PROJECT LIFE - "Week 7"

Welcome to Project Life Tuesday!!!  Today I would like to share Week 7 with you (21-27 July 2012).  I installed the Hipstamatic App on my iPhone this week, so I was super snap happy and struggled to choose which pictures to include in PL this week :D


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Pictured myself updating my PL album ;-/

This is the day I installed the Hipstamatic app...

So many pictures, so little space!!!  (I didn't want to get into the habit of adding inserts for all my photos every week :D).

I embellished with a craft label and some washi tape....LOVE...

Yeah, I really photographed anything and everything :D

I took a screenshot of the weather for Dubai for the week.  I found this cute free printable of the iPhone on Pinterest.  You can click HERE for a link to my Pinterest Printables Board where you will find many free printables for Project Life :D.  The picture on the right is of my son and daughter (who had fallen asleep in his arms) during the opening ceremony of the Olympics...

I had intended on a Lazy Day today and ended up being VERY busy :D

It was time to color my hair, I have been a little lighter for a while and decided that it was time to go darker...(root maintenance!!).  Being summer here, I don't really wear makeup much for a little while, but this day seemed like a good day to go all out and try out my new eyeshadow purchased from M.A.C. :D

As always, I appreciate you taking the time to give my blog a read....You are AWESOME!!!

Happy Scrapping!!

Jo

Pretty Paper Studio Design Team

What an exciting day!!!  I have been asked to be a member of the Design Team over at Pretty Paper Studio.  We kick off the month with a new challenge, which is "One Stamp Set 3 Ways".  I really love the stamp set in this challenge which is Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Collection Stamp which is available  at the Pretty Paper Studio online store.

Here are some sneaks of the  layouts I made using the stamp set, three ways.  To see the full images, and those of the other talented ladies of Pretty Paper Studio DT, hop on over to Pretty Paper Studios Blog.

EDITED:  Here are the full layouts created for PPS

I am very proud to be working with such a fantastic team of creative ladies.  Hop on over to their blogs to see how the have used the Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Stamp Collection TREE WAYS :D

Donna Espiritu at My Scrapbook

Nielouphar Abdurahiman at Creating Memories

Shruti Menon at Suppak Art

Riri Mahadi at Messynoisyhouse

Please keep stopping in to see a month of amazing crafty experiences from Pretty Paper Studio and the Design Team.

Happy Scrapping!!

PROJECT LIFE - Journaling Cards

Hello fellow scrappers.

I have been having so much fun with my PL (Project Life).  I feel I have really found my groove, as it were, with PL this year.  Making mini layouts has been so much fun!!!

Today I would like to share some "Home-made" Project life journalling cards I made recently.  I spent a total of 15 minutes making them, using a alpha stamp set from SwissGirl Designs which I purchased from her Etsy Shop.  The SwissGirl Design stamps are one of the few acrylic stamps I have found that work amazingly well with Tim Holtz distress inks.  Some acrylic stamp sets don't take the ink that well and the image ends up being blotchy when stamped. It would appear that this particular set is no longer available, but please stop over on the site to see the other amazing stamp sets she has created.  There are a few which are FANTASTIC for PL :D.  I added my favorite go to item at the moment, Washi Tape and included some punched out doilies.

I co-ordinated the stamp color, Washi Tape and doily with each day and ended up with a week of rainbows :D

Happy Scrapping :D

SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT - Swim Gala Twenty12

Hello fellow scrappers!!!

I am very excited to share one of my recent layouts with you.  I have shared before that I am not a fan of sporting, school or Christmas layouts....For some reason I just don't get the results I am looking for when I scrap, so I either do the pages under extreme duress OR I just avoid them altogether.

After tackling the Gymnastics page of Amy, I thought I should give the photos from the Swimming Gala from 2011-2012 a bash.....

I kept it fairly simple, using paper from Paper Inklings, pieces of some chevron journaling cards, printed free with thanks to Findingnana (click for link), and other scraps found in my stash.  My dear little friend the owl is also in this layout....It's been WAY too long since including a wee owl in my layouts!!!

Thanks for stopping by...

Happy Scrapping!!!

Jo

PROJECT LIFE - "Week 6"

Welcome back to Project Life Tuesday!!!

This week I would like to share Week 6 with you (13-20 July 2012).  As is the norm with PL, this post is a little picture heavy...


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This is the picture of my husband, son and his dive instructor on the day my son got his Open Water One qualification.

I got given the tea as a gift from one of the children in our class last year.  A good friend of mine came over and I decided to give the loose tea a try....It was great!!

