Project Life

It's a new year, and a new start for those of us at my house.

I'm going to work on Project Life this year. How will I do it? Will I be able to fit in time to find pictures for every day? Will I be able to find the time to write journaling for every day? I think I will take more of a week by week approach than trying to have a picture for each and every day = that's too much pressure!!!

I have the turquoise edition - I have the binder and the core kit. I have mostly Becky Higgins A page protectors, but I think I will be able to fill in with some different page protectors to hold some school papers from the two older kiddos, or to use some vertical photos also.

When I was talking to my sister about whether I actually had time to keep up with Project Life, she said that I should because my littlest one would appreciate some pictures of her toddlerhood too! My oldest boy has pages and pages from when he was a baby up through the time he was about 5. My middle child has some pages, but not many. The baby only has 1 : ( Not that I love her any less - it's just that lots of days I feel like my head is going to explode and I simply can't make it up to the scrapbook room after a full day of work and looking after the kiddos - I just want to go to bed!

So we'll give it a go! I'll try to take the approach that Project Life was meant for - Simple : ) I'll try to add in some special touches where I can, but mostly I just want to document our life!

Card Made Using the Imagine

Happy Weekend!

Here is a card I made using the Imagine machine.

In addition, I used a Thanks for everything you do stamp from Stampin Up. I colored the Thanks using a Stampin Up marker.

The flowers are from K & Co.

Thanks for looking!

My Pink Stamper Design Team

Once again, I am trying to be on the My Pink Stamper Design Team. (See http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ for details.) The challenge this time was to use the colors orange, turquoise, green and brown to make something.


Here is the card that I decided on.

I used my gypsy to connect to my imagine to make this card. That made the tree and leaves easy to fill in - I just printed on white cardstock.

The tree is cut at 3.5 inches from the serenade cartridge.

I also used the Fiskars grass punch.

The You Hoo stamp is from Hero Arts Stamps.

The owl stickers are from EK Success.

Thanks for looking.

Week 4

It is already week four of Card Camp. I actually got around to making a card yesterday so I could participate this week. We were assigned to use the colors above. It is my sister's birthday this week, so I figured - hey why not combine the two assignments! This card is simple, but I did get to use heat embossing on the sentiment - we moved two years ago and I have looked and looked for my heat gun, but haven't been able to find it. I finally broke down last week and used my Michael's coupon to buy a new one.


The stamps are Stampin Up.

Thanks for looking!

Summer Card Camp

I'm taking Summer Card Camp with Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner!

Have you ever had a week where you just don't like anything that you are making? That's how I felt this week. I love this color combination, but just couldn't get going on something I liked. But, nevertheless, I did make a card.

There are three holes punched in the front of the card. I used the Martha Stewart Punch Anywhere on the page punch. I had a hard time getting the circles lined up. Then I used a Stampin Up set for the butterflies.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Bird Day - Echo Park

Three cheers for Echo Park paper - I just love ALL of their collections.

The paper and bird sticker are by Echo Park.

Grass is cut with fiskars edge punch.

The flowers are from Jolee's.

The words are diecut Quickutz letters (bird day) and a rubon (happy).

Thanks for looking!

New Thank You Card

There is a new challenge poster on my pink stamper -- the challenge is to use green, orange, and turquoise -- but you can use other colors as well.

I made a new Thank You Card for my daughter's teacher.

Thanks for looking!