Christmas Journal - Day 15

This was a quick and easy page: make a title about visiting/company and journal. That's it.

I'm glad it was an easy assignment. I have a ton of things to do tonight, including writing the Christmas letter so I can get all my cards sent out this weekend.

Christmas Journal - Day 14

Yes, Day 14. I'm just a little bit behind. But today's challenge to document a favorite Christmas song came to me in a flash. Plus once I started researching and developing my page idea, I decided I would go WAY beyond the scrapbooking box for me -- an almost exclusively digital layout.

And so I present: Santa Claus is Coming to Town


It would have been completely digital, but I really wanted that picture of Clarence Clemons up-close in the Santa Hat for the page -- and I needed to journal why this song is my favorite Christmas song.

Here's the journalling that is hidden underneath The Big Man:


I need to credit the St. Petersburg Times for the Santa picture of Clarence. The picture of Bruce and Clarence in Santa hats is cropped from an original photo on a Springsteen fan site (ametrano.net/bruce/asbury.html - 12/17/2000 concert), and the single cover comes from www.mistletunes.com.

Trust me folks, I have no plans to publish this obvious rookie digital scrapbooking attempt. But it sure was fun to play! I may have to try a digital layout another time...

Angels With Fur

Here's a layout I made commemorating the life of our puppy Macalester and how her brother Laddie came into our family.


I am almost a week behind with my Christmas Journal. But, I was three weeks behind with this layout...

So, the fact that I finished it is wonderful! It was a very difficult layout do to, since it had to do with Macalester's untimely death. But it was very healing, too.

I've heard from others how healing working on a layout or an entire album can be. This is the first time scrapbooking has performed this type of magic for me. I won't forget.

Christmas Journal - Day 3

Day 3: How we feel about Christmas cards. I make most of my Christmas cards, so I decided to scan and print my three favorite cards. Then I had a revelation, which I wrote about in the journalling.
This is just another direct-to-paper let's-play-with-ink-pads thing. With some handmade paper as a background. But ... I like it!

Christmas Journal - Day 2

Day Two we were to ponder Christmas weather and play with snowflakes. I decided to make my snowflakes from vellum, and also do my journalling on vellum. I LOVE vellum. If you get past the fear of ruining it (you can always buy more...), it becomes a wonderful paper to work with.
I don't think I've made paper snowflakes for years. While these are not as intricate as some, I am well pleased. I wish the scan showed off the flakes better -- they really look good in person.

Christmas Journal - Day 1

I joined an online Christmas Art Journal class. I read about it on Ali Edwards' blog.

The class is run by Shimelle. She is a regular contributor to Scrapbook Inspirations, a UK scrapping magazine I pick up on occasion at the bookstore. Yes, I read UK scrapping mags. They are COOL. So are the Australian mags.

I digress. Back to the journal...

Each day, Shimelle gives us an assignment. Here's what I did on Day 1, when we were to write about what we hoped out book would accomplish.


On to the next assignment!