3-to-Inspire projects

Hi there!
I am so glad to start a new term with Citrus Twist Kits and all these amazing ladies.   Today i will be hosting the 3-to-Inspire challenge for this week using the beautiful Life Chapters kit.  But before we go into the projects, let me share this week's prompts:

1. Use a non-white background
2. Create layers 
3. Add stamping to your title.

For my first project i used the Life Crafted - Life Chapters kit and the Butterfly Frame (free subscriber cut file) to create this page about my daughter's choice to cut her long-er hair.

The cut file was cut from white cardstock, so i chose Vanilla colored cardstock as the background for this page.   Once the frame was machine stitched to the background, i started working on the layers.

The papers in the Life Stories kit  and white vellum were used to cut different size butterflies using the same cut file.    Before attaching these to the page, i added a bit of white paint where the butterflies would be attached, and then machine stitched the butterfly shapes to the background.

For the picture, i chose to add a bit of ink to the background, and then layered papers, ephemera and cut apart elements to frame the picture.

The title was set at the bottom corner of the page, and i chose to mix the kit's  alphas with the stamp set to complete it.  The following  video will show you how it all came together.

I love the softness and color of this page, and since i had the negative pieces from  the cut out, i chose to use them to create a layout in my Life Crafted album using the prompts as inspiration.

This time, I used one of the Life Chapters' papers to create the background for this page.   I used a few of the negative paper pieces to create layers behind the picture.

   I used the Life Chapters kit stamp set to create the title for this layout, and set it at the bottom of the picture.    

I pulled an upcoming Life Crafted insert -expected in a few weeks- and used the top pocket to house my journal lines - i used the digital cards to add the lines using Photoshop-.   In the bottom pocket, i added one of the cards with a small phrase sticker on it, and then added the layer butterfly to the outside of the pocket.   The layered butterflies were also added to the picture so that there is a unified look in the page.

These two entries were both inspired by the 3 prompts and the colors in the kit, and now it is your turn to use them to create a project of your own.

Project Life Update (week 17, 18, 19)

PL  week 17, 18, 19

Hello everyone,  

It has been a while since my last update of my Project Life layouts.  Thankfully, I have been keeping up with the weekly entries, just haven't updated its progress on the blog.  So here goes a quick glimpse to what my PL album is looking like...

Week 17

I just added a few pictures of week 17 on a page, as the Saturday of this week, we celebrated my niece's First Communion, so i made a large 4 page spread of the celebration. 

One of the pages from my niece's Communion celebration

I loved using paper cut into 3x4 and 4x6 in. cards as  my fillers for all this section of the album.

The patterned paper comes from a Recollection collection...

I started week 18 with a simple page one page layout.  It was a slow week at home, so one page was enough to compile the week's anecdotes.

I chose to not label the week number as it was the beginning of May...

For Week 19,  I had to add a small insert to add the extra pictures of  the week, though it was  a normal week, we had visitors and I had my camera in hand at all times..

I kept the layout to black and white to balance all the color in the pictures.

Here is the second side of the layout

I found this Teresa Collins cards on sale, and bought 2 packs
which came in handy to tie in all the pictures on this spread.

I am working on weeks 20 at the moment, so I will update it ASAP.

I hope you are also capturing your life, but most importantly printing the pictures and documenting them...  It is important to safe keep memories alive.

Till next time,

See you soon!

Project Life Week #16

PL Week 16

Hello there!

 It has been a rather busy week in our household.  Between soccer, guitar, deadlines, and renovations, there has been very little time for anything else.    However, I have squeezed some time to capture our everyday life, not as detail as other weeks, but at least the week's highlights.

With all those pictures in hand, I was able to create an entry for this week's Project Life album using mostly cut-outs from My Mind's Eye old collections.

This week's layout

I hope you are also documenting your every day, even if it is a handful of pictures.

See you soon...

Project Life Week 14

PL  Week 14

Hello there!!

Well it seems, Toronto is still not catching up with spring.  We are still under the shroud of winter that means a lot of time indoors.  That has not deter my need to capture and document our everyday lives.

This week we celebrated my niece's 8th birthday, that means lots of memories for my project Life album.  Here are my layouts for the week.

I continued with the pastel teal color from last week's entry

 

For the first part of my layout, I used cards from various Becky Higgins Project Life core kits.  I love teal, it is one of my favorite colors and i have quite a bit of cards in this color.  The mix of black and white pictures works perfect with the black statement cards.

All about my niece's birthday celebration

I bought this We R Memory Keepers Birthday Celebration kit  just to document the kids's parties.  I enjoy the colors, and they work so nicely with all types of photo prints.  

I needed this small 6x8 insert to add an extra picture and journal the celebration

The smaller page protectors are a blessing to add just a few snapshots of the day without having to use up an entire 12x12 page protector, and having to add repeated pictures.   Here is the entire layout of the celebration.

