I’m very excited to share week 3 of my Project Life album! Once again, though, I have to apologize for the poor quality of the photos… I have no natural light available (it’s a gloomy, rainy day here) so this is the best I could do. Unlike the previous weeks, this week I didn’t have time to work on my album on Wednesday night, but I worked on it Friday night instead, then finished up Sunday evening. The process was very smooth.

Here is a closer look to the two pages:

Unlike the past two weeks, the design of this week was not inspired from a card; I got the color scheme from the breakfast picture and went from there. It was fun to see how the yellow recurred in subsequent pictures as well – I swear I wasn’t looking for it on purpose! 🙂

I did however draw inspiration from a card for the little banners here. 🙂 Having barely mastered straight stitches, freehand sewing does not come too easy to me, but I think it turned out well enough! 😉 I stitched down the leftovers from the banner to embellish two cards on the right page.

I didn’t use any cards from the Clementine kit this week, since my color scheme was pretty unique. But that’s OK. I had some of the digital bits already printed out, and printed out more to match. I went with DH to Lowe’s yesterday and stopped to pick up a few paint chips. It was just perfect to fill up one of the pockets (top right)! 🙂 I also got all excited when I saw some bigger paint samples, because it looked like they were 4″x6″, but in fact they are more like 4″x5.5″… annoying, but I’m sure I’ll find a good use for them. 🙂

Supplies:
Today paper pack and Today Journal Cards by Valorie Wibbens
Good Life tag by Lauren Reid
Digital washi tape from This and Thats by The Tattered Pear
Becky Higgins Project Life blank journaling cards
Smash date stamp K&C company + Tim Holtz distress ink
Mr. Huey mist
Pens: Micron 03 + Faber Castell
Washi and fabric tape from InTheClear

It’s time to share week 2 of my Project Life album! The process was very smooth for me this week as well. I worked on the spread on Wednesday night – figured out the design and printed out the first few bits. Then during the weekend I printed out the rest of the stuff. I didn’t finish on Sunday though (still had a couple of photos to print out), but I had my photos picked and edited, and was just waiting to have a couple of photos for this week ready to print out (I have a weird mania of not wasting paper 😉 ).

While I love how my spread turned out this week, I really hate the pictures I took of it – I didn’t have any natural light available, and this is the best I could get. It is so frustrating! Here is a look at the individual pages:

Like last week, the design+color scheme for the whole spread was derived from a card I made this past week. (actually, this time around I made the card after designing the PL spread) Great way to optimize my time! This week I was able to incorporate more of the Clementine kit: both of the blue journaling cards on the left page are from the kit, as well as the blue one at the top right on the right page.

I printed out the date with the date stamp as usual, but I used a pink Tim Holtz distress ink, to match the color scheme of the page. I like how it turned out! Here is a little scene I love:

This week I even included 2 inserts (just regular 8.5″x11″ protectors). I found a fun printable with a few questions about the past year and hopes for the new year (I pinned it here if you’re interested), and I thought it would be a cool thing to include in the album. It’s supposed to be for kids – there’s also an adult version, but I figured I had better chances of having DH fill in the kid version, and I was right! I didn’t even have to insist to have him fill it in! So the first protector has his questionnaire on the front and mine on the back. The second protector has an admission letter I received and on the back a character sheet.

Yikes, I cringe at how bad these pictures are. I hope to have better luck next week with natural light!

Smash date stamp K&C company
Becky Higgins Project Life blank journaling cards and Clementine kit cards
Bunnies and snow bubble from Snow Bunny by Jenn Barrette
Stickles
Pen: Micron 03
Washi tape from InTheClear