Project Life 2013: Week 8

Hi you all, here is Week 8:

Week 8: February 18-24, 2013: this week brought a couple of first for me. First insert added and first cut using my Cameo. We make do with what we have and that is shown this week and 2 special events included in the week.
Left Side:

Consisted of Monday night canning the Pasta and Pizza sauce we made. Tuesday I repaired some pants and hemmed a pair too. Wednesday I got some fantastic happy mail, got my swap box from my swap partner-Vicki. We are in the Cricut Card Exchange group on face book and the group does a swap every couple of months. It's fun to receive a box of goodies in the mail from someone else that knows scrapbooking/cardmaking.
Right Side

Consisted of my favorite morning show Good Morning America-Wednesday was the first day back for Robin Roberts since she left for her surgery. It was great to have the team back and so good to see Robin. With that I added a Get-Glue sticker I got way back when I first started get glue. Thursday a typical winter night; Dave and Buddy playing. Friday night I did up my layout of what I thought would look good on the club trailer for the meeting on Saturday. Saturday we went to Gettysburg for the MGCA meeting and Sunday was our youngest grandchild's baptism. It was a good week.
First for me: Added insert for inbetween the 2-page spread:

 This is the front side I guess is the best way to call it. This side has the booklet we got at the church for Zachary's baptism. A collage of the restaurant that we ate at in Gettysburg and where we had the Board meeting. The other pictures were from what we saw on the way to the meeting, the gps was nice enough to take us up through the one road that takes you through the battlefield so that was cool to see along the way. We also passed the train station that Lincoln was at and a random shot of a cool building I saw.
The back side:

 Snapshots of an auto/walking tour that we took of the battlefield. After the meeting, we decided to check out the Battlefield a bit before heading back home and it was just a bit but took an hour, there is so much to see and will need to get there another day for that.The picture of the star statute is one of the PA memorials, I was thinking it was the one that pertained to my ancestor-Charles Baker that was in the war and that infantry (still need to check on that).
Some up close shots:

 The canning jar was cut on my cameo, I thought it was fitting for a journaling block.

 A collage of getting to the meeting and seeing the conference center-the place that was chose for the 2015 MMCI Winter Convention that we are hosting.

Zachary's Baptism

This was a cool week to do and I had lots of fun doing it. I was glad to see all the project life inspiration out there in blogland and on facebook to help me figure out about how I wanted to do the insert. I also have figured out that if I keep my 2 page spread out on my craft desk that when I have a few minutes I can come in and do something with it and it makes go smoother for me than to sit in one session doing it. Should be caught up real soon now, just about finished with week 9 as I typing up this post. Thanks for stopping by today and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.

I'm linking up at The Mom Creative's Project Life Tuesday, looks like an every other Tuesday link.

Project Life 2013: Week 7

Hi you all, slowing but surely I'm moving forward on Project Life. Getting closer to having 2 months completed. Here is week #7:

Week 7: February 11-17, 2013, Consisted of being sick and Valentine's Day all in the same week.
Left Side:

 Consisted of a Week card block that stated both parts of the week, I was so sick on Monday that I never took a picture, so I found a really fun cartoon online of being sick and stayed home avoiding any one. Tuesday I was asked to come in so this is the way I felt trying to work. Wednesday I finished up my taxes for the appointment that night. Worked on it off and on (still sick). Found out that I made to much money so I owed in.
Right Side:

Started off with the 14th, so I got pictures of our cards, see we celebrate loving each other everyday so we don't do anything huge for Valentine's Day, but I love to make the hubby a card and he got me the cutest card this year. Added a few fill in cards and a picture of the valentine that we got from our youngest grandchild, it was so cute! Saturday tried to do some cleaning and Sunday I did a 2-page layout for Creative Cutting Challenge blog for that week's particular assignment. Since I was sick most f the week I got mine in a bit later than what I wanted.
Some up close shots:

 This shows that really cute cartoon and part of my week in review. I also added the little note I got from Barb my leaded for BSF with my notes this week.

 I found a really cool sticker pack that has a variety of items about work and about coffee and Tuesday and Wednesday pictures worked perfect for some of the stickers so they were a fun addition.

This week's spread was fun to do, I enjoyed changing it up a bit and used the Colorbok paper pad for the left side and My Mind's Eye: 6X6 A Happy Heart for the rights side which was most fitting for that part of the week.
Coming to find out that if you choose just one paper pack to work with, you can get alot of pieces for PL out of it, more than what I want to use through out. So when I hit spring I'll probably change to another paper line for a bit and use the left over cuts for front of cards or maybe I'll have a blog candy drawing with the left overs. Stay tuned to see, got at least 4 more weeks of spreads till I get to spring.

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Project Life 2013: Week 6

Hi you all, hope you had a fantastic day yesterday, we sure did!
Yes up to week 6, I followed the challenge for this week with from 2 Peas in a Pod, two Saturday's ago: the challenge was to use 6 X 6 pads. These pads seem to work well with project life with the smaller designs.

