Documenting December Day 1-7

Today Im sharing with you all, the pages I have completed within my Documenting December album. 

As you will see, I am documenting all stories and photos throughout the month, more like a day/week in the life type album, except its all month long.

Just a quick show and tell, not much explanation needed :) If you have any questions let me know in the comments 

December 1: Great start to the album, this is how I pictured the entire album to be. Just hope I can keep it up :)

December 2: Confetti Pocket made by a lovely instagram/facebook friend. LOVE it!

December 3 & 4: Quote photo sent from Kellie

December 5: Super busy day.. lots of photos and stories.

December 6: Play date with Leila and Bailey, and the packaging from their lunch.

December 7: I took no photos. Just journalling, it tells the story of our day :)

I am hoping to get more pages recorded in the next few days before the really busy time sets in.
Thanks for stopping by today. Will be sharing more of my Project Life layouts as soon as I take the photos.

Documenting December

Here to share a few sneak peeks of my work in progress Album for December

Throughout this month I will be documenting most photo's taken, not just the christmas photos, as it is quite a busy month for us. I am using products and kits from two of my favourite Aussie online stores. The Documenting December kit from Polka Dot Creative and the December Main kit release from A Piece of Cake Designs, plus extra products from the Studio Calico Magical range.

I originally thought I could squeeze this into the back of my current Project Life album for this year, however after further thought of how I wanted to document the month, I have moved into an album of its own. I have decided to document most stories Project life style, with a mix of traditional layouts through out.

I have started the album off with a transparency and the Candy stripe vellum from Studio Calico.. with some gold glitter thickers..

Underneath is a 12x12 KI Memories calendar, over the top of the Gold start kraft paper from the PDC kit

 

 Ive used my favourite number stamps from Typo to mark the days, and added minimal embellishments in an aim to keep this album as flat as possible. Im hoping to get more than 1 year into this album.

Im enjoying this project, and hope that I can keep up the creativity throughout this busy fun month.

Back soon with a share of the first few days of my album..

Project Life Week 27 PDC Mini Kit

My Week 27 is featured over HERE today on the Polka Dot Creative Blog!!!

AWESOME!! Thanks so very much Jodie!!

Project Life Week 20 - Polka Dot Creative

Ive got a stack of layouts to share over the next few days.. 

Starting with my Week 20 Project Life spread.. 

Ive used the May Mini Kit from Polka Dot Creative. Love these mini kits, they are stuffed full of inspirational goodness! Excuse the not so great photos - yet again :( I really need to invest in a light box of some sort as the weather seems to be getting worse for photo taking!

Ive pretty much used every single item that was in the kit, including the brown paper packaging.

The left hand side - Leilas new shoes, a card for mum, leilas new trick, food coverage and a playdate filled up this side of the spread.

A close up of the confetti pocket and PDC stamp from the paper bag. 

The exclusive stamp that was part of the kit - stamped onto a doily for something different. The wood veneers are stamped with some silver ink to give them a big of shine. The stitched heart was from my stash.

The right hand side covers a trip to the hairdressers, Wiggle time and a crop day I attended. 

LOVE this hand stamped tag that was in the kit, and the Maggie Holmes paper. 

Close up of a card I made for a recent card swap, with a photo of a layout I made at the Crop day for someone else.

Check back in tomorrow for the latest Life Paper Scrapbook colour challenge.

Project Life is a concept designed by Becky Higgins. It is a range that works anyway you want it to. You don't have to embellish your layouts or use any extra products like I do. You can easily record an album full of memories with just a Core Kit, bulk pack of page protectors and a 12x12 Album. I purchase all my core products from Craft House - Exclusive stockist for Australia and New Zealand. 

Project Life Week 19 - A Piece of Cake Designs

This week features the May Cake Kit from A Piece of Cake Designs

I love how versatile these kits are. I can use a 4x6 piece of each paper and some embellishments and still have plenty left over for traditional layouts.

There were lots of photos to use this week but I had an idea of how I wanted it to look so I stuck with both design A pages.

I added in some packaging from a stamp set that I had received that week from Kellie - Its so hard to open up her pretty packaging!!

We are having such a fun time with Leila right now! Riding horses, playing with boats and cars and dolls. The alphas are from the Simple stories sticker sheet that were included in the kit. Ive attached the twine with my tiny attacher.

Close up of the journalling card, flower and alphas all from the kit. 

On the right hand side I had more photos to use to document Mothers Day. Leila wasn't too interested in giving anyone presents, more so running off with them lol

I have used the banner stamp that came with the kit (exclusive design by Kellie) straight onto the vellum and then cut out and stapled onto the photo with the tiny attacher.

Ive added in a few doilies here and there from my own stash. Have I said how much I love this kit??

Ive also used a piece of goodness from the May Polka Dot Creative kit which I am using for the following weeks layout.. LOVE Jodie's confetti pockets.

And lastly a close up of the exclusive stamp - Ive used black and silver ink one on top of the other to make it stand out more.

