Project Life 2015 ::: Week 13

Hello Tuesday!

The sun is shining and I'm feeling great. The breeze is still really fresh however I'm churning through a mountain of washing and getting that crossed off my list.

This year I challenged myself to do weekly project life as opposed to monthly or event based which I have done previously. And how's this going for me you ask. Well... really not to bad. No, I'm not currently scrapping week 24 however I have my photos printed and in pages up to week 17. And some of those weeks have even been finished *gasp*. You'll see some haphazard posts of those weeks soon.

Today though I'm celebrating my completed Week 13 layout. Woohoo!!! Go me!!! I used the May Cupcake Kit from A Piece of Cake Designs and the colours worked perfectly, just as I knew they would.

Left hand side

Script writing playing with the Higgins black ink from the kit. As well as die cuts, sequins, washi and Chickandiddy striped alphas from the kit.

I created the "Hello" card by machine stitching patterned papers, punching out the Hello die cut, highlighting words with a white pen and finishing off with a brad.

I had a larger story to document this week so pulled out the trusty old typewriter for some strip journalling

My other journalling solution this week is writing directly on photos then adding stickers, sequins and die cuts. 

I loved the Bella Boulevard 'Just add colour' stickers from the kit and added colour with distress markers.

Right hand side

  

Capturing the story on a two 3x4 cards with a fun title using the Bella Boulevard stickers and Chickandiddy striped alphas from the kit. I also used Marquee thickers from the kit extras section.

The kit came with 12 6x6 patterned papers from the 365 Chickandiddy crafts collection. This wood panelling one perfectly matched the wood floor in Zac's karate photo. I added another sticker from Bella Boulevard as well as some twine and one of the Doodlebug Designs doilies. 

Thanks so much for stopping by

It's catch up time... HS Memory Planner... June/July/August

There's nothing like a long winter holiday to get you behind on your memory keeping.  We did a 5 week family driving holiday Adelaide to Darwin and had a great time in the beautiful dry season. *sigh bliss*  We lived in Darwin for 8 years and sure do miss it.  Life in the Adelaide Hills surely is the polar opposite weather wise.  But we love it, luckily!

Anyway, the kids & I both all did a holiday journal... yep, 3 journals for the 1 holiday... and thanks to my Selphy we were able to keep our journals pretty much up to date during our travels.  But my gorgeous Heidi Swapp Memory Planner was left at home & really needed some catch up work.  And that has been me this week.

I use my Memory Planner to give a story & pics for the bigger events of the month.  The calendar side I like to note one little thing everyday.  This doesn't always happen, but I do try.  And then it is a few of the pictures from the month.  And I just love to make it look pretty... as you do.  For me that's using Heidi Swapp stamps - loving the new Project Life ones.  I team these with Ranger Archival Inks or colour using Tim Holtz Distress Markers.

Memor Planner notes - June

Memory Planner notes - July

  

Calendar - July

  

Memory Planner notes - August

I just love the Memory Planner.  It's so easy to use and really, really helps when it it comes to doing my Project Life... because yep, I'm behind on that too!

Hope you have a great week.

Gabby :-)