Project Life | Weeks 28 & 29...

Hello Sassy Friends! Welcome back to Project Life Monday! It has been extremely busy around my place lately, as we enjoy the last few days of our school holidays!  And because it has been crazy-busy, I am using it as an excuse to confess that I am TEN weeks behind in my Project Life! Eeeek! But never mind.  I promise I will get there in the end.  Just like you, if you find yourself falling behind as well.

This week I am sharing Weeks 28 & 29.  I managed to condense both weeks into a single pocket page.  Not only will this endeavour to help me in my "catch-up" process, but it will help keep all my 2015 spreads in one album.

"PL2015 | Weeks 28 & 29"

I am continuing with using the lovely Crate Paper | Wonder and October Afternoon | Summertime collections, as found in the Sassy Scrapper store.

On page one, I have documented our week 28.  It was a quiet week at home with the kids returning to school I wasn't very motivated to take many photos.  I did however, document the incredibly rare weather event of snow in Queensland, with a few screen captures from social media.

I love the stickers from the Crate Paper | Wonder and thought that the house one was very appropriate for conveying our return to house and home. And even though the idea isn't recorded in the journaling, I always try to think outside the box when embellishing my pages. 

Journaling for the rest of the week was also very basic. I really wanted to contain my thoughts to a single 3x4 cardstock piece.  I've added the weekly title using October Afternoon alphas both here on page one and as a symmetrical feature on page two.

To help record the strangeness in weather between weeks 28 & 29 I deliberately placed a snow photo adjacent to a beach photo.  It was a very odd combination to experience! The arrows from the Crate Paper | Wonder stickers once again come to my rescue to help convey the difference between Week 28 and then Week 29!

Page two is dedicated completely to Week 29.

This week was photo heavy, but only due to two events. I wasn't too concerned however, as it balanced the lack of photos on page one! LOL!

The embellishment layers were kept simple but help draw the eye across the page, highlighting little details.

To mimic Week 28, my journaling for Week 29 was also contained to a single 3x4 cardstock piece. I did however, add a small border of patterned paper from the October Afternoon collection, to bring out the touches of yellow.

Finally, for a little dimension, I added the Heidi Swapp wood veneer directly to my 4x6 photo.

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope to be able to catch up very quickly in the coming weeks and that you will join me as I do so...x

Project Life | Week 27...

Happy Monday Sassy Friends! Welcome to another installment of Project Life! This week I am sharing my PL Week 27 using more glorious Crate Paper | Wonder and October Afternoon | Summertime Collection.

It is kind of ironic really, using Summer collections to help document my Winter spreads! But the colours work for me and I just went with the flow.

Week 27 was a school holiday week and we still had plenty to record.  Once more this PL spread is very photo heavy and I have combined several images into collage style pictures.

The photos I really wanted to highlight, are landscape shots.  Literally! LOL! The beautiful scenery where we were visiting deserves to be showcased and the Heidi Swapp wood veneer "hello" word does the trick.

This week's filler cards have been kept super simple.  A tag from the Crate Paper Wonder ephemera pack added directly to 3"x4" patterned paper.

I have replicated the wood veneer look from the Heidi Swapp word by adding a simple Studio Calico small wood veneer heart in the white space of a photo.  The geo cache symbol was created from a Coco Vanilla Studio | Made of Awesome letter 'Q'. I was basically using whatever I had in my stash.   

On page two I have played with colours to create a yellow visual triangle.

The weekly title pocket card has been created with plenty of white space to balance out the busyness of photo overload. The grey October Afternoon alphas are a soft colour touch to complement the yellows and blues.

The filler cards on page two have been trimmed from the Wonder Dream patterned paper and slipped directly into a 3x4 pocket.

The stickers on this spread have also come from the Wonder collection and are perfect for adding to/covering the messy spots in the back ground of my photos!

I hope you are all still creating your PL spreads as we get closer to the end of another year! I can't wait to start flipping through the pages of my album and feel accomplished while I do so! LOL!

Thanks for visiting today!

Project Life | Week 26...

