Project Life - Week 44

Welcome to Project Life 2012! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay a while. I'm Jessica, wife to Juan, mommy to new baby Maddie. I am also an electrical engineer by day and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.


I am using the digital Cobalt kit, find it at http://www.beckyhiggins.com/blog/2011/10/new-product-has-arrived/ This digital version uses Shutterfly and is SUPER easy to use! See my completed pages for 2012 at http://scraplifterdesigns.blogspot.com/p/project-life-layouts.html

And finally, my POTW (pictures of the week):

Sunday - Juan used my cricut and cut out a ton of bats and spiders.  The bats have been hanging out in our entryway for a couple of weeks, but today he moved them to the fronch porch and added the bats. Maddie loves them and blows on them to make them move.

Monday - Maddie in her EWOK hat. Juan bought her this last year and she is just now fitting into it. She thinks it's funny when Daddy wears it, so she will let us put it on her once in a while.



Wednesday - Nana came over to visit and see Maddie in her costume before heading off to my sisters to trick-or-treat with her kids. Maddie enjoyed reading books with Nana before costume time. Maddie didn't mind her costume at all. In fact, she even kept the hood on for most of the evening. We went out at about 6pm and let Maddie play in the front and hand out candy until about 7:30pm. We didn't have nearly as many trick-or-treaters as we had hoped, probably only 50 or so and only 10 or so while Maddie was still awake. She did love playing with her pot and spoons.

Thursday - Today Maddie still wanted to play with her pot and spoons. She kept crawling in the pot and then trying to put the lid on her head. Juan videoed her complete climbing into the pot and shoving her legs donw into it, but then realized he hadn't turned it on.

Friday - Nana taught Maddie what stickers are. This is the first time she is "playing stickers" which entails sticking stickers on a piece of paper. She was having a ball, but so serious about it.

Saturday - Mom and I took Maddie to Canton for First Monday. We didn't leave until almost 10am so we hit lots of traffic. We only stayed a couple of hours and Maddie was exhausted, but enjoyed being outside and seeing everything.

Thanks for visiting!

Project Life - Week 43

Welcome to Project Life 2012! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay a while. I'm Jessica, wife to Juan, mommy to new baby Maddie. I am also an electrical engineer by day and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.

I am using the digital Cobalt kit, find it at http://www.beckyhiggins.com/blog/2011/10/new-product-has-arrived/ This digital version uses Shutterfly and is SUPER easy to use! See my completed pages for 2012 at http://scraplifterdesigns.blogspot.com/p/project-life-layouts.html

And finally, my POTW (pictures of the week):

Sunday - Maddie loves the outdoors and is never too happy when Daddy is outside without her. Today she allowed him to be outside, but only because he was playinig with her through the screen. She loves giving kisses and a silly window doesn't stop her.

Monday - We were headed to Nana's when a beautiful full rainbow appeared over the highway. It was full from one end to the other.

Tuesday - The greenscape across the street from our house is beautiful right now. Maddie loves to watch the trees and birds from her window.

Wednesday - Maddie has figured out how to climb onto the window sill. Today she got all the way up and then started hollaring for us as she was scare to get down. She has no fear of getting down from our 3' tall bed, but the 6" window ledge is apparently terrifying.

Thursday - We had Maddie's pictures taken in her halloween costume. She was an adorable little lobster and had a ball playing with the pot and the wooden spoons. I couldn't believe that she didn't event try to take off the hood.

Friday - Today Juan brought Maddie to ccrd in her Halloween costume to be my prop (lobster in a pot) to my chef's outfit for our Halloween parade. She was terrified of "Cousin It" and cried everytime she saw her; but she LOVED the huge sock monkey and immediately tried to crawl into his lap.

 

Saturday - It was a gorgeous day to let Maddie play at the Arboretum. We put her in jeans, sat her in the middle of the pumpkins and let her lose! She LOVED it! She climbed the pumpkins, picked up the pumpkins, and tried to eat the pumpkins. She would have stayed all day if we had let her. She is such a little explorer. She cried when we picked her up to leave. Aunt Miri came with us. It was a fabulous fall day in Dallas to be outside.

