a few more pages | December Daily 2011

i won't bore you with all of my december daily pages
( i only have 7 so far )
i think it's a good idea to plan, but i also like to keep my options open.
why?  i like to make hybrid and digital pages :)
it goes with my scrap flow. i don't over plan or sketch things out.
i go with what comes to me. it's how i work best creatively.
in the post below i have a picture of my cover and a sample page.
in this post, i will share a few more planned pages.
but in the future i will probably only blog finished page days.
if you are on flickr, you can catch my pages there as well.

front and back cover

Dec. 1st

Dec. 4th

Dec. 5th

Dec. 6th

Inside cover

this project really has my creative juices flowing! :) i can't wait to stuff it full of memories!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

quick share | December Daily 2011

i'm off to a Thanksgiving party at school.
here's a really quick share of my cover and
one of my foundation pages!!
hope to share more soon :)

edit: in my haste of posting this, i neglected to say that this cover was actually my 3rd attempt 

at a cover before i was happy. 
now, i am happy. 
happy :)

photo template courtesy of:  pugly pixel

recent finds

i wouldn't call myself a stamper or
a scrapper that uses her stamps a lot, BUT
i've been pulling my stamps out more lately.
ya know those little alpha stamps that were really popular
about 5 or so years ago? those ones.
then while at my local Michael's one day i stumbled upon
the dollar bin with one of the greatest finds in a long time! :)

call it a chevron stamp or zig zag stamp or call it your best friend, but it was only a dollar! holla!!
since finding it, i have mailed this baby out to 5 other scrappy friends! and had many more
inquiries about it. sadly, they are gone now. :(
happily, i have acquired the "hello" stamp above a "joy" stamp for Christmas as well as 2 other
3 other $1 stamps in the past couple of weeks.

and since no light of any natural sorts could be found today, i didn't get to take photos of my Dec daily foundation pages, but did manage to play in PS after watching more pugly pixel tutorials!! :)
yep! that's how i created my own purple gingham pattern you see above!
not bad for a sleepless night and rainy, dreary, foggy, grey kind of day!! :D

i think i know what i'll be doing from now on when sleep (or lack thereof) decides to try to kick my butt! ;)

right now...

sleep isn't my friend.
for whatever reason i wake up at crazy hours and can't get back to sleep.
then, i will drag throughout the day.
today, i woke up at 2 AM. started tossing at 12:30 AM.
went to bed at 10:30PM. so... a stellar 2 hrs of sleep.
the good thing? once i decided to get out of bed (because attempts of falling back
asleep were obviously futile) i decided to tap into my creative juices.
yesterday, i think, i ran across the website Pugly Pixel due to this PS tutorial
i found on Pinterest. so many creative ideas, freebies, tutorials for PS that i was
downright giddy!
so, a random iPhone pic was my first vic

brushes, custom shapes, clipping masks, finding cool fonts, borders, i could go on...

i love learning cool stuff like this! and i am excited to head back to pugly pixel to learn more stuff!
can't promise i will be feeling too rad by the time 2 or 3 PM rolls around, though. =/
until then...i will be working on my December daily. hoping to take some shots of my first few
pages when the sun comes out. if i can see straight by then!!