SuzanneCWalker
07-02-2008, 11:53 AM
ARE YOU READY TO GO DEEPER THAN THE DATE FOR CHRISTMAS IN JULY!!??? We are SOOOOOOOOoo psyched for this one, guys! So psyched, in fact, that we can't wait for CIJ to officially begin before we unleash this AWESOME challenge!!!
Our focus with this month's DTTD will be connecting with friends and family via those awesome family newsletters we usually receive during the Holiday season! So, instead of our traditional Christmas newsletter, we'll be creating a Family Gazette that we can print and send out during "Christmas In July". I'm particularly psyched because (don't start throwing things), I've NEVER actually sent a newsletter!!!! EVER! I always say that this will be the year, but then things reach their usual insane levels of busy-ness and I decide that in the interest of general sanity that I must let it go.
So....... Guess what!! I have MADE my Family Gazette Newsletter!!! WOW!! I made us an 8.5x11 quick click that you can download FREE!!! Use it with ANY of your favorites from your digital scrapping toolbox, and create your OWN family gazette! Your bonus will be the delighted and slightly shocked looks on your favorite family and friends as they receive such a fabulous surprise in their mail in July!
You can write your letter in any format. I chose to do mine in the first-person, so I'm talking as if I'm having a conversation with my readers. You could do it all in the third person as well.
Some people prefer a flowing narrative, or almost a big long poem. My aunt, who is endlessly creative, has done fabulous "takes" on Twas the Night Before Christmas, and Dr. Seuss classics; she inserts her story instead of the famous literature, maintaining the rhythm and/or rhyme of the original. Her letters are masterpieces! And I'm sure they take forever to create!
Another possible style is to record important events in more of a bullet list format.
My mother, who writes great newsletters, uses one paragraph to describe each persons' activities from the past year.
Your job will be to find your own voice. I'd recommend starting with the quick click layout, getting all your pictures (pick your faves from the past year, or maybe a great headshot of each person) in there, and THEN deciding how to compose your letter.
We'd love to see what you come up with, not to mention give you ginormous shouts of encouragment and YEHAW, so please share with us the layouts you create! Put them in our regular DTTD gallery (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=5855), and link us up here in this thread!
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/744/05_T_FamilyGazette.jpg
EDITED - since we're all wrapped-up with CIJ for 2008, you'll be able to find the Family Gazette in the store soon! Thanks!
Our focus with this month's DTTD will be connecting with friends and family via those awesome family newsletters we usually receive during the Holiday season! So, instead of our traditional Christmas newsletter, we'll be creating a Family Gazette that we can print and send out during "Christmas In July". I'm particularly psyched because (don't start throwing things), I've NEVER actually sent a newsletter!!!! EVER! I always say that this will be the year, but then things reach their usual insane levels of busy-ness and I decide that in the interest of general sanity that I must let it go.
So....... Guess what!! I have MADE my Family Gazette Newsletter!!! WOW!! I made us an 8.5x11 quick click that you can download FREE!!! Use it with ANY of your favorites from your digital scrapping toolbox, and create your OWN family gazette! Your bonus will be the delighted and slightly shocked looks on your favorite family and friends as they receive such a fabulous surprise in their mail in July!
You can write your letter in any format. I chose to do mine in the first-person, so I'm talking as if I'm having a conversation with my readers. You could do it all in the third person as well.
Some people prefer a flowing narrative, or almost a big long poem. My aunt, who is endlessly creative, has done fabulous "takes" on Twas the Night Before Christmas, and Dr. Seuss classics; she inserts her story instead of the famous literature, maintaining the rhythm and/or rhyme of the original. Her letters are masterpieces! And I'm sure they take forever to create!
Another possible style is to record important events in more of a bullet list format.
My mother, who writes great newsletters, uses one paragraph to describe each persons' activities from the past year.
Your job will be to find your own voice. I'd recommend starting with the quick click layout, getting all your pictures (pick your faves from the past year, or maybe a great headshot of each person) in there, and THEN deciding how to compose your letter.
We'd love to see what you come up with, not to mention give you ginormous shouts of encouragment and YEHAW, so please share with us the layouts you create! Put them in our regular DTTD gallery (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=5855), and link us up here in this thread!
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/744/05_T_FamilyGazette.jpg
EDITED - since we're all wrapped-up with CIJ for 2008, you'll be able to find the Family Gazette in the store soon! Thanks!