 Have you ever had so many photos, you just don't know how you can possibly fit them all into your Project Life spread and keep it reasonably contained? Well, welcome to Project Life Monday | Photo Overload!!!  

This week I have had to include an extra two pocket pages just to keep up with our very busy PL2015 | Week 26. We were on school holidays and were making the most of our vacation time, visiting new places and catching up with family. It is because of this, this weekly spread has a multitude of photos; almost an overload. Almost! *grin*

In its simplest form, I have selected my favourite photos from the week and edited them to fit 4x6 photo collage sheets.  I created my own design of three, six or nine images, resizing them all to fit comfortably into a 4x6 pocket, without them being too small to miss the details.

  I've also categorised each image to correspond to it adjacent photo, allowing the images to create a photo story without the need for excessive journaling. Each photo pocket contains images that relate to a particular story I want to document. The filler cards have also been kept very simple.  Each filler card needed to have white space, even if there is busy patterned paper in the background, to create an area for the eye to rest on the spread. This week I have used October Afternoon Summertime collection and Crate Paper Wonder.    

On page two, I've used the same concept. Lots of photo collages and a few filler cards.

  You might notice the lack of journaling for Week 26.  My plan is not to forego it but rather type it up on the computer and print it out on a sheet of A4 cardstock. I will then add the journaling to its own individual pocket/sleeve and slip it in between the PL spreads.  As you can imagine, with this many photos, there are equal numbers of stories to share of our two week get away.  I will share details with you next week. Until then, thanks for visiting today.  

Project Life | Week 24...

Hello Everyone! I'm so pleased to be bringing you another instalment of PL2015 this Monday! Today I get to share my spread from Week 24, using the gorgeous new October Afternoon | Summertime Collection and a little bit of Crate Paper | Wonder.  

 

This week simply involved family time, sporting adventures, crazy hair and star gazing. Just your everyday, typical stuff! *grin* And that is precisely the beauty of playing along with Project Life.  You can create pages that are very menial in their everyday agenda, but still record these memories to be treasured because they are what they are.

 

One perfect example is the top left pocket on my first page.  It is a photo of a photo. But this particular photo is my youngest son's very first school portrait!  I love his forced grin and not so tidy hair! These school photos were taken back in March but it was during this week, the school kids got to bring them home. Nothing out of the ordinary, but a "first" was documented.

 

I love also that these uplifting colours from the October Afternoon collection can be the base for simple journaling. This sticker phrase from Crate Paper Wonder, was all I need to create this filler card.

 





 

The everyday ordinary is also recorded this week with a quick iPhone snap of the weather outside my car window. And all it took for me to remember which day it was, was to look up the date it was taken. Just another dreary Monday!  Team it up with this awesome little 3x4 card from Crate Paper | Wonder and my story comes into focus even more.

 

 

This week's title pocket card was put together using the reverse side of a Coco Vanilla Studio | Made of Awesome paper (from Week 23) and a cut apart from October Afternoon | Summertime Blue Skies. October Afternoon alphas were the perfect colour choice to record the week. A little bit of stitching and strategically placed ephemera helped to complete the card.

 

 

Journaling this week was mostly jot points, but where there was a story to share, I designated a singular pocket to it. To create interest, I layered a shaped journaling card onto a 3x4 piece of cardstock and trimmed the excess.  To bring colour to the pocket, I simply flicked a few splashes of Heidi Swapp Colorshine on top of the card, and stamped a phrase using HeroArts ombre ink.

 

 

On my second page, I documented something I shared on Facebook.

 

 

This trivia was something that would clearly interest my eldest son and when looking to the skies, it actually became an obvious feature to see! Unfortunately I couldn't get a good night time shot myself, so I took a screen shot of the information and the labelled planets.

 

 

The sticker globe felt like it was the appropriate embellishment to layer in the white space of the photo. A universal icon of planet Earth aligned with the other celestial bodies!

 

 

To finish off the spread, I added a touch of colour, using the peach sticker choices to serve as a visual triangle to the simple top right filler card on page one. Linking these pockets up, really helps bounce the eye across the page!

 

  Happy Project Lifing this week! Don't forget to document the everyday ordinary as you go about your day to day routine..x   Sassy Supplies: