Project Life Recap - Part 2

If the idea of creating a family event (yearbook) or Project life photo pocket album intrigues you - I hope you had a chance to read Part 1 of our Project Life Recap:-)

Part 2 will take us through the months of March and April

March - Techniques we did with the Class Kit -
Used Dylusions sprays and masks
Work with Gesso
Create a 12x12 layout based on a sketch


Journaling prompt was  - Subway art inspiration- use it in a layout


Sample of my pages -

 

Once again - one of the reasons I LOVE scrapbooking this way - is important events - Like BIRTHDAYS, are scrapbooked right aways!! And since I printed the pictures for this ; I printed extras and did a 2 page layout for Aubrey's book at the same time!

 

Lots of pictures of the snow because this was the winter that never wanted to end!!

the page on the right here was the bonus page for March - the design is exactly opposite of the other style we use every month, allowing for your 4x6 photos to be portrait style and your 3x4's to be Landscape

 

 

Here I used the Gesso with the Tim Holtz star mask and threw a little bit of glitter on while it was still wet - it turned out great!

 

lots of dylusions mists, make a fun and colorful background

 

another reason I LOVE Project Life scrapbooking - Memorabilia!

I'm a keeper of "stuff" on this page I cut up Aubrey's paper which was 8.5x11 into a size that would work for my page (3 pockets) and also incorporated a Yellow slip ( in our school Yellow is awesome!) that Dain brought home one day

 

my take on the sketch - I incorporated my Subway style journaling by using a 4x6 card from the Simple Stories line Homespun.

 

Here is Nicole take on the same sketch - and she typed up her House Rules - so cute!

 

 

and she also loves to keep memorabilia - she just used an 8.5x11 page protector to hold her child's art!

 

 

APRIL

 

Techniques- Wax Seals (this was fun and different, we encouraged to use it as a focal point)

Roller Stamps and brayers with paint

Stamping your own labels

 

And our writing Prompt was Song Lyrics:-)

 

 

Sometimes a Sing hits you. Hard.  There's just something about music. It evokes emotions and brings back memories.  These songs are on repeat in our head!  This time, I couldn't just keep some of those words in my head. I had to record them. I want to remember what they mean to me, why they are so important.

 

 

Here are my pages for the Month

 

 

my "LOVE" wax seal

 

Just the chorus of song lyrics that means something to me right now

 

I used the Studio Calico dot brayer to decorate my envelope

 

inside of it I printed out even more songs - including the one who's chorus I used for the page above - so many songs mean something!

 

 

used arrows to point to my kids because the pictures at their dance festival had bad lighting and were a little blurry:-(

 

 

our extra page this month was a 6x12 page protector - kind of fun to scrap both sides of a 6x12 - pretty easy:-)

 

 

and there it is - March and April all done - Memories documented!

Part 3 will be out shortly...

 

I hope you feel inspired!

 

 

 

 

 

Project Life Recap - our year so far! Part 1

So this year we decided to take Scrapbooking Project Life style in a whole new way at the store; we planned a monthly workshop - where anyone was welcome, we played around with a few techniques, we worked on the photos from the past month...and we were given a journaling prompt to take home!

Now this is a lot of planning and work, and I want to make sure you all know about the lovely Nicole Schuster - who plans out the techniques & journaling the ladies do each month!  She also teaches the monthly workshop in the Winnipeg store; while I (Sharon) take her notes and suggestions, and do my own take of the workshop here in Steinbach.

I wanted to post a bit about the workshop - and show you how Project Life or My Family Yearbook Scrapbooking works for me & works for many others!

There are 6 months of Project Life to cover, so I will give you the information as a bit of a series - Enjoy!


Staring 2014-
Intro Class we will sew words but will reflect their own color choices.
There is embossing with the versa pen, and doing work with paint pens...
Introduce the premise of class, what we will cover every month, show off Picasa & answer questions!

January Techniques
#1 writing on your photos

#2 making a word/shape out of a crocheted string

#3 punched and glittered snowflakes

#4 - make your own envelope - private journaling made pretty.

#5 make your own weekly marker

Nicole and the Wpg group did the above as 2 separate nights -
here is a sample of her opening page and her Jan techniques page.

