Project Life - Week 8

I am a bit behind in posting my Project Life on the blog.. Here's Week 8.

The color scheme this week is orange, blue and pink, inspired by the new Sundrifter and Here+There lines by Studio Calico. I used the Studio Calico Project Life kits too, and some other bits and pieces.

The left page uses Design F photo protectors, while the right page uses Design E.

Here are the details.

I was inspired by one of the challenges in the February Bright Ideas class at Studio Salico to make this title card using my typewriter. It was fun to make, and I love the result! The alpha is from the Feb. Studio Calico Project Life kit, and I made the banner out of vellum, colored with an American Crafts stamp marker. The washi tape on the right is by My Mind's Eye, The Sweetest Thing collection. I used my Pebbles date stamp throughout.

This was a momentous week - I had a breakthrough that solved something I had been working on for months... and that will likely make me graduate. Yay me!! At the same time, I kept hearing this song at the radio, so it inspired me to use it on this card. :) Card, washi and note stamp are from various Studio Calico Project Life kits. The alpha is micro mono by Basic Grey (awesome for Project Life!!), and the sticky arrow is from an old Sticky Pad by Studio Calico. The background paper is from the 6x6 Studio Calico Here+There paper pad.

Just a fun story about DH wearing a "black" shirt that was in fact green.. ;) Alphas by Basic Grey and Jillybean Soup. The arrow stamp is from a sold out Black Friday Studio Calico set.

Washi and arrow stamps from the Jan. and Feb. Studio Calico Project Life kits, respectively; exclamation marks stamp from a sold out Black Friday Studio Calico set. I added the washi tape on the corners of the card to match the look of the journaling card below.

I used a card from the Studio Calico Yearbook journaling card set since the colors matched my scheme so well!

The background is from Basic Grey 6x6 Fact paper pad. I added some mist drops using Sweet Cherry and Primrose Color Shine by Heidi Swapp.

The background is from the Basic Grey Fiction 6x6 paper pad, and I added some washi tape by My Mind's Eye. I stamped the "YUM" on the banner using my Stampendous tiny alphabet.

Background paper from the Studio Calico Sundrifter 6x6 paper pad.

Used up more of the same scraps of papers here, and a free calendar card from Studio Calico. I smeared some Heidi Swapp Sweet Cherry Color Shine to mark the days this week spanned. And that's it for this week! ;)

Neon Crush

There's a new collection in the store at Digital Design Essentials.. and it's a super fun one! I love the neon look but I find it's not easy to pull off on a page.. however, with this collection, I was able to put together two pages in no time, and I have a 3rd one coming!

 

 

 

Everything is 20% off right now so you should snag it right away!
For my first page, I had a completely different look+topic in mind, but when I pulled out that awesome journaling card, I was hooked and had to make this page instead! ;)

Credits:

Neon Crush journaling cards, Neon Love paper pack, Label Crush and washi tape from Instax Crush by Digital Design Essentials

Fonts: Strangelove, Teletype

I LOVE how it turned out, and I got a gallery standout too! ;)  For my second page, I went with a monochromatic look.

Credits:

Neon Crush paper pack, Fridge Magnets alpha: pink, Neon Crush journaling cards, Neon Love paper pack, Label Crush, Instax Crush and paint splatters from Wink kit by Digital Design Essentials

Font: Teletype

I thought the hot pink matched really well the cheesiness of this page. :) I'll be back soon to share my third page. ;)


ETA 3/12: here's the last page I made!

Credits:

Fridge Magnets alpha: pink, Neon Crush journaling cards, Neon Love paper pack, Label Crush, Instax Crush by Digital Design Essentials

Font: The Damsel Series by Valorie Wibbens and Heather Joyce

A Day Late..

Not sure how it happened, but yesterday kind of got away from me.. ;) .. and I have two cards to share with two new kits that were released yesterday! The first one is by Mari Koegelenberg...

I made this simple card, but I really love how it turned out! ;)

Then there is this fun kit by Jenn Barrette:

and my card:

Have a nice day! I hate the switch to Daylight Savings, I know it'll take me a few days to get used to it! Getting up on hour earlier is never good in my book... ;)

Just an Ordinary Week..

Happy Friday! This day couldn't have arrived sooner for me - I was looking forward to making good progress at work this week, but then I kept getting requests from different people to work on other minor stuff, and ended up not having time to work on what I wanted to. I hate when that happens!! Note to self: never fool yourself into thinking that things will slow down.. they never do! :(
But there is one good thing that came out of this busy week - I scrapped! ;) Here's what I used:

It's a gorgeous new kit by Kaye Winiecki - oh how I love everything that she designs! And even though I'm a fast scrapper, this page came together really fast - it took me less than 20 minutes! Yes, yet another reason why I love digi scrapbooking so much. :)

Credits:

Ordinarily Special by Kaye Winiecki

The Damsel Series fonts by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

The kit is 20% off through the weekend, so go grab it! :)

Off We Go (..I Wish!)

