Thursday Project Life and Imaginisce

Happy Thursday and Happy Halloween!

I have mentioned before that I love Project Life but I do not use it in the normal way.  I use it to incorporate more photos in my kids layouts.  So I did this with Imaginisce.  Here is a look

This recaps the entire Halloween season in our house!  Sorry for the glare I am not that talented to photograph it without it! LOL!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I will be back on Sunday because Core'dinations is Having a SUPER FUN FILLED HARD CORE CROP all weekend and my day to host a challenge is on Sunday.  I hope you will join me becuase I have a fun filled challenge and an AWESOME prize- can you say Chocolate????    See you then.  Have a wonderful and crafty weekend!
mp

Friday Project Life- Week 8-9

Happy Friday the 13th!!!!

Who is excited for the weekend?  I know I am.  I am in the mood to relax.  I have errands to run on Saturday and then NOTHING!!  I can't wait to just hang out with the hubby and kids!  The weather is supposed to be warm but possible rain. 

Are you going to get crafty this weekend?  I hope to just a bit- My goal is to get caught up on Project Life.  I have to admit I have lost some of my thrill.  We have just been so busy as a family this past month and I honestly forget to take a picture.  Plus I have had NO time to work on it.  I have just been swamped with other commitments that I just haven't had time on Sundays to get caught up.  I am now 3 weeks behind.  I need to find the energy and get back in!  We shall see!

So on the topic of Project Life I have my weeks 8 and 9 completed.  I am really loving my Silhouette for creating the 3x4 cards and just everday sayings and titles.  I think it adds a cute embellishment without a lot of work-- easy peasy in my opinion.

Left Side Week 8- I am not a  huge pinterest person but I have to say the recipes that I have found are awesome.  This one is angel chicken and let me tell you it is awesome!!

Right Side Week 8- Hubby has this app on his phone that notifies him if there are star constellations or planets visible in our area at night. Well he was updated that we could see Venus and I went outside and took a picture.  It was pretty cool.  Jack loved it.  The boys got out the telescope to look a bit more.  Kind of fun!

Left Side Week 9

Insert 6x12- I am loving the inserts a whole bunch.  I knew the insert was perfect for this.  Jack came to the craft table and got out his paper and stuff and just created this little note for me and ran it upstairs without me seeing and put it on the kitchen table for me to see when we got upstairs.  He is just soooo sweet and I about cried because he did this all on his own.  I just love it!!

Right Side

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with something new!  See you then!  Have a wonderful and crafty day!

-mp

Friday Project Life Week 7

Happy Friday!!
Oh I am so glad it is the weekend.  We are jammed pack every minute.  Tonight is my crop.  So excited!  I have a couple of layouts that I want to work on and I want to get some project life in.  Then Saturday we are getting up early and heading out to LEGOFEST in Cincinnati.  My boys LOVE Legos so we decided to go.  We have no idea what to expect but I think it will be fun.  The brochure said "millions" of legos.  I would have to say that is Lego heaven.  What are your plans?

I finished my book The Hunger Games yesterday and as soon as I got home from school I bought the 2nd book -Catching Fire.  I am so addicted.  I was going to take a break but I just had to find out what happens next.  If you haven't read this series yet- I know it came out about 3 years ago- I highly recommend it. 

Today I want to share my Week 7 of my project life. 

Left Side--

Insert- I had so many cute pictures from the boy's parties I inserted the 4x6 insert. I was able to include 12 more photos.  I love this.

Right Side

I once again used my Silhouette to create some 3x4 cards and I also used imdb to get the movie poster of The Secret World of Ariette.-- Totally awesome movie by the way!!

I hope everyone has a great day and a wonderful and crafty weekend.  I will be back on Monday with a new project.  See you then!

Friday Project Life Week 6

happy Friday,

I am so glad it is the weekend!  I hope to get in some crafty time because I have not had any real time after school because we have been enjoying the nice weather!  Do you have any great plans?

Today I am bringyou my Week 6.  For this week I jused my Silhouette a lot to make some embellishments. I made a 3x4 card with the zig zag pattern. I love I also used my Ali edwards stamps.  On this page I printed off the Nikki Sivils email that I received from her asking to be a guest on the blog.  I love that I will now have it forever!!

