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Project Life 2013

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And so it begins…

Project Life 2013 - Title page

😉 I have to admit I got stuck when I started working on the title page for my 2013 Project Life album. I chose the pictures but then I wasn’t sure how to proceed. I started digging in my computer and found some pretty awesome things that I had collected throughout the year and not used yet. 🙂 It was easy to put the page together at that point. In the end, I love how the title page turned out!

Project Life 2013 - Title page

I wanted to feature some of my favorite things on the cover page, so I added stamping, embossing, sequins, glitter, washi tape, vellum, confetti and stitching. 🙂 I realized I forgot to add wood veneer, but I had already closed up the pocket by then. 😉

Project Life 2013 - Title page

Not sure if you can tell from the pictures, but I printed everything on linen paper by Red River Paper (except the photos) – I love that texture so much!

Project Life 2013 - Title page

After trying it out in my December Daily album, I am in love with pockets filled with glitter, sequins and confetti! I am so happy to have this in the front page of my album. 🙂

Project Life 2013 - Title page

Supplies:
I used a Design F page protector (the choice was motivated by the left page of week 1, that I’d already started).
The “Hello 2013” card is from the January Project Life kit by Studio Calico. The calendar stamps are by Designs by Lili; the b/w quote card is a freebie by Elise Blaha; the “just begin” card is a freebie by Ali Edwards. Stamps are all by Studio Calico (from the Venice Beach add on – “you & me”, 34th Street card kit “there’s no place like home”, and Day by Day class kit “twenty thirteen and “the best is yet to come”). The star punch, chunky glitter and micro beads (all in the confetti pocket) are by Martha Stewart. Mistable camera by Studio Calico; enamel dot by My Mind’s Eye.

I haven’t completed my Week 1 page yet but I’m 3/4 of the way done. I added an insert because I have a lot of pictures this week. 🙂 I hope to get it ready to be shared soon!

December Daily – Days 23-25

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Whoops.. I forgot to post the last two pages of my December Daily album here! Here they are. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 23-25

The reindeer card is from A Month of Memories by Jenn Barrette. Alpha stickers: Basic Grey; the rest is from Kringle & Co. by American Crafts.

DD 2012 - Days 23-25

Day stamp by Kelly Purkey, embellishment from Kringle & Co. by American Crafts plus some glitter brads.

As usual by the time I get to Christmas Day I don’t feel like embellishing much, but it’s OK – I love giving room to photos. 🙂 Another year done, yay!

More Christmas Scrapping

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Mari Koegelenberg has a fun add on to her lovely Christmas kit Baking Spirits Bright with Valorie Wibbens in the store today!

I used the add on papers and the kit to scrap a recent memory.

Milk & Cookies
Credits:
Baking Spirits Bright by Mari Koegelenberg and Valorie Wibbens
Font: Traveling Typewriter

Are you still in the mood to scrap Christmas memories? If so, this kit and add on are just perfect! I just finished my December Daily album (will post photos soon), and I have to say I am ready to move on to regular everyday pictures, and let Christmas be for a while. 🙂

January BYOC at The Lilypad!

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I am so excited for all the inspiration at The Lilypad! Not only is the January BYOC in the store, but January is the Month of Challenges: each day a new challenge is posted! I’m loving it and I’m super inspired! And this isn’t only a great motivation to start off the year well and get those memories scrapped – if you complete all 31 challenges by Feb 2nd, you could win a permanent Polly spot (best team ever!!)! Check it out:

I’ll be hosting the challenge for Jan. 16th, but I’m playing along in the challenges too – I want to see how many I can get done! 🙂

After several weeks of little to no scrapping, with the end of the semester and all the holiday activities, I am finally back on schedule and scrapping – and I love it! Here’s what I’ve done with the January BYOC so far.