Thats it for this week :)
I will be back soon with more

Project Life is a concept designed by Becky Higgins. It is a range that works anyway you want it to. You don't have to embellish your layouts or use any extra products like I do. You can easily record an album full of memories with just a Core Kit, bulk pack of page protectors and a 12x12 Album. I purchase all my core products from Craft House - Exclusive stockist for Australia and New Zealand. 

Project Life Week 16

Today Im over at the Life Paper Scrapbook blog sharing my week 16 Layout..

Its full of Polka Dot Creative mini kit goodness!!!

Come on over and check it out :)

Project Life Week 11..

2 weeks of Project life posted in the space of a few days!! I'm finally getting somewhere in this catching up business!

This weeks layout came together super easy with the help of a Fabulous Mini Kit from Polka Dot Creative. The kit was jam packed with enough paper and embellishments that I used the entire package and only needed to add in a couple of extra bits and pieces! Fantastic Value!! Lots of Aussie product squeezed into this kit from A Piece of Cake Designs, Give a Girl a AND Documenting Chaos..

This is what was included in the kit  (photo courtesy of PDC)

And this is what I made with it

Although I seem to have covered the layout with photos, they actually only happened to be from 2-3 days in that week lol I was crazy busy cultivating a good life that i forgot to record it! I did manage to get a few photos while we were outside playing on one of the (more than a week long) hot days. Some screen shots from instagram, the weather after the cool change came through and a few pics from the meet up in Melbourne when Caz came over for a holiday. Was a lovely breakfast meeting up with new friends. Cant wait to do it again soon!!

A close up of the Left side

Love the handmade confetti pocket that Jodie made for the kits!! Was a perfect addition to my simple title card. Ive added in some extra SN@P letters, SMASH label tape, doily and a cute Camera veneer that was in my stash from a friend. Everything else you see in the layout was all part of the kit from PDC, including the glassine bag that I have stamped on (bottom left) It contains some journaling for that photo. As you can see I was a tad excited that Leila has started having naps during that day again! Even if it is snuggled up on my lap I don't mind.

And the Right side

All of these photos are just from the 1 day! I added in some extra SN@P papers and a journalling card from my stash on this side. And I borrowed the HOT HOT HOT photo from one of the lovely ladies in the Project Life Australia Group. Thanks Carolyn xx

Im happy with how its turned out! It all came together so quickly, and everything that was in the kit was used :) If you're after the next months mini kit you better get in quick when they go up for sale as they sell out SUPER FAST!! And a little birdy tells me you will love the next one!!

I hope to be back in the next couple of days with week 12....


Project Life is a concept designed by Becky Higgins. It is a range that works anyway you want it to. You don't have to embellish your layouts or use any extra products like I do. You can easily record an album full of memories with just a Core Kit, bulk pack of page protectors and a 12x12 Album. I purchase all my core products from Craft House - Exclusive stockist for Australia and New Zealand. 

March Sketch Challenge

Hooray its Sketch Challenge reveal day for Life Paper Scrapbook

This is what we had to play with this month :)

And this is the layout I whipped up last night

 I flipped the sketch slightly so that it worked for me, but its turned out awesome!
Ive used the Yes Please range from Amy Tangerine for this layout. LOVE the colour combo! It suited the colours of Leilas tshirt in the photo so well. You can find the entire range of Yes Please over at Polka Dot Creative, be quick as things are selling out fast!!
I started with a 12x12 sheet of corrugated card and spritzed and splattered a white Mister Hueys mist around the page. I then scrunched up the 3 papers from the 6x6 paper pad then flattened them out and stapled them onto the page. I used the strips from the tops of the 6x6 papers along the top of the page with an adhesive flair badge.

Ive used the Aqua ombre thickers from the Studio Calico Sundrifter range, and Sherbet mini market alphas from October Afternoon. Loving doilies right now and found a massive packet of mini ones at a local market last weekend. Winner!! And how cute is the hearts and arrows paper!!

And I gave the stitching templates from the Yes Please range a try to add a different element to the page. Im not entirely happy with how it turned out, but I can live with it :)

Our Sponsor for this months Sketch is my awesome and super talented friend Raquel at A Piece of Cake Designs..

A Piece of Cake Designs is a unique and scrumptious monthly scrapbooking kit club which provides kits that are jam packed with papers and cool embellies. Owner, Raquel Bowman, prides herself on the fact that all the hard work of combining and creating unique colour combinations and brands is done for you, therefore making it 'a piece of cake' to start scrapping and creating in this busy world we live in!

This year, APOCD have released an exclusive new product, Cherry Flair. These gorgeous 1" flair embellishments are designed and handmade with love and care by APOCD. Each month new designs will be released and available on their website. The monthly kit will also include an exclusive pack of Cherry Flair ONLY available with the purchase of the kit. 

The winner of this challenge will receive 2 packs of her cherry flair (winner's choice of packs) AND a 15% off store voucher!! UNREAL! Raquel is also a Guest designer for us this month. Head on over to the Life Paper Scrapbook blog and check out the rest of the teams fantastic creations and enter your layouts for the chance to win this awesome prize.

Happy Scrapping :)

Project Life Week 8

Now its time to share the remainder of my Week 8 layout YAY!

TA DA..