I took my daughter and her friend to Craft Camp.  They made stunning frames while I did some catching up on Project Life. 

This project was a LOOONG work in progress.  Sorting out, clearing out, selling furniture, painting, building new furniture from IKEA....and this was the end result of my son's "new" room...

PL journaling cards made while my daughter was at another session of Creative Camp and a picture of my children looking into the water at Festival Centre.

Yet another dentist visit.  I love the decor in the waiting room at the dentist.  I usually grab an opportunity to snap a shot of Dubai out the window from the 21st floor offices....Today I decided to snap our feet..  I used one of the instagram cameras I made recently using paper scraps.

This was not quite as long a process.  I had recently sorted out my daughters room, so when her new furniture came from IKEA and the room had been painted, it was a quick job to get everything in its right place....Both of the children's rooms sorted and looking great!!

I am pleased I got the time while my daughter was at Craft Camp to catch up on my PL Album.  (Not hugely behind, just a couple of weeks due to the home makeover I undertook).  At the time of writing this post, I am 100% up to date and eagerly look forward to Sunday's when I record the week just gone past!!!

Happy Scrapping!!

Jo

SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT - Proud

Welcome back!!!

Today I would like to share a page I did recently of my daughters Gymnastics Competition.  She competed last year and suffered a little stage fright and didn't complete her floor routine.  We were very nervous that we would have a repeat of last year, but she did us so proud, not only completing the floor routine, but also winning herself a SECOND PLACE!!

There are 3 types of layouts I really, really, really do not look forward to doing.  They are, SCHOOL, SPORTS and CHRISTMAS.... They just never turn out the way I imagine and just end up looking....well......UGH!!

Knowing full well I have to document this momentous occasion, I set about doing some research and reached for the trusty GOOGLE search....and my fears were just enforced as I struggled to find a nice layout for gymnastics.  So I did what I do best, grab a cup of coffee and sit with my thoughts...I then hopped on to the Silhouette site and searched for "gymnast".  I found a couple of things but was truly taken by this silhouette of the gymnast presenting....I had a EUREKA moment!!!

The page pretty much came together quite quickly with a bits of punched out paper, tags, folded silk flowers and a flair button from Findingnana....Shew!!!  I was saved some heartache and headaches!!!

Thanks for stopping by.  Come back on Tuesday where I will be sharing Week 6 of my Project Life Album.

Be Crafty (the creative kind, not the mean kind)!!

Jo

PROJECT LIFE - "Week 5"

Hello!!!  Welcome back to Project Life Tuesday.  If you are here for the first time and wish to see older posts on my PL album, please visit my PROJECT LIFE page HERE.

I would like to share "Week 5" with you today.  As you may know, my PL album runs on an academic year, i.e. JUNE - MAY.  I am currently on my second year of PL and recently ended up being FIVE MONTHS behind on last years album.  You can read about how I went about catching up HERE.  I drew a lot of inspiration from this post by Michelle Wooderson from MishMash.  You can see her post on the same subject HERE.

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This was a photo heavy day so I made a flap insert to accommodate all the photographs.  This is as it is in the album.

And this is it with the flap open.

I photographed the packed lunch I made for my husband and son who went off SCUBA diving.  My son was in the process of doing his Open Water 1 Certification (which he has subsequently achieved).  I also had to document a little bit of yummy...Peanut Butter Cups....LOVE.

This sweet little precious girl belongs to good friends of ours.  She was a grand total of 3 days old in this photo.  I am no longer broody, but OH MY GOSH!!!  I just want to hug her and squeeze her and kiss her to bits!!!

It has been reported that Dubai has had one of the sandiest years in many, many years.  We have been plagued with sand storms...which other than being sand blasted each time you leave the house and EVERYTHING being covered in sand, is not such a biggie....BUT when the raging winds shred the gazebo cover....NOT......SO.....HAPPY.....

I loved this mini page.  It was simple yet just right for documenting my daughters day.  We went to craft camp in the morning, and later on that evening, she lost her tooth.  Just a usual day, BUT, the fact that we were getting the inside of the house painted the next morning, and were in the process of moving all the furniture away from the walls, and in the midst of the madness, Amy proudly brought us her tooth....Fortunately the tooth fairy found her tooth in the chaos...we were worried for a little while that she wouldn't find it :D:D

Be sure to pop over again on Saturday where I will be sharing a Scrapbook Layout featuring my daughter and her recent Gymnastics Competition :D

Happy Scrapping!!  

Jo