Project Life Scrapbooking Craze has got me

I have been trying to hold off in getting involved in Project Life Scrapbooking

I have been looking at blogs and web site for a few months, thinking I would love to do this but do I have the time, will I get bored half way through the year.

Well its the start of a new year so I thought, why not have ago and see how i get on. 

What is Project life

Its a record of all those daily things that we all do.

Its a no fuss approach to scrapbooking your weekly events.

I still love to spend time making my traditional scrapbooks and my digital scrapbooking .

where I plan my layouts around a photo that I want to scrap.

The aim of Project Life is to take the photos and record where it was, what you were feeling on your journalling tags.

To not spend hours creating a masterpiece but to get it down and recorded.

So at the end of the year you can look back at 2013

I have taken the pressure off a bit , by promising myself to take photos and do at least one page for each month.

I am hoping to do a weekly layout, but will be happy at the end of 2013 if I have covered something for each month.

I have decided to do digital pages then have them all printed into a 12x12 photobook this time next year.

I have been very good so far and managed a to do the first two weeks, and I have been snapping photos this week ready to add to my pages at the start on next week.

I will be doing random pages as you see below but also have some templates to do some Project life page protector styles.

I will be mixing these in the Album as I go along.

So wish me luck, come along and join me on my weekly journey.

I would also love to come see what your weeks bring if you too are doing a Project Life scrapbook for 2013.

Please leave a comment below so that I may come support you on your blogs throughout the year

 This is my title page.

this I might change or add more family photos to as the year goes by .

I just wanted to start with photos of the grandchildren

 Week one was not a good start.

 I had a week on the sick from work with a nasty winter flu bug.

The grandchildren had it over Christmas , I came down with it New years Eve morning so did not stay up to see in 2013, was tucked up in bed by 9pm

Week Two, 

Keaton is better as am I back to work this week.

Its Jeffs turn to be in the wars, He got himself bitten by a dog ,while at work, he spent hours a the hospital and had to have a tetanus injection and antibiotics

So off to a good start with my Project, lets hope I can keep it up

Pottery Snowman

I made this cute little fellow in pottery class.

Im really pleased how he turned out, was hoping to have him before we closed for Christmas Holidays but he had not been fired after painting.

He came home today and has been put away for next Christmas

love the look of him and have the idea of making one similar in red with a nice bushy white beard and presents instead of snowballs around the base

Our Christmas Tree

 We put the tree up last night, we are white and silver for this years colours

Close up

Mulberry Wood Christmas

 This is another Double step card, the toppers and papers are all Mulberry Woods from Crafter`s Companion

There is a free studio cut file for the base of this card and I have also added the fence to it , you can download it from

HERE

I also added lots of glitter to the image and used a Martha Stewart punch for the stopper

Thanks for looking

Double Step Fold Easel

This card was made for a Challenge over on our friends for life forum

I designed the card base and fence in design studio , I have the files free for you to download 

HERE

The little girl topper is from Crafter`s Companion Paintbox poppet CD

The flowers are all prima, with some glitter glue for the centres 

The punch is one of Martha Stewarts.
I am also entering it into some blog challenges, It been a long time since I have been able to have the time to craft and take part in blog challenges.
It feels great to be back and looking at everyone's blogs again 

Challenges entered  

Lady Anne`s Challenges - anything goes

Make it Monday- Anything goes

My Grafico - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - Anything goes

Challenges 4 everybody- Anything goes

Dream Valley- Anything goes

Glitter and sparkle- lots of layers

Squirrel and fox- Anything goes

Craft Punked - Anything goes

Inspire me Friday - Anything goes

Scrapbooking With Silhouette Cameo

I have been having fun following Kerri Bradford`s designing with the Silhouette Cameo Courses over at
Jessica Sprague
I thought I had mastered  my cameo and design studio , but still learnt a lot from doing these courses, you just follow along with the Video Tutorials at your own pace.
This last course was all about how to use colour in your designs

 Here are a few layouts that we worked on during this course.

My darling granddaughter Perrie was the subject that I used in my Photos

 Love the idea of cutting out the flowery background, it looks like a lace overlay

 This one is my Favourite I will be using this again, 

I love the pattern papers showing through the main page, a simple idea but stunning, lots of ideas for shapes to use doing this.

 This layout was our class homework to take what we have learnt, and Kerri teaches you how to make from scratch all the banners, tags etc that you have seen in these layouts and go design your own

For this layout I used a flower background that I had bought from the Silhouette online store.

I made the banners and took the colours from the oranges in the photo, also the tag on the photo and the sentiment were coloured to match colours in the main photo.

Really enjoyed doing this and will be using my Cameo to make more embellishments for future layouts .

if you are new to the Silhouette Cameo do check out these courses.

Jessica Sprague

They walk you through in baby steps everything you would want to know about designing in silhouette studio.

Kerri gives you a lot of freebies to play with also

Blue flight

 My mother in laws Birthday is tomorrow and here is the card that i have made for her.

It was all cut on my Silhouette Cameo, using a few files from the silhouette store and Birds designs ( A link to birds blog  is in my side bar), All the white card is Core-dinations , the blue was printed onto crafter`s companion light white card and the pattern is a download from pink petticoats, I used the for the mat and also to cut out my flowers.

To finish it all off I used some pale blue seam binding, punched two butterfly from my favourite Martha Stewart Punch, just could not do without this punch a must have in your collection

A close up of the sentiment , another of birds designs for the mat, the sentiment is from TLC ( link to blog in my side bar) sorry its a bit blurry , a new camera, still trying to get the hang of it, not very forgiving if you shake a little while snapping the photo

Sorrento Holiday

Just came back from a fabulous 10 days in Sorrento.

I have just uploaded some photobook layouts of holiday, click the link below

http://wendysscrappingdays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/sorrento-holiday.html

A Sample page more on my scrapbooking blog