 

In Steinbach we combined the 2 classes into one...here was my take on Introduction and January!

 

 

We made an envelope to be the "home" for our Writing Prompt - Goodbye to 2013 & Hello to 2014 letter - this letter was in an envelope that way you could write something a little more personal if you wanted:-)

 

 

Next we choose our theme "word" for the year - a word we could reflect on time and time again - mine was "Balance" as this is something I need to work on all the time, so I wanted that reminder in my book!

I have to laugh though when thinking back to the class - and the looks I got from the ladies when I said we were going to sew on paper - some of them still tell me had they known, they would have chosen a shorter word!!

 

I celebrated my 40th Birthday in January - so I wanted to keep all my cards, a Project Life envelope was the perfect solution! They are organized and with my scrapbook, but I can look at them and read them again if I would like!

 

 

the smaller page to the right was in the kit, in addition to the regular Design A (4-4x6 & 4-3x4) page protector which will be our standard every month.

It was fun to fill the smaller pockets and tell a different story with the photos using this smaller one!



 

 

I used more pages than the kit had - but you will see in February; I used less! It's so great to have the versatility to scrap only the photos you like and you take in a month...and some month there will be more than others...and that's ok!

 

Here is February

 

Techniques we showed off -

#1 - Emboss Dabber & pen to make your own patterned paper

#2 - Fabric Bunting/Banner

#3 - Alcohol Inks - draw patterns or write

#4 - Wire shapes

 

Writing Prompt - Write a Love Letter

 

Here is Nicole's Prompt!

Write a Love Letter

 

For those of you who were in class last week, you will remember that I briefly talked about this. Writing a love letter. It’s harder than it sounds!

Think back to books and/or movies where the main characters wrote these amazing letters to each other, where that was the most common form of communication. Something that you would spend time and effort on.  This isn’t necessarily going to be fast. Mine is taking me forever.

Now, I mentioned the old books and movies, not because it has to be cheesy or long winded or filled with words like “thee” or “betrothed”. I mentioned them because they were filled with intention; they were not like an email or a text we would send these days. I would challenge you to spend time and energy and real thought on this letter.

As I said in class, this doesn’t have to be to your significant other. It could be to your child, a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, a friend.  For those of you who are doing a vacation book, it could be a love letter to the place you travelled to. It doesn’t have to be romantic! It just to someone who you would say that you love. In whatever way that is!

I am still in the middle of writing mine, and I may come back and edit this prompt as I continue to work on my own, to add suggestions or helpful hints.

I wrote out a list of things to refer back to, so that when I get stuck, I can glance over and see if something jogs my memory. It’s just a list of words, but if I’m stuck, it sometimes gives me an idea of where I might want to go with my letter, what I might want to say next.

Love

Appreciate

Respect

Learned

Taught

Grow

Want

Need

 

This is supposed to be a meaningful experience, and I hope for you that it is. Time to slow down and really think about what you’re writing. I hope you enjoy this as much as I am.

 

 

Above I incorporated the Fabric Bunting technique into my Monthly page marker; and also used the embossing pen for the journal card that says "the 2 of you"

 

I did NOT take a lot of pics in February - strange but true...so I decided to turn my monthly kit extra pages into a Who I Love page - filling it with photos of the people who I love and accenting it with the LOVE die-cut that came in the kit, and the little My Mind's Eye word stickers that were in the kit as well!

 

February done!

 

I hope you feel inspired!

I will post March and April shortly!!

 

 

 

 

 



wow what a spring...

yikes it has been a while!  ok - so crop #4 is this weekend - it is the 4th one I have been involved in since ours back in May - they suck up my time!!!! It is insane how crazy they make my life, and now that I am almost done, I can just hang out... well almost - the inspiration blog has been on my mind but further to the back, but here are a couple of things that have been happening so you know I have been busy!!

 did a few painting projects - before and after of this great little cabinet I found!!

the pegboards needed an update too...is that bright enough for you??

we were soo lucky to be a store on site at the Crop and Create Scrapbook Event- what a terrific time!!

some Red Hat ladies came to visit me here in Steinbach and we made a card - super fun!

did some baking, monster cookie bars - yum!!

did some creating with Bo-Bunny's Zoology line, an oldie but a goodie:-)

also made a couple of pages with Echo Park "This and That" sorry pic is a little off, will post the other layout I did :-)

my nephew turned 13 - here is his card

we did a service project at church where we packed lunches for the local schools, our grade 1 and 2 department donated enough groceries to pack 140 lunches!!!!  (Did you know that there is a substantial need for this in Steinbach - I had absolutely no idea until we found out Steinbach Mennonite church runs this AMAZING program!)

