Design Your Life: Week 9 & The Christmas Journal

This week's design focus was Elements with a focus on line. I was done early again this week, and it's a good thing because I'm also starting Year 3 of the Christmas Journal with Shimelle. I love that once you've enrolled in the class, you are included in each subsequent class. It was probably the best money I've ever spent on an online class. My two Christmas albums are among my favorites. I'm trying to combine Ali E's December Daily project with the Christmas Journal, but I'm determined to be flexible and create pages as they come to me. I started working on the journal last week, but wasn't very happy with it, so today I started all over. I'm using an acrylic album which is much different than the standard 8 X 8 I've used the past two years.

None of these 12 X 12 layouts photographed particularly well, but I finally gave up and went with the best I had.

This is a two-page spread, but it doesn't look much like it here on the blog. I'll be glad to be back to the 

8 1/2 X 11 layouts I can scan!

 Cathy's color inspiration came from this site. I didn't have any papers that matched her choice, so I went to the site and found this lovely butterfly--much more my colors.

The cover is actually three pages--the snowflake and border are on the acrylic cover, the title and date are on a Hambly transparency, followed by a piece of Basic Grey paper.

I created a few pages ahead and cut more 6 X 6 sheets to be used in the journal, but wanted to wait to see what kind of photos I had.

I'm hoping to have a one or two page spread for each day, depending on the amount of journaling I want to do. This is one of my favorite times of year, and it's a great way to record the journey.