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December Daily – Week 2 Recap

Published by Sula H.

Another week has passed, which means I have a whole new set of December Daily pages ready to present to you. (This page was featured at Logyourmemory.com earlier this week!) Being well into the project now, I have to say that I still don’t feel overwhelmed at all trying to catch up. Having prepared that foundation page, and given some thoughts to how to tackle it before I started, really helps me now to stay on top of everything. It’s an easy project, and I look forward to scrapping a new day every single time. On to another week … PS. All images are linked to the gallery for credits. PPS. You can find my Week 1 Recap HERE.

Behind the Scenes: How to Create Custom Shaped Text Paths

Published by Sula H.

If you’ve seen my recent posts, you’ve probably stumbled across my December Daily pages. If you took the time to look at one or two, you might have noticed how the journaling wraps neatly around all the embellishments without really interfering with them. Today, I’m going to show you how to create such a text path that is customized to wrap around your elements and clusters. (This is useful not only for December Daily projects, but for any layout that requires a custom shaped text field.) In this tutorial you will learn how to … … make a customized selection (based on your element and text layers); … contract your selection; and … turn your selection into a text path. Here’s How It Works … STEP 1 | Duplicate and Merge Layers Assuming that you’ve already put together your layout, including all the embellishments and element clusters you have wanted to add, go with your cursor to the layers panel, and select all the layers that you want your text to wrap …

December Daily – Week 1 Recap

Published by Sula H.

I promised you I’d post the first week of my December Daily project today for some inspiration, so here’s what I have so far … Remember, I started last week already, which is why today I have my pages for ten days already. For larger images (and credits) simply click on each page. More tips and inspiration in my blog post on “Tackling Your December Daily Project.”

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Tackling Your December Daily Project

Published by Sula H.

December 1st is at hand, and for many of us this means embarking on a new journey with the December Daily project. I started a huge hybrid album last year which isn’t anywhere near finished (and I don’t see myself finishing it this year as I’m far too busy with real life at the moment), so for this season, I decided to take a simpler approach. I’m creating a digital album. Simplicity Is Key The goal for most of us is to keep things simple, and yet to create albums that we’ll enjoy looking at even years from now. I already started my 2011 project last week, and I’m quite pleased with the outcome. But before I started, I sat down and thought through a couple of things that now prove to be very helpful as I’m further into the project, and I thought I’d share some of these considerations with you … TIP NO. 1 | Choosing the Right Format Choosing a format for your project is one key to avoid having …

Inspire Me: December Daily

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Hello, December Daily lovers. As we are approaching mid-December (only about ten more days until Christmas!!!), and as there are tons of people out there participating in the December Daily project, I thought, I’d hook you up with some inspiration. I started my own December Daily album (and I’m pretty much caught up with each day, yay for that!), and whoever does a somewhat larger crafts project is always glad for inspiration. Probably the No. 1 place to go is the Flickr group Ali Edwards started herself, where everyone participating can upload their photos. It’s a well-spring of inspiration (new photos are uploaded basically by the minute!) and I love flipping through the pages in search for ideas for my own album. OTS has some tips on how to Tackle a DD project. Of course, Ali Edwards (the inventor of the DD) is a wonderful source of information as well. Check out her website as she takes you step by step through her process of creating an album. And my last contribution to getting you …