Well, today is the day! I officially started Project Life!!! Since I'm stuck in bed upstairs with an immobilizer brace on my knee, I made my husband go take the photo I wanted for the start of my album. I've decided that on the first of the month, I'm going to take a picture of my house. Then, I can see how the house changes during the course of the year. I saw another idea on Two Peas that someone took a picture of their odometer so they could see how far they drove their car in 2012. I like that idea too. I may do that tomorrow. I haven't driven yet since I dislocated my knee and I need to try to drive before I go back to work on Tuesday. I have a Micheal's gift card that I might go spend so that will give me a chance to take the photo and to drive.
I'm excited that I already have my photo printed and in the binder and my journaling card done. I'm crossing my fingers that it keeps going this well!!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
New Year's Resolution
Well, I'm trying blogging again. It's been over a year. A lot has happened. And I think I need to make sure I'm being a creative person so I can be a happy person. I've found that when I devote myself solely to the day to day things around the house and around my job that I'm not a happy person. When I'm not a happy person, my depression grows worse and I withdraw from everything. This year, I'm going to work on being different.
I've heard a lot of talking about a class at Big Picture Classes called One Little Word by Ali Edwards. I've been following her blog and just love it. I'd love to take the class too but the price is a little too much for me considering some things that have just happened. But, I have picked a word for me to think about and work with in 2012. My one little word is Focus. I want to focus on my family. I want to focus on my house. I want to focus on things that make me happy. I really want to focus on scrapbooking because that allows me to let out my creativity and really makes me happy.
Tomorrow is January 1, 2012. I want to focus on updating my blog at least twice a week. I'm going to be working on a challenge a week from the book 52 More Scrapbooking Challenges by Elizabeth Kartchner. I think I'll try doing one a week and hopefully inspire some of my readers to try the challenge too.
I'm also, at the end of the week, going to post my Project Life for that week. This is the first year I'm doing Project Life by Becky Higgins. I saw it talked about a lot last year and thought it would be too overwhelming. This year, I feel like I'm in a better place for it. I've bought the Amber Core Kit, Amber Binder, dividers, and a big pack of style A page protectors. I'm really excited about it. I purchased a photo printer a while ago in the hopes of being able to do this project and help keep up with it. I really like the quality of the photos from my iPhone 4S so I think that will be my primary camera for this project.
Matt has been supportive of Project Life. I'm hoping he'll be able to add his thoughts and feelings too as well as getting Elizabeth (age 3) to fill in some of the cards with her artwork.
2012 is a year I want to focus on my creativity. I want to turn my house into a home. We moved in three years ago and still have a ton of boxes everywhere. I'm going to try to get some of those things sorted and put away or donated to someone who can really use them. I want my focus to be on happiness - for myself and for my family. Tomorrow, look for my first Project Life post and my first 52 Week Challenge post.
Hugs!!
Amy
I've heard a lot of talking about a class at Big Picture Classes called One Little Word by Ali Edwards. I've been following her blog and just love it. I'd love to take the class too but the price is a little too much for me considering some things that have just happened. But, I have picked a word for me to think about and work with in 2012. My one little word is Focus. I want to focus on my family. I want to focus on my house. I want to focus on things that make me happy. I really want to focus on scrapbooking because that allows me to let out my creativity and really makes me happy.
Tomorrow is January 1, 2012. I want to focus on updating my blog at least twice a week. I'm going to be working on a challenge a week from the book 52 More Scrapbooking Challenges by Elizabeth Kartchner. I think I'll try doing one a week and hopefully inspire some of my readers to try the challenge too.
I'm also, at the end of the week, going to post my Project Life for that week. This is the first year I'm doing Project Life by Becky Higgins. I saw it talked about a lot last year and thought it would be too overwhelming. This year, I feel like I'm in a better place for it. I've bought the Amber Core Kit, Amber Binder, dividers, and a big pack of style A page protectors. I'm really excited about it. I purchased a photo printer a while ago in the hopes of being able to do this project and help keep up with it. I really like the quality of the photos from my iPhone 4S so I think that will be my primary camera for this project.
Matt has been supportive of Project Life. I'm hoping he'll be able to add his thoughts and feelings too as well as getting Elizabeth (age 3) to fill in some of the cards with her artwork.
2012 is a year I want to focus on my creativity. I want to turn my house into a home. We moved in three years ago and still have a ton of boxes everywhere. I'm going to try to get some of those things sorted and put away or donated to someone who can really use them. I want my focus to be on happiness - for myself and for my family. Tomorrow, look for my first Project Life post and my first 52 Week Challenge post.
Hugs!!
Amy
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Pumpkin Time
In October, the family went out to Patterson Farms to their pumpkin patch. We had so much fun. We didn't just pick pumpkins, we got to visit the barn and see the animals, and we even got to see the piglets race! I came up with some ideas to use some embellishments that I already have. I just love when that works out.
