On a roll...Weeks 16 - 20

Here are my most recent pages that I've completed. The best part was getting them all done in one day. I find that I work better when I let 4 or 5 weeks pile up so that I can't remember what happenned. NOT! It was hard because I didn't journal much for weeks 16, 17, & 18 so those weeks just got one page. I think its more simple that way, but I'm missing out on the details! So to my future self: use my PL journal (the super cute one I got on Etsy) and write a recap of every day. That way I've got more things to journal about! This was me at the start... should've taken a pic of it at the end! It was so clean LOL.

Also, I finally found an app for Windows 8 phone users that really helped me create the 3x4 sized photos. I made a collage with 2 photos on a 4x6. Super easy, I will share a step by step on how to do that in my next blog.

Week 16

Week 17 (excuse the blurry pic!)



Week 18 (using products from my first Gossamer Blue Life Pages kit!)



Week 19 (Gossamer Blue)





Week 20 (Gossamer Blue)
Lots of LO's for this week, my sister graduated college and my grandparents and I went on a road trip to get there! Tons of photos! I took all of these with my phone. I still have at least 2 more LO's for my sister's grad pictures, just waiting to get them from my Mom because we took some on the digital camera.

So that's all I've got for now! Happy scrapping! 

- the crafty love girl

week 15

Viola! Here is my week 15 LO. Enjoy!







- the crafty love girl

week 12 - 14

Definitely behind on sharing my layouts. So here's what I've got, hope you like it!





















TTFN!
The crafty love girl

Sharing week 11

Been a little busy lately, so i'm gonna cut to the chase! My pages for Week 11 are done! I figured out how to make collages in GIMP so that I could print multiple photos in a 4x6! This has really helped me include more memories on one page. I'm a little proud of myself...it was super easy! I found this blog very helpful!

I included the cute stamped envelope and note my Secret Sis wrote me and also a little card that came in the box from my new perfume Chloe :) And that Chicken Fried Steak was the BEST!

Embellishments from Freckled Fawn, washi from my Secret Sis, a few cards from Studio Calico.

I hope to get more PL done to share with you soon! I have gotten some goodies that I will share as soon as I get the photos taken. Goodnight blog world!

- the crafty love girl

Speedy read and my Secret Sis

Good morning yall! My goal was to get some Project Life done on my time off from work which I did, Yay! ...and also started and finished a book in 2 days which I have never done, ever!! Of course I've read books, just not like a speedy gonzales. It is the book based on the movie Divergent, written by Veronica Roth. It is a triology (I love trilogies!) and so I am very anxious to read the next two! I wasn't interested in the movie at all, I thought it was another 'Hunger Games type' but I loved the book! Highly recommend it, folks! And can't wait to see the movie now!!

I mentioned last time that I participate in a Secret Sister Swap on Facebook. It is so fun! We got paired up anonymously by the admins and they had us answer a questionnaire when we started to get an idea of what our SS's style is and what she likes. It is for a 3 month period with a minimum of $15 for each package. We will reveal ourselves the last month! It is really neat seeing my SS share her photos of the package I sent her on fb and seeing how excited she is! My SS did so good! I love everything, thank you SS!!  I promised pics of my first package from her, so here ya go!

I got week 9 and 10 done, still have to do 11 and 12. It has been a few weeks (almost a month!) since I sat down and really pumped out some pages so I felt a little slower starting out. My creative juices started flowing finally! Embellishments are from FF and a few from my Secret Sister! 

I love the pic of Ollie that I did. She was originally in the back of the truck with a maintenance van in the

back. I cut her out, added some stamps and viola!!

Love the navy thickers from Studio Calico's Office Hours kit this month!

So that is all I have for you this time, I'm going to crank out some more layouts before I go back to work tomorrow. Now go read Veronica Roth's Divergent!

Have a marvelous day!!

-the crafty love girl

Quick hello!

I feel like a blog post is overdue, and I just wanted to say hello since I haven't posted in awhile! Got back from Lubbock, went to Houston for a day, and now I am working my 7 on schedule right now. I am well spent after work so I don't think I'll be doing any actual PL on these days. I pretty much come home (or run errands after work...shopping for groceries at 7 am is SO nice!), go to sleep, wake up and try to become a person again (with the help of delicious coffee), walk the dog, get some fresh air, leave for work and do it all over again! I have continued to take photos, enjoy life, and journal so that way when I have my 7 off I can catch up! I have not yet done Week 9 thru Week 11 so those will be on my PL to do list!   By the way, I made a trip out to Ikea and got some things to keep organized! I also sent out my Secret Sister package (I am in a PL Secret Sisters Swap group) and received mine as well!! I will post photos later, gotta get back to the grind! But I can't write a blog post and not include photos, it feels naked, so here are some LOL!

This Week's Happy Mail!! YaY!!!

Freckled Fawn March Kit

Freckled Fawn super cute Sale Items

Studio Calico March PL kit

Love the art for the journal cards this month from SC!

My ever-so-slightly-small washi collection (which will be growing soon)

Happy PL-ing yall! I will be back by next week with some PL pages to share! 

(At least that is my goal for right now!)

- the crafty love girl

First seven off

Week 8 is done! I got them done over a week ago but I've been busy working on my new schedule (830pm - 7am) and adjusting to being home and work at different hours so I haven't been blogging much or Project Life-ing much....but that is also because I am caught up! Yay! On my new schedule I work 7 days on and then get 7 days off!! I will most definitely have more PL and blogging time on my days off from work....and time to make memories!