Right Side--The boys right now are addicted to the Batman cartoon series that netflix has.  So I was able to find a photo on IMDB.  I also used my Silhouette for the title Everyday live.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back on Monday.  Have a wonderful and crafty weekend.

-mp

Project Life Week 5

Happy Friday!
Thanks so everyone wishing me well with my terrible day and my car. I am please to say that it was just a coil and I am picking it up today after school.  When a repair is under $500 I am doing the happy dance!! 

I have not been in my scraproom now for THREE whole days and I am going CRAZY!!  Hopefully things will settle down and I can get in there tonight.  I am having withdrawal symptoms- shaking, not sleeping because I am dreaming of scrapping, constantly on the internet looking at scrapbooking supplies--I am a mess!!!! (lol!!)

Here is week 5 of my Project Life--This is the last batch of bad photos.  So hopefully next week will look much better!

Left Side

Right hand side

For Groundhog's day I found a cool photo from the internet and used that and I also had this cool photo of me and Michael.  This photo was the inspiration for a layout I did. You can see the layout HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I will be back on Monday.  Have a wonderful and scrappy weekend!

-mp

Project LiFe Week 4 and a Fun Blog Hop

Happy Friday!
I am so happy it is Friday.  I am in the mood for a little relaxation!!  Do you have any plans.  I do not really.  Errands in the morning and the I also get my hair cut and then a quick stop to drop off some projects at the store!  Sounds busy but I know I will have plenty of down time!

Here is a look at my wee 4 of project life.  sorry for the glare once again!! 

Left side-
This week I decided to save some weekly receipts etc and I included those. I also added some October Afternoon stickers for some added journaling just to spice things up a bit. 

Right Side

Blog Hop Information

Over at Practical Scrappers they are holding a Linked with Love Blog Hop.  There has been a lot of talk in the scapping world these days about scraplifting other people's work and not giving credit where credit is due.  For example if you see some awesome layout and you want to use part of it  for your own personal use that is fine, but if you want to post it on your blog, use it for design team work then you need to give credit to the original person!!!!  So over at Practical Scrapppers they are having a linked with love blog hop where you will see one layout by Liz Qualman (I love her work) and then you will see the Practical Scrappers design teams interpretation of it and then link it back to Liz.  This hop starts today and goes till March 4th.  There will be prizes along the way.  So I would love for you to head on over to Practical Scrappers and check out this amazing hop. ( I wish I could have particpated in it but I was swamped with work and my little one has been sick!)

Thanks for stopping by today.  I will be back on Monday with some new work!  See you then.  Have a wonderful and crafty day!

-mp

Project Life Week 3

Happy Monday
Did you have a great weekend?  I did.  Saturday I was able to craft and get all my projects done for Cord Camera.  I can't wait to show you them!  I was able to create with the new Jillibean Soup Neopolitan Bean line.  It was so much fun!  Sunday we relaxed.  I took a LONG nap again and then was able to get caught up with week 8 with my Project Life.  I have to say I am still loving this whole process.  Did you get any crafting in? 

Well, as I mentioned I am all caught up with Project Life and I wanted to share with you my Week 3.  Once again sorry for the glare on the page protectors.  I have to figure out a way to photograph them without the huge glare.

Left Side- I am loving all my Ali Edward's stamps that I have collected throughout the year.  I have always used them on my layouts but they work soooo well here. 

Right Side

I love that picture of Michael on the bottom left.  He is sitting opposite me at my scrap desk.  As I have mentioned a million times- my boys are right there with me and they LOVE to create  things.  He was working on his dry erase board and had marker all over his face! Thank goodness for erasable markers!  I will be talking about  the bottom right picture later this week.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day.  I will be back tomorrow with my last project for Whimsie Doodles.  Thanks so much for stopping by!  See ya tomorrow! Have a wondeful and crafty day!

-mp

Project Life Week 2

Happy Friday!
I am so glad it is the weekend!  I am so in the mood to get my craft on!  I got to work a pinch last night and was sooo happy!  Do you have any great plans for the weekend?  Me not really.  I have my errands which I am adding Joanns and Michael's this week.  The tons of craftying time. Hubby is taking the kids on Saturday to visit his mom and I will left alone to crafty for a couple of hours--sounds like heaven to me!!!

Well, I was so busy with all the Valentine's day projects that I didn't get around to my project life updating.  Here is week 2--now I am sorry for the glare- very cloudy and yucky but I think you will get the jist!

