Project Life Week July 2-8

 This is my Project Life spread for July 2nd through the 8th.

For this week I decided since it was the week of the Fourth of July, I would cut the date strip I had already stamped and create a new title card that was red, white and blue themed. I had a handful of patriotic themed products left over from layouts and projects that I used to create these pages.

I believe the title card paper and other coordinating pieces are Bo Bunny from a couple years ago. I used a Studio Calico Two Peas exclusive stamp set for the circle days of the week. Used a Technique Tuesday circle stamp from an old Ali Edwards Christmas set and punched it out.  I was surprised at how much it looked like the red label sticker I used on the next page from the Sn@p collection! Used another Ali Edwards stamp "love this" as well as I heart this. Used a label sticker from the Sn@p Collection as well as the alpha stickers.

For this page used an old 4th of July stickers from one of those sticker a day calendar sets. Used more Sn@p stickers as well as a BG alpha. 

I have been finding myself using the the pieces or back of my Project Life Core kit cards to cut up and stamp and journal on. Before she updated the kits, the back of the journaling cards were lined. They are great to create my own customized journaling cards.

This week seemed to be easy to put together. Don't know if it was because I had an easy color scheme or theme or I had gotten better about writing more details of the week down so had more content to pick from.

Hoping to get another one on the books this week to make up for me most likely not getting anything done next week during my daughters spring break. Starting to worry about what that is going to mean for the summer time! I am just going to have to schedule some "me" time to work on it I guess.

Project Life Week June 25 - July 1

Here is my Project Life Week June 25 through July 1st.

Been quite happy how I have been able to knock out quite a few pages in a short amount of time! Don't know if I am going to be able to keep the same momentum going the next couple of weeks. 

My 6 year old son is on spring break next week, but I am hoping that he will want to craft with me some days while my younger is in school. 

My daughter has her spring break the following week and I don't expect to get much of anything done then.

The title card, yet again was the driving force for the color scheme. Limiting myself to these colors has been helping me make faster choices.

Used quite a bit from the Cobalt core kit for this week. Also used alpha stamps from Studio Calico and Stampin' Up! The "smile" stamp is from a Studio Calico exclusive stamp set at Two Peas in a Bucket. Used an Ali Edwards stamp "adventure" and used a marker to write in a "s". Doodled a frame on the Grape smile card. Used some Lily Bee alpha stickers on the hawk picture and a Sn@p label on the other photo.

For this page I used some snowmen my kids colored to fill in one of the 4x6 slots. Used some more Cobalt core kits journaling cards and added some green paper on two of them so it was obvious they went together.

Used some Sn@p alpha and label stickers on the photos.

Stamped the frame on the "Quoted" card using the same Studio Calico stamp set as the smile. Quoted came from another SC stamp set.

Made a mask for the last journaling card and stamped a Studio AE stamp from a couple years back and used the days of the week stamps from another Ali Edwards 2011 date stamp set. 

Glad to be in July! Halfway point for 2012! Hoping I can keep the momentum going!

Project Life- Week Jun 18-24

Here is another Project Life layout for Jun 18-24.

The color scheme was driven by the title card again on this one, using the Cobalt core kit.

Found some printables from Simple Stories that I had in my stash that matched the red orange and went with it for this week.

Used a lot of Lily Bee alpha stickers, Technique Tuesday stamps including the newest Studio AE set. Used Simple Stories Sn@p alpha stickers as well.

I happened to have these eyelet looking brads in my stash that happened to be a perfect color match, so I went for it on the first photo of the clover. Used a new stamp set from Teresa Collins for the calendar. Circled the dates for this week for a "filler" card. 

Inked only the "a day at the" from a retired Ali Edwards stamp set along with the word "pool" from a really old Studio AE set. The pool word was a finer print than the rest so I double stamped it once in the red orange color so it looked more intensional.  Cut the strip into a banner and outlined it with a marker.

Used Distress Ink on the clover love card, a Cobalt journaling card, since all of the Simple Stories journaling cards were more of a cream based card.

Thanks for checking out another completed PL page. 

Project Life Week Jun 4 thru 11

Here is another completed Project Life spread! 

I have found myself letting go of a bit of the perfectionist in me when finishing these layouts. I see my album half done, missing their stories and I am trying on focusing on making progress instead of "perfect layouts".

For this week I stuck with a purple and green color scheme. I used Basic Grey alpha stickers, Ali Edward stamps from many sets, an Amy Tangerine stamp (house) as well as the date stamp, Lily Bee alphas, and some some Studio Calico stamps. 

I ran out of room for a quote from my son so I just added it to my title card for this week.

Having trouble stamping on photo. My first problem is that I think my black Stazon ink pad is going dry. Second, I have trouble keeping the stamp from sliding on the photo. Good enough that you can read it, though.

I am loving how this week in review journaling card turned out. I ran the card through my printer after figuring out how much space was needed for the stamped words. Then I added the dot pattern from an Ali Edwards Christmas stamp set.

This week has an insert that I didn't photograph. It is a program and photo from my niece's dance recital. 

Thanks for looking! Hope to share more soon!

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!