project life weeks 1 and 2...

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been busy playing with my 2014 Project Life album. You might be wondering what happened to my 2013 album? To be totally honest I wasn't very prepared when I first started playing with Project life and quickly found myself very behind with the whole process and as a result last year's album has gone into the 'to-do' basket for now while I try and keep up to date with this year's memories.

I am still LOVING the whole process and have learnt a lot along the way, and I'm thinking I will do a separate post on how I have gotten myself organised at a later date - in the meantime here is the start of my 2014 album.

For me the title page has been the most daunting because it was difficult to try and anticipate the feel for the rest of the album. I decided to try and capture what the first parts of the year involved so it would flow nicely with the first month and as you can see we spent a lot of time by the water.

my colour scheme began with this awesome 2014 vellum card from Gossamer Blue, and I paired it with a mix of cards from Simple Stories along with a few bits & pieces from my stash.

I have used the January Life Pages kit form Gossamer Blue to document the start of the year.

I've decided to use these Simple Stories calendar cards from the Daily Grind collection to mark the start of every month and have altered them with lots of goodies from my kit. 

I'm loving the clean look of white brushes on photos and am very happy to have bought a few sets by Karla Dudley Design for Pixels & Co.

the rest of the week involved some fishing as well as a bit of an incident with my new knives...

moving onto week 2...

I have a bit of a weakness for wood veneers and love the cute pieces from the kit.

again using a Karla Dudley Design photo brush

I have a feeling I'm going to get a lot of use from these awesome Monday-Friday stamps from Kellie Stamps

I used the stamps from the kit with vellum to create a couple of easy accents, and am wishing I had a few more of these super cute star cards to use.

Thanks for stopping by :) I'd love to know what you think of my album so far?

 I'll be back with some scrapping and more project life soon.

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Wow, has it really been that long since my last post?

3 months ago I said I would be back with my Scrapbooking Memories Masters entries from 2013... to be honest it has been soooooo long since I scrapped these that I was wondering if there was any point in sharing them on my blog, but I got the layouts out and started taking pictures and decided that I still like what I created, so here it is ;)

I'm not really sure why I continue to torture myself with the whole Masters process because despite quite a few Honourable Mentions I am far from 'Master' status, but I have to admit that I enjoy the challenge of coming up with something to meet the criteria, then trying to finish it all before the deadline... I don't like the waiting but love getting a copy of the mag to see what everyone else has created :D

The layout that got me an honourable mention was for the unique background challenge where you had to use various techniques and mediums to create your own background.

I used a combination of mists, layered washi tape and texture paste to create the base for my layout. It was fun to try something different and I was really happy with the results.

This next layout was for the 5x7" photo challenge, and I went with a fun pic of little Cayden playing in the garden.

It's a bit hard to see in these photos but I created a large vellum pocket to hold a mix of sequins and confetti on the base of the page.

The double layout criteria was to document a journey.  

here's a closer look at the left hand side

I began the story with a photo of the highway we travel on from one of our trips to the beach

I tucked a little map of our favourite summer destination behind some vellum as memorabilia from our journey.

 moving onto the right hand side

 I dressed up one of my beach snapshots to create the title.

The last challenge was to create a 2014 calendar - I definitely don't do many off the page items and it took me a long time to figure out how to tackle the challenge. I wanted something practical and simple in design so it wouldn't clash with my decor and decided to put some of my shadow box frames to use. 

Two of the frames were actually white, so I spray painted them all with a glossy black, and used some dark grey cardstock to contrast with the bright colours. I was influenced by some of my Project Life cards for the calendar deign and so I used a 3x4" polaroid die to create the cards, then die-cut each of the months before using foam dots to place them on the base. 

I also typed up and printed my own calendars and use a few simple embellishments to dress up each month.

 

I also used B&W polka dot washi tape to cover the front of each frame and added a few quotes to fill in the extra polaroids.

Thanks for stopping by and looking back at my entries with me. I have been busy playing with my project life album and am also in the process of working with a super gorgeous kit as a guest designer from a fabulous Aussie kit store.. but you'll have to come back to find out which one ;)

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a blue bazaar xmas...

Well it's the last day of 2013 and I'm finishing the year with my final guest design spot for Blue Bazaar. I have loved the opportunity to play with so many awesome products and as you can see the December kit was filled with so many fabulous festive goodies...

I loved that this kit although you may not traditionally think of adding blacks and greys to your festive layouts, this combination was fabulous for making all of my Christmas photos 

I have to admit that I would not originally thought of using black/greys for my festive pages but I think they really helped to bring out the colours in my photos.  

I made good use of some word stickers by stitching them to my photo.

changing the colours up a bit for a completely different feel - that's the great thing about these kits, they are really versatile and allow you to create a range of different looks. 

and of course it wouldn't be Christmas without a visit from Santa ;)

going for the traditional red, white and green colour scheme this time with a large pocket for hidden journaling behind the photo. 

and lastly a really fast and simple layout to highlight Cayden's photo with Santa.

I'll have my SBM Masters entries ready to share in my next post... I didn't make it to the final 10 but happy to have another Honourable Mention in the magazine (even if they did spell my name wrong yet again lol) 

Wishing you all a fabulous New Year xx

 I hope to see you back in 2014 :) 

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