Today, I wanted to share a page I did about picking the pumpkins. This page was full of firsts for me. I've used Tim Holtz Distress Inks before but never with grungeboard. I'd never even opened the packages I had. Wow! I've been missing out on a lot with that stuff! I love it. The combination of the ink with the grungeboard was an awesome effect. This is also the first time I used any paper by Echo Park. I love all their lines and have most of them, but haven't ever used a sheet. I need to get out of that "save it for a perfect layout" mindset that so many scrappers seem to have.
I also used Ranger Ink Glossy Accents for the first time on the grungeboard pumpkins. I snipped some of the extra grungeboard to use as stems and connected with the Glossy Accents. This is a close up of the pumpkins.
The orange, felt pumpkin border along the bottom was made by Queen & Co. I bought it at CKU Charlotte in Aug. It was a bit bright for the layout so I used a variety of distress inks to darken the edges a bit and then put on Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist to darken it overall. I like how it turned out.
Today, I wanted to share a page I did about picking the pumpkins. This page was full of firsts for me. I've used Tim Holtz Distress Inks before but never with grungeboard. I'd never even opened the packages I had. Wow! I've been missing out on a lot with that stuff! I love it. The combination of the ink with the grungeboard was an awesome effect. This is also the first time I used any paper by Echo Park. I love all their lines and have most of them, but haven't ever used a sheet. I need to get out of that "save it for a perfect layout" mindset that so many scrappers seem to have.
I also used Ranger Ink Glossy Accents for the first time on the grungeboard pumpkins. I snipped some of the extra grungeboard to use as stems and connected with the Glossy Accents. This is a close up of the pumpkins.
The orange, felt pumpkin border along the bottom was made by Queen & Co. I bought it at CKU Charlotte in Aug. It was a bit bright for the layout so I used a variety of distress inks to darken the edges a bit and then put on Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist to darken it overall. I like how it turned out.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Star, really far away.
Elizabeth has recently become excited about finding the moon at night. Tonight, she took my hand to go look for the moon. I took her on the deck and we sat down and looked at the moon.
I remembered going outside and looking at the stars on chilly night with my Dad. He taught me to find my first constellations. Orion is still my favorite because I could always identify it.
It was a cloudy tonight but, through the breaks in the clouds, we could see one star peeking through. I pointed it out to Elizabeth and told her what it was and that it was really far away. I gave her a big hug and told her too that one day I'd tell her all about the pictures in the sky just like Grandad taught Mommy. When we got too chilly we came in. As I locked the door to the deck, she ran over to Daddy to tell him about the moon and star and how the star was really far away.
My heart smiled tonight. :)
I remembered going outside and looking at the stars on chilly night with my Dad. He taught me to find my first constellations. Orion is still my favorite because I could always identify it.
It was a cloudy tonight but, through the breaks in the clouds, we could see one star peeking through. I pointed it out to Elizabeth and told her what it was and that it was really far away. I gave her a big hug and told her too that one day I'd tell her all about the pictures in the sky just like Grandad taught Mommy. When we got too chilly we came in. As I locked the door to the deck, she ran over to Daddy to tell him about the moon and star and how the star was really far away.
My heart smiled tonight. :)
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Santa!
Today, we took Elizabeth to see Santa. She didn't want to sit in his lap, but she didn't cry! That's a step in the right direction. All week, Matt has been showing her pictures of her visiting Santa and bunches of Santa movies. I can't wait to scrapbook these new pictures. Since she wouldn't sit in his lap, Santa read her a story! Then, we got to have cookies and milk and make a reindeer ornament with her hand as the antlers. Pictures are up on her website already.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Sketchy Thursdays
I'm trying to find my lost scrapping mojo. Each day, I go to various websites looking at forums or reading blogs. I see lots of wonderful scrapbook pages out there and wish I was doing that too. But every time I sit down, I'm not inspired. When I'm inspired, I can't sit down.
What to do about all this? I visited the Sketchy Thursdays blog. Each Thursday they post a great sketch to inspire you. I'm challenging myself to use these sketches. That will be at least one page that I get done each week. It's a start, right?
This is my entry for the November 4 challenge. I did it this weekend but waited to post it until almost the last mine. I'm good like that. :) I used paper and embellishments from the Basic Grey Wassail collection. The pictures are from Elizabeth's 18 month pictures so, even though it's her Christmas dress and a Christmas layout, they were taken in February 2010.
What to do about all this? I visited the Sketchy Thursdays blog. Each Thursday they post a great sketch to inspire you. I'm challenging myself to use these sketches. That will be at least one page that I get done each week. It's a start, right?
