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 Part 3

Welcome back, this weeks cReative Team Tuesday.
 I am sharing some of the journaling cards that I created using elements from Rhonna's Christmas Junque Kits.  I'm not sure about you but I didn't want to have the actual pages that my photos go on fully completed.  Why? Well, I am one of those girls that isn't sure if she is going to like the photo I have chosen for my page.  And if it is going to be vertical or horizontal once I do have it picked out.  I plan to have these cards next to my album in my December Daily Keepsake Box so that I can pull the one that fits my page that day.  I also plan on using some of them for additional embellishments on pages.  The inspiration for these cards came from Becky Higgins Project Life Kit, (which I started and fell behind on mid June).

My first step was to create each individual 2.5 x 3.5 card. As you can see above the layers are shown to the far right and so I simply started with a 2.5x3.5 canvas then added my pieces to it. I then flatten the layers and save as a jpeg.  One tip I would like to share with you is to name your layers when you are working. This makes it much easier to go back and move layers around, especially when you have many layers!

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 I then pulled them into one 8.5 x 11 page shown above.  I was careful to use guide lines to help me line up all my cards.  Lining up the cards will help me when it comes time to cutting as shown below.

You can see in the photo above how the cards are lined up so that I can simply cut them apart, easy peasy! 

Love that doily used in the Merry Christmas Journal card above, it's from the Christmas Junque Pieces Kit found HERE

So there you have it, Hybrid Journaling cards. I printed these out on 110lb white card stock and I also printed some out on some Bazzill textured paper and it looks and feels delish! 

I wanted to share another Fabulous December Daily project that I have, it's my Keepsake Box from Paper Coterie you can visit them HERE.

I absolutely LOVE it!  I plan to keep my journaling cards in the box next to my album with some supplies.  I will be able to easily add photos and journaling cards to my album and it will be all nice and tidy!  Then once I am done I can tuck my album into it for safe keeping and or to keep my Christmas cards and little momentos from our holiday.

Here is a shot of the front, spine and back and you can click on it to see it in a larger size.  What I did was created these pieces in Photoshop Elements. I made it really simple by simply using a background from the Christmas Junque Background Kit found HERE and then added some elements from the Christmas Junque Pieces Kit found Here.  And the element on the bottom right corner of the cover is from the Evergreen Christmas card Kit found HERE Once you have your pieces created you simply upload them into your project on their website. They guide you through it step by step and if you can't get it just like you want simply email them and they will help you!  They will even tweak it for you, seriously they are so helpful!

And last but not least I have a tiny sneak peek of a Christmas Card that I created for a guest blog visit with Marci of Dandelion Farm Girl so click HERE to visit her blog.  I believe the post will be up on Tuesday and so I will be back to edit the link to direct you to the actual post at a later time.

Thanks for stopping in and hope you have a wonderful week and a Happy Thanksgiving!

All frames used on the photos in this post are from Rhonna Designs and can be found HERE

Let's talk about how digital met my December Daily

First of all, I just want to thank you for stopping by to see how things are coming along with my December Daily! And for the sweet comments and questions that have been left for me. 

So, let's talk about how I you can use a digital kit to create what I have shared so far.  Are you ready? It's really easy, I promise!  The majority of the printed items I have used so far are from the Christmas Junque Background Kit found HERE. 

How you ask? Well, you simply click on the file once you have unzipped it and the files will open up with Word, Photo Gallery or Photoshop Elements.  If you simply click on the file your computer knows what software to use to open it. What I want to make clear for you is that you don't have to have any fancy software to open up these files. If you wanted to, you could take these files on a jump drive to your local office supply store and have them print out for you.

What I did was printed out a total of 13 background pages on 110lb white cardstock that I bought at my local office supply store.  You could also use some Bazzill cardstock if you wanted some texture to the paper. I was able to trim out two 4"x8" pieces from each background page.  If you look closely at the divided pages in this post HERE and look at divider for days 7 and 19. You will see that for some of these I cut the background pages horizontal on the page and on some I cut them vertical.  This helps to give some of the duplicate pages I used a different look. I chose to add some colored cardstock to the back of the 4"x8" pieces to not only add some weight.  Then I had a ton of fun pulling from lots of my existing stash to decorate the pages. As I mentioned before I wanted to keep it simple and easy! There were so many other things I could have done like sewing and cool pockets and cutouts but for me keeping it simple helped me get it done fast!  I will add that if you used the Christmas Junque Art pieces found in the kit HERE you could print them out and simply cut them out and use them as embellishments! I'm telling ya, the possibilities are endless!

The layout above shows how I cut the pieces out on the horizontal, cutting them as shown above often allowed me to keep a design on each piece for those pages that had designs on top and bottom.

And the layout above shows you how I trimmed the paper on the vertical. Some background papers are better suited for this cut layout.I also printed out those background pieces at a reduced size so that I could cut out pieces with a smaller pattern.  

And one more fun way to create divider pages is shown above.  I simply printed out a background on some laser jet compatible transparency sheets also purchased at my office supply store.

It's so easy and fun to use digital files and if you have any other questions please let me know. 
You can also go visit http://www.rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com/ and see some of her tutorials.  Rhonna is fabulous at giving out free pointers!

Be sure to drop in later this week, I am finally going to share with you the foundation pages that I created with some of the digital elements in some of the other Christmas Junque kits. Ciao for now!

My other posts on December Daily can be found in the two consecutive posts below.

December Daily 2011 - Foundation Part 2

Welcome back! I finished up all my divider pages so I wanted to share with you the photos I took tonight.  Unfortunately, now that the sun goes down so early it doesn't give me a chance to take photos while I have good daylight. Well, that and that I worked until dark on these so that didn't help either!

OK, so as you can see I continued using the Christmast Junque Background Pages to create the 4"x 8" divider pages and simply embellished them.  Hope you like them, I sure do!  Now I need to finish up the larger pages that will hold the photos.  Those are in the works so hoping to share those later this week or next weekend.  Only time will tell, hope you had a great weekend and that this is a great week for you!

Click on photos to see them in a larger size.

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You can find the Christmas Junque Background Pages HERE over at Rhonna Designs! And have a look around because she has many awesome kits available!

Click HERE to see Part 1 of my December Daily Foundation post.

And HERE is a link to Ali's Foundation Pages Part 2, if you aren't playing along it's not too late!

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