I’m not sure if this one is completely done or not, but it’s done enough, anyway. We are on our way out to do some more shopping (and get rid of a few of those questions marks….)
TTFN-
Suzanne
Credits:
Erica Hite — A Joyful Season
Designs by Laura — Custom fill chipboard alpha — simple
Font — Joyful Juliana
Cut-out Action from Atomic Cupcake
Indulge me for a minute as I show off something new I tried today.
Let me backtrack for a minute and say that part of my goal with this Christmas journal project is to learn Photoshop, so each day I’m trying to find something new to learn about, which is, in part, why some of the pages are taking me so long — learning curve!!
Last night I found these free Photoshop Actions at Atomic Cupcake (actions are automated scripts for Photoshop, when you run an action, the program automatically does certain things to your photo (or graphic or text or whatever) and changes it somehow.)
I played with the freebies I downloaded last night and they totally rock.
The Christmas present on the left is the original graphic. The 2nd one is the Chipboard action, number 3 is transparency and number 4 is cutout.
(The Christmas present is from the digital kit I’ve been using for all of my pages, it’s by Erica Hite and is called A Joyful Season.)
Isn’t that cool? All I did was click a couple of times and voila — all of these cool effects! I suspect one of these will be showing up on today’s journal page!
I heart Photoshop. It is totally awesome and cool.
I also heart all of the digital designers that create all of these cool digital kits and actions and stuff so that geeks like me can have so much fun playing.
Back to the sweatshop — there is quilting to be done!
Suzanne
The painted boxes on the wall was from Ali Edwards. The idea was actually originally from Martha Stewart. I’ve also seen these done with circle boxes. Very cute.
The cookie sheet advent calendar was from here. I’ve also seen another version here.
The baby sock advent calendar was another Martha Stewart find.
The picture of the tiny paper houses was from here, and the instructions are here. Both of those sites are in French. You’ve been warned.
Another advent calendar that I’ve seen that I really like is on Kate’s blog. It’s a quilted wallhanging and she has small quiltlets to attach for each day.
The fabric calendar we use was a panel that I got at Hobby Lobby many moons ago. I think I had the panel for 2 or 3 years before I actually got around to cutting out and sewing up all of the little pockets.
OK. I think that was all for that to-do item.
On to the next thing!!!
Toodles-
Suzanne