First off, I was inspired by Valorie Wibbens’ new frames to make a compilation of all my favorite TLP pages from 2012:

2012 Favorites
Credits:
My Gallery by Valorie Wibbens
In Review elements by One Little Bird
Smudge Alpha by Gina Miller

ETA: this page was picked as a weekly highlight at the Club CK blog! 🙂
Fun!! This next page is for the Jan. 1st challenge – Clean and Simple – which is right up my alley.

Tomorrow
Credits:
Simple Things elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Yellow paper from In Review papers by One Little Bird
The Chickens font by Heather Joyce

And since I was loving the frames so much, I made another page with them. 🙂

Vacation Highlights

Not my usual style, but I love how it turned out! 🙂

December Daily – Days 15-23

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I am almost done catching up with my December Daily album – and it feels good! We were gone Dec. 26-30, but as soon as I got back home I got working on it. I just have 2 days to go before the album is done. December Daily is for sure my favorite project to work on. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

This is probably my favorite spread in the album! The word art card is by Little Butterfly Wings.

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

The alpha stickers and the paper are by Basic Grey. The stamp is a digital element I had cut out with my Silhouette in 2010 for my DD album, but never used. 🙂 I’m loving the number stamp for the date.

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

The letter stickers are from Dear Lizzy. The number stamp is by Kelly Purkey. I covered the Studio Calico wood veneer arrow with Stickles. The green paper is a leftover from a previous page – I stamped the Studio Calico stamp and embossed in gold glitter zing, and then I sprayed Estate Green Mister Huey on top. And here comes my favorite thing in the album…

DD 2012 - Days 16-19

This is my first see through pocket ever, and I love it!! I did some sewing to create compartments, and put in sequins, chunky glitter, punched shapes (snowflakes and stars), wood veneer and micro beads to decorate. I stamped on the back of a digital element (more below) and I love how it turned out! Stamps by Martha Stewart and Kelly Purkey.

DD 2012 - Days 20-21

I really like this spread too. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 20-21

Here’s the back of the pocket! Not sure which side I like more – I love them both! 😉 The word art is by Little Butterfly Wings. The star card is by Paislee Press.

DD 2012 - Days 20-21

The reindeer card  is by Paislee Press, and I added a red sequin for the nose. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 21-22

The polka red dot wrap was from the chocolate basket pictured above – I love that you can see it peeking from the pocket in the previous page too!

DD 2012 - Day 23

The reindeer paper is from Kitschy Christmas by Jenn Barrette and Sahlin Studio, and I also used the Christmas Journal Cards and Ephemera: Trimming the Tree by Sahlin Studio.

Hello 2013

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Wow, 2013 is here already… I am not ready for it to be here yet, but I’ll make the most of it! 🙂 Happy New Year!! 2012 has definitely been a good year for me. I haven’t made any recap pages (yet), but there have been many things to celebrate and be proud of this year. Feeling very blessed…

Happy 2013 card

I wish you a fabulous 2013, filled with joy and health and all good things! I made two Happy 2013 cards – the first one (below) for a friend, while the second one (above) for DH. Both use many of my favorite crafty supplies of 2012 (which you’ll see plenty of in 2013 as well!): Studio Calico stamps, embossing, mists, glitter tape, vellum and sequins. 😉

Happy 2013 card

Happy 2013!

December Daily – Days 8-14

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I am not on holiday break yet (yuck!), but I conceded myself some time over the weekend to catch up on my December Daily album. 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 8-11

Not much happened these days that was Christmas-related, so I only had elf pictures for my album. 🙂 I also included a funny joke DH forwarded to me on Facebook. The next spread took me a little more time to put together, and I love how it turned out!

DD 2012 - Days 12-14

The green paper is from Basic Grey Fact & Fiction.

DD 2012 - Days 12-14

I stamped a pretty pine stamp by Martha Stewart on the little tag with green ink – so pretty! The date stamp is done with my latest favorite number stamp purchase. The Ho Ho Ho is from a set by Valorie Wibbens, and the glittered stars card is by Paislee Press.