Have you seen the new travel themed products by Digital Design Essentials?? They are so fun to play with! I love the colors and all the travel elements! These are the papers:

and these are the stamps:

Here's how I used them along with the other new products:

Credits:

Par Avion paper pack, Par Avion stamps, Par Avion journaling cards, Par Avion alpha, Notebook Essentials paper pack, Wood Veneer Travel and Documenting Stamps by Digital Design Essentials

Font: Carbon Type

This was a photo from last summer. These products have a great design and they would work really well for non travel pages too!

ETA 3/19: this page was features on the My Scrapbook Art blog and on the Club Creating Keepsakes blog! ;)

It's Friday!

creashens has a new kit + accompanying bits in her store, and it was a pleasure to work with!

I wasn't quite sure what to scrap, but as soon as I spotted the telephone in the flair pack I knew! :)

Credits:

Carried Away kit, flairs and vellum by creashens

Font: Carbon type

I used a couple of screenshots I had taken in the past few months of the conversations I have with my mom+grandma on Skype, and I really love how the design of this page came together. ;)

I am very happy that it's Friday, but March has definitely creeped up on me and I'm not quite ready for it yet! ;) February was a busy month, but very productive too, so I cannot complain. I must make time this weekend to play with the March BYOC at The Lilypad though -- it is so pretty and I can't wait to use it!

Project Life - Week 7

Warning: this is a picture heavy post! :) Here's Week 7 of my Project Life. This was Valentine's Day week and, given the number of photos (and stories!) I had, I originally thought I would need to add an insert, but I managed to squeeze everything in two pages. :)

The colors for this week are red and gold, inspired by the Chinese red envelopes that I included on the left page.

This was a fun week to put together!

Here are the details.

Lots of gold for this card. :) I own a couple of sets of gold thickers, and I settled for these curly ones because they were especially suited to represent the snake theme. ;) I also used these pretty Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic gold foil mini letter stickers.

On the title card I used some heart sequins that have been in my stash for years, Amy Tangerine's new Yes Please calendar stamp (love!!) and my letter rubber stamps by ImageTree (EK Success). I used Colorbox pigment ink and Sharpie fine point pens.

I used the cool 3x4 Photo Templates by Designs by Lili for the journaling spots on this card and throughout the spread.

For the background of this card, I colored a Becky Higgins Project Life 4x6 grid card with an Elmer gold leafing pen (that thing stinks, but it is so pretty!! ;)) using a stencil by Studio Calico.

Just an easy photo collage and some digital journaling directly on it to save space. Man, was that a happy mail day!!

The newsflash stamp from the February Project Life Studio Calico kit was perfect to document a couple of events that have caught my attention.

This is one of my favorite parts of this week's spread! (see below for more pictures) The heart design is a digital freebie by Designs by Lili (check out her Facebook page); I turned it red, printed it out, and then covered it with Studio Calico Mister Huey gold. So fun!! ;)

More Studio Calico stamps stamped with Colorbox pigment ink, along with gold sequins. The alpha stamp is the Studio Calico Stepping Stone set.

I love this card too! The typewriter on the left was sketched with my Silhouette cutter and a sketch pen... it was my first time using the Silhouette to sketch, and I was amazed at how well it worked! This machine seriously was my *best*purchase*ever*!! The typewriter from the right is from the Studio Calico Heyday wood veneer pack, and I colored it with the Elmer gold leafing pen.

I really love this pair of cards too! I used the same stencil of the card and misted it with Studio Calico Mister Huey gold. I totally just bought the Starbucks gift card so that I could include it in my album. It was a tad too large to fit in the 3" wide pocket, so I cut off a bit with an X-acto craft knife. The card on the right is a free illustration by Samantha Hahn that I slightly recolored to suit my color scheme.

The card on the left, from the Feb. Studio Calico Project Life kit, was perfect to document our Valentine's Day! :)

I added some journaling on this card (from the Feb. Studio Calico Project Life kit).

The card on the left is from an adorable set by Mari Koegelenberg and Penny Springmann; I added a heart sequin on top of the nut - it looks black in this photo, but it really is red. :) Stamps by Studio Calico.

More collages and digital journaling. And this concludes week 7! But before I go, let me show you a couple more images of this pretty card.

It doesn't translate well at all in the photos, but the Studio Calico Mister Huey gold has a gorgeous shimmery look - so pretty!

As all my hybrid work, this was printed out on Canon matte photo paper.

I hope you enjoyed this week. ;) Thanks for staying with me till the end of this long post! :)