Week 2- left side

I saw on a website that you could buy cutting files for Week and stuff but I made my own.  I love FREE!

Right Side

I am still very basic.  I add a bit of stamping and some things here and there.  I really love it!  I did buy a couple of things the other week to help me with Project Life.  A fun date stamp and some cutting files for my silhouette.  so far it has been good and then I have been making my own like the word bubble with yum!

I will have more project life for you next week! Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope everyone has a wonderful and crafty weekend.  I will see you back here on Monday!

-mp

Project Life Week One + Your Help is Needed Again!

Happy Friday!

First I have to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported me these past few weeks with my contest.  I have to say I have THE best followers ever!! Well,  I need your help again.  A really cool scrapbook store in Columbus, Ohio  is having a design team call and you had to submit 5 projects including, cards, layouts and altered items.  The first phase for the design team competition is fan voting.  The high scores then make it to the next round where representatives from Jillibean Soup, Bella Blvd. Little Yellow Bicycle, Bazzill and others then vote on their favorites.  The winners will be part of the Cord Camera Scrapbooking Design Team.  The DT would be working with these manufacturers to come up with displays and also teach classes.  This would be a REAL honor and a HUGE thrill.  So for this part I need your help in voting for my 5 projects!  They are all mixed up but I can give you the row and the title of my project for reference.
Row 3 - sending warm thoughts snowman card
Row 6- Fall black printers trey with a tree in the 1st slot
Row 7- Happy Birthday card using little yellow bicycle( 2nd to last item in that row)
Row 7 That day in May -( last item in that row--a two page layout that has orange  and yellow in it)
Row 10-- My Girl- a picture of my late dog Bailey
Click the box next to each project and then scroll to the bottom to fill out the form  and click submit!
Here is the link:   http://info.cordcamera.com/misc/designteamvoting.html
I can't thank you all enough!!


Are you glad it is the weekend?  Boy, I am.  This week did not go very fast for me.  Do you have any plans?  I actually don't know what we are doing.  Hubby and I have been on opposite schedules lately and haven't talked about the weekend.  I know on my schedule I have scrapping to do.  So we shall see.  I am hoping to maybe get a date night in!

At my crop last week I was able to work on my Project Life. I finished week One, and I as able to assemble weeks two and three.  I still have to journal, embellish, etc.

Week One

I was really happy to use my stamps on some of my journaling cards.  My AE stamps are so perfect for these.  Sorry about the quality of the photos.  It has been rainy here and I couldn't get a good shot.

My hope is to work on weeks 2-3 this weekend.  I found some really fun die cuts in the Silhouette store and I want to play a bit with them!

If you are doing project life are you enjoying it?  I know I am.  I have been able to capture more everyday moments that I wouldn't have with my regular scrapping.  In fact my project life has given me a couple of idea for some regular layouts that I plan on working on this weekend as well.  I am just loving it.  I love the ease of the journaling cards.  You can embellish them as much or a little as you want.  Each week is different.  My goal is to get a bit caught up so that I am not a month behind.  We shall see!

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I will be back on Monday with some new projects!  Thanks again!

Have a wonderful and scrappy day!
-mp

Project Life Title Page

Happy Tuesday,
How is your week going so far?  So far so good here!  I mentioned that over the weekend I was able to finally start my Project Life.  I ordered late and didn't get any page protectors (design A) and then I read on Two Peas that some people were using the 4x6 divided pages and just putting the 2 3x4 cards in the pocket.  Well I jumped on this idea because i read that the pages won't be in till February and I didn't want to wait that long--Anyhooo.  I made my title page!!  I am so excited about it.

To make the page I got supplies in my stash along with the Clemintine cards.  I also had to add some die cuts from my Silhouette. 

I love the little camera.  I think it looks perfect there!  (sorry for the glare on the protector sheet!)

I also placed my cards in the slots etc for me to work on at my Friday crop.  I am going to order the pictures and I will be set.  My plan is to work once a month on it at my crop.  Overall, I am really excited about it.  My journal is working out great holding all my journaling and I also write what my photo was so that when I go to my crop I can organize everything quickly.  Hopefully next week I will be able to show you week one and possibly two!

Thanks so much   for stopping by.  I will be back tomorrow with a new project.  ( I still don't have my class lessons done yet.  Maybe I can work on them tonight!)  See you then!

Have a crafty day!

-mp