2 Adorable Girls

Here's the second of the extra layouts for week 23 - this time from the party for Rayna.  I managed to capture a shot with my two beautiful nieces together.  So I had it printed in a larger size to be the focal point and used Sketch # 105 from Sketch Savvy as my inspiration.  Since it's going into my Project Life book, I decided to keep my trend of using the paper I used for that week, which for right now is Basic Grey's Hey You along with elements from the Hey You, Hey Boy and Hey Girl lines.  I used the coordinating alphabet, a chipboard piece and random number 2 that I found in my stash.  I also raided my stash for some pearls from Want 2 Scrap, 2 brads and piece of 12 x 12 kraft card stock.   

 Here's how it looks in the book:

Craft Room Upgrade Layout

For Week 21 of Project Life I knew I wanted to do a layout commemorating the work we've done on my craft room lately.  I had some video footage of our cat Chewie climbing the ladder we had in the room to replace the light fixture and a picture of another of our cats, Smoke, climbing the ladder that I wanted to include.  I saw this really great idea of using a QR code to access videos stored on YouTube that I thought I would give a try.  I simply uploaded my video to YouTube then fed the web address into a QR code generator program.  I then printed the QR Code it gave me onto paper (I used photo paper) and added it to my layout. Now all I have to do is open up my code reader app on my phone or iPad to watch Chewie climbing the ladder any time I want.  It was super easy to do so I'm pretty sure you are going to see a lot more QR Codes showing up in my layouts and in Project Life in the future.

For the layout, I was inspired by a sketch from the Sketch Savvy blog from April.  I used paper from the Basic Grey Fact line to match my Project Life layouts for the week since this page would be inserted into that part of my book.  I used the Eric Thickers for my title (I just got these at Michaels earlier this week and I was excited to use them).  The little tab above the middle picture and the chevrons on either side of the title were cut from files I bought for my cameo and I finished it off with some hand stitching across the bottom using some Hemptique baker's twine.  It was super easy to do because I was able to easily poke evenly spaced holes using my new Tim Holtz Ideology rule (that I also picked up at Michaels this week with a coupon so I could replace my beloved E K Success ruler that I've used so much that the markings are starting to disappear).  I wasn't completely happy with it but then I added a few Darice gems and it all just seemed to look right.

 

So here's what it looks like now that it's in the book:

A Great Day Layout

Here's the first of the insert pages for Week 15.  I found inspiration for the page from this layout from Sketch Savvy using the March sketch challenge at Scraptastic club.  It was truly the perfect layout for these pictures of birthday celebrations this last week.  In order to make these pages fit in with my Project Life, I used the Fact 6x6 paper pad to coordinate.  The title was made from stamps from The Stamps of Life stamps4life set.  The combination was perfect!  I used the Jenni Bowlin Studios Time Book stamps to create my own journalling card.  When I found these stamps on Scrapbook.com a few weeks back, I knew they would be perfect for journalling cards and I was right.  I've used them a couple of times already and I can see lots of potential for future uses.   

Here's how it looks in the book:

 

The Alamo

Here's the first of the insert pages from my recent trek to San Antonio.  I knew it would facing the first page for that week, so I needed to keep the paper somewhat coordinated with that layout.  The problem was, I only have random pieces of the Pink Paislee Portfolio 6x6 set I have been using for the last few weeks of my Project Life pages.  So I had to find a way to make this insert page work with paper no larger than 6 inches, but preferably much smaller than that.  While trolling through some of the inspiration I've pinned on Pinterest, I found this sketch from Sketch Saavy that I thought would be perfect for the pictures I had from my jaunt over to the Alamo and uses only 2x2 inch squares of random papers.  As usual, I kept the layout pretty simple.  I'm just not one to put a lot of stuff on it.  But this time I did try something a little different with the edges.  I wanted something to soften the white a bit.  I knew from week 10's layout that my Iced Spruce Distress Ink was a good coordinating color so I sponged the edges a bit, but then I smeared it too much in one spot and I didn't like that.  I decided to see if could tone it down with some white ink.  That didn't work.  My white galaxy marker didn't work either.  But white acrylic paint did okay, but then the paint really stood out.  I decided to fix that by painting a little all the way around the page.  That was perfect.  So that just left a title.  I really love these letter from Amy Tangerine.  They are just a little brighter than the rest of the colors, but I decided I didn't mind that.  I thought I was done with it, until I put it in the page protector.  Then I realized it would be nice if I added a few of the black rhinestones to tie the two pages together. 

When We Were 5

I've kind of lost my scrapbooking mojo.  I seem to only do a layout every now and then, and I'm not sure why.  I have lots of ideas and certainly plenty of pictures, but I just haven't made it all come together.  But I loved the Sketch Savvy sketch this week and last night after reading the lesson for Learn Something New Every Day, I decided to do a layout of pictures from when the hubster and I were little.  I found this picture of him when he was about five and just loved his little smirk.  Then I had to laugh when I found my kindergarten picture and, lo and behold, I had almost an identical little smirk.  I guess we were always meant to be together.  I just had to use this cute book paper from Jenni Bowlin Studio out of the Studio Calico kit called County Fair.  The adorable stamp and black cardstock came from that kit as well.  The orange cardstock came from DCWV's Brights stack and I used the EK Success punch "Binding" to finish it off.

Finally Done!

Whoo hoo! I'm done. Ten pages all finished and ready to go with days to spare. I even took some time today to clean up the last of the summer plants out of the front yard. I stared out with a sketch from Nuts About Sketches to do the page for Lee. Then I jumped over to Sketch Savvy for a layout for Ken.Next, I pulled up the December Page Maps to find a layout that truly inspired me to finish Mike's page. So I looked at a few of the past months on Page Maps and found this sketch in the September 2010 .pdfs that was perfect for Doug. Viola! I even had some company from Smoke in my craft room for most of the day. But then I was abandoned for the Christmas blanket.




I guess I can't blame them. Cuddling on the couch sounds pretty good to me. In fact, that's what I'm going to go do.