Project LIfe May 28-Jun 03 2012

With my December Daily completed and my 31 Things Album completed, it leaves Project Life and Madeline's baby album to finish up. 

I went on a weekend long crop with my sister and friends and worked on finishing my December Daily, worked on some layouts and started my 2013 Project Life album. 

I know what you are thinking. What happened to 2012's Project Life album?!

I had left it at early May. There were some things in those weeks that had some personal stuff I didn't want to share, so they never got posted even though they were completed.

Mind you while the complete pages stopped mid May, I had stayed on top of journaling, (starting in Aug, used Oh Life.com) and selecting, editing and ordering photos up until Mid February with the exception of the last week of Dec. for some reason got lost in the shuffle.

At the crop, my long time scrapping buddy, Kelly (check out her blog) and I decided that we do better with a bit of motivation to stay "caught up" or at least completing pages.

She got up to 2013 after starting the project in August. Way to go Kelly! This has motivated me to put this a priority when I get into my scrap space. Trying to complete at least one layout a week so that at least I am not creating a bigger backlog for myself.

So I have been hard at work! Here is May 28-Jun 3 2012.

For this you will see that I have broken out of the Core kit box and playing with more products. I am enjoying the process more by doing this, so you will be seeing more things not part of the kit. I have taken the idea that the title cards which have all be stamped with the dates already, will drive the color scheme for the most part. Then I will fill in with what I already have in my stash.

I used a TON of Technique Tuesday Studio AE stamps as well as other Ali Edward stamp sets on this spread. I have all of my stamps out when creating and search for things to fill in spots.

For this page, I used Simple Stories Sn@p label stickers as well as some sayings from the alpha sticker set. Used an old Quickutz alpha to cut the makeover title and used the positive and negative space.

Used some Studio Calico stamps that are exclusive to Two Peas for the frame around the fox and the memo stamp.

Also used Ali's stamps for the days of the week.

Also used some washi from my stash. I love my washi tapes!

This first year of this project has been a learning experience. Finding what works and doesn't work for me so that I am successful.

Things that are working are keeping up with the journaling, taking plenty of photos, and laying out what each week looks like. Even if I don't have the time or in the mood to scrap, I won't forget anything and most of the planning is done for me.

There were some things I wanted to change about what I was doing for 2013. I am printing white borders around all of my 4x6 photos and not rounding corners for the items in the 4x6 slots. It will save me some time and I like the look better.

I am also moving forward NOT using a Becky Higgins core kit. I didn't like forcing myself to use product that I am not that into. I got bored with it before half the year was out. 

Thanks for looking! More weeks to come soon.

December Daily- Days 19-25 + title and intro pages

My December Daily is finally complete! 

This post may be a bit long because of all the pages I have to share. I am excited to be able to put this project away COMPLETED and move on to other things!

So part of what my hold up was that I didn't realize that I had two layouts for Day 19. Once I just went forward with fixing the dates and getting the photos I needed, I was able to move forward. 

I attended a weekend long crop with my sister and friends and knew I wanted to knock this project out! I didn't finish it as quickly as I intended, but I love how it turned out, so that is all that matters. I completed it within the first day, which left me plenty of time for other projects that I hopefully will share soon.

Day 19 part 2:

Everything from this layout is from Simple Stories except for the alpha stickers which are all from Basic Grey. Used the calendar and circled the date since I didn't have another banner sticker that said 19 on it. 

Day 20:

This layout was done for quite some time, but the date was wrong. Quick and easy fix and I didn't hurt any of the stickers, thank goodness!

Day 21:

Letter stickers were from Basic Grey, everything else was from Simple Stories. Sorry about the glare on the right page. Hard to take photos with page protectors.

Day 22:

On this layout I broke out the December Daily 2012 Technique Tuesday stamp set to add the border on the right page on the right side. Also used a border stamp from Stella and Rose collection by My Mind's Eye.

Day 23:

Day 24:

Day 25:

On this page I used the Cricut Paper Dolls cart to cut the bow to make it look like a present.

 Last Page:

I added the pictures of our annual ornaments for the last page. Didn't really have anything else to include, so I thought this would be a good thing to put to wrap up the album.

