Week 4 Project Life...play.

End of January??
So crazy.
More crazy is the fact that it's supposed to hit 59 degrees in Northeast Ohio today...I'm terrified that means it will snow into July HA!

Sunday night, I sat down with a few photos from the week and just began to play. I had bits of the brand new Dear Lizzy products on hand (due to the Feb. Studio Calico Daydream Believer kit + a trip to Archiver's), some new stamps and even a homemade embellishment from Allie...so I jumped right in.

Returned to the Design F style Project Life Page Protector this week...and got down to business. I love that I can make a 4x6 window just by splitting up a photo, like I did with the photo of Allie's dress. Definitely plan on doing that again.
Using the journaling cards I printed again from Marcy's shop, I love the 4x6 size for my 'this week was...' card that I've been including. I cut one of the jars from a Dear Lizzy paper, attached it to the edge of the 4x6 card and 'filled' it with confetti (leftovers from a punch lol) + the Pebbles sequins that were in an add-on from SC this month. I LOVE sequins...and the fact that these are self adhesive raised their awesomeness by 10%, lol. I stamped along the right side of the 4x6 card with the new SC/Hero Arts Days of the Week stamps with Tin Can Chalk Ink and added some new washi tape I received this week + an Ormolu tag I'd been hoarding. :)

The grey card with the SC burst stamp features the embellishment Allie made for me, and on the yellow card next to it I asked her to write a few words...she added her 'Hollywood signature' after it. HAAAAAAAAAA.
The black framed 'Note' card is Ormolu as well...I just placed it onto a 3x4 card cut from another piece of Dear Lizzy paper and mounted a pic of her report card onto it...super simple. KRAFT washi tape? YES PLEASE. added it under the photo of her dress that is actually 4x4, but I cut it at 3 inches wide and added the remaining inch to a journal card so that it spanned 2 pockets...making it LOOK like 4x6 :)

the two middle pockets in the bottom row go together as well...and the 'HA' word bubble I cut with my Cameo features a quote from my Twitter feed.

Again, not a super busy week for us (hallelujah, lol)...so I kept it pretty simple. One thing that I'm noticing on lots of PL posts are all of the receipts/business cards/bits that people are using...which i love, but I just don't have many of those i guess. They look cool though, and I'm keeping my eye out for stuff whenever we go somewhere.

In the end though, I think I'm kind of happy with just words + pics here and there of our days.
:)

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Daydream Believer...Studio Calico February.

Another month has flown by, and I found myself really enjoying sitting down to play with this month's Studio Calico kit + add-ons. There is plenty of brand new Dear Lizzy/American Crafts product in softer colors, but also bolder bits to work in with them. I confess, I am not usually drawn to this softer palette, and yet these pages are the happiest I've made in quite some time.

Maybe it's the words, maybe it's the glitter I added with the POW papers or maybe it was the shop items I threw in. Any way you look at it, They make me smile. :)

This first one shows the background stamp from the Clarksville add-on. I paired it with my Shabby Tote Chalk Ink and intentionally didn't go for a 'clear' image. It dirtied up the base paper a bit, and I love how it came out. Yes, this is an older picture of Allie...but I fell in love with the vintage number card and so I dug one out from when she was only 8 years old. The 'Follow Your Heart' title was cut with my Cameo + the Gold POW glitter paper from the shop. I can't stress what a subtle bit of glitz this stuff brings...I LOVE it.

The numbers and bits that are attached all over this page are from a sheet of paper in the Lady Lane add-on...I will buy another sheet of that paper, yesiwill. ;) This next layout is a bit of a hodge podge...POW glitter paper (this time in Powder) + Cameo (Pacifico font) + the alpha stamps from Stepping Stone + My Minds Eye chipboard from the shop + the '12' sticker from the Dear Lizzy sticker book...it all just kind of fell together. I LOVE this photo I got of Allie and her friends at midnight on NYE. I left the alpha stamps on their backer, and used the Teal Chalk Ink to stamp the initials of the girls in the photo...while the rest of them were stamped with Old Road Chalk Ink.
This one uses more of the Gold POW Glitter paper (cut again with the Cameo)...and a favorite 'technique' of mine. I hesitate to even call it a technique, lol...but I use it a lot, so it's a technique to me HA! I made a kind of 'shelf' with the yellow dot paper and placed my photo on top of it...then added in bits and pieces to 'sit' on the shelf. The stamps + chalk ink worked WONDERFULLY on the muslin trim from the Main kit, and I sprinkled some Dewey Mister Huey on it as well. I cut the bling chevron that was in the Stepping Stone add-on to kind of use them as 'arrows'...I'm big into arrows right now.
This last one is my Main Kit only layout (the first layout from each DT member in the gallery uses the Main Kit only...a great reference if you need ideas!), and I love every bit of it. The photos, the colors, the words, the circles, the shimmer, the word bubble...ALL OF IT. It may not be a masterpiece to anyone else, but this one means a lot to me. I added some journaling to the back...just a few thoughts about this particular moment that I shared with the most beautiful girl in my world. ;)

So there you have it!
If you have any questions about something I did/used...please ask, and I promise to respond.
Have a great weekend!!
(don't forget to check out the SC Challenge Forum for our CHA-GANZA...beginning tomorrow morning at 8AM EST!)

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Week 3 Project Life...word heavy.

First off, let me just say that it is a super gloomy day here...snow is in the forecast, and I'm just not able to get a good photo of Week 3 lol. That being said though, I had a blast making this week's page on Sunday night! I still used the WRMK page protector, since it is on the back of last week's share. Going back to the Project Life Design F pages next week...I'm digging mixing it up. Here you have it:LOTS of words this week. A friend posted a thread over at Studio Calico about not feeling like she had enough pictures, because she hasn't had much going on lately...and I SO get where she's coming from. As I've said before, there aren't a ton of 'exciting' things happening around here either lol...we're home bodies who lead a pretty routine life. So this week, I printed just a few pics and journaled the HECK out of them.

The top two slots were all about our Saturday night...we got together with 2 very dear families to cheer on the boys freshman basketball team in the brand new gym at my alma mater. I can't even say how much it meant to be there...for him and for us. It was surreal to watch Allie walk around with her friends, knowing that in another year she'll be a freshman herself. Lots of emotions that evening, for sure. Which meant lots of words. :)
Used Marcy's 4x6 journailng cards again to type my story on...and my beloved alphabet stamps in our school colors. I had these Fancy Pants rub-ons in my stash that I knew would come in handy...I was right. I used them all over this week's page.
Really love using a 4x6 card + slot for a run-down of the week. I had cut the 'hello' with my Cameo + POW glitter paper for an SC project, and cut out the negative to use here...couldn't bear to throw it away. Also LOVE including a 'text of the week'...this one was funny to me because Allie & I came to a compromise about what she would wear to the game via text. The large photo shows her tech-friendly gloves, so it kind of all ties in. (I think, lol.)

Still loving the word bubbles...while talking with Lisa about them one evening, I sat and made a bunch of random ones all at once. Now I just reach into my stash that are pre-cut if I need a little 'something'. I cut them with all different words...and will probably use one per week.

Again, if you have any questions, please ask...I will reply to them, I promise!!
Have a great week!
:)

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