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Beach Baby - Challenge Layout

Happy Sunday my scrappy friends!  Didn't get a whole lot done last night, but I managed to finish another layout this morning. This is me and my baby in the ocean in Aruba. I have to give credit to my bestie, Shannon. She came up with most of little extra ideas for this one. I didn't even use a sketch, a first for me in almost a year!

I did play along with Yummy Scrap Colour Palette Challenge #7 over at Scrap Friends.

These colors were perfect for our ocean playdate in Aruba! The pink and the red were just enough pop to help the bright colors of my pictures.

I also played along with Colorful Creations - Say it with Words challenge this month "FUN". The little title block was perfect for my layout!

Here are a couple of close-ups:

Material Used: paper - American Crafts Shorline & Bazzill; cricut cartridge - Opposites Attract; thread - DMC floss; brads - CTMH; arrows Basic Grey Fact & Fiction; letter stickers - Basic Grey Serendipity & Shine On; Woven labels - BG Fact & Fiction; card and pocket - Pebbles; phase cards - Pebbles; ticket - BG Fact & Fiction; punch - Stampin UP.

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Alta Vista Chapel - Challenge Layout

We've been scrappin up a storm....and watching the K-state vs. Baylor game. Go Cats! I finished another Aruba layout, only 100 more to go; LOL. This is the little chapel we visited on our bus tour, built in 1952.

I used Let's Scrap sketch 3-10-11:

I also played along with this months Scrap Your Stash challenge - tear paper.  I used a 6" stack from Authentique and tore each edge.  Then I tore the cream background paper and inked everything. The cross was cut on my cricut with the Wedding cartridge and stamped the journaling block with a CTMH stamp.

Finally, I played along with this months Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #60 - "Anything but a card with Ribbon." I wasn't planning on using ribbon, but when I saw this challenge I thought it would be the perfect addition to ground my group of photos.

Here are a couple of close ups:

Materials used: paper - Authentique; Bazzill; thickers - Dear Lizzy+American Crafts; stamp - CTMH; ink - CTMH; stick pins - jillibean soup and unknown; ribbon - unknown.

Hope you are having a scrappy weekend! It's beautiful here.

Our Summer Vacation - New Layout

Happy Friday!  My bestie, Shannon is here to visit! We spent the day with DD playing and shopping at the LSH.  Now baby is in bed and we are cropping away. I finished this layout that I have been glaring at for over a week. Sometimes they just don't come together easily for me. Another Aruba layout. I can't wait to be done with this album, LOL!

I used Let's Scrap sketch 9-5-12:

I also played along with Bird is the Word challenge: use the word Spring/Summer/Winter/Fall somewhere on your layout. I used "Summer" in the title.

Here are a couple of close-up pictures:

Materials Used: Paper - Stamping Station; die-cuts - Me&MyBigIdeas and Stamping Station; raffia - unknown; arrow - Scenic Route; Stickers - Creative Imaginations; thickers - American Crafts; tidbits - October Afternoon; and rick rack - Wrights.

Thanks for visiting! Hope I will be posting another layout soon.

The World is Your Oyster - New Challenge Layout

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you had a scrappy weekend. We didn't do much, but I didn't seem to get much scrapping done either. Sort of a lazy weekend I guess. I did play around this afternoon in my scraproom and completed this layout.

It is another layout of Maddie on the beach in Aruba. I just love this picture of her looking out over the water.  I played along with Sketches with a Twist.  Their November challenge was to use the following sketch and a rubber stamp.  Here is the sketch, which I used for the right side of my layout:

I used two large stamps that I've had for ages. The starfish and the seashell. I used Making memories paint to stamp the images. I also used CTMH alpha stamps for the "the, is, and your" on the title.

For the left side I used the Once Upon a Sketch for November and rotated the photo.  I'm not so great at layering, a multitude of paper seashells and metal on top of burlap on top of painted stamps on pattern paper.  I overlapped the title over the photo and used burlap in lieu of honeycomb.  Here is the sketch:

Finally, I played along with Colorful Creations November Recipe challenge.  The challenge was to use at least two of the following techniques together: Stitching, distressing, dry embossing, wet embossing, or layering. I used stitching and layering for my two techniques. For the stitching, I cut a heart out on my cricut and then used it as a template for my stitching.

