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.

Tim's 46th birthday

The day started out with Tim's usual stop

at Starbucks for his Caramel Latte, and

one of our regular baristas, Brianna, wrote

on his cup sleeve, and then gave him his

drink free, yay! We then had to run and

do two quick things at two job sites then

Tim had to renew his driver's license,

nothing like leaving it til the last minute.

We then chilled at out local Starbucks in

the afternoon, with new drinks of course,

and enjoyed each others company, read,

and went online while there.

The girls and their boys came over for

dinner of burgers and salads, and then we

played a game of Pictionary, had cake, and

then after Jordyn and Jeff left, the four of

us played a game of Whoonu, :)

All in all, I am pretty sure Tim had

a nice relaxing day surrounded by

those that love him.

Project Life Week 12

Week 12, lots of photos for this week,

so used my trusty Photosheet to make

4x6 collages for those days with lots of

pictures. This is a look at the full week,

and I purchased non Project Life inserts

from my LSS to change up things a bit.

These are 4x4 inserts and allow for a

different look now and again throughout

the album. This week, the entire right hand

side is for one day :)

We were joined by my brother in law and sister

in law at the races on Sunday afternoon, so

I captured more photos then I usually do

when we are there. I also used one of the spots

for a journalling entry just about the day,

and then the top two spots I used the program

cover to fill that space and as a bit of a title.

The right hand side is lots of photos, and I focused on one

color scheme for the week with the teals, and did all my

journalling in a typewriter font. To balance all the color

on this side with the other, I added the number stickers

that come with the core kit on the left hand side to add

just a hint of color to it, and blend it in to this side.

New LO of Tim and I

Yesterday my sister in law snapped this

picture of hubby and I at the races, and

although it was on my iphone, and

just a bit grainy, I still love it. We don't

take a lot of pictures of ourselves, and

usually not taken by someone else, it's

usually the extended arm photo taken

to capture an event or place we are at.

And because I loved this picture, it actually

inspired me to scrapbook a LO today, yay!

I printed out the picture in black and white

something I am into again right now for LO's.

All the products used on this LO are from

7gypsies, except the double sided pattern

paper and that is Bo Bunny's called

Timepiece Unlocked. I used the darker

side for the main LO and just a ripped

strip of the key side of the paper.

I had recently pinned a LO similar to this

on my Pinterest board, and knew I wanted

to do something like it myself. And since

I am a big lover of all things 7gypsies, I had

all the pieces ready and waiting to be used.

I planned my journalling out first on computer

paper, and then carefully layered the cards

onto the printout to get the printing to line

up on both cards, and I was surprised that

the thickness didn't pose to be a problem

for my printer (a big sigh of relief)

The journalling is just from the heart, at

this moment in our lives. Especially, as

the girls get older, we spend more time

as a couple then we do as a family.

Good thing we still like each other, eh?

Project Life Week 11

This weeks full spread of project life. I didn't

have good quality photos this week, and still

wanted to use them, so I used 2x2 print outs

of them on the 3x4 insert cards. I really like

how this week looks. Very clean and crisp.

The right hand side is all photos from both

Tim and I's Instagram app, and although

they aren't the best quality, I wanted

to have some photos that were not

just taken by me as per usual.

Here's the right hand side of the LO, it

was a bit without bland, and didn't seem to

tie into the left hand side, something was

missing, a punch of color to co ordinate

the two sides, there was no teal on this side.

Here is the left hand side, and as you can see,

there is lots of color on this side. I really love

how this looks, I may have to do something

similar with the journaling cards again. I didn't

have a 4x6 photo for the top corner pocket,

so I just used two quotes I had copied off

of Pinterest this past week.

After rethinking the right hand side, I decided

to add a punch of the teal by just using the

number stickers that come with the

Clematine set. This was just what the

side needed to bring it all together.

Thanks for looking, I appreciate any comments

you may wish to leave.

The process of this week's Project Life.

This week I decided to do each day the exact

same way since I was using the insert with

lots of the 3x4 pockets. Not wanting to have

to rework each one, pick a new font for each

as well, like I do in other weeks, I made a

template in which I just reused each day

and changed what was needed.

So after printing out a rough draft on computer

paper, I then lined it up with the journaling cards

I wanted to use, from the Clematine Set, I then

used masking tape to attach the card onto

the computer paper and re feed it through my

computer to print it on the card. This worked well

and I repeated it for each day of the week.

I used all the same insert cards, and it made for

a nice clean linear look for this weeks layout.

After I printed each one out, I attached the

accompaning photo to each card with either

a few strips of masking tape, or with mini staples.

Here's a look at all of them before putting them

into my album. The one for Saturday is blocked

on purpose as it has a friends baby as the photo

and I didn't want to share that without her permission.