The entire layout

I hope this provides some inspiration for documenting your everyday.

See you soon

  

Project LIfe week 13

PL layout week #13

The first page of this week's layout  (and part of last week's on the left hand side)

Hello everyone,

As i am writing this, i just realized that i mislabeled this week's layout.  We are on week 1, which means this page should read " WEEK 13" on the top right card... It will be changed after this (oops!)

Well, i am still keeping up with a weekly PL layout.  For this week, I chose to continue with the sunny floral paper and the yellow scheme.  This beautiful paper for My Mind's Eye was cut to fit into each of the pockets, and then replaced with the PL cards.

 The color scheme worked perfectly with all the pictures of this page.

Since I had a large number of pictures, I had to use a second sheet for this week's layout.   Since it sits by itself, i was able to chose a different color scheme.  All the cards come from different collections created for Project Life ( I have a large stash of pocket cards).  I wanted to bring in some black, as I ways to tie in next week's layout.  I have to make a note to myself to print pictures in black and white.

The second spread of this week's\entry

I hope you are also, documenting your everyday.

See you soon...

Project Life Week # 12

PL Week 12

hello everyone,

We have just celebrated Easter, and spring is rapidly coming.  Fortunately, I keep on documenting along with the season changes and holidays.  Here is my Project Life layout for this past week.

This small page protector works perfectly
to add pictures to a weekly layout

As always, when the holidays roll around, family always comes together and memories are created.  I had so many pictures to chose from this week, so i printed them in black and white so that I could use a pastel palette for all the cards used.

Some of the cards come from cut-apart patterned papers from different collections

Whenever I purchase a new paper collection, I try to get a double sheet of the cut-apart page, this way I can always use them in my PL layouts.   All the pastel cards come from different collections:  Dear Lizzy's Serendipity collection, Amy Tangerine's Stitched collection, Kaiser Craft's Blackberry collection, and Dear Lizzy's Neapolitan Project Life collection.

Here is the first two pages of the past week..

This week, I used a third page to document our Easter Sunday.  For this layout, I used an old patterned paper for My Mind's Eye from my stash, and cut it into the 3x4 card size.  I enlarged one of my favorite pictures of the day, and used it as the center image for the page....  I love the results, and might start to use this format for at least one of the monthly layouts...

I love the color  of the paper, and some simple embelishment were enough to complete the page...

I hope you are also documenting your life... See you soon...

Project Life Week 11

PL  Week # 11

Hello everyone, i am so glad March Break is over here in Canada.  Our week was not a good one by far -it went from a kid and a dog in bed for days to having my main bathroom remodeled-.  Through it all I managed to photograph my everyday, even when our plans were dropped...  Here  is my album entry for the the week

My two page spread...

I discovered this smaller pages at my local craft store this week, and they work beautifully for weeks with a few pictures...  I used a variety of cards from different kits and puffy stickers to give my pictures some dimension...

A  close up of the puffy stickers.

I hope you are also documenting your life.... See you soon...

Project Life Week 10

PL  Week 10

We are already at week 11 on our calendar, that means time to update on the past week (#10) on my Project Life album...

This week, most of the pictures were of different colors, so it was hard to find a unified theme.  Since we are in March which is usually represented by pastels and green,  I chose something in between and went with a teal color scheme to the layout.

I used papers from Pink Paislee to create the cards form the small pictures
in the 4x4 pockets

I found these 4x4 Heidi Swapp collection cards in my stash, and they helped to tie in the layout.  The 3x4 cards come from Dear Lizzy collection, and a Simple Stories Snap collection.  I love adding word stickers on to the pictures.  I am currently loving the Mambi collection.

For the Second page of the layout, i used many cards from old project life collections. I loved the cut-out cards, and they worked beautifully on this page.

Loving the soft teal color on the layout

Once again, i left a lot of empty space on some of the cards.   I like how it looks, and hope to keep them like that after I have added next week's cards.  I hope you are also documenting your life...  See you soon.

the complete week's layout

Project Life Week 9

PL  Week #9

This week's entry for my project life is a single page spread.  I captured my family's life and every day throughout the week, but it was all routine stuff, that had already be documented.  

The completed layout for the week

I chose to use a We R Memory Keepers 12x12 page that can fit 4x4  and 3x4 cards  and/or pictures.  Most  of the cards come from different Snap collection from Simple Stories, as they work harmoniously together.   

The cards and stickers come from Simple Stories' Heart Collection

My grandma would have turned 86 this year (she passed away 4 years ago), so I marked her birthday on my layout using Simple Stories' new collection, HEART.  I bought this collection especially to create some layouts about her.  It is lovely, and the cards have beautiful sentiments, and worked perfectly on this page.

I hope you are also documenting your 2016.

See you soon.

