Birthday Card Using Project Life Cards

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend! I've been getting into Spring Cleaning mode here! I love that all the snow is almost gone!!! 

I wanted to make a birthday card for a friend of mine, and if you're anything like I am, once you start using a certain kind of product or doing a new thing (Project Life) you have to buy EVERYTHING related to it! Which is what I have done! I probably have enough PL cards to do 5 years worth easily! So I thought I'd show you a way to use them other than on your PL spreads!

I started out choosing a 4x6 card that I liked for my base and just chopped 3/4 of an inch off the end so it wasn't quite 4x6 anymore. I then took a piece of kraft cardstock and cut a 4 inch strip off of it, folded it in half then chopped that same 3/4 of an inch off and folded it in half.

I then took out my trusty corner chomper and rounded all the edges ( btw, if you think they're indestructible, you're wrong! My 4 year old managed to break it while using it to go "fishing" lol go figure!)

I adhered the PL card to my card base, then inked the edges with black Distress Ink.

Then I picked out a few 4x3 cards and did some fussy cutting...

And then I layered them all to create this card! Finish it off with some twine and a "happy birthday" stamp and you're good to go!

I used another 4x3 card on the inside and some of the left over scraps from the polka dot card on the inside and stamped a cute sentiment. I thought it went quite well for a 30th birthday card :)

well there you have it! This card came together quite quickly too, I think including all the "tutorial photography" it only took about 20 minutes all together :)

I always like ideas to stretch your supplies so you don't have to buy more (even though it's really fun to buy new stuff too!!)

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving some love!! 

Blessings

Project Life Weeks 3-4

   

Hi Everyone! I'm finally starting to catch up on my project life album! I'm currently working on week 5, but I wanted to show you weeks 3 and 4. I used my January Paper Bakery Capture 365 Kit to do these two spreads.

This post is very picture heavy, so I'm going to keep the talking to a minimum! 

Some close ups: Kieran wanted to help ;)

Week Four: 

More Close ups:

Well there you have it! Everything in these layouts was from the kit, except the stamps. Some are from the Paper Bakery and some are from my stash :)

Have an awesome day!

Blessings

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

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,

Happy 2014!!

Happy New Year all my wonderful crafty peeps!! I hope you have all enjoyed 2013! I know I have! Our family has had quite the journey this year with the birth of our fourth son, and it feels amazing to know that our family is complete! I'm really excited to see what 2014 has in store for us! 

This year I have made some scrappy goals and I am very happy to say that one of them has already come into fruition with my new Design Team position with the Paper Bakery! I'm so excited to start the year off as part of their team!

I've also been really lucky to be on the Design Team of the fabulous ladies over at Scrapbook Nerd for the last 6 months and I am happy to say that I will be continuing to be a part of their team in the New Year as well!

I am starting a couple new projects for the year that I am super stoked about! The first one is Project Life. I tried it last year and failed miserably, but I am coming at it this year with a very relaxed attitude towards it and I think it's going to be great! I also found this awesome app for my iPhone called Heyday that I think is going to make my PL project even easier when I fall behind, because let's face it, we all fall behind at some point! Anyway, Heyday is a photo journal app that organizes your photos into dates and times and lets you write notes to your pics! How cool is that?! I highly recommend it for any Project Lifers! 

My second project for the year is "One Little Word". It's a year long course put on by Ali Edwards and every month she gives us prompts and projects to do based on our word that we've chosen for the year. I had my word picked out, but I am saving it for when I do my first post about OLW, so you'll have to come back to see what it is!! Haha I'm evil like that I know ;)

Well, it's getting late (or early depending on how you look at it!), so I should go to bed, but I will leave you with these sneaks for my January reveal for Scrapbook Nerd. You're going to have to wait three weeks to see the entire projects, but for now, sneaky sneaky!

I'm so happy that you have chosen to join me on this blogging journey and that you take the time to stop by here and leave me some love! I really do appreciate it!

I hope that 2014 is full of health and happiness for all of you!

Blessings!