Project Life 2015: Works Party

Hey everyone, these are some snapshots from my most recent process video, this documents a works party that I had with some collegues. All the pictures from the night were taken on my mini instax camera. It was great fun to use with all my friends and I gave loads of the film away. Before I gave them out to various people I used my phone to take some pictures of the instax prints so that I could include them in my project life album!

 

 

There were 3 cards that I had already done and finished before I even started the spread! The bottom three cards were already complete where I had tried to start the spread on a different day but just hadn't been feeling it! (sometimes that happens to me, hate those days when I lack inspiration!)

This spread has lots of little details on it like the addition of strips of washi tape and the die cut tag stamped with 'today' I had lots of fun creating this layout.

 

 

I did a full PL cards worth of journaling, I could count the number of times I've done that on my hand! So I'm pretty chuffed that I'll have more to help me remember the day in a few years time. :)

I included some of the original instax photos in this album too. I don't like to put too many in to one spread as I feel I have to use journaling cards to mount the pictures and it ends up way too busy for me!!

If you want to see my process watch the video on my YouTube channel link below:

Project Life 2015: Hadleigh Castle

This post is of a spread i did using pictures from a walk up to Hadleigh Castle. I love a good wander to clear my head on a Sunday, and as the wind was very brisk this weekend a walk definitely had the desired effect!

This is a fairly simple layout so I've kept my chit chat to a minimum! :) 

I used a printable sticker set I found on the Internet, bought some sticker paper off amazon and then cut some of the stickers apart for this spread. I'd really recommend doing this as it was cheaper and there are some nice sets available. I plan on doing a detailed post on this in a few weeks once I've found some more printable sticker sets! 

I managed to use up some stickers from some of my simple stories sets including this black and clear washi strip which I think looks really cool on this picture as it works with my zebra scarf! 

I matted the 2x2 pics on some paper from a 'falling leaves' paper pad I picked a russet coloured paper that drew from the table cloth in the picture above. 

I decided to outline the simple stories stickers from the I Am collection that said 'on my way' to really make them stand out from the backing paper. I was fairly pleased with the look that gave. 

See my YouTube video below for more details: 

 

12x12 Layout: Meeting Thea

 

Hello! Today's layout is a pretty 12x12 page for my project life album. This is the only picture that was taken the day I met my best friends baby Thea. I always use 12x12 spreads to document either my favourite pictures or the occasions when I was at some kind of event or important day where only one photo was taken. 

 

 

I used this pretty 12x12 paper from the kaleidoscope pad. It had flashes of pink, purple and teal on it. I absolutely adore the paper in this particular pad. I was also given the cute faun paper from a friend and the teal in that banner really brought out the teal in the background. I felt that all those colours together really pulled on the tones in the picture so I was pretty pleased with the outcome. I used a Becky Higgins project life card from the Fine and Dandy collection to write my journaling on, this is the kind of life event that I thought was worth a few words. The little butterfly is from the Kaiser Craft all that glitters set.

 

 

I used some off cuts of paper to die cut a selection of flowers from a sizzix set of die cutters. I decided not to layer them as such but to use them in a row along the base of the picture to add interest. Getting them out of the cutters was such a pain! I was pleased with the finished look (thank goodness, as it took about 35 mins just to get them out!!) I used some sequins to embellish the flowers and also above the photo to add interest, the 'delightful' is from my Amy Tangerine roller phrase stamp, I have now ordered another roller phrase stamp, as I tend to use this one in EVERY spread. The little arrow paperclip is from The Range it came in a set of paperclips for 50p I'd recommend checking out their stationary section as they actually had loads of different shaped paper clips that could be useful for scrapbooking.

 

 

Check out my process video below:

Project Life 2015: Sugar Hut

 

Heeeeeellloooooo! Today's spread is a Project Life spread from a trip I took to Sugar hut. I went down an incredibly sparkley route with this particular spread and used lots of die cuts from the 'all that glitters' Kaiser Craft pack of dies!

 

 

 

My title page is made from a Becky Higgins 4x6 card from the fine and dandy collection which I cut down to 4x4, I then used a set of Aqua Glitter Thickers to spell out 'Sugar Hut' before adding a roller date stamp and some journaling. I think the journaling added some texture to that page and breaks away from the glitter overload that was going on with that card!

 

 

Again, my favourite label stickers came out. This sticker set was from Amazon its a labelling set for folders but I love using them to add more journaling to my spread. I also used a my Sizzix to die cut the word 'friend' this is from the sizzix die cut set 'friend' which comes with 16 word die cuts that are so versatile! I absolutely love this die cut set.