DD 2012 - Days 12-14

I had lots of fun stamping and embossing here! The number stamps (from Kelly Purkey’s December Daily kit) were embossed with gold glitter zing on vellum. The other stamp (from Studio Calico) is also embossed in gold glitter zing, and then I sprayed Estate Green Mister Huey on top – it really makes the gold shine even more! The little stars are punched out from a foil wrapping using this awesome punch – another of my recent purchases, and you’ll be seeing more of it soon. 🙂

I finally bought myself a tiny attacher by Tim Holtz, and I’ve already put it to use to hold down those sequins. I love it!! Here are a few other things I used to make this page.

That’s all I have for now! I’m a little over a week behind, but it’ll be easy to catch up – as soon as I have some free time!

December Daily – Days 2-7

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As promised, I am back to share some December Daily pages. I had started out this project thinking I would be combining my Project Life and December Daily albums in one, but the truth is I love Christmas so much that it deserves its own album! 🙂 So I’m doing a true Dec. Daily album, and I’ll catch up (or not.. ;)) on the ordinary events in my PL album. 🙂 I have been super busy with my last classes and exams, on top of my regular work, so I’m a bit behind, but I am keeping things simple in this album, so I will be catching up soon. Here are days 2-7!

DD 2012 - Day 2

I splurged and bought Kelly Purkey’s December Daily kit – I fell in love with the stamp, and I just couldn’t resist – and I’m so glad I did! For this spread I just used a journaling card from the kit and the stamp for the date. The rest is all photos – I loved them all and wanted to include them. My two favorite people in the whole world!

DD 2012 - Day 2

I thought the confetti journaling card went perfectly with all the Christmas lights/bokeh pictures. 😉

DD 2012 - Days 3-5

I included as an insert a prank from our elf.. 😉 DH was printing out 200 copies of the program for a concert that would take place on Dec. 16th, and our elf decided to steal the show and printed his own version! 🙂

DD 2012 - Days 3-5 

Gotta have glitter in my album! 🙂 The label is from the Studio Calico 25 Days class (Dec. Daily class) kit; the background paper is by Basic Grey Fact&Fiction, I covered a Studio Calico Wonderland wood veneer tree with Stickles, and layered it on top of some awesome glitter tape. Oh and the date stamp? I recently bought this awesome number stamp and I’m in love!

DD 2012 - Days 6-7

You will start seeing a pattern here.. when I don’t have any Christmas pictures for the day, all you get is an Elf picture. 🙂 So I can also combine multiple days in one page and keep the thickness of the album reasonable. I journaled and stamped on the back of the program (stamps by Ali Edwards, Cute and So Totally Happy sets). On the right, filler cards are made with A Christmas Tradition by Jenn Barrette and Valorie Wibbens.

DD 2012 - Days 6-7

For this spread, I added in a paper bag from Starbucks – I love their designs so much, plus you never go wrong with bunnies! <3 a="a" href="http://scrapflower.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=21109" i="i" left="left" on="on" target="_blank" the="the" used="used">journaling card by creashens
 (slightly recolored), and the bottom two pockets are made using A Very Vintage Christmas by Digital Design Essentials.

DD 2012 - Days 6-7

I had so much fun decorating the back of the paper bag!

DD 2012 - Days 6-7

In all honesty, I botched the first stamping: I stamped “Hey Santa!” (from KP’s DD kit) in red but I didn’t press it down properly so the middle remained blank, so I decided to color the whole bubble red and stamp another sentiment on top of it instead (oh what fun, from the 25 Days class kit). I chose green because it matched the Starbucks logo, and I restamped the Hey Santa in green too (properly this time). 😉 I love the result!!

DD 2012 - Days 6-7

I love this page too – I decided to use a journaling card I’d pre-made using Jenn Barrette’s A Month of Memories and I only just realized that it matched the picture on top of it perfectly, with the peppermint sticks! I made the title using Dear Lizzy tile stickers (the package comes with 2 sheets, one with gold letters on white and the other with white stickers on gold) and Dear Lizzy Fox glitter thickers.

That’s all I have for now, hoping to get caught up very soon!