November Project Life

Hello everyone!
I hope you're all enjoying your weekend.
Today I'm sharing a massive Project Life Catch up I achieved recently using the December Add-On kit "Summer Days" from Scrappy Canary

Lots of photos to share as Ive filled up 2 full week spreads and 2 half week spreads using the papers and embellishments from the kit. Each week has a different feel to the next as you will see below :)

I'm getting worse at journalling lately, focusing more on getting the photos into the album. I aim to go back and add in anything I have forgotten, Ive kept notes within my editing software for future reference

Using a mixture of embellishments from the ephemera pack Ive created a date card.

Rather than jamming all our photos from this week into 1 side, Ive balanced them out but filling the remaining pockets with papers and embellishments from the ephemera kit.

Adding in pieces of grid cards makes a great base to add journalling, without covering up too much of the pretty papers and ephemera pieces.

During this week we started toilet training Leila properly. Ive added in her sticker chart, which we only needed to use for one week as she picked it up pretty quickly! Go Leila!!

And lastly the final week of November (left hand side) and the start of my December pages.

Thanks for stopping by
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I hope its a sunny there as it is here where I am :)
Happy Crafting
Michelle x

Im a Life Zester

Hello and welcome to a new year of creating and sharing!

Today I want to introduce you to a new team that I have joined for the first half of 2015

Life Zesters is a new Challenge blog especially for those who LOVE Project Life.
Monthly Inspiration from the Design Team combined with challenges and much much more!

For the month of January, myself and the team are sharing 'Our Style' with you all. 
As you may all be aware 'My Style' varies throughout the year depending on my mood, the amount of time I have to create and the products I have at hand. Lately I've been using kits from Scrappy Canary  as part of my DT commitments. Below are a few examples of my recent work :)

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Be sure to load up your entires to show us YOUR style. 
Happy Crafting!

September Project Life

Hello!! Today I'm sharing another instalment of my Project life album using this months Rainbow Connection Pocket Life kit from Scrappy Canary

**WARNING** This post is full of photos!! Grab a cuppa before you sit down to browse :)

Ive jumped back to September for one very good reason :) I thought what better way to document September, than with the September Skies collection by Heidi Swapp. A little birdie had advised that the collection was coming up in a kit, so I knew straight away what I needed to save in my album to show it off! I have added in a few extra pieces from my stash including more 6x6 papers, but a majority of the pockets are filled with contents of the kit. I will leave the photos to do the talking, if you have any questions please ask them in the comments. 

I squeezed as many photos and stories as I could into this month. 5 inserts between the 2 main pages!

The right hand side of this photo shows a 6x8 insert with the one behind peeking through from above

 Right hand side again, Ive used a Becky Higgins Design G page protector

I was naughty and used a different set of Heidi alphas for these pages, they are slightly smaller than the set within the Pocket Life kit, but both can be used with color shine to make them POP

Ive attached 2 gold hearts, from the sticker sheet included in the kit, back to back onto some vellum as a 'filler' card

Another 6x8 insert houses a flyer from the Circus Leila went to see

For the last page of the month, Ive used another Heidi Swapp panoramic pocket page. 

(shown closed above and open below)

Those cheeky gold stickers don't really photograph all that well to share with you all. 

They do look much better in person :) 

Thanks for stopping by. If you haven't got your hands on one of these kits yet, you really should! They are so much fun to use!

I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season xx

Michelle

October Project Life take 3

Good Afternoon,
Sharing a Project Life layout I created recently with the Note to Self Pocket Life kit from Scrappy Canary. This layout completes my documentation of October.

 This was such a fun kit to play with! Lots of bright colours and cute patterns work really well for photos of our week. Yes I did revert back to weekly documenting!

The pockets chosen for this week are from a special release Becky Higgins had last year with HSN (Home Shopping Network) over in the States. I had visions of mini 2x2 inch photos within the pockets mixed with random squares of pattern papers, however due to lack of photos for the week I attacked a massive pile of pattern paper scraps

 A close up of the left hand side, documenting little stories about what life is like lately with Leila. How awesome is that Amy Tangerine exclusive!!

And the right is a collection of random moments

Lastly with the remaining scraps and embellishments left over from the Kit, I made up 2 simple mini layouts. Both are 6x8 inch in size and conceal a funeral booklet from earlier in the week. 

Up first 'Crazy Lady', made up of lots of different size offcuts and strips.. 

And second 'Obsessed'
Simple strips of paper combined with a title from the Alphabet sticker sheet

I hope this has inspired you in some way 

Happy Scrapping

Michelle x

October Project Life take 2

Hello Everyone!!

Today I thought I would share a few more pockets full of memories within my Project Life album. 

Im still adding to my October layouts using the Hollyhocks Pocket Life kit from Scrappy Canary, so these are just a few different pocket ideas that Im sharing today. 