 

 

 

The 'leave a little sparkle wherever you go' is my favourite card in the spread, my dress was super sparkly (hence the theme) so this die cut from the 'all that glitters' range was perfect, I just added a flash of pink polka dot washi tape and some pretty sequins to finish off the page!

 

 

If you want to know more about how I did this layout have a look at my YouTube video:

Project Life 2015: The Big Draw

This is one of my favourite spreads in a while, I love the colours and the way it all came together. This was from a trip to the British Museum where we took part in the #bigdraw we got involved by colouring in some masks in the Africa room, I picked the drawing of Head of an Oba, these are made out of brass and placed on the shrines of dead kings alongside ivory and other wooden and metal objects. I love the Africa section. My colouring was little more vibrant than the original as you can see from the pictures!

 

 

 

I found this die cut from my KaiserCraft Fiesta pack and couldn't believe how perfect it was for the day! 'Life is about using the whole box of crayons' and I EVEN USED CRAYONS! it was as if it were made for the spread!

 

 

 

I used this as the perfect excuse to get my sizzix out, I love these dies from the friends range it comes with 16 dies with various words and phrases including 'truth, friend, everyday, wonderful, hope, hello' and many many more! I find reason to use them in so many spreads they were such a good buy!

 

 

 

I added some journaling to this spread (in fact a little more than I normally do) I used the 4x4 card, a sticky label and a die cut shaped like a speech bubble to include some journaling of things I loved from the day.

 

 

 

I love this particular layout, these pocket pages are from We R Memory Keepers it's perfect for instagram pictures and the 4 2x2 pockets mean you can get even more pictures on to your page. Next step for these pocket pages is to work on shaker and see-through pockets (although I'm not confident I'll be able to pull these off!)

 

See my YouTube video below (It has a voice over on it!!! Took ages to work out how to do it effectively, so I'm pretty chuffed. Check it out and subscribe to my channel.)

Scrapbook 12x12 Layout: Halloween 2015

 

This 12x12 layout is a follow on from yesterdays post, here I'm creating my own background to display a spooooky Halloween picture of me and my friends.

 

 

 

I made the background using a white candle, I rubbed the wax across the page drawing star shapes. I sprayed the gold spritzing ink over the top as the wax is water proof it meant I could wipe off the excess ink over the stars so you could see the shapes below the spray.

 

 

I used some black thickers, some gold letter stickers and an Ampasand to make my title for this spread 'Halloween & Friends'

 

I used a selection of black, orange, and patterned papers to back my photo and picked out similar coloured stickers and chipboard pieces to embellish the page with.

 

I also fiddled around cutting out lots of cute stars using my star punch from Tiger, I cut out from Gold glitter paper and the orange cardstock that I had used to back my pictures.

I was pretty pleased with the finished look, can't wait to have another go at a wax and ink background, got a blue spray just waiting for it's debut!

If you want to see how I did it check out my video (it's my first attempt at a voiceover, could use a little work so bare with)

 

Throwback Thursday Album: Pirate Party

This spread is comprised of photos from 2007 and is part of my 'Throwback' album. I do this album every now and then, stealing pictures off my Facebook albums. This one was a party I went to at Uni so it's a pretty old one.

I picked out the Red from the pictures when choosing the additional cards to use in the album and the spread really ended up focused around Red, Black and White and I like the finished look.

I used this as a real opportunity to use up as many of the Anchor stickers I have as possible! I did a pretty good job I think, these are all from the 'I am' collection by Simple Stories, I have no idea when else I would have used these stickers but they were perfect for this!

I used a few stamps, one from a Heidi Swapp stamp set and the 'Oh Goodness' Is from an Amy Tangerine roller stamp, I love the phrases on that particular roller stamp and end up using them in almost every spread!

See my video on how to create this here:

Do you have a 'Throwback' album?

Scrapbooking 12x12 layout: Good Buddies

This was my first 12x12 layout after getting through 2 albums of project life, I've finally branched in to typical scrapbooking and I'm very very pleased with how this turned out!

I had 3 instax photos from an occasion when my friends visited and they didn't really fit in to a project life spread so I decided to do a 12x12 layout instead. I used shades of blue and some bright patterned papers with greens, reds and blues running through them. 

I used a medium circle punch to create some paper confetti to add interest to the sides of the layout, I also added sequinned in blue and green! 

I used some Kaiser Kraft stickers to add some cool phrases to the spread and had my first attempt using doilys! They really added to the layout and I'll definitely use them again! 

I had so much fun creating this spread and I love the finished look! Definitely going to try lots more of these and maybe some mixed media ones soon!! Oooooo exciting! 

See my YouTube video below if you want to see the process: 

 

 

 

If you've got any tips or advice for 12x12 spreads leave a comment below. :)