Project Life Week 13

I am so thankful to be up to date on my Project Life,

and I must say, this is not as easy as one might

think to stay caught up on. Remember, while

we are documenting weeks, we are also living

in the moment as it happens, and sometimes

that real life stuff gets in the way of our documenting

and creativity and fun. I have been admiring the

Project Life albums and pages of many others,

thanks to many online blogs, and even on

Pinterest and most recently for me Instagram.

I also find that sometimes seeing how creative and

how awesome some have been making theirs, I feel

mine if just blah and mundane, but then I realize, that's

okay, it's not a competition, it's about what works

for each individual and for that point and time in

their lives...maybe as the months go by and I find

my Project Life voice, I will become more

creative, more relaxed, but for now, I am

enjoying using the journaling cards, the stickers,

everything that came with my kit, and I am okay

with that.....most times....lol...but then, aren't we

always just a bit harder on ourselves then others?

Above you can see the entire week in one photo,

minus the end of the month insert in which I have

been summerizing our lives and included some

keepsakes, I have included it in photo's below.

Here is the left hand side of my week, and it's mostly

photos, and some arrow stickers. One the photo of

Jordyn, which I got off of Instagram by the way, I

wrote of how her OCD has been affecting her lately.

It's written in white ink, so is much easier to see on the

actual photo then here on my blog. I also have a close

up of the journaling insert below if you want to read it.

The right hand side above is mostly photos from Tim's

birthday and then the one in the bottom corner I once

again took off of Jordyn's Instragram account. The fun

Love quote was one I downloaded off of Pinterest,

and the colors worked perfectly this week with my

orange insert theme.

The above photo, as well as the two below, are close ups

of all the journaling inserts I used this week. Easier to

read if you would like.

Here's the view of the full spread with the insert

showing the journalling side, I also used two of

my StampinUp stamps and Spiced Marmalade

Distress Ink from Tim Holtz so keep with the

orange theme.

The backside of the 6x6 insert is where

I put Tim's birthday cards for future browsing.

and here is a close up of our month

in review. Time did fly this past month.

Goodbye March, Hello April :)

Newest Layouts

I had some time to actually play this weekend, so

I created 4 new LO's, all of which came together

fairly quickly as I am learning to use companies

that have paper, and stickers and embellies

that all go together. Seems to help me, since

I can get a LO done in an hour instead of

the usual two or three it used to take me.

The above LO was from the dual celebration

we had for Amy and Jordyn's last birthdays.

One of my favorite product lines right now is

Simple Stories, and this is the birthday set.

I am not usually a bright paper kind of girl,

but I did want to have fun with it, so since

I had two of each piece of paper, I used the

second to cut out the extra pieces for the

banners along the top and the word

birthday so I could pop them off the page

with dimensional adhesive.

I once again used the Simple Stories line for this

layout above from Tim's birthday, this line is called

Document, and of all the lines they have put out

this is by far my very favorite. I actually bought

a limited addition kit and it had these wonderful

overlays in it, and I didn't put it completely over

top of the photo of Tim but angled it, I seem

to like this look as I have done it before. I also

used a photo app on my phone to alter the

picture of the cup, to just make it colored and

the rest of it in black and white. The app is

called ColorSplash, and is pretty easy to use.

This LO is pretty much all the Authentique Paper line

of products and it all goes together so well, and

I pretty much had this LO done in under 1/2 an hour.

The photos were taken on Linda's last trip over, and

are all from my Iphone. the bird paper is actually

a mouse pad of paper that I just recently got at

Chapters for 50% off, got to love a sale.

This last LO is done with mostly my new kit from

StampinUp and I love how it all came together so

nicely, and how the black and white main photo

just pops off of it. I also tried a new technique for

me and used the cut out section from my cricuit

instead of the actual letters I cut, it's like a

shadow effect and it says birthday stroll, and

looks more vivid in real life. The thing I like most

about this kit is the stickers are cardboard ones

so stronger and more of a texture then just

simple stickers would be.