Cover page: 

This is how I started the album. I used the Technique Tuesday December Daily 2011 stamp set as well as the 25 Days set to create this page.

 Intro page:

For this layout I used the calendar to write what the kids had in all of their advent boxes. For the right page, I used the December Daily 2012 stamp set from Technique Tuesday. The red ink I used didn't stand out enough so I used red stickles to fill it in.

Relieved to have this project completed. I was doing great there for a while but just got behind and it was tough to pick it back up.

Really loved working with this size. Will probably work with size again next year. Despite not completing this project right away, I still LOVE this project. I love having so many of our Christmas stories captured, that would otherwise go unwritten.

Thanks for looking!

One Little Word 2013

I finally finished up my 31 Things Class at BPC by Ali Edwards to start her One Little Word Class. I am so excited to complete my 31 Things Album (until she comes out with 31 More Things later in the year). Even more excited to have a class that fits my pace a bit better at one project a month so I don't feel so behind.

I am really enjoying the concept of this class. Check out the description here.

The word I chose was Savor. After following this blog, and what she had to say about her word, I knew this was the word I needed for 2013. 

This is what I created for my first assignment for this class for January:

Each month I created an intentions for my word. I used a Studio Calico alphabet stamp set, Stepping Stones, I think, that I am in love with. I decided to use Basic Grey's Curio line for this. The colors seemed to fit my word best. 

What I loved most about this project was that I went through my scraps and didn't have to buy anything (with the exception for the page protectors that I have also used in my PL already)! I used up my stash. I had been getting BG's kit of the month and I used the pieces I had left over, pieces I never really saw myself using. 

For February's assignment, it was to create a vision board and this is what I came up with. I "collected" images from pinterest and created this collage in PSE. 

It is amazing how these projects have kept my word more visible in my life. Really loving this class!

Aaron's 4th Birthday Gifts

Here is another layout created from a kit by my friend Tami. 

The colors and embellishments made me think "birthday"and I got into a birthday layout kick there for a while, so I went with it. Loved the die cut flowers made from playing cards and the bingo chip centers. Such fun!

Of course none of my layouts would be complete without photo collages or stamping with some Techinque Tuesday Ali Edwards stamps. Each stamped sentiment came from a different set. 

Thanks for looking. 

December Daily- Day 19

This is my layout for Day 19 of my December Daily.

So I cheated on this one a bit. The divided page protector for this one holds 2 4x4 openings and a two inch strip down the side. I had this 4x6 photo I wanted to use and I didn't want to have to buy another pack of page protectors for another option. Since the openings for the pockets are vertical on this one, I flipped it "upside down" and slid my photo into the bottom . I was then able to decorate the top with the 4x4 and the 2x4 strip. Nothing like getting creative with what you got!

Layered quite a bit on this one. Got a little creative with the letter stickers as well. The p is an "a" and "l" pieced together and the "y" was doctored as well. It is all good though!

Thought I ordered all of the photos for the next day (20), but that is a negative as well as the photos for the 22 and the 23rd. I have the 21st completed, and the 24 almost done. I also completed the title page, a calendar page, and intro page. 

We shall see when this December album will get completed.....

I will share the completed album once it is finished! For now, on to other projects I have been working on! Will share again soon!

December Daily- Day 18

Here is the layout for my December Daily - Day 18.

This day was all things Santa! We mailed letters to Santa and then the kids met Santa as well.

All the elements used on these pages come from the Handmade Holiday collection from Simple Stories. Love that the elements on the photo of Santa were so small. They come from the 6x6 paper pack tiny like that. Love it.

Almost there! If you think I am behind on this project, don't ask where I am in my Project Life album for 2012!

December Daily- Day 17

Day 17's layout in my December Daily:

So for this day I decided not to use the number as a banner. It fit this element cluster better cut out this way. I think I am going to add a small photo of all of the sticker art the kids created in the title block. We shall see....

As for the bottom of the first page, I stamped the numbers found in the Technique Tuesday December Daily 2012 stamp set. and used the filled circle to highlight the day of the month. Used the polka dot stamp found in another one of Ali's Christmas stamp sets.

Keeping the design rather simple since I have the photo collages with so much going on.

On with the next!