I used My Mind's Eye 6 X 6 paper pads: Lost & Found and Every Day Flair. I wanted to get away from the Documented pallet for a bit-with all the creativeness going on this week I decided to change it up a bit.
Left side:

The pictures consisted of a cool bird came into the feeder and I got a good shot of him and my husband's calendar page seem to fit for added interest to the picture. Progression of a vertical album I've been working on and a swap from another smasher, Kim, I got the brown Nostalgia Smash book this is such a cool one for all those old pics.
Right Side:

The pictures on this side is of a new tire I got because Wednesday I had one going flat, pumped it up and the next day it was right back down again so thought best to get a new tire. Yay, more snow (with a sarcasm attitude) not my fav weather. A random shot of Buddy and some composition books I did for Cricut Card Exchange swap group. Saturday I worked on cuts for 2 swap groups and Sunday needed to work on my 2012 taxes for my business for tax appointment coming up. Sooner or later I'll learn not to procrastinate when it comes to my business paper work.
Some up close shots:

 Used thickers this week on the date block, used a spot from my calender about creativity for one of the pictures of the vertical album.

Found some cool journal blocks in my stash and got a couple of them scanned into PE and was able to add the text to give it a cleaner look and then printing it out. Used a cute snowman rub-on. Added the Week in Review cards with some washi tape to decorate them.
It was alot of fun putting this spread together and it was nice to get away from the document pallet for a bit.

I'm linking up at 2 Peas in a Pod.

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A 4th of July Layout for the CCChallenge #17

 Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to the service men and women that have or are still serving. Thank You!

Here is the last challenge for Creative Cutting Challenge-off for Summer break. The theme is anything for 4th of July. I decided to do a 2-page scrapbook layout:

 I created the layout from this sketch:
 
 I used the heading, the flag banner as a tip for the arrow and a couple of stars from the Patriotic set: 
 
This isn’t your typical 4th of July layout, but the cuts from the Patriotic set gives a 4th of July feel to the layout. 
 Left Side:

Right Side:

This is what we did 4th of July in 2012. Since it was on a Wednesday we were treated to availability to get to the Lewisburg Farmer's Market, took a leisurely drive towards home stopped in Milton to check out the old train station and then home with the boughten treats at the market for the boys. It was a fun day. Since we both worked the next day, there wasn't a chance to see the firworks that night.
The materials I used in the layout was from the My Mind's Eye American Made collection, the background paper was in my drawer of blues papers so it probably came from a swap or a paper pad but not sure of who made it. The Navy blue paper was from a scrap. the journaling block came from a creative memories pack I have.
Check out the challenge over at Creative Cutting Challenge blog and join in on the fun.

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Project Life 2013: Week 5

I'd like to start my post today with sympathies and prayers for the people in the storm areas, so much devastation, so many lost lives especially the children in Oklahoma my heart goes out to you all today. Prayers for strength, rebuild and many blessings.

Big news first: I got a Silhouette Cameo! Woot Woot! It arrived yesterday and I plan to check it out over the next few days to see what it can do. I seen so many cool cuts from other project lifers that I can't wait to do some myself.

I had a very crafty weekend, got week 5 done and week 6 and 7 too. But today I'll just show you Week 5 and the rest will follow over the next week or 2.
The left side:The end of January

The right side:The beginning of February

Some close-up shots:

Weekly block includes a cricut cut I found on one of the cartridges and cut a while back.

Couple of pics taken of our birdfeeder, something I enjoy in the morning while drinking coffee is see the birds coming into to the feeder. I included a Get Glue sticker of a movie I watched Wednesday night and during that day my project life photo pages arrived, now I can get started with PL.

A special moment with Grandpa, Dave gave Zach a harmonica to entertain himself while we were visiting with Brad and Zach. It was so much fun and got a video too of the precious moment.

 Added strips of the calendar page for the beginning of February it was fitting for the 2nd day of February and the groundhog prediction. Saturday tried a new recipe, looks like it went over well and the inclusion some of the details of the Super Bowl Sunday (my team didn't win)

Sunday was a full day: We processed Spaghetti and Pizza sauce, a female Red-bellied Woodpecker came into the feeder, this is the only time I seen her in and got a picture. The Monday of this week I got a shot of the male bird. Got through 3 videos of the Vertical Bag series which you can find the first video here at Ginger's youtube spot

I did this Friday night-took 5 hours to do the complete week, all hand journaling too. It was a fun week to do.

I'm linking up at The Mom Creative's Project Life Tuesday, looks like an every other Tuesday link.

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Project Life 2013: Week 4

Hello all, back to scrapping with project life week 4, that is what I consider project life just a different way to do it than the traditional way. Each spot is like a little scrapbook page, lol! So if your following along with a page a day in May challenge then I just finished page 6 and 7.