Products used:
Becky Higgins Love Theme Pack cards on page 1, Freckled Fawn - February Oh Deer Me kit embellishments on both pages and Studio Calico cards from either Jan or Feb (can't remember which) on page 2

I have already started with a bang! My grandma picked me up and we drove over 7 hours to come visit my sister in Lubbock. My mom flew in from CO and all the girls are together! My sister has a big event that she is doing for class and we came to support her. Its a mardi gras theme! I am planning on taking tons of photos! I am so happy to be with family and blessed that this event happenned to fall on my days off!

Have a great week!

- the crafty love girl

Oh Deer Me - February kit

Today I got my first kit as a new subscriber to Freckled Fawn's monthly Oh Deer Me embellishment kit. I am in love! Everything is so bright & colorful. This kit is very fun and I can't wait to use it in my future PL pages. 

The price is $30 a month plus shipping if you are a subscriber. Although it is a little more expensive compared to other monthly kits, I think it is a great deal. Lots of product. There is no way I could purchase these items individually and keep the total under $30. This kit is for people like myself, who love embellishments. There aren't any journal cards or paper included. That's ok for me because I have plenty of paper. I have a hard time finding embellishments that coordinate together, so this takes the hard part out of the equation. Now that I've gotten my kit, I can really see and feel the quality in the products. I don't mind paying a little higher for sturdy and unique items.

As the website states... every month you will get 3 staple Freckled Fawn products: 

1) a stamp set

2) a washi tape

3) and a wood chip set 

.....plus unique embellishments that can't be purchased anywhere else! Which could be items such as brads, alpha stickers, rub-ons, enamel dots, buttons, flair, paper flowers, stick pins, resin flowers, chipboard, twine, lace, crochet shapes, sticky pads, ribbon, foam stickers, cork shapes, resin shapes, cameos, metal flowers, epoxy brads, rhinestones, paper clips, button clips, pearl stickers, fabric brads, and much more.

Why should I subscribe? Hmm.. why shouldn't you?

You get a kit each month delivered to your doorstep filled with goodies! You get a $5.00 discount off each kit for being a subscriber! During subscriber shop hours you get 10% off add-on embellishments, and $1.99 flat rate shipping for those items. You can also buy extra-kit embellishments only available to subscribers, and get special discounts and offers!

If you'd rather just buy a certain month's kit, you can do that too. Individual kits will be listed for sale on the website on the 1st of each month at noon MST, they are $35 plus shipping.

The March sneak peak was revealed on Feb 20th. These are clues as to what is in the next month's kit!

If you want to be a subscriber click on the deer!

I will be sharing each month's kit contents with you, so make sure to come back and check it out! 

- the crafty love girl

Burlap alphas

Hey everyone! My Week 7 is finished, I made 3 pages for this week. I used a new page protector layout, Becky Higgins Design G for page 1 and 2 which are the 8.5 x 11 size pages. When I was shooting photos for my blog I got a few of Ollie! She was helping me out on set ;) To reduce glare from the page protectors, I have been taking the photos and cards out and setting them on the floor. I read this blog that said to use white poster board as a background when taking photos for your blog. So I tried that this week.

Other than my pages this week... I am very excited because I ordered the Big Shot from Sizzix! I have been eyeing it for over a year now and am super excited! I went to a friend's house to stamp Christmas cards and she had one and I was amazed at its embossing abilities! Now that I realize it can also cut, I had to have it! This will be so much fun and will probably get me on a card-making and stamping kick...grreatt!

Also, I joined a 2nd monthly kit club from a company called Freckled Fawn. Their kit is called OH DEER ME, (isn't that cute!). Their kits are solely embellishments, which is what I need most of the time. I haven't received the February kit yet even though I joined almost 2 weeks ago but tracking shows I'll get it tomorrow (which is today because it is 2:42 AM. I guess I'm still on that night shift time. I've been off for 3 days!)

All of the cards on page 1 are from the Maggie Holmes core kit except the "Live Out Loud" 3x4 card. The washi tape & bow are from Studio Calico.

Front:

back:

Design F 12x12:

So that is all! I've been busy learning new techniques for both my blog and project life and started using GIMP (a free software almost like photoshop). My freeze has melted...I haven't been good. The facebook PL groups are enablers!! Once I get my big shot I should be set, I'm gonna have 2 monthly kits to use and maybe some swaps... so my spending freeze is starting again, this time I'm going to try harder! (I was good for 2 weeks which is a long time in the scrapbooking addict's world!) Until next time!

-the crafty love girl

Lot of photos

I got Week 6 done! I wanted the focus to be on the memories in the photos, so I did less embellishments. The photos are from the surprise 70th birthday party we had for my grandma earlier this month. Lots of family and memories were documented! The cards are a mix from BH Project Life kits (Maggie Holmes, MH flea market, Blush, Jade) and a few cards from WRMK and Studio Calico.

New things I tried this week:
1) I used the Becky Higgins Design F page protectors for the last 2 pages.
(First page: Design A, Page 2 and 3: Design D)
2) I used stamps in my pages! I tried a few photopolymer clear stamps from SP & Company Stamps by Samantha Peyton which I received in a mystery box I ordered awhile back. Visit her store here!
3) On the 4th page I used a 4x6 portrait photo that was split into 4 - 3x4 card slots.

Enjoy!

- the crafty love girl