Week 11 | Project Life

This is week 11 of my Project Life 2013 Album. Seems we've been busy enjoying life and so I'm little behind on this project, but working hard to get caught up. I've been a member of Studio Calico's Project Life Kit and I've LOVED it! It was my plan to just use those kits plus printables in my 2013 album. But once I seen Becky Higgins Honey Edition I knew I had to get it! So, I will start with the kit of the month and use what looks good with my pictures and content of that week. Then look through printables. Then jump over to the Honey Edition. Since Hobby Lobby is now carrying Becky Higgins brand (YAY!) I was able to use a 40% off coupon and get the Honey Edition Core Kit! and I LOVE it even more in person!!! The colors & style is just perfect for my pictures!
The page is Design F, I tend to use that one A LOT since you can put so many pictures on it. I've been shooting 99.999% on my iphone & I have a go-to filter on instagram (Lo-Fi). The camera on the iPhone S4 is really great & I love how handy it is to use.

STAMPS - the title card is 4x6 from Studio Calico and I stamped on it with a Sn@p Stamp Set, you can see more about that in this post. I also used some stamps from Hero Arts Branded with Studio Calico and Studio AE. For those that don't know, "Studio AE" is a stamp line designed by Ali Edwards. I'm part of a monthly club from Technique Tuesday so the new set just appears in my mailbox every month! Plus club members get a discount on the set! I use these stamps ALL THE TIME on my scrapbook pages! Here is the link to learn more about that.

WASHI TAPE - I LOVE washi tape! I used the black with white dots from the Smash line and the "today" on the bottom right card came in one of the Studio Calico kits. When in doubt . . . put some washi tape on it! :)

OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS - Ok, who doesn't LOVE wood veneers? I would guess if you don't you either don't have any or don't have enough. Get some hearts, cameras or potty people those seem to go with anything. And don't forget some adhesive. I normally use glossy accents but I'm almost out, so for this one I used a Zig two-way pen. I wasn't sure if it would hold but so far it has done brilliantly!

Sn@p Stamp Set

 

This is a fun little date card I out together with a stamp set from Sn@p. 

I like the rainbow colors and since there are 7 days of the week & 7 colors I thought they would work well together. I stamped "week no." from a Studio Calico Project Life kit. The 4x6 cardstock is also from a studio calico kit.

Project Life | Week 48

I'm at week 48 and tomorrow is New Year's Eve! I REALLY want to finish 2012 with PL2012 done, so we will see if i can pull it off! :) For 2013 i'm going back to traditional Project Life and I'm super stoked about it! I'm on the waiting list at Studio Calico for their Project Life monthly kit so I'm gonna wait until i get my hands on that kit to see if i need to order "Seafoam". don't get me wrong. . . . i WANT to order Seafoam, but I'm try to be good and only get want i need. because if i got want i wanted for project life we would need to build on another room in our house just hold it all!!! :D Until i receive the monthly kits i plan to use "printables" that i already have.

Project Life | Week 38

what a colorful week! I love all the bright colors, to me, its very young and energetic! We played out side quite a bit, the weather has been SO nice that it's hard to stay inside. So, after school is done and Abby Jo wakes up from her afternoon nap we've been going out to play for a few hours each night. The girls are still loving the chalkboard! i try to clean it off each morning so its ready for them when they wake up. i like to leave it at night so that keith can see what they did. i'm trying to remember to use the timer on my camera so that i can get in some shots. keith and i got to have a mini date night! i got to watch him bowl so i took a picture to include it in this weeks layout, because thats part of his life right now. i hope you enjoy and please feel free to leave a comment!!!

project life | week 37

the major thing going on this week was the war with the markers! abby jo kept finding markers but i couldn't! so i finally had enough and put the ALL up!    Reagan started watching how-to-draw youtube videos (yay!) the rest is pretty much normal stuff.
i kept the design really simple, i like that the only pattern paper used was chevron. lots of fun!

Project Life | week 35

this week was our county fair! for the past 4 years reagan has ridden the merry-go-round with my dad, its quite possible the highlight of her year! this year abby jo got to too! abby jo has discovered my mom's ipad - and she LOVES it! my mother-in-law found a turtle just in time for her & reagan to join the Turtle Races at the fair, they won 2nd place! 
the polka dot pattern at the top left was my color pallet this week. im not that good with journaling, im more of a "a picture is worth a thousand words" type. so i normally just do a little "tag" journal style on each picture just to explain what the picture is about.

Project Life | week 33

week 33 was fun, a good variety of pictures to work with. i added a qr code that goes to a video on youtube of Abby Jo rockin on the horse. i picked up that awesome technique from Tracy .here is her video where she talks about adding qr codes, if you dont want to watch the whole video start at 7:53. i'm trying to take pictures of the girls with whatever toy they are into right now.

