Smile

Hi all!  Today I have a card made using the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I decided to dig into my super stash of Project Life cards and found these sweet ones in the Dear Lizzy Mini Edition.  I used the one that had Smile at the top, the one with the french text, the pink with the polka dots and the yellow zigzag.  The cupcake is from Carnival Cupcakes and the sentiment is from Carnival Toppers.

This is also for Crazy 4 Challenges – include numbers on your creations (see those little scrabble-like letters at the top?).  I hope you like it and TFL!

Project Life on Cards

Hi all!  The PL Honey Core Kit is one of my all time faves!  I just love the bright colors and fun designs.  But I can only use so much of it in my PL albums, so I decided to try using some of the supplies on my cards.  I looked through the 4x6 title cards and came across this one:

I love that cloud design!!  I thought it would make a good backdrop for a card, so I cut it down to 3x4 with my Journaled Weekly die set and made this card:

I used the biggest owl from Hooties and its matching die set.  I stamped him with Memento ink and colored with Copics on x-Press It blending paper (I got a bunch and have been trying it out lately – still not sure if I like it better than plain old Georgia Pacific cardstock from Walmart).  I stamped the branch in Chocolate Chip ink on Creamy Caramel cardstock and cut it out.  The sentiment is from Word Salad and the heart balloon die is from the Party Kit dies.  I finished it off with an A|S button tied with crochet thread.

This is also for Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes with Buttons, Divas by Design – Buttons and Bows, and MarkerPOP – Anything Goes using Markers.  I hope you like it and TFL!

First Project Life Post

I’ve talked a couple times about my doing Project Life on the blog so I finally decided to share.  First, I wanted to tell you a little about my process: I don’t have a set timeline for doing my PL spreads.  Meaning, I don’t always make a spread 1 week or 1 page equal 1 week or month or any set length of time.  I’ve taken a very relaxed and stress free approach by just looking through my photos every few days, picking out the ones I like and figuring out where in my latest spread they’ll fit.  This could mean I have a spread that covers just a couple days, or even a whole month or more.  It just depends on how many pictures I took that I want to save.  So you’ll see that my title cards don’t have “Week 16” or whatever on them.  I simply note the first and last dates and that’s my spread!

Here’s one that I recently finished covering June 7 to June 14, 2013.  Here’s the whole spread:

The left page, which included my June PL kit from Studio Calico, a trip to Farrell’s, Griffin’s “shirt” and Buddy with his dog bone:

 

Love this pic of Griffin (age 4):

Then the right side, which included a trip to get shave ice, haircuts for the boys and Griffin’s preschool graduation:

You can see my journaling is a mix of my own handwriting, some computer journaling and some done on my old manual typewriter.  Also a very laid back way to journal!

I hope you don’t mind some PL on the blog because I’ll probably be sharing spreads every so often from now on!  TFL!