Project Life: Week 12

Still at it!  And I'm still totally in love with this project!  I also love that this project has inspired me and motivated me to get more photos off of my computer and into a form we can all enjoy.  Not only am I still plugging away at Project Life, but just this week alone I've completed another 6 or so Bearski book pages AND made a quick Shutterfly book of our trip to Cancun back in 2009!!  Shutterfly sent out coupons for a free 8x8 book or $29.99 off of a larger book (MYBOOK is the promo code... expires tomorrow - Tuesday), so I jumped on that offer and got those photos out and into the world!  No one here has really looked at those photos since I posted them to my blog years ago, I'm so excited to have them in a book form that we can pick up and page through whenever we feel like it.  It also went back through my photos and probably added another 20 or so that I didn't post to the blog.  Funny how your perspective on things change over the years.  Plus, I don't mind overdoing the same type of shot in a book, where I like more variety in my blog posts.  The book has already shipped... I can't wait to get it!!

Here are my project life pages for this week...

Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Green papers - How it Began by One Little Bird
Lucky Card - Hello Lucky by Amy Jaz Designs
White photo card - Make Today Amazing by Emily Merritt
Black paper - oh dearie by Paislee Press
4x6 templates - 4x6 Collages No. 1 by Designs by Lili
3x4 template - 3x4 Photo Templates No. 2 by Designs by Lili
Title Card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz

Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Big Journaling Card - Hello Lucky by Amy Jaz Designs
& Card - Color Me Happy (recolored) by Amy Jaz Designs
Happy Card - Make Today Amazing Cards by Emily Merritt
Green Paper - How it Began by One Little Bird
4x6 Templates - 4x6 Collages No. 1 by Designs by Lili

All available at The Lilypad.

Project Life: Week 11

I struggled again with this week.  Mainly because I didn't have many quality photos, which meant I had blanks to fill and journaling isn't one of my favorite things.  I ended up using several filler cards and "journaled" bullet point style on one large card.

Oh... and I have a new project life supply addiction... I'm totally in LOVE with the 4x6 photo collages by Designs by Lili!  I bought one set, but I have the itch to own them all!!  I bought a 2x3 set as well.... I hope to use it soon!

Supplies:

Template - Amy Jaz Designs

Title Card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs

Papers - How it Began by One Little Bird and

oh dearie by Paislee Press

Yellow Card - Everyday Essentials by Amy Jaz Designs

Awesome - Dear Diary by Little Butterfly Wings

4x6 templates - 4x6 Photo collages No. 1 by Designs by Lili

Supplies:

Template - Amy Jaz Designs

Papers - How it Began by One Little Bird and

oh dearie by Paislee Press

Journaling Card - Everyday Essentials by Amy Jaz Designs

4x6 templates - 4x6 Photo collages No. 1 by Designs by Lili

 

All products available at The Lilypad!!

oh.. and I'm still working on my Bearski book.  It's actually going quite well.  The only reason I haven't posted lately is because it's actually going TOO well.  I probably have 15 pages to post!!  I'm so excited to finish it up and order my book!

Project Life: Week 10

I made it to double digits!!  Yay week 10!!

Supplies:

Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Journaling Card - Hello Lucky by Amy Jaz Designs
Title Card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs
Papers on Title - oh dearie by Paislee Press
Tab - everyday essentials by Amy Jaz Designs
Paper on tab - Hello Lucky cards by Amy Jaz Designs
4x6 templates - Paislee Press and Persnickety Prints freebie

Supplies:

Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Stitching - Three(x4) stitched frames by Amy Martin
Tab - Tabby Dates by Amy Martin
4x6 templates by Paislee Press
Patterned paper - oh dearie by Paislee Press

As usual, all supplies (except the Persnickety Prints templates) are found at The Lilypad!

I was on a roll...

... last week.  Not so much this one!  I'm posting a bunch of Bearski book pages.  I could pretend that I did some last week and some this week.  But in reality, I did them all last week and I've done nothing so far this week!  

To make it simpler... all products are from The Lilypad... they all use Amy Martin's Project Grids and all have One Little Bird's Pagekraft paper as the background.  I'll list the individual stuff with the pages.