Week 32 | Project Life

my style for project life has changed over the year, it started out with scrapbook sketches, then i came across Project Life Design Team member Lindsay Moreno and then i changed from sketches to page protector layouts. this makes the design process SO much faster! plus its easier to look at. i also started branching out and using other supplies. i REALLY like this! then after some more time my style for project life and regular scrapbooking mixed. im learning to layer and build little clusters like Nichol Magouirk and Tracy. this is really fun to work on the little "cells" instead of working on the whole page.

week 31 | Project Life

   Im behind on Project Life 2012, so over the weekend i hope to get caught up! So if when i do i will post them here next week. this is my second year to do this project, last year i did the traditional version and with having a new baby i didn't complete it. :( but i am still working on it and will compete it! for 2012 i decided to go digital with it and ive been able to keep up with it. ive been a few weeks behind here & there but for the most part - -  im on top of it! but i miss getting to touch and feel the products & getting to add all the little tid bits of the week. so next year i plan to do the traditional version again. 
     so this week was our vacation in florida with our families. my husbands cousin got married on the beach and my parents went to take pictures and watch the girls. grandma wanda went with us along with keith's parents and 2 siblings and his Aunt & Uncle (parents of the groom) and the groom and his brother. so it was a full condo and lots of fun!

project life: week 27 | digital scrapbook page

so ive not posted all my layouts for Project Life this year, so i will be posted some every now and then. this is for week 27. i LOVE the left hand side with all the instagram pix. i found most of the elements for this layout on pinterest. have a great day!

Proejct life - week 30

week 30 of Project Life - we were getting ready to go to Florida! it looks like i was busier than i thought because i didn't take many pictures!

Project Life: Week 24

Project Life: Week 19

Project Life: Week 17

 Week 17! We had 2 birthday parties this week and it was a busy week at the studio so we weren't home much. Abby allergies started bothering her, but I think she still had a good week! Below is the sketch - I followed it fairly close, just modified it for the date element & a larger jornaling area.

Project Life: Week 16

 This week was crazy busy preparing for Abby's Birthday Party! And my camera was gone for most of the week so I had to use my phone. We made Jelly, played with friends, ate yummy food and met Max! The sketches I used are below from Nuts About Sketches. The top one was the layout and the bottom one was inspiration for paper. I was feeling like I'd done alot of three colors layered up like in the first sketch. I put the yellow piece down and was gonna move it up to the top so only a strip showed, but I liked the way it looked.

Project Life: Week 15

Week 13

I over slept yesterday so I didn't get  week 13 done until this morning. And since its NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY, I'm hoping to post several pages today! I'm also gonna post the sketches I used as a jumping off point for this week. I got it from Nuts About Sketches they have awesome layout ideas so check 'em out! I had 14 images that I wanted to use and most sketches don't have that many spots for pictures, so I combined two.

 I like the overall layout on this one (above). I thought I could put small pictures instead of a sub title. I liked

the title and jornalling space going straight down the page.

 

And in this one I LOVED the CIRCLES! When doing digital layouts I sometimes forget about doing circles.

Hope you enjoyed!

Week 12

I got behind on designing my Project Life 2012 pages. So, I'm getting up an hour earlier each day to get a week done before the girls wake up! :) This week has LOTS of photos, I think there are 19! The 7 little ones at the bottom were taken by Reagan, I love getting her view of things! We did alot this week and after I completed this layout I realized that I missed the biggest thing we did... THE ZOO! So I think I'm gonna do a separate layout just for the zoo to stick in my Project Life album. This year I've decided to have a scrapbook for Reagan, one for Abby and then Project Life for me. So I've got a couple ideas for layouts that I want to do and I will just stick them in with PJ2012.

Project Life: Week 11

ok so I'm a little behind on my Project Life pages. I'm still taking the pictures, but life has been so busy for us that I've not had time to put the pages together. The weather has been unseasonably warm here, so we've been playing outside a lot. Its hard to keep shoes on my girls... I guess they are barefoot country girls! :) I also did lots of scrapbooking this week, God has really blessed us with this business and we are SO THANKFUL!   Reagan is trying to figure out how to tie shoes... she still has a way to go yet! Then we have the girls eating! Reagan was VERY impressed with this HUGE pancake and Abby loves to eat anything! And I added all the funny little things Reagan's says through out the week. I update my fb status with the funny things she says then when I work on Project Life I just go to that week on fb and copy & paste it. It works like a dream! I have people come up to almost on a weekly bases & say how much they love Reagan's quotes. They say it brightens their days & makes them laugh. So I kinda think of it as a ministry. We are so blessed to have Reagan & Abby Jo!!!!!!!! So here is my layout for Week 11...

Project Life 2012

I'm doing project life again this year!!  But this year I decided I would give the digital version a try and I'm glad I did because I LOVE IT!!! Here are my layouts for January 1 - February 4 plus my title page. I got the "Cobalt" edition and I'm thinking I'm gonna get the "Clementine" album, because I LOVE orange! I need to order the binder & some page protectors. the plan is to get some 12x12 protectors & some others. I like adding little tidy bits of "life" to this project, so I'd like to try the pocket pages. Check out http://www.beckyhiggins.com/products/ to learn more & get started! But anyway here are my layouts thus far...