a score huh! I love checking used book stores and getting them very inexpensively!

 I plan to use the 5x7 pockets, shown here with the music paper to hold one photo on one side only.  And for the page with 2x3 openings I will do some journaling, a photo or two and extras like receipts. Only time will tell.  And I will most likely print out a photo in a larger size and simply crop out a section of it I like.

 All that layering above makes my heart happy! Can't wait to add more to it!

 Little pockets like the one above on the left will hold a special note or item, meant for Andy and I only.

 Love using scrap pieces of paper and other bought items from my stash to decorate the date. I am using fonts from American Crafts so far.

  

 

 Above I used some scrap burlap and ribbon I had on hand. Only time will tell what will make it into those open spots in the pocket protectors.

 

I had some metal snowflakes on hand (have been hoarding them for years!) and so I slipped some in here and there.  This is it for now, going to keep working on it and so I have promised myself that by Dec 1st it will be ready for me to start adding photos daily and documenting our days!

Here are the Christmas Junque Kits I used so far

Christmas Junque Printable Backgrounds Kit found HERE

Candy Cane Card Kit found HERE

***Edited in at 3:30CT 11/9/11 The page protectors used in my album are from Pink Paislee House of 3. Sadly they aren't for sell anymore, at least I haven't found them.  Sorry for the tease!!

Be sure to check back in for more as I will be adding some more printables and I will also be creating some custom pages. Enjoy the rest of your week!

And HERE is a link to Ali's Foundation Pages Part 1