 Journaling card - Winter Frost by Amy Jaz Designs

 Awesome word art - Dear Diary by Little Butterfly Wings

Striped paper - oh dearie by Paislee Press

 Paper - oh dearie by Paislee Press

arrow card - Hello Lucky by Amy Jaz Designs

 Journal card - Hello Lucky by Amy Jaz Designs

Papers:

oh dearie by Paislee Press &

how it began by One Little Bird

today was good card - Dear Diary by Little Butterfly Wings

Project Life: Week 9

Another week done!  So very thankful we live in the digital age this week!  :-)  Alex got chosen to attend a big event last week and I knew it was pointless to send him with a camera (I've done it before and it always comes back unused).  But I really wanted photos to add to my project life pages!!  I was able to find event photos on the newspaper website and one of the CQ staff members who went with the kids, emailed me all of her photos of Alex!  I had taken all kinds of boring, just in case I don't get anything else to document this, photos (his permission slip, him in his t-shirt once he got home, etc.), but thankfully I didn't have to use those!

 Supplies:
Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Arrow Card - Hello Lucky by Amy Jaz Designs
Title Card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs
Background paper on title - oh dearie by Paislee Press
4x6 templates - Paislee Press

Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Grey striped paper - Winter Frost by Amy Jaz Designs
Remember card - Hello Lucky cards by Amy Jaz Designs
orange chevron paper - Made for Each Other a Lilypad Collab
4x6 templates by Paislee Press and Persnickety Prints

All available at The Lilypad (except the Persnickety Prints templates)

two more...

... Bearski book pages.

Simple, simple, simple... but they get the job done!

Supplies:

Project Grids by Amy Martin

Pagekraft Paper by One Little Bird

Journaling Card from Everyday Essentials by Amy Jaz Designs

Word Art from Dear Diary by Little Butterfly Wings

All available at The Lilypad.

Now that I'm kind of on a roll with this, it's just like slipping photos into an album!  Yes, I could do more with it, but right now, getting it done and printed is my highest priority!  :-)

I lied...

... I'm back to project life style pages for my Bearski book.  In the end, I decided that I preferred the consistent look with using Amy Martin's Project Grids set vs. mixing and matching various templates.  Plus, when it really came down to it, this fits my current style more and the pages came together much more quickly.  And this is a project I want to keep moving on.  I have a ton of photos of this year at Bearski and I would really like to have the book done before summer.

So... here is my second take at this set of photos...

Supplies:

Project Grids by Amy Martin

Pagekraft papers by One Little Bird

Arrow and Snowflake from Star On Top by Amy Martin and One Little Bird

Dotted paper from Crazy for You by One Little Bird

Journaling Cards - Chevrombre by Amy Martin

All available at The Lilypad.

okay...

Good news/bad news in regards to my blog and projects.

Bad news first... I made my last Bearski book pages without consulting my blog and after flattening and uploading those photos, I realized that I had the events mixed up and the pages labeled wrong.  Currently debating on whether to change them or just run with our rewritten history :-)

Good news now... when I went to edit my next batch of photos for posting, I discovered that I had already edited them!!  All I had to do was save them for the web!  So, here are our MLK day weekend photos...

Jeff and the kids getting ready to go ski...

 Clara relaxing after skiing...

The obnoxious bug-eyed chihuahua (who is currently hiding under my bed because it's sleeting out)...

A new thing they added at Crystal Mountain this year is laser tag.  The kids really wanted to check it out...

Jeff and I didn't sign up to play (we had massages scheduled at the spa), but thankfully there were other people signed up to play...

This photo cracks me up, Clara taking out Alex...

They really had a lot of fun and wanted to do it again when we were back over Presidents' Day weekend... but unfortunately the times didn't work out for us. 

Project Life: Week 8

It's funny how the weeks that I think we've got nothing going on, end up being the weeks with the most photos!  I was worried though... it was already a short week (due to me including Sunday in last week's weekend layout) and Clara starting the week with strep so we were tied to the house a bit.  But once I start taking random photos with my phone, it's hard to stop.  On the second page, our lunch at Pei Wei was nothing special as far as an event... but the kids think those touch screen soda machines are so cool that I snapped a quick pic.  I figure one day, we'll look back on that and laugh about how "space age" we thought those were.  My only regret this week was not getting out my big camera (yet again), but I've already taken some "big camera" pictures for this week's pages already.  Maybe it's an every other week sort of thing :-)

Supplies:

Template - Amy Jaz Designs
Papers - Made for Each Other a LilyPad Collab
"Gift" Card - Sunshine, blue sky & happy days by Little Butterfly Wings

Title Card - Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs

"Sunshine and Rainbows" Card - Color Me Happy Journal Pack by Amy Jaz Designs
Arrow Brush - Everyday Essentials Doodad Stamps by Amy Jaz Designs
Journal Card - 4x6 Chevrombre by Amy Martin
4x6 Templates - Paislee Press

All available at The LilyPad.

progress...

