New Project Life bit and pieces around the net this month – Blush and Jade Editions have been released at AC Digitals as well as the Wedding mini kit
My April pages
Pages planned but not in albums. Going to have a go at making my own 3×4 cards too
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I‘ve started on our wedding album using the Wedding mini kit. Yet again planned but not in albums. I’ll hopefully have some pages to share mid-month.
How are you going? Would love to see you link up your pages/blog if you do Project Life
So this weekend is {inter}national Scrapbook Day (or iNSD) and there is heaps going on. Actually it’s the 3rd in the US so the 4th here in Oz.
Some of the things going on include……
Blisty are holding a giveaway for a HUGE scrap stash and some challenges so I’m entering that & checking out the challenges when they go up (when I get up tomorrow as most will go up while I’m asleep lol)
Big Picture Scrapbooking are holding a free event – National Scrapbook Day 10K. So expect a few pages from me over on Instagram with the hashtag #NSD10k.
Scrapbook Update are doing giveaways.
For the Project Life fans Becky is doing 30% of Digital & physical products for 24 hours.
Scrapbook.com has some challenges up too with some great prizes
I’m hoping to get some scrapping done tonight, tomorrow morning & tomorrow evening. Off to the Devil of a Cookbook thermo class with Fiona Hoskins tomorrow afternoon. Those in Launceston may remember her from Fee & Me, she’s now the Tasmanian state manager of Thermomix. Looking forward to meeting her.
So what are your plans for iNSD? Know of any great freebies? Link me up to your favourite iNSD goings on.
Wow seriously April already. Four months in to the year. Three Project Life pages planned – not printed or put in in my book….. yet.
A couple of Project Life links first up for you this month. Just stuff I’ve Pinned over the last few weeks.
But now onto my March pages
Using the new Midnight Edition digital bits from AC Digitals. Loving all the new editions!
My second page is 4 mini 6×6 layouts so you only get the sketches.
How are you going? Feel free to join our linky which will now be open til the end of each month (so this month the linky ends on the 30th April)
Here we are at the start of another new month (well 7 days in – so sue me… well don’t but u know lol)
This month sees me do two 2 page spreads as I do one for February and one for the birthday girl who turned three!!! this year, where has my baby gone 🙁
But first I thought I’d share a great little resource I found while looking for some Project Life printables the other week. One Velvet Morning shares Project Life freebies, printables & mixed media collages. I’ve found some very cute journaling cards and quote cards which I’ve resized for PL.
Onto the albums. Still digital cause I haven’t printed them out. My aim for the month of March is to finally get the 2011/2012 pages finished so I’m not playing catch up this year. but back to the pages…
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blank spots on this one are for cards I’ve made myself 🙂
SO how are you going? Would love to see what you’ve created for February – join in our linky for February
You can check out my Project Life board on Pinterest for more PL stuff.
If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know I started a series of posts about Project Life last year. I did 2 posts and then… well it kind of didn’t go anywhere. This year I am determined to do a little more and am getting a few fellow Project Lifer’s on board to keep me more accountable and help me out.
So what will you find each month?
Would you like to be part of the team helping me run this series? Email me and we can have a chat 🙂
Onto the sharing. I’ve managed to get my cover & January pages finished digitally. Will print them out when I get more ink (& a new album – thanks to Mum & Dad for my birthday). Here’s my cover – with spaces left for 2 of my favourite photos of 2013.
and my January spread (minus journaling). I’m really not sure if I like my month title card yet so it may change.
Just a short post this month. I’d love to see what you’ve created this month, so feel free to leave a link to your pages in the linky below.
Week 4
Dec 22 – I’m thankful for having help over this Christmas period. I’m especially grateful for Aggie & Pa and Grandma & Grandad who have taken you out for a couple of hours on different occasions so your father & I can get things done
Dec 23 – Our Christmas stockings have never been hung by the chimney (even when we had a chimney) but can usually be found strewn, full, on chairs Christmas morning. This year, we’ve hung your stocking by the fire ready and waiting for Santa.
Dec 24 – Christmas Eve. While you are sleeping, I’m busy wrapping the last of the presents, setting out milk and a biscuit for Santa and doing some last minute prep for tomorrow’s lunch.
You went to sleep so quickly tonight. Once you knew Santa was on his way, you were out like a light.
Dec 25 – Today we went to Aggie & Pa’s for breakfast. While we were gone Grandad & Mick came round to set up your swing set (a present from Grandma & Grandad). They were still setting it up when we got back so you got your present a little early & not totally set up. Everyone came round for lunch and the much anticipated pig wasn’t ready by lunchtime so it kept cooking while we enjoyed all the other goodies. Presents were swapped & a good time was had by most.
Dec 26 – Ah Boxing Day. Glad it is all over for another year. You spent the day playing with your new toys then in the afternoon went with Aggie for a swim (& got more presents) while Daddy, Mick & I watched the Doctor Who Christmas Special – The Snowmen. We all thought you might crash early but were still up at 10pm!!
I’m finishing my journal here this year – apart from my year in review page
Week 3 of our Christmas adventure
Dec 15 – I love Christmas but I’m not a huge fan of too many decorations, in our house anyway. In other people’s houses it looks great – in ours it make it look too cluttered. One of your favourite decorations that’s not on the tree is our little nativity set. You love playing with the little people & animals and the ‘fairy’
Dec 16 – Our Christmas tunes have changed so much over the years. There were Christmas records & tapes when I was young and now it’s CDs and digital tunes for you. Our playlist has changed quiet a bit too from when I was little to now. From Handel’s Messiah to some rocking tunes by Tran Siberian Orchestra and Spiritual Plague. I also throw in a bit of Enya & Medieval Baebes for good measure.
