2014 Blog Plans

I have something exciting happening on my blog in 2014!

Each week, I will have a prompt for your Project Life spread. You are welcome to use the prompt to complete a layout and then share a link to your project in the comment section. The deadline to enter will be at the end of the month and then I will choose a few winners to send some scrappy goodies to. You can create a new layout or submit a page you've already completed that fulfills the prompt. My main goal is to share ideas and help people when they get stuck in a rut.

I wish you all a happy, healthy new year!

Quick Links 12/29

Here are a few more links to some goodies for PL inspiration! Just click the photo to check out the sites.

Hello Forever Project Life Journal/Planner pages Freebie

I just love Marcy Penner's Hello Forever shop- she has some great printables on there! These are her signature Project Life Journal/Planner pages...for FREE! Many scrappers have these printed and bound at their local office supply store.

Page Lifter by Elise Blaha Cripe

If you watched Becky Higgins on Creative Life, you know now how important that little plastic piece in the binder is. It's called a page lifter and makes sure that your page protectors lay flat when you close your album. I love how Elise Blaha Cripe covered it and made it part of her album.

Becky Higgins' Freebies: Jade Album Label

Check out Becky Higgins' Freebies page on her new blog! There are some great holiday card templates, PDFs for the different page designs, album labels for the spines of your album, printable quote cards and wallpapers for your phone or tablet. So fun!

New Year's Printables List from Lil' Luna

Lil' Luna has a collection of free printables for New Year's that would be great for Project Life inspiration or just for fun on Dec. 31.

Quick Links 12/22

Here are some fun things I think you might enjoy to use in your PL layouts or for inspiration. Just click on the photos to visit the link!



Make a Tiny Origami Santa from How About Orange

Aren't these little guys adorable?! I think they would be super cute to add on a gift tag you made from the Holiday mini kit or Merry and Bright. Or even in your layout about when your kiddo visited Santa or with your Christmas Eve journaling card.


Write.Click.Scrapbook has Amy's Christmas Questionnaire for Kids

Amy wrote a post sharing some questions she asked her son about Christmas. When you visit the blog, click the photo to see the questions larger or download the PDF she included. I think this would be a fun way to include your child's handwriting in some filler cards for December pages, December Daily, or an insert celebrating the holiday.



30 Handmade Days- New Year's Printable

Speaking of questionnaires, Mique from 30 Handmade Days is blogging about her fantastic New Year's Resolutions printable for kids. I think this would make a great insert for the first pages of your 2014 PL album.



Two Peas in a Bucket Weekly Project Life Videos

If you are looking for some inspiration for your 2014 PL layouts or just need some background noise while you're catching up with 2013, I would definitely recommend Two Peas in a Bucket's weekly Project Life video series. I might do a PL video marathon this weekend since I'll be finishing up 2013 and creating my title page for 2014.

I wish you all happy holidays and a prosperous new year! I hope to share more with you in 2014!

Scrapping Wrapping

Hey all! I am working on updating my December Daily but in the meantime I've been wrapping some Christmas gifts! I was super inspired by this project by Marcy Penner in the Studio Calico gallery. I pulled together a bucket of supplies and got to work.

Here are the gifts I wrapped...aren't they pretty? And they are SO easy!

I used turquoise tissue paper and wrapped silver cord around it. I added the sparkly snowflake tag, some turquoise gems, and a large gray tag. The cord, snowflake tag and gems were all from Target. Seriously- they have some AWESOME embellishments in the gift wrap department at Target this year.

This one uses kraft wrapping paper, red cord from Target (comes with the silver from above), a plain off-white tag, some washi tape, and a glittery star tag (from last year at Target). There is a "to" and "from" on the back of the star.

This one has kraft paper with red raffia (from Target of course! Comes on a roll with pink, green, and red), wood veneer star from Studio Calico, a silver "A" from the dollar bins at Target, and silver polka-dotted washi from Michaels all on an off-white tag.

Love this one! I have a baby shower coming up and was so excited to embellish the gift. This box is from the regular gift wrap aisle at Target. There is twine from the holiday gift wrap area at Target, a small yellow-striped bag (from Studio Calico- I stapled just the front of it to the orange tag so it could hold the gift receipt in it), a large orange tag, a small off-white tag, various sequins from Studio Calico, a silver "B" for baby (from the dollar bin at Target), and a paper clip bow from Studio Calico.

Just think of all the cute stuff you have leftover from Project Life that you could use to embellish!

How cute would any of these look with a tag on top? Or that "B" card for a baby gift?

 

How about that "Future" card for a graduation gift?

 

 

What about that adorable "Love" card or those polka dots from Jade?

(I'm biased- this is my favorite kit so far!)

 

Love that "You" card with the heart...and that black and white woodgrain is one of my favorite cards ever! Any of the cards in this kit would be great for a background underneath a shipping tag.

 

What about the black or red "I Love" cards from Sunshine? Or that orange or light blue "Today" card? And that confetti card would be great for a background! Love that one!

 

The possibilities are endless...and beautiful!

December Daily: Title Page and Day 1

Happy December!
I finished up my title page and the page for Day 1 today. Since I print at home, I can share my progress with you. :)

 

I put the "December" wood veneer an "2013" flair badge from Studio Calico in the first pocket. I used the transparent snowflake paper with a black and white polka-dot background behind it. The bottom 4x6 pocket includes pieces from the Finnley Whatnots by Glitz. Nothing is permanently stuck down except the "December" pocket items since I'm not in love with it. I am hoping that the bottom 4x6 can have a photo of my family from this season in a 3x4 or 4x6.

 



I used a Tim Holtz label sticker on some Finnley paper with stickers from Glitz. I also have a tiny wood veneer heart from Studio Calico. Today we began December with a family tradition- meat pies. We make pies with pork and onions and then freeze most of them to eat Christmas morning. We learned today that this is a French-Canadian tradition from my husband's grandmother's side of the family. This year we made 16 full-sized pies!