December Daily 2010 | Day Fourteen
Welcome to Day Fourteen!
If you're wondering why I choose to do some photos in black and white and others in color...it's usually because I can't get the colors to print out right on my printer (or appear decent on my screen). Often those are the ones taken in the lowest light. This one here was taken early in the morning as the kids played while waiting for Simon's school bus.
Along the bottom is word art from my new Christmas Quotes Vol.1 package at Designer Digitals. Along the top is a bit of paper I cut from a mail solicitation.
We tend to get all kinds of interesting and cool mail this time of year.
Many of the charity solicitations have great designs - this one here is from Holt International (which happens to be based here in Eugene). The other image I photographed was an envelope for a wedding invitation for my cousin Walker. Both made it onto page two today.
I blurred out our home address. I like including something that includes our address (this is our first Christmas in this house).
I collaged together a bit from the Holt piece, part of the wedding invitation that includes all of our names and our address, an image of some wreaths from a catalog, and a chipboard accent from K&Company. Red machine stitching holds it all together.
Along the bottom I typed in my journaling. Nothing complicated - just a few simple thoughts for the day.
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Ali, I love how you are incorporating collected papers from right now in your book. I've not done as much of this in years past, but this year it's my favorite aspect of my book (even more than pictures, but that's just me, I think ;). Hooray for using what crosses our hands!
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LOVE this one!!
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LOVE the use of the mail - especially the lovely calligraphy names.
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Wondering if you could share where & what rings you are using for your December daily. I'm having trouble finding large enough ones. Mine is getting thick as I'm sure yours is as well. Thanks you. I'm SO loving your DD, It looks GREAT!
I found my 3" ones at Office Depot in a little box of random sizes.
Hi Audra - I ordered both 2.5 and 3 inch rings from Amazon (had to buy a small box of each). I've also read that people have found them at local office supply stores like Staples or Office Depot.
Mine are the 3" from an office supply store, which I thought were rather ugly. I used black Staz-on and now they look pretty nice.
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OMG even more excited that i have a typewrietr coming I won on ebay!
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Fantastic page Ali! Love the "waiting for the bus" picture:)
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Your pages are so beautiful Ali! I love that you can go from writing a long heartwarming story to another day of simple notes. Keeps it interesting!
Without a fancy photo printer (I have an HP Officejet 6500 for journalling, everyday use), my master plan was to outline the sizes of the photos, get them ready for print and do a print run every week or so at my photo lab. I have done my journalling by hand or printer and attached that in where it fits already as well, I've attached stuff like our anniversary dinner receipt, etc.
I am pretty comfortable with Photoshop Elements and use Version 7. I've picked up a variety of your add-ons from Designer Digitals and was so excited to pick up my first batch of prints early last week. Not happy - my developer - only one in my town that prints 6x8 cut them off at the bottom by 1/8". I wasn't sure if their 6x8 was a true size or if they did that as a rule, so called and they said it should be bang on. Well, last night I picked up my 3rd batch, including all the reprints from before that were wrong and now I don't know what to do. They keep telling me about cropping and that it is normal for photos to be cropped differently then what they were in your camera when you pick different print sizes on the website. Duh! I am in Canada, let's just say they are national and their name starts with a "B" - fellow Canadians will know who I mean. So, anyway not to be bah humbug or bad mouth a business I don't mean to have it come across like that - sorry, but I just want to get my pics printed and not lose my mojo for this amazing project!
Do you or anyone else, have any ideas? I am stuck here where I live. Should I just go online somewhere? Where is the best place to print that will be exactly 6x8. The store manager I spoke with today just doesn't seem to get it - he actually told me oh, they are just trimmed a bit! But, now they don't fit into my beautiful book! Any suggestions would be so appreciated. Also, what is shipping like? I live in a border city, so can use a US address (I know up in the big North sometimes shipping takes forever!).
Thanks in advance!
By the way Ali, the farther we get seeing your pages, the more and more I am loving the transparencies. I love them!
Hey Steph, I just thought I'd comment as I have the same printer as you and I tell you what I found, its all about the printer paper. I used some cheap paper and my pics took forever to try and smeared later, but I just bought some really pricey paper and it works WAY better. Your printer should be able to do the same with good printer picture paper. I bought 'HP Advanced Photo Paper, Glossy' from Wal*Mart.
Also, with your cropping it sounds like you know how to use Photoshop, are you cropping your pics as a 6x8? On mine, I have to make a background of 8x10 and drag my 6x8's onto it to get it right as 6x8 isnt a normal size. You may have to do that, then when you get them printed tell them they are 8x10 and they'll print it out that way, you'll have white on either side though but you can just trim that down. Hope that makes sense. It took me a few hours to figure out how to print that. Maybe try printing it out at home to make sure the size is right then go have them printed professionally.
Oh, I forgot one other thing I wanted to ask. What kind of photo printer do you use? I'm sorry I know you have probably mentioned it somewhere on your site before but I never followed your blog before on a daily basis as I do now since starting the DD. What is the ink cost? Are you happy with it? Seriously, to avoid this printing frustration I am considering just buying a photo printer for special projects like this. My everyday HP does not print nice photos at all, but I know its probably not meant to. What brand of paper do you use? I think your photos look amazing - you'd never know they were home printed. If I printed mine with what I've got it would look like a kindergartener did it. Hmmm...maybe a new photo printer could be a good thing. I haven't bought anything for this album - used my stash and only paid $0.50 each for my rings - my local Office supply store (small mom & pop operation) sells them all individually.
Hey Laci - thank you. My paper is Avery double sided - matte on one side glossy on the other, but looking at it now it is not attractive on its own. I'm going to go and pick up the paper you suggested and give it a try tomorrow.
Yeah, whether or not I am just cropping a photo to 6x8 or using one of Ali's templates, it is all a true 6x8 in Photoshop. The developer I use actually does 6x8's (so they say). The attractive thing was that this week the prints were $0.29 each which in Canada is fantastic. Thanks for the tip for using the 8x10 canvas...I was thinking maybe I'd have to do that, but since they are $4.97 a piece, it could get pricy by the time this album is done.
I will try the paper tomorrow and let you know :) Thank you!
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Hi, I found my rings at our local quilting/stitching store.
I just spoke with my sister who is doing this project and she is using drapery cording. Looks pretty nice - something different!
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i love the b/w photos too! and the perspective on this photo is great too!
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I love it.
I'm having the same/similar issues with my printer (which is the same as yours), where I see a brighter picture on the screen and it's darker. I was just going with it, because it is what it is. BUT I like the idea of black and white.
And I'm way, way behind. I'm documenting (pictures, mental and paper notes) but haven't assembled. But my baking is all done :)
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I have just read all the comments and responses some great thought and tips there, Dawn, I really like the idea of getting each child to do a page, mine both finish school tomorrow so I think that may be a weekend activity.
Wonder if I can get the Hubby to contribute.
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these are all amazing!
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This is so fun!
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LOVE your use of the mail here!! :)
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Loved the typewritten element!
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What a gorgeous black & white!
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Ali this is another gorgeous page! I love the 6x8 size for photos, makes so much sense!
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love this use of everyday items in this post and the "realness" of it. totally touching and totally holiday.
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