Dec 17 – Things still to do:
* wrap presents
* Pick up laybys
* buy a few last minute gifts
* Organise vegies for Xmas day
Dec 18 – We’re hosting Christmas at home this year but we’ve asked everyone to bring along some food to help out. We’re all looking forward to tucking into the spit roasted pork.
Dec 19 – The Christmas elves have been a big part of Christmas for you this year. We bought an advent calendar (albeit a little late) and each evening, if you’ve been good (& gone to sleep quickly), the elves bring you a little present. They have brought you Freddo frogs, lollipops, some jewellery and some art supplies.
Dec 20 – Things you are giving this year:
Dec 21 – Our home right now is a total disaster area. Presents, wrapping paper, old toys and cooking mess.
Onto week 2 ….. (posting a tad late but you know, Christmas)
Dec 8 – We’re simplifying our tree this year. The colour scheme of silver and purple. Simple baubles plus a few special select pieces. My silver ornaments. your number pieces. Your dad’s sci fi pieces. I think I may have got your dad to agree to a smaller tree for his ornaments too but we’ll see how that goes.
Dec 9 – Over the year’s I have tried and tried to make your great grandma’s tablet (tablet is a Scottish fudge) with no success. Recently I made Aggie’s lemon slice and needed to do something with the leftover condensed milk. I searched the internet and found a recipe for microwave (!) Russian fudge. It looked so similar to tablet I thought I’d try it. Pa thinks it’s pretty close to Great Grandma’s so I think it’s our new sweet treat for the Christmas period!
Dec 10 – This year all you’ve been asking Santa for is a watch. You can’t tell the time yet but you still want one. When the catalogues come you look at them and say “Santa will bring me that” You’ve also been asking for a swing and a slide.
Dec 11 – I’ve wrapped our presents in kraft paper again this year & our tags are free printables from the internet. Santa has his own wrapping paper this year.
Dec 12 – Keep calm. It’s only Christmas
Dec 13 – Not a White Christmas in sight. This year is looking to be a wet but warm Christmas. The prediction at this stage is rain and high teens to low 20s.
Dec 14 – After going to other peoples places for Christmas lunch every year, this year we are staying home all day. Well not entirely. We’ll go to Aggie & Pa’s for breakfast after you check out your stocking here then we’ll be back for the insane prep of getting everything ready for the family arriving at lunch time. We’ll hopefully get most of the set up done the day before (if it doesn’t rain) so it will just be cooking the food and last minute setup on the day.
This year I’m planning on doing something a little different for my Journal Your Christmas project. I’m still going to be adding pages to my album as I can (I’m still working on my 2011 pages!) but I’ll be blogging the daily prompts and the photography prompts in a weekly post. I thought this also gives me an online record of what I want to add to my album.
Each post will contain my journaling from the previous week. So here’s week 1.
Dec 1 – December 1. Your third Christmas. This year will be a little different as we’re busy organising Christmas at home. You seem so much more aware of the atmosphere and more interested in everything that is going on. You want your presents now and I have Santa on speed dial for when you’ve been naughty.
Dec 2 – Christmas seems to come quicker and quicker every year. No sooner than the Halloween stuff is gone from the shops do we have Christmas things appearing.
Dec 3 – So much planning to do this year. We’re holding Christmas at home for the first time and I’m not really looking forward to it but in a way I am. At least you will be at home to play with all your toys. There’s no travelling anywhere
Dec 4 – I hope in years to come you’ll look back and remember some of your favourite toys from Christmas. Some of my favourite toys I got at Christmas came from Pa (my dad). One year he made me a trolley full of building blocks, another year it was a dolls house (which still lives at Aggie & Pa’s house – I’m hoping to do it up for you to play with out there)
Dec 5 – Our Christmas card this year is another photo card. We got some professional photos done in November and one of the options was to have some Christmas photo cards done.
Dec 6 – What is truly important this Christmas? Spending time with family & friends
Dec 7 – I sense it’s Christmas time.
Seeing… trees and lights and Christmas decorations. Pinterest is an amazing source of all things Christmas
Hearing… Trans Siberian Orchestra. Our Christmas tunes are a little different from the usual.
Smelling… BBQs and bushfires. It’s slowly warming up and getting to be bbq weather. Sadly it’s also bushfire season and there are a few going already
Tasting… chocolate, after dinner mints
Feeling… warm then cold. we’ve had such a strange start to summer this year.
It’s no secret I LOVE Christmas scrapbook paper. Apart from my Project Life stuff and the stuff for Miss K’s album, this is my biggest stash of scrapbooking goodies. Most of this stash goes into my Journal Your Christmas album.
I thought this year I’d check out some of the scrapbooking classes around the net that are Christmas related.
Obviously the big two (that I know of and hear most people talk about anyways) are December Daily and Journal Your Christmas.
December Daily is the brain child of Ali Edwards and is an album project that documents the 25 days leading up to Christmas. I’ve never done DD but have seen some sensational albums. You only have to look to Pinterest for some awesome inspiration.
Journal Your Christmas (updated to the 2012 link) is another amazing class from Shimelle. I am such a huge fan of Shimelle’s classes and I love the fact when you buy one of her classes you get forever access. “Journal your Christmas is an online scrapbooking class to celebrate the holiday season. It starts on the first of December and finishes on the sixth of January, with thirty-seven daily prompts sent by email. “
Big Picture Classes have a few Christmas classes – 12 Days of Christmas, Creating Christmas and Holiday Recipes. I’ll be checking out Creating Christmas and Holiday Recipes this year (yeah I know, like I need another couple of projects over Christmas)
My Creative Classroom is offering Holiday layouts and a few others AND if you register Register for any class starting in November and you will automatically be enrolled in It’s Ornamental at no additional charge.
What classes are you taking this Christmas season?
Linking up with Tina’s Christmas linky