The week was a fun week to do, it included a cool new TV show that I started watching The Following, I even included the Get Glue sticker for the premiere on it: Left Side:

The Right Side:

The left side included the President's Inauguration, includes a quote from his speech that I found available at Laura Katie is Crafty, includes my thoughts, Tues has a pic of our bird feeder and lots of birds that morning and a card that I made for Card A Day Blog. One thing I love about PL is I can include pics of my creations too. This week is heavily around me, just haven't got Dave on board yet for this whole PL idea. He said last night I live life and you document life (even though crafting is a huge part of my life and I show how we live)

The right side includes the Week in Review cards, current pictures of the dogs, hair appointment, a 365 photo prompt, cleaning and a very cold morning. I included part of the appointment card, a calendar page that worked perfect for the picture that day (Christmas gift a Day by Day calendar, I have been saving the pages to see if they will work any place in the weekly spreads).

How are you doing with your project life or if you have tagged along for the a Page a Day in May challenge. Now to figure out how to get a bit faster at project life and still be able to include all the little embellishments (I spent all day Sunday on this other than going to church, in-between laundry and making supper, I know I got over 4 hours in it). If you have any suggestions I would love to hear them in the comments.

I'm going to give this a try this week and linking up at The Mom Creative's Project Life Tuesday, looks like an every other Tuesday link.

Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world. Now off to get a little more caught up in PL and my scrapbook pages.....

Zach's First Tooth

Hi! Glad you could stop by. I have another scrapbook page for Zachary's 1st year album. I was looking through the photos and not to many left to scrap about another week and this album should be complete. Today the layout is Zach's first tooth:

and I used this sketch:

The details:
The paper the layout is on is from the Creative Memories Seasons paper pack that I got free at a recent crop. Used the Creative Memories Cutting System-Circles for the first time for the picture and the background cut out for the border. I can see this will be a new favorite tool real quick! It was so easy to use. The border around the picture came from KaiserCraft-Conceal sheet, the journaling block came from Cosmo Cricket Social Club Elements-Now Spin Me Round. The blue first baby's tooth stickers came from a Jolee's pack. The flags in the corner, the 1 on the one flag, the arrow Look at Me came from Simple Stories-Awesome stickers page. The stars came from Simple Stories-Documented stickers page. The First Tooth title came from an unmarked embellish pack it's a fabric element. The date came from my Dymo maker.
This was a fun sketch to do and really out of my comfort zone, I keep looking at that empty spot in the right corner thinking I need to add something, but I didn't. It took only a couple hours to do.

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My New Ride

Good Morning you all and I'm back with another scrapbook page, my camera died on me yesterday so the picture of the layout was done with my phone camera so I hope it's not to bad of a picture.

I used this sketch from Scrapbooks and Cards: a Spring 2013 sketch for the inspiration of the layout:

This was a bit interesting to do, tried to work out the dimensions of all the cut paper on paper first and as I was putting it together realized that it wasn't working as I planned but worked through it piece by piece. 4 papers are 12 X 12, 10.5 X 10,5, 6 3/8"w X 8 3/4"h, 6 1/8' w X 8.5". I used white and navy cardstock and the lt. blue paper from Clorbok All Boy pattern pack and the brown is from DCWV The basics stack paper pad, I used Mini Monograms cricut cartridge for the title scallop, the edge embellishment and journaling scallop (circle navy at 2.5" and the scallop shadow tan at 2.5") with an added tan cardstock that was inked with distressed ink walnut stained. Used a MS punch for the brown pieces of embellishments, a couple of vellum blocks for some sheets in my stash and a date sticker from jillibean soup: journaling sentiments with a couple of green crystal stickers elements.

This was a fun one to do, it took me approximately 3 hours from start to finish.
 I just may get this album done this month!
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Page a Day in May Challenge-Day 2

Hi and welcome back to another May's page a day challenge. This page was so much fun to put together:

The page was brought about from this sketch at Scrapbooking About.com:

I'm not quite sure what to title it yet (there is enough room to add one) not sure if it needs a title. 

I will let my DIL date it and journal the page these are her pics (This is a gift for them, but more for her since our son was deployed at the time she raised Zach basically his 1st year as a single parent.

Details:
I used Elegant Edges: swirl2-shift on page 39 @ fit to page for the water paper. Green background paper came from the DCWV Heirloom pack. Fussy cut pieces from 3 bugs in a rug-Summer-Playtime and Summer-Words cardstock. Journal block and date ticket from Cosmo Cricket social club elements-Now Spin Me Round. Couple of stickers from hugz&dotzkit-pacific. Chipboard pieces from my stash that I got in a swap box that worked perfect for this layout. I used CTMH Liquid Glass to enhance the centers of the sunny words (look like flower petals). Used SU ticket duo for the the date piece. 

I really enjoy how it turned out took about an hour and half to do (I had all the paper choices already picked out for it) 

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Page a Day in May Challenge-Day 1

I created this scrapbook page

from this sketch

This is the sketch that Kathy posted on the facebook group ScrappersChallenge for the first day's challenge. My photos were quite abit smaller than as for the sketch so I moved it around abit but it's based on the same concept.

Working on one of my 2013 personal goals-Zachary's 1st year album, here's another page completed. The pictures are of his first top teeth, I have either one or need to create one for his very first tooth and will post at another time. This May month challenge may get me through completing this album.

Personalized journaling-changed a word after taking the photo to his from what I wrote of my (no more journaling before bedtime, lol).
See you tomorrow with another page....

What have you created today