Here are a few closeup pictures:

Materials used:  Paper - Colorbok; floss - Bazzill; burlap - unknown; seashells - deluxcuts.com; metal shells - unknown; stamps - CTMH Chocolate Alphabet Small; ink - CTMH black; Quickutz - Washington; Cricut cartridge - Art Philosophy; metal frames - Making Memories.

Thanks for visiting!



Our Family Moments - Challenge Layout

Happy Saturday! We left DD at Nana's last night to allow DH and I to go celebrate my birthday with a movie and dinner. We were still in bed by 9pm, so I was up bright and early at 5:30am for a bit of me scrappy time! I was able to finish this layout I've been working on for days.  It is another layout for our Aruba book.

I used a sketch from Let's Scrap and played along with their Scrap Your Stash Challenge #22.

The challenge was to use 2 patterned papers, 4 different colors of cardstock (I used white, navy, blue, and yellow),10 eyelets or brads (I used 21), 10 die cuts/stickers -

either from your stash or you can cut them with your machines (I used 6 quickutz letters, 6 quickutz pendants, 2 strip stickers, 3 dimensional letter stickers, a dimensional journaling sticker, 2 circle diecuts, 2 butterfly chipboard diecuts, and a swirl) and some inking on the layout (I stamped the "moments" title and inked the edge of the entire page).

I also played along with Scraping Everyday Miracles SEM's challenge #22 FAMILY TIES...meaning to create a project about your family.
The Scrap Twist: To go along with the "tie" theme..use some ribbon on your project.  Well I did better than that, I used the blue ribbon in my banner, the seashell ribbon in my banner, and even added the little brads with twine to represent "ties".

As you can see by my journaling, I tried to showcase my feeling for my family and the gratitude to which I feel for my blessings.

The banner was a new one for me. Oh I've used banners, but never with so much layering and textures. I went outside my comfort zone with this one to play along with the ScrapFit Step Class 10 challenge: to create a layered banner with at least 2 textures. I started with some old Magic mesh from my stash, added riboon, seashells, pendants cut with my quickutz, added alphas with distressed stickles, then layered chipboard, diecuts, dimentional stickers all on top.  Oh, and I added brads at each of the pendant tops and used pop dots on every other pendant to add depth. This was my first time joining in with a ScrapFit challenge and I really had fun with it!

Finally, I used the pendant and alpha diecuts to play along with The Studio November challenge - to use a diecut. 

It was more difficult to combine these challenges, but I found it made me think more about the layout before I started sticking everything down.

Materials used: paper - MME and scraps from my stash; quickutz - khaki alphabet and pendants; stickers - MME Stella Rose; layered stickers - MME Stella Rose; stickles - scattered straw; ribbon - unknown; brads - unknown; pop dots - Forever in Time; chipboard - CTMH & unknown; journaling tag - CTMH; ink - CTMH Goldrush; stamps - CTMH; bookplate - BasicGrey; brad ties - unknown.

I hope you like this LO and I hope you are inspired to join in with the challenges above!  Have a beautiful weekend!

Jessica

C'est Magnifique Bits & Pieces Giveaway

I have become a recent follower of the C'est Magnifique blog and even played along with a couple of their challenges. They have a monthly Bits & Pieces giveaway, this month it is from their November Kit, "Between Sunrise and Sunset".  Check out all the yummies!  Oh, but please don't win......I really want it!  LOL!

Basic Grey Sketch 10.29.12 Layout - Seeing Sunset

Happy news! I won a $10 gift certificate last week over at Basic Grey for my Sun Kissed layout, so I thought I would play along again this week.  I am a 2-page girl, so I extended the sketch and added a couple more photos. This layout is with the sunset pictures we took on our first night in Aruba. 

Here is this weeks sketch:

I used mainly Basic Grey product, with a bits and pieces of other.  The papers are all from their Hello Lucious line, except the water paper, which is from ScrapYourTrip.com and the blue strip (scrap left over from something long ago).  The brads are Glazed Brads from Basic Grey and the stickers are Basic Grey - Out of Print.

Here are a couple of detailed photos:

Materials used: paper - Basic Grey Hello Lucious, ScrapYourTrip and unknown; rub-ons - Making Memories; punch - StampItUp; cricut - Designer Calendar; title stickers - thickers & EKSuccess; starfish - Jolee's; stickers - Basic Grey Out of Print; ribbon - unknown.

Thanks for visiting!