Lost for words lol that doesn't happen often! LOVING this new range from Dear Lizzy! I knew I would when it was released at CHA. Good mix of dark and light, bright and not so bright that all tie in together well.

I have the Design F and Design E photo pocket pages from the Becky Higgins Project Life range (Available for us Aussies via Craft House)

The Left Hand side

 This was a super quiet week, with not very many photos to choose from. I filled up spare pockets with a Gloria Jeans card and a quote card from the Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm embellishments pack. All papers and most stickers/embellishments were form the Lucky Charm range. The only added extras are the black SMASH tape, pink Sn@p numbers and the black glitter tape on the FEB card from In a Creative bubble..

A close up of the star, which I adhered to the outside of the page protector. And a photo of my partners sister, who at the same age as Leila is now, looks almost identical.

The Right Hand side as shown earlier today in the Life.Paper.Scrapbook Colour Challenge post

And close ups of the Thickers used (also a Dear Lizzy product from a previous collection)

And the chipboard 'Thicker' embellishment that was part of the Lucky Charm Chipboard stickers pack.

I have used a white grid journaling card underneath which I sprayed with 'Tinsel' Color Shine before sticking it down.

All products from the Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm range are available from Polka Dot Creative, but they are selling out SUPER FAST!! Head on over and check out all the goodies Jodie has available in her little shop! Service is AMAZING!

So thats my week 8.. Week 9 is half complete and should be blogged about in the next few days :)
Happy Friday Everyone, thanks for stopping by!


Project Life is a concept designed by Becky Higgins. It is a range that works anyway you want it to. You don't have to embellish your layouts or use any extra products like I do. You can easily record an album full of memories with just a Core Kit, bulk pack of page protectors and a 12x12 Album. I purchase all my core products from Craft House - Exclusive stockist for Australia and New Zealand. 

March Colour Challenge - Life Paper Scrapbook

Today I'm sharing my 2nd Colour Challenge for Life.Paper.Scrapbook

This challenge was a tricky one for me as the colours we needed to use aren't normally what I keep in my stash or would use in my Project Life layouts. But, I managed to find some papers in my new Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm 6x6 pad!!

This was the colour palette we had to play with

And this is what I came up with

This is the right hand side of my week 8 Project Life Layout. I managed to get some bigger 4x4 photos scrapped using the Design E pockets by Becky Higgins. I used 4 of the papers from the 6x6 paper pad and embellishments from various packs out of the Lucky Charm range which I purchased from Polka Dot Creative. Ive also added some glitter tape, glitter thickers, a doily, arrow paper clip and black smash tape from my stash.

I will share the remainder of the layout for you in the next post later today. Ive used more of the Lucky Charm collection for the other half and its looking pretty awesome so far!

Sponsor for this months Colour Challenge is The Greatest View - another awesome mini shop on Etsy that sells gorgeous flair buttons, mini paper bags, ribbon, bakers twine, doilies and tags.

Project Life Week 5 (February LPS Colour Challenge)

Today I can finally show you my week 5 Project Life layout YAY!!

I created this weeks layout as part of my very first Design Team assignment for Life.Paper.Scrapbook. It is for the very first Colour Challenge. I am so excited to be able to share it with you now as its been ready for over a week!

This is the image we were all given to guide us. I can't wait to see what the other ladies created :)

I knew exactly what I was going to use to create my layout as soon as the image came through. 5th & Frolic by Dear Lizzy. I think it worked perfectly, and I hope you all love it!

The products from the range I used were the 6x6 paper pad and the printed chipboard shapes which I purchased from Jodie at Polka Dot Creative. 

The Left hand side. Extras that I have used apart from 5th & frolic collection are: a Journalling card from a Jenni Bowlin Journalling pad, Glitter tape from Typo, pink dymo tape for journalling using my Smash labeller, washi tape from Glitz design, yellow letters from Basic Grey, Documented Stamp from a Studio Calico set and a felt flag banner from Charms Creations.  The quote card was from ??? no idea. I saved it that week on my iPad and can't for the life of me remember where it came from. If anyone knows where its from please let me know so that I can link it up :)


The Right hand side. Extras on this side are pretty much the same as the left side, with a lovely tag from Jodie at Polka Dot Creative, 2 journalling cards from the Olive edition of Project life, stamps from Studio Calico sets, '5' thicker is from Dear Lizzy also. And a layout wouldn't be complete without flair buttons from A Piece of Cake Designs - 2013 & Tuesday. The phone flair is from American Crafts (over a year ago)

So thats my week 5 layout. I hope you liked it.. If you want to join in the fun with this LPS challenge head on over and link up your layout for a chance to win a $20 voucher from this months sponsors Freckled Fawn :)

Off you go.. GET YA CRAFT ON :)
www.lifepaperscrapbook.com


Project Life is a concept designed by Becky Higgins. It is a range that works anyway you want it to. You don't have to embellish your layouts or use any extra products like I do. You can easily record an album full of memories with just a Core Kit, bulk pack of page protectors and a 12x12 Album. I purchase all my core products from Craft House - Exclusive stockist for Australia and New Zealand.