March Paper Bakery Kits

Hi Bloggers!

I just wanted to pop in and share my Paper Bakery projects that I made using the FABULOUS March Kits "Daylight Savings". I just LOVED playing with the Mixed Media Kit this month! It was loaded with a TON of super cool goodies from chevron tissue paper to yellow chalkboard paint complete with chalk!!  Now I've already posted some of these projects on my blog, but I just wanted to show you just how many projects you can get done with 2 kits!  

Keep in mind I could easily still make 3 or 4 more layouts using the patterned paper I have left, not to mention I have TONS of fun paints and fresco flakes and all kinds of mixed media left too! That's one thing I love about the Mixed Media kit. You get these full pots of paint and gellatos and mica paints and mists and all kinds of cool stuff that you can use on countless projects well after the rest of your kit items are used! It totally rocks!!

My first project was a refurbished old frame that went from this:

To this: I just love how fun and funky the frame looks with the chalkboard paint and the chevron tissue paper! 

I made a couple layouts too using both the Scrapbook Kit and the Mixed Media Kit. 

This layout was made with scraps from last months Mixed Media and Scrapbook kits and this months kits too! I even used a card from the Capture 365 kit from February too! This is totally not my usual colour scheme, but I'm really loving how the colours go together :)

Do you know that with your subscription to any of the Paper Bakery kits you get exclusive Printables and Cut Files?! This month we got these fabulous Printables:

I just love the "Unbelievable" one! It totally reminds me of that EMF song! So when I saw it, I knew I wanted to use it as my title :)

I'm in love with that pink chevron canvas tag! It was in my February Mixed Media kit and I used the chevron stencil from that kit with the mists that came with it and made it all purdy ;)

This was another project I did using both the Scrapbook and Mixed Media kits. I am in love with this cute little mini!

That's all for these kits for now, but I am totally needing to do some crafting tonight, so I will definitely be back to show you what I did with the rest of these kits later this week!! 

Blessings,

New Sketch up at Paper Bakery!!

Good Morning my crafty peeps! There is a new sketch up at the Paper Bakery blog and you can win a 10 dollar store credit just for getting crafty with us!!

Isn't it a fun sketch?! 

Here's what I made with it:

I used my Paper Bakery Umbrella Rain Scrapbook kit for this layout. I love that wood veneer frame! It actually has a cute little laser cut bow on the left hand side of it, but I thought it was a little too girly for a layout of my son (even though I've used pink butterlies, flowers and hearts! lol I just thought the bow might just be putting it over the edge I guess!!) Not to worry, I just put one of the fabulous flair buttons over top of it (did I mention that this month's kit comes with a WHOLE PACK OF FLAIR?! Whaaaaaa?! I know right?! craziness!) and then the bow is gone! 

As someone who is kind of obsessed with butterflies, I was super excited to see this exclusive stencil in the scrapbook kit this month! I absolutely LOVE it!

I also used the exclusive cut files for March on this layout too! Loving those flowers!

Those cute epoxy hearts aren't from the kit, but they can be found at the shop.

The only other products that I used that weren't from my stash are the wood veneer hearts (studio calico).

I hope you join us and play along with this sketch! You have until March 15th to link it up on the blog!

Happy Scrapping!!

Project Life Week 2

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you had a fabulous weekend!! I had a busy Saturday followed by a great Sunday of family time spent with my boys! We relaxed in the morning at home, then went for a sleigh ride in the afternoon! It was a lot of fun (although it was kind of cold!)

I wanted to share my week 2 of my Project Life album. I am slowly catching up! I'm working on week 4 now, so I'm not terribly behind!

I'm really enjoying the pocket pages, and I have to share another thing too...I found a great new site dedicated for pocket scrapping called The Pocket Source. They have an amazing gallery that you can share your projects in, a forum to discuss anything about pocket style scrapping and also a section for freebies too! There's some fabulous inspiration there and for someone like me who's new to the whole Project Life thing, it's great!! 

I like that you can do a lot of a little with your layouts. If you're in a hurry, you can simply put some cards and photos into pockets and call it done, or you can embellish them as much as you'd like! It's pretty cool!

I also really like the idea of documenting daily life...here's some close ups:

 The "sweet" card is one of the Paper Bakery's exclusive cut files that comes with your kit subscription! I love that they have those every month!

Thanks for stopping by! I've gotta go feed my little man! I can't believe he's already 6 months, with two teeth and a huge hunger for food!! It's craziness!! 

Blessings

Love You x forever

Hey there all you crafty peeps! I'm up at the Scrapbook Nerd forum today with day 6 of our "Valentine's Week" of inspiration! I'm also playing along with one of the fellow DT members Michelle's challenge for us to use a sunburst on our layout. Her challenge went perfectly with Studio Calico's sketch this week. 

I always love a good starburst, so I got out my Heidi Swapp Sunburst mask and traced random pieces of paper and then cut them out and pieced them together to make this starburst. When I was finished with the big pieces, something felt like it was still missing, so I cut these little black and white strips and added them for a finishing touch!

Some close ups and details:

I used Crate Paper's Flea Market collection for this layout. When I first saw this line I never thought I'd use it because it's quite feminine, but I fell in love with it and decided that I don't care! I'm going to use it on my boy's pages anyway!! lol There's a lot of it that can be used for boys pages too anyway!

I was inspired by Two Peas in a Bucket's February Mood Board on Pinterest for parts of this layout. I got the idea for the caption on the picture from it.

The title is one of the exclusive cut files you get with your Paper Bakery subscription. I looove this file!

 I wanted them to look like these:

So I cut the title with vellum and stamped it with black Staz On with a Tim Holtz stamp to create a similar effect. I'm really happy with how they turned out.

The doily was die cut with my Cameo using the POW glitter paper. I LOOOVE that paper!! And it cuts brilliantly with the Cameo!! The best part is that the glitter doesn't fall off all over the place, so you don't get all glittery! 

Well, I'm off to bed. We don't have any school tomorrow, so Ethan and I will be working hard making his hockey team's tournament poster tomorrow! The team with the best poster wins a pizza party!! Talk about pressure!! lol I have some pretty cool ideas for it though...hopefully it turns out! I will definitely take pictures to show you all when I'm done!!

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Blessings,

My first Project Life Album!! Title Page and Week 1

Morning crafty peeps! I'm so excited to be doing a Project Life album this year!! I tried it last year but got really overwhelmed and I didn't even make it for a whole week!! lol I was too all or nothing about it last year. I got behind and wouldn't let myself create anything until I got caught up on it, and then I didn't want to do anything else!! This year I'm coming at it with a way more relaxed approach! I'm currently finished my title page and week one and I'm not worried that I'm a few weeks behind! Some weeks might not even get done, some might be combined with another week and I'm not worried about it! I'm also contemplating combining my OLW with my PL album. We'll see how that goes! 

Here's my title page: I wanted to make a list of my personal goals for the year and my goals for our family this year. 

I'm really loving the Studio Calico number wood veneers! 

"The Good Life" is cut with the Paper Bakery exclusive cut files for this month. I LOVE them!! They come as an extra bonus each month with your kit! How cool is that?!

 Here's my week 1 layout: 

I think tonight I'm going to try to get a little more caught up with my PL pages :) I'm really having fun planning this album!! 

Blessings,