Project Life Aug 4-10, 2014

I'm back!

It has seriously been too long!

My youngest is back in school and my oldest let me have a bit of time by myself to scrap a bit! Next week they both will be in school and I will have so much more time. Hoping to share a lot soon!

Okay, so I am sharing last week's Project Life with you now. I have decided to work my way backwards so I the weeks that are more current can have more thorough journaling. ( I can remember it better). I have kept notes, but they don't capture everything I can remember in the moment.

So here is my layout for Aug 4-10, 2014.

I created my own title card for this week using a Carrie-Stephens leaf element and kcroninbarrow-optimistic-butterfly. The papers I used were also from Carrie-Stephens. The week words are a freebie from Traci Reed. 

There you go! Hoping to knock out at least 2 or three weeks next week! Will share as I complete them!

I also am attending a crop on Saturday, so I hope to share things that I complete from that day as well! Here's to happy crafting!

Project Life- June 9-15, 2014

I know. It has been a while since I have posted anything. I knew this would happen. I knew there would be a point this year where I would be so busy living my life that there wouldn't be time for scrapbooking it. I am proud that this is the first time I have gotten more than a week or so behind since going digital. 

In part, I did have a week that I was on vacation. When I got back, I just wasn't in the mood to scrapbook. It was more than that. I didn't even want to upload the hundreds of photos I had taken on vacation to the computer. 

It took me a week to do that and once I did, I still wasn't up to doing anything with them or finishing up with this layout. 

This happens to me sometimes, where I just don't feel creative or crafty. I was happy just looking at other people's layouts and ideas.

Couple of things in the scrapbook world were announced as well. Two Peas closing. While I was never big on their message boards or posting my layouts there, I LOVE the videos that they provided. I had been addicted to Nichol Magourik's videos when she was a Garden Girl, who I can thank for my addiction to Ali Edward's stamps. Then I was addicted to Shimelle's videos for 4x6 Photo Love and then Glittergirl. I can honestly say that I had purchased from 2Peas in the past few months. While, I was never a big shopper with them, I had shopped with them before.  

I also heard the news that Ali Edwards is leaving Technique Tuesday. While I am not shocked by this news, I was a little saddened that more things were changing in the scrapbook industry that I loved. Hoping that Ali still creates high quality stamps where ever she ends up designing. (American Crafts?)

Okay, onto my layout.

Not a whole lot going on with this layout. Most of it is playing with fonts and using Ali's edge sentiments. 

For the next few weeks, not sure how much I am going to get done. My husband is out of town on business for a couple of weeks, the kids are with me 24/7 and I have been quite the bookworm these days. Hoping to make something soon!

Thanks for looking and reading my ramblings!

Project Life - June 2-8, 2014

Here is my Project Life layout for June 2-6, 2014.

For this weeks title card and a few of the journaling cards, I used Becky Higgins' digital Cherry Edition. The rest I kept fairly simple with words.

Love it when my little sister hangs out with my kids. She is always good for some selfies and is also good about sharing them on Facebook, where I can steal them for my Project Life layouts. The photo collage is made up mostly of the photos she took. Ali's edge sentiment made it again on this weeks layout. 

The first card is paper and an arrow from the Cherry Edition. Again, mainly photos and words. 

So happy to be current. Hope to share last week's layout this week as well. 

Thanks for looking! 

Project Life - May 26- June 1, 2014

Here is my layouts for May 26 - June 1, 2014.

I had a ton of photos this week and I struggled figuring out how I was going to fit them all in. I knew that I would need an "insert" but it was difficult to decide how many and at what configuration.

Our summers aren't busy, necessary, I try to keep them low key, but we do little activities almost every day that usually get photographed. 

This week's layout I started with a title card freebie from Persnickey Prints. Added more of the edge sentiments from Ali Edwards as well at word art from her Hello Story class. 

Made a configuration of photos that worked for me this week. Moved the 4x6 photo that is usually at the top to the middle so I could compare the two 4x6 photos more easily.

BTW I have a ton of cake walk pictures that I could have done an entire insert on, but I opted to save those pictures for another project.

Here is the insert. Keep in mind the right side of this page will be trimmed off in the photo book. Went with black and white photos for this one so they wouldn't take so much attention to the main story and photo, as well as clash with the colors selected for this week's spread.

Here is the back of the insert. 

Thanks for looking! On to enjoying summer. 

Still only 1 week behind! It is a record! Totally loving digital project life!

OLW 2014-May

The assignment for Ali Edward's One Little Word for the month of May was to create 2.5x3.5 inch cards for a pocket page. Each card was supposed to be a small mixed media canvas to use paint, stamps, stencils and just have fun getting crafty. Afterwards when every thing was dry we were to complete the "I am...." statement.

Here is what I created for the prompt.

I used white paint with a bit of distress ink refill mixed in to create green and pale pink paint. Used to to coat some of them entirely, some I stenciled flowers and leaves. Then I used Heidi Swapp color shine, some with other stencils, others to add splatter. Used some Studio Calico stamps for the background layers. Then I used some more stamps, an alpha to create the "I am"  some phrases from some Technique Tuesday stamp sets from Ali to finish off the journaling prompt. Also used the geo tag from a Citrus Twist stamp set. Found some fabric labels that worked for the prompts and attached them with staples from my tiny attacher. 

I had fun with this assignment. I tend to be a perfectionist, or afraid to take risks and for this project, I could let all that go. It was fun to get inky and play with some of my stuff, that would otherwise sit.

Thanks for looking!

Sketch-n-Scrap Card Challenge #27

My daughter has had summer camp all last week, so my son and I had some time at home by ourselves. My son asked to scrapbook when he saw me looking at this sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap.

We both created a card based on this sketch.

The first is the one I created.

I used some left overs from a Basic Grey Page of the Month kit that I had on hand from a few years ago. Loved this epoxy sticker. Distressed the edges with Walnut Distress ink.  Added some buttons from my stash and loved the card as a result.

Here is the Father's Day card my son made.

He had found some Bella Blvd paper scraps that I had leftover from a layout I had created years ago. He went with some striped wash tape to go across the banners and selected and placed the buttons himself. I think the buttons were his favorite part of the sketch. He LOVES buttons! He even curled the hand cut banners at the bottom for more dimension. He selected a Stampin' Up! rub-on for the sentiment and used foam adhesive to pop it up. The last touch, he used the picket fence Distress marker to make a frame.

Love this challenge! So much fun crafting with my son!

Thanks for looking!

Project Life-May 19-25, 2014

Here is my Project Life layout for May 19-25, 2014.

Had a little fun with my title card this week. I went with something with a lot of color again.  Used the Ali Edwards digital brushes that I just purchased, again this week, which you will probably see a lot of from now on.

I have lots of photos and words again this week. Struggled including everything I wanted to, but I am happy with it.

This week I went with a Design D, with the large vertical photos. This layout aways feels more energetic and I struggle to use it. I had more vertical photos I wanted to feature this week, so design D it was.

I used a freebie from Cathy Zielski- the "school's out for summer" that was originally the other orientation, and I tweaked the colors and removed the incorrect year to make it work. Over all pretty happy with this week's layout. 

Hoping to catch up this week as well as post some of the other things that I have been working on. 

Thanks for looking!