Machine stitching over alpha stickers helps keep them in place, and adds a little touch of fun

Adding a simple strip of pattern paper behind the photo/s adds just that little pop of colour

White grid cards for journalling, combined with stickers and staples are the easiest way to journal 

Flip up pockets work perfect to add in extra photos that don't fit within the full layout

If you run out of pattern paper for a base card, use a plain card from your stash and mat the photo with left over strips. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Michelle x

October Project Life

Hello everyone!!

Today I'm sharing a start to my October Project Life pages. This month Im playing with the new Hollyhocks Pocket Life kit from Scrappy Canary. Ive also mixed in a few bits and pieces from the matching decorative & chipboard stickers sheets from the Main & Add-On kits

As the month is not quite over, I thought I would share just a snippet of the first few pages. The remainder will be shared with you all soon. I am still finding it tricky to document in a monthly format rather than a weekly one. Without knowing how many photos Im going to have until the end of the month, its hard to plan out the pages. So for this month I took on the go with the flow approach.

 Lots of instagram pics to start the month. I like to print these at 3.7inch or 2.7inch squares depending on the pocket Im using them in. Then I go to town with the 6x6 pad of papers included in the kit. I try to spread the range of colours out within the page so that its not all clustered together. Once Im happy with my mix of photos and papers I add journalling or titles to each pocket, with some added embellishments if needed. I like to keep my pages flat, but I also like to get as much out of these kits as I can. Stickers are perfect for my style! I can layer them up without going over the top.

This close up is of one of my favourite pockets, a Teddy bears picnic for 2.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope I've inspired you in some way to get your photos into albums and off your computers. 

Enjoy your week

Michelle x

August Project Life

Hello Everyone!!
I thought I would drop back in today to share the pages I made for my new role as part of the Scrappy Canary Design Team.

These pages are all documenting our August stories. I've recently changed to the monthly approach of documenting as I just wasn't taking enough photos to warrant using a full page per week. But in the end, boy did I get a few pages cranked out!

This month I had the September Pocket Life kit "Strawberry Fields" to play with, featuring the awesomely cute Shimelle range.  (I will admit that I did have to dip into my Shimelle stash to add extra papers from the 6x6 pad and a few stickers, but I think I used the kit to its full potential! Added extras used within pages can be found on the Scrappy Canary website.)

This is what it looks like all sitting within my album.. A few different sized pocket pages used to create a few layers within the month.

First up is a page more about me, than the rest of my little family. For those of you who aren't too familiar with me... I have an almost 4 year old little girl, a partner Clinton and we all live together with my parents!! Crazy I know, but we are in the process of FINALLY building a house.. Just for us :) Its actually documented within this months pages.. Back to this page..

I absolutely ADORE this range by Shimelle! Its pretty pastels work just right with the colours of my photos for the month. I especially like the cute camera paper! Perfect for a selfie photo I took to send to my hairdresser! And the cork stickers!! Perfect for a finishing touch to the Month card at the top.

You can see here Ive added in 2 of the printables from this months kits. They aren't printed perfect as our printer was running low on ink, but they still work perfect with the colours of the Shimelle range. Ive used pretty much all of the labels within the kit and the printables sheet throughout all my pages. Think I will need to print more out to use with the remaining papers I have here.

One of my inserts was perfect for a few of the instagram photos I had to document, Ive backed them with complimenting papers from the kit, including some of the strips from the tops of the papers.. 

Here you can see how I've used one of the Crate Paper labels, folded over the page protector to create a tab. The little flag was made using a scrap from one of the top strips of the paper pad.

This insert is JAMPACKED!! so many little stories and photos. How cool are the cut apart papers within the kit! Ive used a few of the mini cards above. And those My Mind's Eye alphas.. AWESOME!

My last page is made using one of the new and seriously cool fold out pocket pages from Heidi Swapp

You can see here that this  page folds out to the right, and has space for up to 8 more pockets of photos!

Below is what the page looks like closed, documenting the start of my Paperific weekend!

I've used a second Crate Paper label to make another flag tab. I also used my new In a Wink glitter brushes in Clear to add some sparkle to the Cork stickers

The strips you can see on the 2 photos up top (left & middle) and the bottom right are all made with the strips you rip off the tops of the papers. I simply folded them over to hide the hole in the middle then stapled them onto the photos. Ive added dates to 2 of them and left the other just as it is..

I have loved using the Strawberry Fields pocket life kit for this month

Everything matches in perfect from the papers, the journal cards, the date tabs and alpha stickers..

And how cute are all the pink tiny type word strips from Studio Calico! 

The perfect finishing touch to many of my pockets

Thats all from me today. Thanks for checking out my pages.
I hope they have inspired you all in some way to use up this months kits!!

Cant wait to share what I whip up next with the remnants of this kit :)
Have a great day
Michelle xx