Project Life Week 45

Here is week 45. Ok, so part of the reason that I didn't have a ton of photos for week 44 was because... I couldn't take having Halloween and Christmas activities documented in the same week. I could not make those colors work. I take my holidays one at a time, thankyouverymuch! I fudged the dates a bit and moved our Christmas card session to this week instead.

Full week: I mostly used the Polka Dot Party mini kit this week. I really love these colors.

Left side:

I had to use this flair from Chic Tags on this card :)

Have ya'll seen the clear stickers from MAMBI? I got them at Michael's. Hope you like them, because I'm gonna use them on every picture I can (until I run out). They're available in black and white!!

Gotta love a great deal at TJMaxx.

Right side: all of those little cork stickers are from the November Oh Deer Me kit.

Here's a white clear sticker! LOVE!

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Baby Blocks Decor

A friend was throwing her sister a baby shower, and asked me to help her with part of the decorations. She was inspired by a picture she saw on Pinterest. I cut these letters and shapes using my Cameo. It seriously took just a few minutes, but had such a big impact. I cut everything out in brown, green, and yellow and gave her white card stock to glue it on.

The name of the baby is a secret, so she spelled out "boy" on the blocks:

I used parts of a couple of cut files I already had, and then bought a couple more cut files. How adorable is that baby deer? I shrunk the star, then duplicated it and scattered it on the turtle. It might be my favorite one... I cut the footprints out on the white card stock, then gave her a piece of brown to put behind it for color - that way she didn't have to glue down all those little toe prints.

She put them together using square boxes from work and some blue masking tape for the edges. How cute are these??

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Project Life Week 44

Here is week 44: Halloween week. I didn't do a great job of taking pictures this week, so this week was a bit of a challenge. We didn't actually do much for Halloween, but black and orange (and a little bit of turquoise) kind of took over the week. I also used papers from the Pebbles "Lakeside" collection.

Full week:

Left side:

I've been waiting to use this card for quite a while now. I love it!

Right side:

This patch is from the November Oh Deer Me kit. It's so cute!

I just had to use this Jenni Bowlin paper.

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November 2012 - Project Life Smash

Here's what I did for November 2012 in my Project Life SMASHbook - I used the pretty pink smashbook to do my own version of Project Life. I was testing it to see if I would be able to keep up with the "little things" that happened each month before I committed to doing a full blown Project Life 12x12 album.

I was definitely getting a little bored of this project - mostly because of the format. When you fill up a SMASHbook, it ends up being so fat. I find it difficult to work with because the pages won't lay flat. So by the time I got to November, I was really ready to wrap it up.

I got my Cameo last November. I really can't believe it's been a year since Joe bought it for me! The picture at the top of the right side is of the first two things cut on my Cameo. Joe had actually set up the machine and cut the little holiday owl for me by the time I got home from work. :) I made the "give thanks" card as part of a RAK last year. I made an extra for myself. Joe sent me flowers at work one day.

Joe and I went camping one weekend. We went to Dollywood to look at the holiday lights. We also climbed the ropes course since we had on closed toe shoes. Good thing we did - they tore it down after closing the park in 2012.

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Project Life Week 43

This week was one of those weeks that was truly a mishmash of products. I had so many dark photos! I wasn't particularly motivated to put this spread together but I ended up being satisfied with it overall.

Week 43: Joe sent me a pic from his job, I saw some of my favorite customers (after many years), I got a new iPad charm, got Joe a new $100 bill at work, and we went camping.

Left side: I love when Joe sends me pictures from his day. This little piggie was at a farm they were working at this week. The stitched ampersand card was something I received as a bonus from one of the Project Life card swaps I've done. I love it! Maybe I need to not be so lazy about stitching...

How cute is this little dog? It's from a Dear Lizzy accent and phrase sticker sheet.

Right side: I restarted an old crochet project, we went camping, and Joe took a picture of me that I liked!

I love this little camper!

This is my favorite Kraft card:

This little banner is from a Chic Tags monthly kit. I've bought October and November so far. I've really enjoyed both of them!

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December Daily 2013

So I'm (still!) not totally sure what I'm doing for my "December Daily"-ish book - but I have picked a color scheme. The papers I've picked ended up being more traditional than I had planned, but are still modern. Lots of red, green, blue, chalkboard, gold, and wood grain. I actually cut my beloved Crate Paper gold dot and gold doily vellum papers and I'm so glad I did! (I'm not the only one who has heart palpitations when I cut a beautiful piece of paper, right? It's getting easier, but still...)

I was originally going to go with more vintage looking papers with pinks and blues and silvers, but I got my fill of that with my #30Lists project I'm doing. (It's not too late to sign up for that, by the way.)

I've pulled papers and bits from several paper collections including Glitz 'Hello December', Heidi Swapp 'Believe', American Crafts 'Kringle and Company', Studio Calico's 'Wonderland' and Basic Grey's '25th and Pine'. I also have some overlays that I'm going to use.

I'm using a Studio Calico Handbook. I'm a little bit scared to do anything to the cover. Have you painted one before? Any tips? Link me up in the comments to any pictures or tutorials you have. I'm very open to suggestions on this one!

 I got out some stamps, stickers, and flair to make these 4x6 cards:

I have some little bits and wood veneers in this cute little muffin tin I found at an antique store ($5!).

I have pulled a lot more stickers and bits too.

So are you ready to do December Daily? Or Journal Your Christmas? Or something in between?

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December 30 Days of Lists Prep

I've decided to make a tag style mini album for December's 30 Days of Lists. It seems like a quick and easy way to do this project without getting behind. While I'm leaning towards making my lists holiday-related, some may not end up being too themed. These cards are adorable and wintery, but not really Christmas-y. You know what I mean, right? ;) Take a peek at some of my progress so far and then sign up [affiliate] to do this project with me! It will be fun!!

I just knew I needed these snowy looking Thickers when I bought them:

 Just added a few random enamel dots to this tag:

This one is so cute, I may not embellish it at all! At least not until I'm done writing my list.

I added the snowflakes to this card:

I really like this card! I used a nice wide washi tape and a wood veneer Christmas tree that I colored with a brush marker. (both embellies from Freckled Fawn).

I added 3 Dew Drops to the corner of this one. May add something else later.

I just love this pattern:

One of my favorite Christmas sayings!

I colored and added a wood veneer star to this card:

And there it is, all fanned out so you can see the color scheme.

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