... on my 2012 Bearski book.

Clara was home sick (strep... ugh) almost this whole week, so I had a lot of scrapping time as I was tied to the house.  The first couple here have been done for a while, just had to save them for the web.  The second two page spread has been finished since last week, but I just didn't love it.   Still don't... but I have decided that I can't love them all and done is better than not done :-)  Finally, with the last set, I decided what I didn't love about the middle set... I didn't like being tied to the project life style templates for this entire book.  I'm already using them every week with my PL pages, I just needed to mix things up a bit.  I found a good set of multi-photo templates by Amy Martin and downloaded them.  I really wanted to embellish the last two pages a bit more, but I decided to hold back.  It already looks so different from the first few sets of pages, that I didn't want to go too overboard.   As I keep using these templates, I'll embellish a little more... just wanted to ease into it a bit.

 Supplies:

Project Grids:  The Templates by Amy Martin

First page journaling cards and elements - Winter Frost Collection by Amy Jaz Designs

Last page papers and elements - Star on Top Collab kit by Amy Martin and One Little Bird

All found at The Lilypad.

 

 Supplies:

Lots of 'em templates by Amy Martin

Paper and most elements - Star on Top Collab kit by Amy Martin and One Little Bird

Heart - Dotted:  Love Edition (recolored) by Emily Merritt

Banner - banner'd by Amy Martin

All available at The Lilypad.

last day of Christmas break...

I am determined to get caught up with my photos!  I'm doing a good job with PL, but I am way behind on my regular photo posts.  My main motivation for trying to keep up is, that if I am caught up, it means that my photos are edited and ready to go when I do get the chance to sit down and work on the pages for the more detailed albums I have in progress.  I'm still working on photos from a year ago for my 2012 Bearski album... but what's keeping that project moving at all is the fact that my photos are already processed and ready to go.

So, here are the photos from our last day at Bearski for Christmas break....

 

Can you tell which child likes to have their photo taken and which child just wanted to get inside and have hot cocoa?  :-)

And finally, one of Jeff loading up the car...

I'm so sad that we're done with our trips to Bearski for this ski season!  They got another 2+ feet of snow since we left on Sunday.  Oh well...

Project Life: Week 7

Another week done!  I think one of the major keys to me keeping up with this is being flexible with the whole project.  This week is different than any other I've done so far.  We went to Bearski again this past weekend and were joined by my brother-in-law and his family.  I knew I would take a ton of pics that I would want to use in PL.  So, in order to accommodate this, I made two 2-page spreads.  The first two pages are pretty typical... except, that I only did Sun-Thurs.  I was grasping a little for photos, so that's why there's an overabundance of Paczki Day and Valentine's Day photos.

The next two page spread is of just the weekend.  It actually encompasses Fri-Sun (which means the next week's time frame will be another short one of just Mon-Sat).

Even with giving the weekend it's own two page spread, I still had a hard time narrowing down the photos.  I used so many that I didn't have room for the journaling that I wanted to do.  Oh well... maybe that will go into my annual Bearski book instead.

Supplies:

 

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Template:  Amy Jaz Designs

Title Card:  Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs

Journaling Cards:  Color Me Happy by Amy Jaz Designs

Patterned Paper and All Other Elements:  Made For Each Other a LilyPad Collab

Template:  Amy Jaz Designs

Title Card:  Titled Templates by Amy Jaz Designs

Chevron Paper:  Star On Top by Amy Martin and One Little Bird

Filler Card, Patterned Paper and All Other Elements:  Made For Each Other a LilyPad Collab

All found at The LilyPad

Happy Valentine's Day...

For the first time in several years, I got to do a photo valentine for Clara!  She knew exactly what she wanted this year and we had fun with it!  Alex, on the other hand, is a junior high aged boy... so valentines weren't even on his radar.

grey skies...

The next day after my last batch of Christmas Break photos (I've lost track of what day that was) it was a very grey day.  Clara wanted to get up and on the slopes when they opened to practice her snowboarding... Alex (aka the slug) wanted to stay home.

 A little warm up in Totem Park...

 And then time for the real deal...

She didn't last long without her brother there to keep her company, but she got in some good runs that morning!