Project Life Layout Week #8

PL  Week 8

Sunday nights are Project Life night in my house.  I like to go through all the week worth of pictures, and chose the most relevant to our family and our little piece of the world.   I am still new to Project Life, but i enjoy having a way to document our every day.  The layouts are not as nice as my scrapbook ones, but i love the fact that i can have all the pictures displayed in one album with the story of why, who, where and when next to it.

Firsr page of this week's spread.

Still trying to continue with the red accents in all the  February pages,   but since this week there is a lot of my nephew's birthday party snapshots i also used a colorful spread... Here is the first page,  I am using Amy Tangerine's Finders Keepers collection for some of the small cars, while the larger 4x4 cards come from American Crafts, Simple Stories and Heidi Swapp collections.

The second page of this week's PL layout.

A few weeks a lot I came across this American Crafts Birthday collection, and added it to my stash.  It worked perfectly to showcase my nephew's 3rd birthday celebration.  The  added decoration, comes from different collections.  The top sticker on my nephew's picture comes from Freckled Fawn, while the large love sticker comes from Echo Park's Our Family collection... The phrase stickers come from Teresa Collins' Our Daily stories collection, and My Mind's Eye marketplace collections.

The third page of this week's layout

Since there was a lot of pictures taken at my nephew's party.  I used a third page to add them to our album.  I chose to print the pictures in 2x2, 2x3  cells so that i could collage them into the Birthday collection cards. Though this page is picture heavy, I enjoy seeing all the happy faces of the celebration.

I hope this gives you a little inspiration on how to document and display your pictures.

See you next week!

Project Life Layout Week 7

PL  Week 7

Another week has gone by.  Time is really flying this year,  and memories are amounting each day.  So i continue to use Project Life as a means of documenting my family's everyday.  Here is this week's layout.

Still trying to keep with a unified color theme for February.

This week, the cards came from different collections, as i was trying to pop the red in all the pictures.  The top two cards are from Becky Higgins core collections.  The typwriter card and the bottom right card are from Simple Stories Snap collection.  The middle card comes from a Heidi Swapp collection for Project Life.  All the cards worked in this layout since they all had varied shades of red and coral on them.  I added some white cardstock behind the collage of my doggie's pictures.  The simple title and wood veneer are enough to tell the story behind the pictures.

I like to print some of my pictures in black and white.
It helps to balance the layout.

It is the first time i work with this new page layout.  The pocket page protector comes from We R Memory Keepers -I purchased mine from Scrapbook Nerd, they are an amazing Canadian on-line business-, and it allots for 4x4 inch and 3x4 inch cards.  I struggle a bit with the location of my pictures since i was accustomed to the usual 4x6 and 3x4 inch combination pages.  Once again i chose cards with red hue accents to complete the page.  The top card comes from Teresa Collins' Save the Date collection,  the middle left card is from a Heidi Swapp collection,  the middle right card comes from Amy Tangerine's Stitched Collection cut apart pages,  and the bottom card is from an original Becky Higgins Core Kit.

The completed layout... Not one of my favorites.

I am so glad to be keeping up with my PL layouts weekly, though they are a work in progress (not to impressed with this layout) they retell my family's day to day...  See you soon...

 

Project Life Layout Week 6

PL  Week 6

It is amazing to see that time is rapidly passing by...  We are in the middle of February already, and I am still keeping up with my Project Life album entries.  This week being Valentine's Day and all, I tried to keep most of my cards with shades of red, and lovely quotes.  

It was until I started typing this blog entry that I realize
that I had made a mistake on the week number.  SORRY!!

A common baseball card pocket sheet was used to create last week's layout, so i sized some of my cards to  the 2.5x3.5 inch format for the first page of the layout.  I made the top two cards using the Valentine's Day Recollections collection from Michaels.  For the week card, just a few alpha stickers and a glitter number.  The tag card comes from a Simple Stories Snap Card set;  i fuzzy cut around the tag and attached it with a little staple to a piece of patterned paper -the same used for the week card-.  I also printed one of my e-mails (exciting news coming soon!!!) and added to the layout.

A close up to how a simple banner was added to the layout.

The rest of the cards come from various Becky Higgins Project Life Core Kits that were sized down to fit in the pockets.   Sometimes you can tell the story of the picture by adding phrase stickers directly on them,  as you can see in the picture.  This one comes from a Simple Stories Snap collection pack, but I also like the Mambi  and Heidi Swapp stickers.   It is important to add texture to  layouts, so I attached a small banner -with a mini staple- to the outside of the plastic pocket.  This adds interest to the page, and draws the eye to the page.

The second page of this week's layout.

Fortunately,  most of the pictures of this week had a lot of red in them, so it was easy to match them with the cards.   All the cards come from Teresa Collins' Save the Date collection.  Just a few phrase stickers on the pictures was enough to complete the page.  

The Complete Week 6 Layout.

I hope to continue keeping up with my Project Life entries, so i can share them with you all...  

See you soon.