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.)

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?

2015 Project Life: Newmarket Nights

This project life spread was part of a huge catch up I managed last week and it was one of those instances where everything just came together. I am in love with the bright colours and vibrant nature of this spread. 

The bright coloured 3x4 cards are predominantly from my 6x6 kaleidoscope paper pad which is definitely one of my all time favourite paper collections. 

I cut the paper down to the size of Project Life cards and used one card from the Fine and Dandy collection that happened to work with the spread. 

One of this things I love about memory keeping is using little snippets from the day like ticket stubs, and in this spread I used my tiny attacher to save the wrist band from the event, it helped to bring the green throughout the rest of 

the layout. 

I used a selection of Technique Tuesday stamps including Going Places and No Picture. I love using the stamps on 3x4 paper to make my own project life cards! 

Overall I was very pleased with the finished layout! The paper pads added some vibrancy that personally, I love! 

What 6x6 paper pads are your faves? Any you'd recommend? 

Thanks for reading, Sam XO