December Daily 2009 : Day One

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.

What a coincidence, or probably not so much, since we both have boys, but my two boys did the exact same thing today, opening their new Lego Advent Calendar "Day 1" which was the (Lego boy with the snowballs). This is also my day one for my Dec. Daily book. Although I must add that your Simon looks so much better in the photo than my 2 boys do in their boxer shorts and no shirt, opening theirs.

Charlene,
Thank you for this link - I will check it out this evening. Very excited about the idea, just didn't know how to get started. Scrappers are the best.
Jen

Hi Ali,
You say simple, but the whole digital thing still freaks me out. I can see how it will work once it is set up. I just have to take the plunge I guess.
Judith (Adelaide)

Yeah! Can't wait to start! Thanks for the inspiration!

I love your work here in BRASI you have a hardcore fan....For the second year I am doing with you this album that I Love. Thank you for your affection.

Ali, I just completed page one of my very first DD album and I just want to thank you. I already feel like I'm approaching the holidays differently this year. Rather than getting all stressed out about the shopping and baking and running around like a crazy woman, I'm looking forward to finding a bit of magic in each day...and capturing it along the way. Thank you for the inspiration.

I have a printer question for you... It looks like you print most of your photos at home; what kind of printer do you have? We are looking for a new one and I'd love one that will print great looking prints as well as everything else. Thanks!

YEA the fun has begun! I sooo enjoy your December Daily.

So exciting to see your first page! I've taken my photo, will journal tonight and will order a week's worth of photos this weekend. I'm so excited to be joining along with you this year.
I have a couple of questions about PSE and your overlay--You mentioned that you moved the line, how did you do that? Can you color the 'december' one color and the number/circle a second color? Can you share how to do that?
Thanks.

I've got my Dec. Daily base complete & made my photo today. No time to journal or print photo tonight, hope I can "catch up" tomorrow. This is my first year to try this, very excited about it!! Thanks for all your inspiration!
How do you move the line on your digital overlays?? Can it be done with PSE? Is there a tutorial that you know of? I was trying to use one of your overlays on a photo the other day & the line kept going across a person's face & I wished to myself that there was an easy way to move it.