Aubrey is helping me out to the car with them:-)

Pam (cottage girl) and I were in Red Lake on this last Weekend, where gas is soo expensive they don't even put it on the sign!!!

using Dear Lizzy - Neapolitan

see - life is always crazy! I truly hope you find a little time to work on a few projects

even when life is nuts - if I can you most certainly can!!

ttyl!

S

creating

to create you have to feel it - a great space has something to do with it, but you have to love your paper, your pictures, your content, your inspiration, your "stuff" you want to add to the page... I feel very blessed that I have a job that inspires me constantly, I spoke to a few ladies today - and I love to ask "what are you working on?" the answers always vary, and the projects that are shown to me, are so great - thanks for sharing:-)
that being said, I want to share with you, I have been scrapbooking for a while now, and I ALWAYS had to scrap in my bedroom - now you know how much stuff you can accumulate - you all tell me you have a store of your own in your house...but finally after many, many years of this...
 well I wanted an old pic of my bedroom scrap space but could not find it:-( If I do find will add it afterwards)

...from the bedroom I was then in my cold unfinished basement for quite a while...

Hey, I had a plug in heater - an extra lamp, and it worked!!
But then we finally decided it was time to finish the basement, I was SO EXCITED that this meant I would finally get my own space, and would have a place to create - and shut the door to(as I am a messy creator!!)

then the day finally came and I could move in....I had to organize ALL of this!!

Now I kept on telling myself I would post pics of my space when it is all cleaned up and perfect, but that being said - it never is!! I ALWAYS have something on the go - so here it is, as I work in it and play in it...

My Space

 the space is actually quite white with great lighting - the combo of the flash and the chandelier makes it kind of yellowy in the pictures!

 lovely storage from that "M" place!

 this wall has my own heater (absolute awesome feature) and my rolling trolly from Cropper Hopper, love this, but am looking for a tiny laptop desk...maybe this in white??

 case on top - holds my printed photos, bookshelf has my inspiration and a few stamps in the white bin

 more inspiration - and a layout that I had just gotten back fr Cdn Scrapbooker as it was published:-)

 just a few mini books -I keep a bunch more upstairs where the kids/company can look at them

 I still love my wooden stamps:-)

 my lovely sewing machine - courtesy of MCC thrift store - my typewriter is from there too, but it is in the closet right now

 Cropper Hopper bins - normally used for cardstock, but I use them to house my current pages/projects - I generally sort pics, and add paper and embellishments, and put projects into giant Ziplocs, that way, if I get inspired, I am pretty much ready to tackle something!

yes - there is the Dec Daily - all done, just have to bind it up and I will post the finished product (sorry, flash went of again so photo got yellow...)

there is it, in all it's messiness, however I have not met too many scrapbookers who admit to being neat and tidy - I love it, and am down there in my own little "scrappy" world, almost everyday...

Here are a couple of things I have created in the last while!

 Punched circles out of My Mind's Eye's beautiful Valentine line, in the store now!

 I sprayed both the TH ticket and the butterfly with OA pink Sprinkler spray...

 sprayed the word heart and this butterfly as well

crinkled the ribbon with sookwang tape

 used the starburst punch from Martha Stewart - the word celebrate and butterfly are from the OA Sidewalks Miscellany pack

 these layouts are inspired by Marcy of My Scrap Shoppe/October Afternoon design team... I used the Starburst punch again

 OA sprinklers again

 journal tag is chipboard and from Studio Calico - as is the paper

 pretty much the same layout, just flipped a couple of things - photos were from the same photo shoot

thanks for your time today, I hope you feel inspired!!

If you have photos of your own Scrap space and would like to share a link - I would LOVE to see it:-)

S