I finally had time to day to catch up with the Christmas Journal. I had mixed feelings about the 6X6 album, but one clear advantage of it is that I have done a lot more digital and hybrid layouts. With such a small size, doing photo collages is almost a necessity. I have two pages left at the end of the album and am saving one for New Year's Eve and have two other possibilities for the other one. Getting straight photos of them tonight has proven exceptionally difficult, but here they are (straight IRL for sure!).
I altered a journaling card from a digital kit by Cathy Z for the menus. The velvet letters are from American Crafts. Patterned paper is from Memory Box.
Patterned paper (Memory Box)
I used a part of Ali E's Believe template for the journaling on the left-hand page. The left column is my journaling from the morning, and the right-hand is journaling I wrote after church on Christmas Eve. It wasn't feeling much like Christmas in the morning, but by the time we went to bed, it felt just like Christmas. We had a great evening. Patterned paper from Memory Box, circle stamp from Hero Arts, and numbers from SEI.
Hero Arts circle stamp and Making Memories numbers.
Sunday we had a belated birthday party for my brother-in-law. Ribbon from my stash, circle number from karenika.
Yesterday I had lunch with four good friends. We had an elegant, long, and leisurely lunch. I decided to take a notepad to each of them, so finished up a few more yesterday morning--just in time.
Patterned papers from October Afternoon, Crate Paper, and Cosmos Cricket. Stamps from Papertrey Ink (Take a Note), ribbons from Papertrey Ink and from stash, gems from Amuse (Creative Candy). buttons from a Studio Calico kit and Papertrey Ink.
