Project Life, Week 1, 2015

I debated for a while if I was going to do project life...well attempt it again this year. Last year I only made it to April, but I do plan to go back and finish it. I do have a lot of partially done pages that just need to be finished off.

Anywho, I've started this year off to a great start. I'm actually getting

into a really good rhythm. First, I discovered that I have to keep my pages simple. Second, I've found how I like to print my photos and how to use them on the pages. This has made the pages I've made so far go much quicker and I can actually get a page done in one night. I'm a slow scrapper so that is amazing to me. I just hope I can keep it up.
I usually like to use left over bits for my project life, but I could resist digging into a few new things that I picked up. I couldn't resist picking up the I Am 6x6 pad from Simple stories and Frosty friends from doodlebug. I had to use them right away. I know the wooden hearts and I think the wooden frame were picked up from the closing of my local scrapbook store. A big pet chain store wanted to expand so they terminated the scrapbook store lease and a couple other little stores. They couldn't find a new place, so they had to close up. Major bummer! I tried to use up a bunch of gold embellishments. I'm not a fan of gold and never ever use it, but it seems to be all the rage right now. I have way too much of it. I don't mind gold with purple though. If only there was more purple in all the new stuff coming out!

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Valentine's Day Wreath

Now that the Christmas decorations are down, it is time to make some Valentine's Day decorations to put up! I have seen some in the store, but it is much more fun to make your own. So here is how I made my sweet heart wreath. First you need a hoop (the one I used had about a 7 in diameter), 7 big wooden hearts, 8 small wooden hearts, paint, glitter, ribbon, and some hot glue. I took all my hearts and painted them a solid color and then went back over them and made some patterns or outlined them. I thought they were looking a little boring so I went back and put some glitter on random ones. Then I went around and hot glued the big ones and tried to make them as evenly spaced as possible. Then I hot glued the smaller ones on top of the bigger hearts, tied some ribbon, and then hung on my door!

Scrapbooking, First Solo

I can't believe how much time has gone by since I last scrapbooked. Well, I finally have been inspired to scrap again and I found a fun challenge with a very happy mood board that got my creative juices going again. Recently, my daughter got to dance her first solo on a stage. I had only seen her dance this when she was first learning this. She had a broken wrist at the time, so I never had seen some of the moves until she danced it on stage. It had been over a year since she was on a stage and she has never been on one all by herself. I wasn't sure how she was going to do. I could tell she was getting nervous, but she did a beautiful job. I was a very proud mommy. =) I really wanted to add one more picture, so I added this photo on a pull out tab. I always enjoy the pages that have a little interactive part to them. While the paper I used for this layout was all new, all the embellishments are things that I have had for a long time. I used some old stickers, wooden

Scrapbooking, Girl Scout Camp

So this is a layout that I made for a mixed media challenge and it isn't at all how I planned for it to turn out. It started with a long hunt on finding my daughter's girl scout camp photos. I knew that there were more of her at camp, but never found them. I wanted to do a layout filled with triangles, but I couldn't cut a decent triangle for the life of me. Then I saw a cool sketch with hexagons and planned on doing that. I happily made a shape on my silhouette and then used it to cut all my photos. I was playing around, but couldn't get my photos to line up like the sketch. I was super puzzled and then I realized why. I made pentagons instead of hexagons! I played for a long time with my pentagons trying to get a layout that I liked and eventually came up with this flower shape. Overall, it's a fun layout that is drastically different then my normal layouts, so it's a refreshing change.

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