This is my entry for the November 4 challenge. I did it this weekend but waited to post it until almost the last mine. I'm good like that. :) I used paper and embellishments from the Basic Grey Wassail collection. The pictures are from Elizabeth's 18 month pictures so, even though it's her Christmas dress and a Christmas layout, they were taken in February 2010.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
My Love Affair with Basic Grey
It started many years ago. I secretly coveted some paper collections. This was in my early days of scrapbooking. I was a fresh college grad and most of my supplies came from WalMart. I couldn't dream on spending so much money on simply paper. But still, I loved Basic Grey. I didn't buy any, but just drooled over it online. As time went by, I expanded my horizons to a newly opened scrapbook store in my town and moved up to drooling in person. I bought a sheet here and there but couldn't bring myself to spend almost $20 at once on something that was simply fancy paper.
As happens with so many hobbies, life interferes and you drift away. My sister moved in with my husband and I temporarily, and I found out a few months later I was pregnant. My daughter is born (who is two now) and my sis moves out. We sell our house and move to an apartment waiting for our new house to be built. Time moves on.
Then, about a month before my daughter's first birthday, I start peeking at scrapbook.com and twopeasinabucket.com. There's nothing like thousands (I wish I was exaggerating) of baby photos to make a girl want to scrapbook again! And so, I began drooling over Basic Grey once again. This time though, I didn't see the $20 as a terribly huge sacrifice and I bought my first complete collection - Lemonade. I have to say, that is still one of my favorite collections. I adore it. Many of Elizabeth's first layouts were done with that collection.
After many discussions with my husband, we decided to do something that I've always wanted - give me a scrapbook room! The corner in his office was overflowing and I needed more space. As I moved into the spare bedroom, I went through many of the supplies I had kept from years ago, including scraps of paper. And one of them that I picked up made me smile. It was covered with elephants. My mom loves elephants and I bought that paper to scrapbook some photos I took of her opening an elephant gift I had purchased for her while on vacation at the beach. I looked at the bottom cutaway strip and smiled. It was from Basic Grey!
I went searching for more Basic Grey after that. I started buying some of the new lines that came out that I fell in love with. I also noticed a For Sale or Trade board on Two Peas. It was then that I crossed the line from merely drooling over paper to being in a full blown love affair. There were ladies there selling their old Basic Grey lines that they didn't want anymore. And they were selling them for half the price! I snatched up two, three, sometimes six different lines at once from sellers.
I began to realize how much I liked that company. Their style matched my own in many ways. I will admit, I'm not a fan of the recent stuff that has come out. Wander and Jovial just don't speak to me the way Lemonade and Oh! Baby Girl (the first line I ever drooled over and now own three sets of) do. So, I told myself that I don't have to buy everything. Far from it. However, as I buy the old lines, I stare at my growing collection excited to be creating again. I can't wait to take more photos of my daughter and put them on that luscious Basic Grey paper. In fact, I think she's waking up from her nap. Time to go to the pumpkin patch and get some of those photos.
Happy scrapping!
As happens with so many hobbies, life interferes and you drift away. My sister moved in with my husband and I temporarily, and I found out a few months later I was pregnant. My daughter is born (who is two now) and my sis moves out. We sell our house and move to an apartment waiting for our new house to be built. Time moves on.
Then, about a month before my daughter's first birthday, I start peeking at scrapbook.com and twopeasinabucket.com. There's nothing like thousands (I wish I was exaggerating) of baby photos to make a girl want to scrapbook again! And so, I began drooling over Basic Grey once again. This time though, I didn't see the $20 as a terribly huge sacrifice and I bought my first complete collection - Lemonade. I have to say, that is still one of my favorite collections. I adore it. Many of Elizabeth's first layouts were done with that collection.
After many discussions with my husband, we decided to do something that I've always wanted - give me a scrapbook room! The corner in his office was overflowing and I needed more space. As I moved into the spare bedroom, I went through many of the supplies I had kept from years ago, including scraps of paper. And one of them that I picked up made me smile. It was covered with elephants. My mom loves elephants and I bought that paper to scrapbook some photos I took of her opening an elephant gift I had purchased for her while on vacation at the beach. I looked at the bottom cutaway strip and smiled. It was from Basic Grey!
I went searching for more Basic Grey after that. I started buying some of the new lines that came out that I fell in love with. I also noticed a For Sale or Trade board on Two Peas. It was then that I crossed the line from merely drooling over paper to being in a full blown love affair. There were ladies there selling their old Basic Grey lines that they didn't want anymore. And they were selling them for half the price! I snatched up two, three, sometimes six different lines at once from sellers.
I began to realize how much I liked that company. Their style matched my own in many ways. I will admit, I'm not a fan of the recent stuff that has come out. Wander and Jovial just don't speak to me the way Lemonade and Oh! Baby Girl (the first line I ever drooled over and now own three sets of) do. So, I told myself that I don't have to buy everything. Far from it. However, as I buy the old lines, I stare at my growing collection excited to be creating again. I can't wait to take more photos of my daughter and put them on that luscious Basic Grey paper. In fact, I think she's waking up from her nap. Time to go to the pumpkin patch and get some of those photos.
Happy scrapping!
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